Showing posts with label Choosing toy tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Choosing toy tips. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Toys Suitable for the One Year Old Baby

First, kinds of balls easy to grasp and made of soft materials such as rubber, plastic or foam etc.; sound toys, slides, baby carriage, small pulling cars, toy telephone, small xylophones, small drums, metal pots, and metal plates, squeaky rubber toys and not easily torn cloth books.

Second, animal toys, inflatable tumblers, pull toys with music or voice, beat toys, large dolls, stuffed toys, toys can push and pull such as small cars, durable plastic cups, bowls, funnels and measuring spoon.

Third, foam pigment, simple puzzle games, simple building models, old magazines, baskets, esophageal or containers with lids, modeling clay, activity toys, such as small toy truck or toy train, working tools, kitchenware, puppet of varieties of roles, toy animals or dolls suitable for hug.

Fourth, choose some hands-on toys, such as tableware toys, small toys that allow baby to put into baskets, boxes, and take out; or provide some bottles or boxes with lid, let the child to open and cover.

Fifth, buying some sets of stacking towers, bowls, let the child to take apart and then set up, according to the order of sizes.

Sixth, balls, play balls can exercise body. One year old child could start to play balls, first playing small patting ball. Next is a small play volleyball, small football, badminton, playing with hands or kicking.

Seventh, blocks: in the process of playing blocks, children understand the graphics, learn the correct classification, improve their thinking skills and promote their intellectual development. Children can first classify blocks by various standards of colors, shapes or sizes, and then arrange them into complex games.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Useful Tips for Choosing Baby Inflatable Toys

Inflatable toys are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) films by high-frequency welded, after inflation showing a variety of shapes. The majority styles are animals, and other water toys like toy swimming ring. The using objects of Inflatable toys are mainly infants and young children. When the child was born two months later, you can pick some colorful inflatable balls, hanging in the bed in order to exercise the child's vision. In addition, also choose a number of exaggerated animal toys for kids to touch and play. Only when children grow up to one year, can you choose some sort of water inflatable toys. The following are some tips for choosing inflatable toys.

First, Modeling choices: choosing inflatable toys is first to meet the child's interest in shape. For infants less than 12 months, mainly choose toys of bright colors, large size and smooth shape, such as colored ball, ducks, goldfish, etc. The selection of these animals should pay special attention to the color of their eyes and funny. When a child is 1 year later, you should pick some realistic animal shapes, and even animals terrifying, to cultivate children's spirit of courage. In the selection of inflatable water toys, in addition to swimming circle, also select some water animals such as ducks, swans, goldfish etc.

Second, Seal check: the key to quality of inflatable toys is the sealing performance. First of all, lay out the uninflated toy to observe whether the prints are clear and beautiful, whether the chromatography of the main parts is accurate, surface has no other stains or yellowing. Welding seams between each film shall be uniform, evenly melted without wrinkling and swelling on the skin has occurred.

Third, check whether it can be filled with air. When charge pump into the air or by other means, the toy should be showing a full shape, and be able to stand steady on the desktop instead of rickety. Some toys may focus on center of gravity, after adjustment, tilt should be not obvious. Surface of inflated toys should be smooth and no obvious depression and wrinkles. Gently press toys with hand, and the gas nozzle on the ear, should not hear the leak sound. Inflatable toys remain standing 5 minutes to observe whether there is the apparent deformation or standing firm. When the above checks are normal, you can pull the gas nozzle plugs, put the toy natural gas, if not pressing with hand, its internal air should be able to maintain a part, rather than a sudden total discharge.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Most Suitable Toys for Children

Children don't need to have too many toys, because it is not necessarily to bring real help to baby's mental and physical development. A good toy should provide children with a variety of ways to play and help baby to build a healthy body. The most suitable toys for babies should meet the following eight requirements.

First, the security is ensured. Toys should be non-toxic and have no sharp edges. The structures of each part should be sturdy and firm. Besides, ensure that the toys exclude harmful chemical composition and should not apply flammable materials. Toddlers and infants should be kept away from small parts or thin lines. Toy makers should ensure that the toys are of high quality and safe. Parents should pay attention to whether the method children play toys can be dangerous.

Second, open toys. Good toys have no limit on methods to play, and children can explore and develop their own ways. Child's character is different from person to person and should be respected. Open toys have no standard fixed playing methods. Therefore, baby will generate different new ideas at each growing stage.

Third, good toys can let children maintain long-term interest. The good toys will let children repeated play with various ways in different points of view. Children are always full of curiosity and they can often find new ways to play.

Four, good toys can stimulate sensory organ. For example, special music, different feel, bright colors, and lovely shapes can stimulate children's vision, auditory, smell and tactile sense. Children can also learn about the basic concepts, such as size, weight, color, balance etc.

Fifth, good toys are designed according to children of different ages. Toys should have differences for different ages and characteristics of children. Children like to play with toys that they can manage. Therefore, parents should buy toys according to marking using age. But if child has better hands-on ability, parents can choose toys with higher difficulty.

Sixth, perfect in workmanship. Good toys are usually made of high quality materials, with attractive design and fine workmanship. If the toy not sturdy enough and is destroyed easily, the child will be disappointed.

Seventh, good toys are able to play with others. Children prefer to play with partners or adults, therefore, good toys enable at least two children to play together. What's more, parents play together with children can promote parent-child interaction.

Eighth, good toys should make the child predominates. Children can learn from the active operation. If a child can gain successful experience from playing with toys, he'll feel a sense of achievement, thus he will be ready to become brave to pursue challenge.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Toys Suitable for 2 to 3 Years Old Children

For 2 - 3 year olds, the cerebral cortex cells metabolism is the most exuberant period, is the sensitive period of psychological development, and is the important period of baby's language development, as well as the critical moment of personality started to form. At this sensitive period, parents should know about the following tips and prepare the appropriate toys for your baby.

First, baby does himself reading. Baby can point to pictures on simple children books out of curiosity or learn under the guidance of mother, and both will be fun for the baby. All the stuff in the books can attract baby's eyes.

Second, story time, when baby cannot yet recognize words, they can rely on mothers to bring then interesting stories. For 2 to 3 year olds, mothers can ask them some related questions when finish this story. From various stories, they can understand what is called sharing, compassion and anger. Repeat words in the books together with baby, they will get more fun.

Third, in the educational toys, there is a kind of sequence picture cards, usually four or six pieces a set. These picture cards have a certain order or plot. For example, order of the four picture cards might be: grass, buds, flowers, withered flowers. For a two years old baby, we can first put the four cards in order, tell him story.

When the baby's language ability develops better, we can put the cards in order and let him tell stories according to the pictures. At first, baby might only tell the content of a single card. We should try to guide baby to link up content of the next picture card. Gradually, baby will be able to put the cards in order correctly and tell the content of story. This game not only trains baby's observation, but also improves his language expression ability.

Apart from the above, stuff, music, art, language, science and nature all these in daily life can stimulate baby's innate curiosity, attract them to explore the surrounding environment, and encourage interaction between parents and children. In addition, Graffiti is the favorite game of children at this stage, no rules, just draw and paint, only random creation.

Finally, lovely Bambi, rabbit, piglet, Winnie the Pooh, and other classic cartoon animals, will bring children to a fairy tale world or to a marvelous forest, to learn the mutual love and help from them.

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.

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.

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.