Thursday, December 29, 2011

Four Principles in Cleaning Children Toys

First, the new purchase toys should be cleaned before giving it to children to play. Toys will inevitably contaminate to some invisible bacteria and viruses in all aspects of production, packaging, transportation, and sales. Therefore, toys cleaning before given to children will be safer.

Second, the appropriate frequency of toy cleaning and disinfection is usually once a week, can also flexible clean according to the frequency of use of toys and material. You should prepare the special toy cleaning cloth instead of the use of household cleaning cloth.

Third, select the appropriate cleaning and disinfection products. The infant special cleaning agents and disinfectants are recommended to use.

Fourth, after cleaning of the toy, use plenty water to flush (except for the electronic toys). To rinse with enough flow water can minimize detergent residue. After washing toys should place in ventilated and direct sunlight place to completely dry.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Throwing Toys Is a Kind of Learning



Throwing toys and breaking toys is a common phenomenon for the 10 months to 1 year and a half infants' mental development, and also a manifestation of intellectual development.

5 or 6 months old baby has further hand-eye coordination, and can grasp toys under the guidance of line of sight. At this time, the baby's both hands do not coordinate good enough, when he holding a toys in one hands that he does not want, the baby do not knot to pick up the toy he want with the other empty hand.

8 months later, this performance of infants becomes more and more obvious. The more adults would not let him throw, the more energetically he threw the toy. This behavior can be understood as a child generates interest in their power to change objects. In the process of throwing things, baby can gain different experiences from different feelings of items thrown on the different distance, sound and reaction.

Therefore, at this stage, the child's behavior need not loud accusations, forced to correct. You can give him some items not easily to broken for him to throw to play. Adults can also teach children to learn to play in other methods, such as to push the ball with hands.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Four Important Aspects in Choosing Toys for Children



First, Interest

Interest is children's best teacher. No matter how meaningful and refined the design is, if the baby is not interested in the toy, it would be only a decoration. In terms of interest, the toy should be exaggerated in shapes, style and colors, thus the baby will be attracted and learn to identify different colors and shapes in the process of play.

Second, inspire intelligence

In the process of playing, we should also train the baby's skills and develop their intelligence. The educational toys usually have the following three features:

First, the toys have a variety of playing methods. And children are allowed to use their own creativity and imagination to think out more new ways to play. Second, the toy itself can provide the baby with a great imagination and some space to create. Thus the baby's attention will be attracted for a longer time. Third, the toy is best to have some connection with the children's life. When the baby has stronger hands-on ability, you can choose, for example, a doll that can wear and take off clothes, put on hat and pull zippers, buttons, which is better than those toys only have lovely style.

Third, Safety

Good toy must be safe. Whenever you buy toys, the safety of toys is the first thing to consider. Children tend to bite, knock, smell, lick toys, so the toys should have no sharp corners, non-toxic, and environmental, healthy and safe for children to bite.

Fourth, Durability

It is not necessarily a good thing for children to own too many toys. The best is to have a few must-have toys to let children invent various methods to play. If a toy can play by children for a long time, it demands a lot of playing methods and great enough space to create.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Table Tennis Is a Good Children's Toy

It is a serious work to buy toys for young children. A good toy is the toy that can appeal the interest of children no matter it is expensive or cheap. Therefore, we recommend a toy most suitable for young children - balls.

The reason why baby is particularly interested in balls is that with little force, the ball is able to roll along distance, on the other hand, the ball roll away will be rolled back. The way to roll forth and back is just suitable for the requirement to develop capabilities of young children. Besides, the rotating direction of the ball is sometimes in the opposite direction as the children required. Thus baby will have to make various "considerations" about getting along with each other, so that arouse children's much more interested.

The best toy for children in infancy is the table tennis, the following are five reasons:

First, the ball falling onto the hard floor will immediately roll or rotate in numerous ways; Second, when the ball fall and bounce, it will make clear and regular sound; Third, the size of table tennis is suitable for children to grip; Fourth, it is small and light, even the infants can throw away a certain distance; Fifth, throwing ball will not be blamed by mum.

All in all, playing table tennis as a toy helps to improve children's motor skills. However, mothers should pay attention to the ball is complete without broken to prevent the baby being hurt.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Building Blocks Training Baby Logical Thinking

Building blocks has become a must have toy for most babies. Actually, building blocks games can help baby to identify shapes, practice logical thinking ability and improve creativity.



It has been proved that the use of building blocks for baby to recognize geometry solid is very suitable, especially for baby 2 to 3 years old. It can help them understand flat graphics, such as triangle, circle, square, and elder babies can increase the understanding of geometry solid, such as cube, cylinder, and so on. The specific methods are as followings.
First, let baby observe objects through visual perception, tactile sense, understand the physical features. Such as touch the triangles to know it has three edges and three angles.
Second, identify different shapes of blocks in many building blocks. Such as let baby to pick the blocks according your instruction, set up the roof with triangular blocks.
Third, classify the blocks by category: let baby put blocks with the same shape together, and use language to say the shape of each building blocks.
Fourth, arrange the blocks in line: according to the size sequence to put the blocks in line, to line the cylindrical building blocks according to the thickness.
Fifth, touch blocks: put the blocks into the box, let children put his hand into the box and touch the blocks according to the instructions, such as touch a rectangular building block, to identify the different characteristics of geometric shapes through tactile sense.
Sixth, count the number of building blocks. After baby finishing setting up something with building blocks, allow them to calculate the block number of each shape building blocks used. Elder babies can also record with pen on paper, thus can both practice counting and writing.
Building blocks toys play an important role in the early education process. We hope that the parents should make full use of the advantages.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Benefits for Children Learning Gobang

Gobang is easy and interesting to learn, not only enhance thinking ability, improve intelligence, but also rich in philosophy and help to self-cultivation. What're the benefits of children learning gobang?

Gobang is a kind of pure strategy type of chess games for two people play, and is originated from one of the Chinese traditional kinds of Othello, developed in Japan and popular in Europe and America. It is easy to play, suitable for people of all ages, amusing and fascinating.

Children can learn gobang begin from putting graphics. Of course, the easiest graph in gobang is the straight line. You can put three, four or five pieces. Gobang is a publicly will project, so it is easy for children to get started. However, many parents at a certain level will be difficult to reach a higher level.

After the child learns gomoku, parents should spend some time playing with him, in order to better reflect the learning effect. The following are five points of the benefits for children learning gobang.

First, develop the habit of able to calm, improve the attention time. Usually a 4 years old child can only keep calm for about 15 minutes, but after learning the gobang, the focus time is generally increased to 30 minutes.

Second, to develop a child's sense of frustration, children today are lack most frustration. To develop children's anti-frustration ability is very important. Because the children are very young, so the training process can only be step by step.

Third, to develop children's mathematical ability, because there will be many assumptions taken into account in playing chess, gobang is focusing on logic, sometimes, it needs to think a few steps in advance, and sometimes needs reverse thinking.

Fourth, playing chess is an advanced puzzle games, it can develop children's intelligence, improve memory, and provide significant help to logical thinking and patience. By learning chess, you can form a unique way of thinking.

Fifth, playing chess needs careful consideration of mental and physical labor. It can develop a good habit of children meditation thinking and independent problem-solving skills.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Tips for Choosing Appropriate Plush Toys


First, make it clear to meet the demand of which ages, then according to different age groups to buy different toys, the main consideration is safety and practicality.

Second, look whether the surface plush material is fine and healthy. Division according the quality of materials is as follows: the plush and short plush, velvet, pull plush, TIC cloth, etc.; if there is stuffing inside, to see whether it is formal materials (fiber length of silk, cotton, acrylic), whether color matching is reasonable.

Third, check whether the fixed fittings are firm (the standard requirement is 90N force), whether there are sharp corners, too small parts, whether the hair in the same position or side is the same color or material, if not, it will appear different color and hair to the contrary direction under the sun.

Fourth, observe whether the appearance is beautiful, the position on both side is symmetrical, the hand feel is soft and fluffy, the stitching of various parts is solid, or whether accessories of toys have scratches and incomplete.

Fifth, to see whether there is a trademark, brand, safety signs, mailing address and other manufacturers, and whether the binding is solid.

Sixth, check the inside and outside packaging to see whether the signs are the same, and whether the moisture-proof performance is good.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Tips for Choosing Appropriate Toys for Babies 12 to 18 Months

First of all, in order to choose an appropriate toy, parents have to learn about the development characteristics of babies 12 to 18 months. Generally, it is the critical period of learning to walk, at this time most babies learn to walk, or even walk very steady, and even some children can learn to run, go up stairs by their own, will learn their own to kick the ball, throwing the ball. In fine action, the 12 to 18 months baby will graffito, call dad and mom consciously, can understand simple language and simple instructions of parents, refer to any of their facial features, and express views and needs with a single facial expressions and gestures.

Based on the above characteristics, for the baby this age we choose the following four categories of toys. The first is to prepare three or four different sizes balls, the small diameter 5 cm, and large can be 10 cm. Besides, prepare the bamboo weaved ball basket or make the ball a cardboard box. The second is water fun toys, speed bucket, small shovel, watering can, plastic spoon, as well as a flexible action doll, able to squeeze. The third choice is the drag walking toy car, a drag walking caterpillars with music, and musical ducklings. The fourth type toys are those part-active three-dimensional books, and other school-age books.