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Category Archives: Brain Workshop
What was your favorite outdoor game?
We’ve been doing a lot of reminiscing here in the brain workshop lately. It seems that some of the best childhood games make the best games for grown-ups too! So what was your favorite game to play as a youngster? Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products
Tagged Brain Fitness, children, Coordination, family games, fine motor skills, Group Games, hand-eye coordination, Outdoor Games, Products
Doonerism Spay!
In honor of Spoonerism Day, the majority of today’s post is written in spoonerism form (i.e., with initial consonants & vowels transposed). Yesterday, July 22nd, was the anniversary of the dirthbay of Rev. William Archibald Spooner, dean of the Kew Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, General, Products, Trivia, What's New & Happening at Marbles
Tagged Creativity, family games, game design, Group Games, Memory, party games, Products, Social Interaction, Trivia, Word Skills
Sneak Peek from the Brain Workshop – Labyrinth
Labyrinth mazes have been popular with children and adults alike ever since they made their way over from Sweden in the 1940’s. Classic wooden labyrinth puzzles featured a metal marble that travels through a maze as you tilt the surface Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Products
Brain Workshop Sneak Preview – Skippidy Do!
Inside, Outside, Side-to-side, outside, inside, turn! With summer right at our doorstep, cabin fever has begun to set in for those of us in the Brain Workshop. Knowing the only cure is to go play outside, we set to work Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products
Stick stick stick…BOOM! Stick Bombs coming soon!
Stick…stick…stick… BOOM! Lately the Marbles Brain Workshop has felt more like a minefield than a design studio. The explosive fun has been due to our newest building kit, Stick Bombs, due to arrive in Marbles Stores later this Summer! Popsicle Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, General, Products, What's New & Happening at Marbles
Tagged brain workshop, new product, stick bombs
Marbles Brain Workshop + Peggy Brown
Are you familiar with Mind Your Marbles and Mindstein? They were created by Peggy Brown and she’s back working alongside the Brain Workshop to bring a few more splendid games to market! First off, we’ve got Splickety Lit – a Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products
Tagged Coordination, Creativity, Critical Thinking, family games, Group Games, Memory, party games, Visual Perception, Word Skills
How to Make a Cowboy Take a Bath
Howdy fellow Brainoids! Winslow here from the Marbles Brain Workshop, where we are workin’ hard on figurin’ out how to get this darn cowboy to take a bath! How to get a cowboy to take a bath is quite the Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products
Tagged brain workshop, Coordination, fine motor skills, game design, hand-eye coordination, Products, rube goldberg
Update from the Marbles Brain Workshop!
Who knew that Labyrinth had such a rich past? I wanted to find out more about where the labyrinth originated so I began reading, not realizing I was about to be taken on a historical and fantastical journey from Greek mythology to Herodotus’ Egyptian labyrinth to the hedge mazes of the Renaissance to David Bowie’s Goblin King… just kidding! Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Products, Research, Uncategorized
Tagged Brain exercise, Brain Fitness, Brain training, children, Coordination, Creativity, dexterity, fine motor skills, game development, Group Games, Labyrinth, Products
Touchy Feely anyone?
Don’t think I’m a creep quite yet! I’m talking about a new kind of Touchy Feely, a game being developed by Marbles Brain Workshop. What is our version like? I can’t reveal everything but it uses stereognosis, the ability to tell what an object is without looking at it. Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, General, Products
Tagged children, Coordination, dexterity, fine motor skills, Group Games, Memory, sensory information, Sensory Memory
From Marbles Brain Workshop: JuggleFit
Chrissy writing to you from inside the Marbles Brain Workshop, where we are hard at fun testing our JuggleFit Kit, set to arrive in Marbles stores this summer! Marbles is excited to be working with Heather Wolf, creator and owner Read More
Posted in Brain Workshop, Fun, Health, Products
Tagged Brain Fitness, cognitive reserve, cognitive stimulation, Coordination, Physical exercise, Products