Have you ever wondered what makes a toy or game or any experience educational? If it's educational, as well as fun, we feel as though we learned something while having a good time.

If you say something was "an education," you can mean either that you enjoyed the experience, or that it was grueling and distasteful. So overall, it seems people are a bit ambivalent about education.

But when it comes to kids, most people want to steep their children's experiences in education of the fun kind. We aspire to raise young people who respect and hunger for education. Even those who generally avoid anything educational in their lives will favor high educational goals for the next generation.

How to provide education that keeps a child interested is the question, of course. Surrounding your seven-year-old with stimulating involvements at home as well as at school can establish a culture of learning that's exciting, relevant, and personal at the same time.

That's one reason why we don't hesitate to create wall stickers designed to nurture learning skills: writing, reading, counting, observing, and expressing. From the Smarts™ stickers for infants through Numbers and Letters to Chalkboards, our decals educate while entertaining.

[Main Image: Wallcandyarts.com | Chalkboard animal wall stickers]

The cool thing is that this kind of education involves exercising creativity in a big way. When parents let the kids do their own designing with the decals, they're affirming the child's confidence. When the stickers bring out your child's imagination, they're bringing out curiosity, the foundation of the search for knowledge. That's what education is all about, right?

Let's take it even a step further. While we want our products to inform, we even more want them to delight. That's why a whole bunch of them may strike you as more whimsical than instructional.

But the truth is that we believe your child's self-expression, powers of observation, and involvement in playing are just as valuable to a healthy life as any formal lesson.

How do you help establish an atmosphere of learning in your child's room and other environs? Please share your experiences in the comments.