BRIO - Parking Garage 7 Pieces

The BRIO Parking Garage is a fun, multi-level playset that combines the excitement of both road and rail transport. This unique 7-piece set allows children to drive to the top level, park their car, take the chute down, fuel up on level 1, or send the car down the ramp on level 2. With the press of a button, watch the car fall into place on the car transporter wagon below, ready for the railway track.

The set easily connects to other BRIO road and rail systems, allowing for endless expansion and imaginative play. This set stimulates creativity and enhances fine motor skills while offering hours of fun.

Educational Benefits:

• Promotes imaginative play: Children can create stories and scenarios involving road and rail transport.
• Enhances problem-solving skills: Navigating the car through the parking garage and the ramp to the car transporter.
• Develops fine motor skills: Pressing buttons and moving the cars and ramps helps improve hand-eye coordination and dexterity.
• Introduces cause and effect: Children observe how pressing a button or moving a car down the ramp affects the system, learning about the mechanics of action and reaction.
• Supports STEM learning: Encourages early understanding of engineering concepts like transportation systems, ramps, and mechanical functions.

Classroom Ideas:

• Traffic management game: Set up a fun game where children take turns managing the traffic flow, parking cars.
• Story-building: Ask children to come up with imaginative stories about the cars, the parking garage, and the train transport.
• Building a transportation network: Integrate this parking garage with other BRIO road and rail sets to create a larger transport network.
• Teaching logistics: Use the parking garage to introduce basic concepts of logistics, such as how goods are transported by rail and road.
• Problem-solving challenges: Create scenarios where children must figure out how to park cars efficiently and transport them.

Age Recommendation: Suitable for children aged 3+ years.