Learning Resources Mini Muffin Match Up, Fine Motor Game, Ages 3+

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is a great product for preschool age kiddos (and up through 1st grade I would think). I am a preschool teacher and am always looking for ways to incorporate fine motor skills, sorting, counting, etc. This is perfect for all those things. And the kids really loved using the little tool to pick up the mini muffins and put them in the tin. Also it only took me only one time of showing them how to roll the dice for them to figure out the game of rolling the dice to figure out what color and how many of that color to gather. We have used it 3x's in the classroom and will continue to use it in the future.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Perfect for my three year old granddaughter while we are on lockdown (Covid-19, not prison!) She can play independently and has created her own games, or, she plays with me or her six year old sister. She's been known to run inside my house, come upstairs, pull the game out, play it, put it away, and then head outside to ride her bike saying, "I just love my muffin game!"

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Amazing toy. So many ways to play and learn. My 3 y/o daughter loves the mini muffins and enjoys sorting, counting and playing with the dice.

We don't use this yet for the actual intended purposes because our child is a little too young to understand the concept of thenfull game. However, she loves playing with it all the time. We use it to help her understand categorization, colors and counting. She also uses the little muffins as "food" sometimes in her play kitchen. It says it is for 3+ but as a 2.5 yr old we love it.

Opening the box at first with my 3 year old daughter she was so excited! I as well, with the sturdiness and weight of the little muffins. The muffins had a great weight to it making it super durable and I knew it was not cheaply made. The little purple tong it came with was a great way to teach her how to utilize her thumb and index finger coordination. The colors being primary appealed to both my daughter and nephew! ( would love it maybe possibly in more fun sprinkled tops like cupcakes next :) ) The instructions were easy to understand and gave multiple ways to incorporate learning Numbers and colors. I am trying to teach her to count to the numbers shown in the picture so this is definitely a great interactive game :)

This is a bright and colorful fun learning toy. The muffin pan is exceptionally durable and the rubber sides are nice making it easy to pick up. You actually feel like you could cook with it, it's that sturdy. My son is 4 and already knows is number but I thought it would be a great toy for him to learn how to add and subtract. Since my son also like the little cupcakes so we are also using this for his speech therapy; when he get a word right (sentence, whatever we might be workings on) he get a cupcake to put in the pan. We us the number insert cards so he knows how many cupcakes he needs to get making that his goal. He likes to try to beat me trying to get more muffins. I feel there are many different uses with this toy.

This game is very educational for everyone! There are so many games you can play and so many strategies you can learn. Fine motor skills, colors, matching, counting. My nephew who us 5 learned so ,ugh form playing with me. He has gotten so much better with his counting skills. I highly recommend this toy, especially in a classroom setting.

I received this product as part of an incentivized review program. This game was great. An easy way to work on counting and colors with my preschooler to make math fun.

This product is amazing and I highly recommend it to parents with pre-k age kids and upwards. It's a great way to teach colors, color sorting and matching for my 2.5yr old. The design is so cute with the realistic muffin tin and the vibrant mini muffins. My son has also been using it as pretend play in his play kitchen. He loves using the mini tongs to pick the muffins up and it's easy to use with his little hands. There are so many activities to do using this toy and I can see it really growing with my child. He doesn't know his numbers yet, but it comes with a great instructional pamphlet with activity ideas for counting, addition/subtraction, etc that we will be using in the years to come.

The mini muffin match up is so inviting for my preschool children! The colors are amazing and there are so many activities and possibilities in this one product. It's excellent for sorting. We enjoy using it for fine motor skills as well. And the kids LOVE the colorful mini muffins! Thanks learning resources for a great quality educational product!!!

I have used the mini muffin matchup game in both the public pre-k classroom setting as well as in my own homeschool setting. I love this game because it truly is a game that can grow with the child. For a 2-3 year old you can use this game to work on sorting colors. As a child processes into K4 you can use this as a counting game as well as matching. You can take the game aspect out as the child ages and use this for a grade school child. With my oldest daughter who is now 6 and in 1st grade we are still using the muffins for her on a daily basis as a math manipulative. She is a visual leaner and having the muffins in place truly helps with visualizing her problems. This is a high quality product. Made wonderful and has lasted us for two years now with no issues.

I gave this as a Christmas gift to my 3 year old. Dispite getting many other more fancy items, he was very drawn to this toy. My five year old is enjoying it as well. Overall, it seems very well made, except the scooper is a bit flimsy. I also like that there are so many different ways to play. I would have given it five stars except I think it should come with two scoopers.

I highly recommend this set if you have a child in Pre-K or Kindergarten! My boys (almost 2 and almost 4) have so much fun playing with it. We received it for a blog review and I have actually been surprised how much they have played with it and learned from it. We use it in our homeschool lessons as well. Great quality, and cute. Fantastic set!

Our four kids have really enjoyed the Mini Muffin Match Up. Made with sturdy construction, the Muffin Tin should last forever. The colors on the Mini Muffins are bright and fun. Even our 2 year old is learning to sort by color with this set. I love the open ended possibilities this set allows us in terms of learning and even free play. Plus, the kids love the Squeezy Tweezers that is included! Overall, really great product and we love it. *I received a sample in exchange for an honest blog post.

This is a fun game/toy to help your little one develop a multitude of math skills. In addition to math skills this game also encourages color recognition, matching and more. This item comes with a pair of dice, which feature colors and numbers (0-6), Squeezy Tweezers™ (which are awesome and offering the perfect size for little hands, and perfect for little ones to pick up the mini muffins), you also receive 1 muffin pan, 60 mini muffin counters, 12 double-sided sorting-circle inserts, and Activity Guide. As you can see from the photo above the Squeezy Tweezers™ are amazing and so cute. They help your little one easily pick up the mini muffins and be able to move them into the muffin pan. The mini muffins themselves are super adorable. I love all the colors that they come in, and how many you receive with this set. The muffin pan is super cute and a perfect way to make this set really a must have. My daughter and I had a lot of fun playing this game. I would suggest this game for anyone school or kindergarten. The sooner that you work with your child on counting, colors, adding, subtracting and more the stronger their foundation will be for the future. My daughter loves that this toy offers her the ability to free play but we can also use it for a structured games. The activity guide is great.

Mini Muffin Match Up {sent to us to review} comes with a high recommendation from me and I think is totally worth the price for what you get. Just the small muffins alone are awesome for so many things. The addition of the tray, the grabber, the disks and dice make it even better! If you are looking for a new versatile learning toy for early childhood, this would be a great option. There is so much versatility with this toy, free play and structured games are both options.

The Mini Muffin Match Up is perfect for preschool and up. It helps to develop so many math skills as well as some fine motor development. The set contains a muffin pan with easy grip rubber handles, 60 mini muffin counters, 1 squeezy tweezers, 2 foam dice (1 with colors and 1 with numbers), 12 double-sided sorting circle inserts, and activity guide. The set can be used for sorting by color, counting, and simple math problems. The dice can be used to make it into a fun game of how many of the mini muffins or what color you get. Or you can roll both dice and decide to get that number of that color. The squeezy Tweezers are a fun way to work on fine motor skills while picking up the mini muffins. This can be used with a group or individually. My 5 year old is past sorting by color or counting. But he has started addition in kindergarten. The Mini Muffin Match Up can be used to help him with addition problems. We can use his math problems and place the number of mini muffins in each cup and then add them together to get what the answer is. We also made up some of our own problems by rolling the dice and using those numbers for math. My son rolled the color and number dice to find each number and then added them up to get the answer. He had fun making his own problems and using the tweezers. He can always use more fine motor practice. The little sorting circle inserts are fun to place in the cups and guide you to placing the correct color or number in each cup. The muffin pan and the mini muffins are well made and will last a long time. I was provided the Mini Muffin Match Up in order to provide an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own and not influenced. Read More here:http://www.arizonamamablog.com/2014/02/learning-resources-mini-muffin-match-up.html