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.
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