For parents, understanding educational functions of types of toys is very important. According to their functions, toys can be divided into the following five categories:
Social toys
Social toys are the toys for child to imitate, dress up, perform to understand themselves, understand the surrounding environment and the adult world. These toys have a certain theme, is also a kind of theme image toys. Social toys such as: 1) Dolls and other characters, animal figure toys. Young child needs love and be loved, and 1 to 2 pieces of soft image toys, comfortable to hug, makes a good object to talk to, a symbol of emotion and a media of imagination. 2) "Doll House" role-playing props, such as doll furniture, tableware, utensils. 3) Toys playing social institutions, This is toys beyond family theme, understanding the environment around them and absorbing other life experiences, such as school, shops, fire brigade, hospitals, supermarkets and so on. 4) Labor toys reflect the adult work, such as pliers, screw, screwdriver, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other labor toys.
Cognition toys
Cognition toys refer to toys that help to promote children mental development, inspire intelligence, and improve cognitive capabilities and rich knowledge and experience. This is a type of toys that parents particularly fond to buy. Cognition toys includes: 1) math counting toys, such as calculator, calculation chess, scale and balance. 2) Fan-tan toys, cards and poker. Such as fruit Solitaire, digital boards. 3) Jigsaw puzzle. Such as digital puzzles, animal puzzles, six-sided puzzle. 4) Operational toys. Such as beat toys, structure toys, woven toys, action toys.
Activity toys
Activity toys refer to physical activity toys that make body more flexible. These toys feature emphasis on large muscle activities, namely the use of the neck, torso, arms, legs and other parts of the large muscle coordination ability, toys that play through walking, running, jumping, climb, balance, throwing, etc. As urban living space lacks of natural opportunities to exercise, action development toy for the modern children is very important. Activity toys include: 1) Crawling toys, such as the jungle gym, the bow doors. 2) Rocking toys, such as hobbyhorse, swivel chair, seesaw and so on. 3) Vehicle toys, such as bicycles, handbarrow. 4) Throwing toys. Such as parachute, flying butterflies and so on. 5) Large and small sports equipment toys. Such as slides, swing, swing boats. 6) Ball toys, such as ball, small football, badminton and so on. 7) Running jump toys. Such as pull toys, jump ball, rope, etc.
Scientific toys
Scientific toys refers to toys for young children to observe, manipulate and explore kinds of physical, chemical and other natural phenomena. It can develop children's curiosity and thirst for knowledge. Guide the children to get hands-on experience of science from game, to develop habits of observation and analysis, help children to gain knowledge and experience relevant to daily life. Science toys include beach sand or water fun toys, mirror toys such as kaleidoscope, convex mirror, Balance center of gravity toys such as tumbler, spinning top, magnetic toys, gear toys, wind-driven toys such as kites, windmills and so on.
Language toys
Language toys refer to toys that cultivate children's language ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, which have great significance for children to rich language environment, to learn the correct pronunciation, to learn speech and language exchanges. Language toys include listening toys, such as listening rotating disk, tape recorders, octave piano etc. and speaking toys, such as puppets, shadow play toys, card reader, learning machines.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
How to Select Wooden Toys
Nowadays, wooden toys have become a large category of children toys appeared at toy market. Many parents might have their own principles in choosing children toys. We suggest selecting wooden toys from the following four points of view.
Safety
Wooden toys should be made of superior wood with a certain hardness and dryness, such as beech, rubber wood etc. and painted with non-toxic paint color. Baby toys should be painted on the surface with beeswax and food colorants, so that the baby does not occur lead poisoning though biting or chewing it. Each corners and edges of toys, including every hole also should be very smooth, soft, and baby will not be pierced the skin while playing with.
Practicability
Baby toys should focus on any detailed craftsmanship in design. For example, a jigsaw puzzle, if the wood used is too thin, and takes long time for baby to pull out smaller graphics, he will feel anxious, let alone training flexibility of fingers. In addition, according to studies of experts, the smaller the baby, the more delicate things he likes, so beautiful and exquisite toys can stimulate their interest in hands-on play. Wooden toys taken these aspects into account in the design are very suitable for baby to play.
Operability
Some of the wooden toys have been bought by almost every Western parents for the baby, such as the hand grab, puzzle, fan-tan, easy for baby to operate but not feel boring. Adults do not like to repeat an action or a thing, but the baby likes to do repeated things. Wooden toys with sturdy structure and resistance to crash just meet the needs of baby, durable toys with extended life.
Inspire intelligence
Many parents seem to have been used to teaching children to play toys step by step according to the instructions. When buying toys, you might have known what the finished assembly toys looks like, that is to say, we usually mislead the child to complete a project by taking a specified path, rather than to explore their own path, which to some extent limits the creative development of child. Instead of imparting knowledge to the children as a conclusion, we should lead children to search a variety of methods to acquire knowledge. One of the very important roles of toys is to inspire the child's intelligence. A fundamental purpose of selecting toys is to develop the child intelligence and creative ability.
Safety
Wooden toys should be made of superior wood with a certain hardness and dryness, such as beech, rubber wood etc. and painted with non-toxic paint color. Baby toys should be painted on the surface with beeswax and food colorants, so that the baby does not occur lead poisoning though biting or chewing it. Each corners and edges of toys, including every hole also should be very smooth, soft, and baby will not be pierced the skin while playing with.
Practicability
Baby toys should focus on any detailed craftsmanship in design. For example, a jigsaw puzzle, if the wood used is too thin, and takes long time for baby to pull out smaller graphics, he will feel anxious, let alone training flexibility of fingers. In addition, according to studies of experts, the smaller the baby, the more delicate things he likes, so beautiful and exquisite toys can stimulate their interest in hands-on play. Wooden toys taken these aspects into account in the design are very suitable for baby to play.
Operability
Some of the wooden toys have been bought by almost every Western parents for the baby, such as the hand grab, puzzle, fan-tan, easy for baby to operate but not feel boring. Adults do not like to repeat an action or a thing, but the baby likes to do repeated things. Wooden toys with sturdy structure and resistance to crash just meet the needs of baby, durable toys with extended life.
Inspire intelligence
Many parents seem to have been used to teaching children to play toys step by step according to the instructions. When buying toys, you might have known what the finished assembly toys looks like, that is to say, we usually mislead the child to complete a project by taking a specified path, rather than to explore their own path, which to some extent limits the creative development of child. Instead of imparting knowledge to the children as a conclusion, we should lead children to search a variety of methods to acquire knowledge. One of the very important roles of toys is to inspire the child's intelligence. A fundamental purpose of selecting toys is to develop the child intelligence and creative ability.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Handmade Toys Suitable for 0 to 3 Year Old Children
0 to 3 years of age is the most critical period of children intellectual development. Parents can produce their own some simple targeted handmade toys to train the ability of children. Play is the nature of the child. The right way raising children 0 to 3 years old is to let them learn in the game and communicate more and play games with the children.
Building block is one of the most suitable toys for young children. A 9 months old baby can sit tight and turn around flexibly. Playing some simple blocks at this stage can not only train the baby's hand-eye coordination ability, but also exercise the finger fine motor skills of the child. For the larger children, plying complex blocks helps to exercise their finger coordination ability and imagination. Parents can produce their own some targeted simple toys to play together with children to promote their intelligence development.
The first handmade toy is fishing, suitable for 1 year to 1 year and a half of children. The materials needed include a few pieces of cardboards (cutting into fish shapes), a number of paper clips ( used as fish hooks), thread, small wooden sticks ( used as fishing rod), magnet (stick together with the cardboard). This fishing game can train the child's comprehensive ability, especially the finger coordination ability and cognitive ability.
The second toy is the handmade pictures, suitable for 1 year and a half to 2 years old children. Materials needed include papers and drawing pencil. Parents can make some targeted pictures. For example, draw a complete horse and a horse lack of one leg, put the two pictures in front of the child and let him point out the difference of these two horses. These strongly targeted pictures can train the child's observation, imbue him the concepts of categories and numbers, and good to the child enlightenment,
The third handmade toy is the golf clubs, appropriate for children over 1 year and a half. Materials include a plastic bottle and a small ball. The mouth of the bottle can be stuffed with newspapers into the cylindrical volume, extending the whole length. This game can train the child's arm strength and hand-eye coordination.
Game is neither simply playing with toys, nor the child's personal thing. Toy is a teaching tool and a real bridge for parents to communicate with children. In addition, singing children songs and playing games such as fan-fan stories are also good choice for parents to develop children intelligence.
Building block is one of the most suitable toys for young children. A 9 months old baby can sit tight and turn around flexibly. Playing some simple blocks at this stage can not only train the baby's hand-eye coordination ability, but also exercise the finger fine motor skills of the child. For the larger children, plying complex blocks helps to exercise their finger coordination ability and imagination. Parents can produce their own some targeted simple toys to play together with children to promote their intelligence development.
The first handmade toy is fishing, suitable for 1 year to 1 year and a half of children. The materials needed include a few pieces of cardboards (cutting into fish shapes), a number of paper clips ( used as fish hooks), thread, small wooden sticks ( used as fishing rod), magnet (stick together with the cardboard). This fishing game can train the child's comprehensive ability, especially the finger coordination ability and cognitive ability.
The second toy is the handmade pictures, suitable for 1 year and a half to 2 years old children. Materials needed include papers and drawing pencil. Parents can make some targeted pictures. For example, draw a complete horse and a horse lack of one leg, put the two pictures in front of the child and let him point out the difference of these two horses. These strongly targeted pictures can train the child's observation, imbue him the concepts of categories and numbers, and good to the child enlightenment,
The third handmade toy is the golf clubs, appropriate for children over 1 year and a half. Materials include a plastic bottle and a small ball. The mouth of the bottle can be stuffed with newspapers into the cylindrical volume, extending the whole length. This game can train the child's arm strength and hand-eye coordination.
Game is neither simply playing with toys, nor the child's personal thing. Toy is a teaching tool and a real bridge for parents to communicate with children. In addition, singing children songs and playing games such as fan-fan stories are also good choice for parents to develop children intelligence.
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