It's where Bear in the Big Blue House, Spot, Maisy, Mr. Potato Head, Paddington Bear and Peter Rabbit make learning fun. Perfect for preschoolers, each issue contains drawing, matching, counting, coloring and reading activities. A character poster, plus a 6-page pullout workbook, is also included in each issue. There is a "playroom penpals" page to encourage children to write in or draw pictures of their favorite characters. Preschool Playroom is a BI-monthly, full-size 32 page 4-color magazine for children ages 2-6.
Customer Reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Never Received Comment: How do you explain to a grandchild why their magazine didn't show up. This is a ripoff. Customer Rating: Summary: For preschoolers Comment: My 4 year old loves this magazine! The activities are geared toward him learning his numbers, cutting with scissors, etc. Getting it in the mail is very cool too. Customer Rating: Summary: Shill for TV shows Comment: This magazine consists of little more than advertisements (disguised as content) for television shows (Barney, Arthur, Curious George, Bob the Builder, etc). Our parental intent is not to instill television viewing as a primary attraction for our children (2 & 3 1/2 years) so our family did not get much out of this magazine.
We find that Highlights High Five is a much higher-quality magazine for our pre-schoolers. Customer Rating: Summary: 3 year old son loves this Comment: My 3 year old son loves this magazine and we wish that it came more often! When it arrives, my son wants to immediately sit down and read it cover to cover! We then read it again, cover to cover! Each issue has activities and stories about all of his favorite television characters. There is also generally a fun recipe as well as age appropriate skills to practice. It really makes him feel good to receive mail and he gets so excited when, after several days of opening the mailbox, his Preschool Playroom magazine has finally arrived. I do wish that the paper was a little more sturdy as it gets pretty beat up after a few days of reading. Customer Rating: Summary: felt like one big advertisement... Comment: When we ordered this mag I knew it would be very "character" oriented, but I just had no idea how much. Maybe its better for bigger kids. For my 3 1/2 year old its way too busy, way too jumbled and way too much about loving the characters. Some fun games. Colorful. Its okay, but its definately not our favorite.