The fact that most wooden educational toys are hand made account for their bigger value, both in price and in terms of instrinsic worth. First, wood is fast becoming a depleted resource. Since it is a natural resource, compared to plastic, which can easily be manufactured and recycled, wooden toys and products are much more difficult to come by. It is for this reason that toy manufacturers have taken great pains and conducted deep research into a child's learning levels and capacities in order to come up with an educational toy that would be a fount of knowledge. Examples of children's educational toys include Vtech's portable laptop computers that teach kids spelling, math basics, geography and carry games that test and enhance analytical skills and logic. With the growing demand for educational toys nowadays, it won't be surprise when parents and children will be preferring these products more and more. Children's educational toys are, right now, a little expensive. But parents who have purchased one for their kids will tell you that it is worth every cent. For them, anything that has to do with stars, galaxies, moons, planets and the universe are great quality toys. Space mission play sets, handy star navigators, quality telescopes and binoculars, glow in the dark stars and solar systems and rockets are some quality educational toys you can provide your child to have fun and dicover with. Imagine how many it has sold at present! Fisher-Price and Nickelodeon's Dora The Explorer These two top children's companies have teamed up to create a new cooking-based educational game that features the popularly cute and bilingual Dora preparing all kinds of dishes kids can emulate. Disney Consumer Product and V-Tech's Call 'n Learn Phone/Leapfor's Tic Talk Both of these educational toy teaches preschoolers proper phone etiquette. Sometimes parents can make the mistake of getting just any educational toy at the store under the impression that all educational toys are the same. They aren't. Each educational toy is tailored to cater to a particular age group and each is designed according to that age group's motor capacities and learning skills.