Educational Toys

Learning & Educational Toys

If you are searching for kids learning, early developement and educational toys for your little ones, You are in the right corner of the internet. Unlike most adults, kids need highly stimulative imagery to be able to learn fast and build their critical thinking capabilities and creative imaginations. Educational toys enable the learning to be both fun, smooth and bearable regardless of wheather they are learning letters, numbers, shapes or colors. Shiro gives you one of the largest listings of learning toys in Kenya to choose from. Our catalog spans across all ages including 0-2 year development materials.Our aim with these specific category is to cater for all development stages before entering school and even outside of school.

All educational toys and learning materials fall under 5 major categories:

1. Pretend toys (kitchen play sets, doll houses, fire station/ police equipmentspretend toys)
While pretending to be doctors, teachers, police men and women,children in the process end up gaining much more than just excitement.High dramatic pretend plays have been found to have social, cognitive and emotional benefits.

2. Art and crafts material (paintings, drawing books, modeling etc)
Art and crafts are important for early child hood development especially for children between 3-9 years. Apart from naturing your child's creative side, Art also improves their motor skills that are required for their daily activities.There is also an added advantage of introducing your child to the one thing they will end up doing as a career.

3. Blocks, Building and Constructions (buiding blocks and other similar toys)
Building blocks and construction toys are designed for kids between 0- 12 years. At the age of 0-3years, they nature the child's eye/hand cordination while at 4-6 years they nature the child's creative skills and nature problem solving skills for children aged between ages 7-12 years. The building materials come in different sizes and shapes depending on the child's age.The older the kids the smaller and more complex the building blocks become with the youngest children getting the chunkiest and brightly colored blocks.

4. Poblem solving and puzzle toys.
Most of the toys in these bracket are designed for children aged 2-20 years. Just like the name suggests, these toys help to nature the problem solving skills.
For children aged between 2-3 years:There are Musical toys that engage them in distinguishing animals and the sounds they make.
For children aged between 4-12 years: There are complex puzzles that contain 10-100 pieces and other items like the rubiks cube
For Children aged between 13-20 years: There are games such as monopoly,snakes and ladders that are both exciting and informative about real life.

5. Large motor play items
These are toys that require maximum physical cooperation. They include Bicycles,Ride on toy cars, Skates, tricycles, scooters or anything that will get them off their feet . The involvement of kids with large motor toys has been found to improve both their academic performances and attention spans. Apart from their brain stimulation capabilities, these objects play a big role in keeping them physically fit and preventing weight gain. Toys of these nature mostly support children aged 2 years and above.

Here are some of our delivery charges:
1. FREE- for customers in the following locations:Donholm,tena,umoja,Buruburu and neighbouring estates.
2. 100ksh- Delivery fee at the Nairobi CBD.
3. 200ksh -Delivery fee for customers in the outskirts of the CBD excluding locations given at number 1.
4. RELATIVE- delivery fee for customers out of the nairobi metapolitan will be determined by their locations and choice of courier.