Thursday 4 October 2012

Learning Toys for kids - for growth and development of your child

Parents interested in encouraging the positive development of their child’s cognitive, physical, or social skills can make sure their child has access to child development toys that not only provides a child with entertainment but also encourages their healthy development. Child’s early development toys play an important role in a child’s learning process. When children play with toys they not only interact with one another and develop social skills, they also make choices, solve problems and apply some control over their environment.
 
Child development toys that encourage cognitive development include puzzles and memory games. Matching games, sequencing games and number games are excellent toys that encourage a child to develop number sense and numeration as well as their sequencing skills.

Child’s educational toys that encourage scientific thought include water and sand play toys that involve measuring, sifting and pouring of different sensory material. Child toys that encourage large muscle development include bicycles, climbers, slides, large balls and planks. Child toys that encourage small muscle development (which is important in developing those small muscles in the hands that enable a child to hold writing tools) include puzzles small blocks, connecting toys, and even markers and crayons. Dramatic play toys such as dolls, doll furniture, doll clothing, dress up clothing and kitchenware are excellent child toys that encourage a high level of imaginary play.

Musical toys for kids also play an important part in child’s growth and development. All over the world, parents bond with their babies through musical sounds and rhythmic movement. They rock and swing their children, put them to sleep with lullabies, make them laugh with nursery rhymes. Parents know instinctively what scientists have now proven: young children thrive on music. When young children are consistently engaged by music in an age-appropriate, socially accepting environment, they benefit at many levels such as they gain the phonological processing, spoken language, and comprehension skills that are the foundation of reading. They build the spatial-temporal and reasoning skills required for math, science, and engineering. They develop social and emotional skills that are essential for school readiness—like the ability to regulate their responses and relate to others in complex ways. By moving and dancing to music and playing simple instruments, children improve their gross and fine motor skills. Activities that encourage freedom within a fun and friendly structure spark their creativity. And of course, they develop a lifelong love of music.

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