Market it Monday: Mindware Review and Giveaway!

As a parent I am always on the look out for new and exciting toys for my son. However, as a former Pre-K teacher I also tend to go towards the more educational toys! Monster wants Spiderman, I want him to have a puzzle..or something like that! Well in comes Mindware. They have a great selection of toys but best of all most are educational! My son was sent the Marble Run. He got so excited when I opened the box and pulled this out!

Here are the pieces laid out. I had already taken the bag of marbles because that was the first thing him and his friend reached for and I could totally see that not going well. So after it was put together I gave them each three marbles for the time.

(please ignore the mess in the back we are moving.) See Monster really enjoyed this toy!

The Marble Run is pretty tall too. Monster is average for a four year old and you can see here how tall it is! We did end up having to place the marble run on a small inn table we had because it wouldn't stand up well on the carpet!

Overrall we loved this product! I put it together for them the first time. Then when daddy got home he accidently knocked it over so he tried copying the box and couldn't do it to match the box so I again finished it. lol. The set did NOT come with instructions on how to put it together..why? because there is no wrong way to put it together. Children are supposed to be creative when putting this together. They can try out so many ways for the tunnels to work together! Their favorite part was putting all the marbles in at one time in different spots and just watching them go! If I was still teaching Pre-K I would want this for my classroom for sure. I know kids would love this product! Mindware has so many other amazing products that would be great to get with Christmas coming up! Or even a birthday! Or just because!!

Some of my other favorites include:

Magnetic Mosaico

Imaginets

There are so many products to chose from! I will be ordering more from their site very soon!

Now for the greatest part! The great people at Mindware have offered to give one of my followers a Marble Run of their own!!

Mandatory Entries:

1. You must LIKE Mindware on facebook! (+1)

2. You must follow me with GFC!(+1)

Extra Entries: (all of these are +1 so leave a seperate comment for each one you do. Please also include an email where you can be reached if you won!)

1. Follow Mindware on Twitter

2. Go to Mindware and tell me another favorite product

3. Follow me on Twitter

So that is a total of FIVE entries! The contest will run until November 11th, 2011. I will announce the winner and email the winner on November 12th.

* I was sent the above product to review from Mindware. However all opinions are mine!