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Toy Buying Guide

Children's Mental and Social Development
Playing is a natural and healthy activity for all children. Playing helps children develop mentally and socially, and so selecting the appropriate toy for the age of the child is essential. First and foremost when choosing a toy for a child, it is important to consider that the toy is a safe quality item that is well constructed and durable. The toy or game should also be appealing and interesting to the child, and appropriate to the child's physical capabilities. Finally, the toy needs to be suited to the child's age, mental and social development.

Toy and game types can be divided in 5 categories that stimulate the mental social abilities and interests of a child.

1. Active Play Includes:
Push and pull, ride-on, outdoor toys and games, and sports toys and activities.

2. Manipulative Play Includes:
Construction, building, pattern making, stringing, and sand and water play.

3. Make Believe Play Includes:
Dolls, stuffed animals, puppets, role play games, play scenes, and transportation.

4. Creative Play Includes:
Musical instruments, arts and crafts materials, and audio-visual activities.

5. Learning Play Includes:
Learning toys and games, puzzles, developmental activities, and books.

Choosing the Right Toy

Quality: A good quality toy will give a child plenty of enjoyment and will last longer than something of lesser quality. Quality toys can be handed down to other siblings. Anything of poor quality is not a good investment as they can easily break easily and be a hazard.

Imaginative: Choose Toys that allow for individual expression and imagination. Imaginative toys allow children to be creative. Choose toys that do not give preprogrammed responses, but ones that allow children to be inventive and use their imagination.

Playability: A toy with a long life is one that a child can play with again and again. It can be approached in new ways as a child grows and develops, mastering new skills. Children sometimes become easily bored with toys that are not designed well, or do not have re-playability value.


Essential pointers when buying Toys and Games for Children

1. Will this encourage the child to build and create rather than to destroy?

2. Will this stimulate creativity and imaginative play?

3. will this promote cooperation and problem solving?

4. Will this allow the child to create their own scenarios?

5. Will this promote learning skills and help the child developmentally?

Independent Play
Promotes self-esteem and confidence in children by empowering them with choices and by organizing stimulating play activities. Creating time and an environment for independent play is beneficial for children of any age. Helping your child develop a strong, independent personality supports their awareness of feelings, dreams and ideas. Independent play fosters reflective and analytical thought and gives children their own private space and time. For children, the ability to pretend and imagine is an essential form of play. As children's imaginations grow, they invent new uses for familiar objects, playing with them in novel ways. Encouraging children's imaginative play will open the door to enhanced learning experiences in all areas of their development.

Mathematical Play
Involves children in problem solving activities, reasoning, and sequencing. Encouraging conceptual thought and the development of logic and problem solving skills helps children build a strong foundation for future learning. Playing with construction toys such as building blocks enables children to acquire an understanding of basic math skills and develop fine motor skills. While playing with construction toys, children learn categorization, sequencing, patterning, and quantifying, which help build a strong foundation for understanding math in the future.

Musical Play
Engages children in rhythmic musical activity. Music exerts a powerful influence on children's developing minds and enhances reading, math, and creative skills. Nurturing your child's interest in music, whether it's singing, humming, whistling, dancing, or banging on a drum, sets the tune for further learning.

Linguistic Play
Encourages a child's verbal skills. The foundations of language learning are laid when children are infants, and these skills continue to develop through the toddler years. Children's development can be nourished by exposure to an environment filled with sound, rhythm, and language patterns. Toys that encourage listening, creating sounds, mimicking words, and making word associations build and strengthen children's language skills.

Motor Skills
Promote and develop children's physical athletic ability, manual dexterity, and/or eye-hand coordination. Many people associate fine motor skills with the way a child holds a pencil, crayons, or scissors, but it is much more. Human development progresses from the head down and from the torso outward, so the use of hands and fingers is actually the last part of the development process. You can enhance a child's fine motor development early in life by giving them opportunities to refine large motor skills. Begin with big pieces of puzzles, clay, or big crayons and combine these tools with activities such as coloring in a coloring book. Playing with manipulative toys such as shape sorters, activity centers, lacing toys, and puzzles helps children develop fine eye-hand coordination skills. Fine motor skills involve muscles of the hands, eyes, face, and mouth, and mastering these skills completes critical pathways to development.

Cooperative Play
Fosters cooperation and interaction with the objective of achieving common goals. The idea behind cooperative play is interaction with the objective of achieving common goals. The best way to teach children any skill is to model the right behavior, and this is best learned by giving the child many opportunities to put it into practice. Help your child fully develop their understanding of cooperation through activities, games, and toys that engage multiple participants for the highest level of interactive fun. Encourage team effort at home by sharing certain responsibilities with your children.

Visual Play
Engages the child in visual evaluation and activities that nurture creativity. Stimulate your child's visual development by having them translate what they have learned into pictures. You'll enhance their experience and retention by encouraging them to create images. Art and building projects are a great way for children to build their self-esteem and express their emotions and creativity. When children create masterpieces of their own, they learn that anything is possible. By nurturing children's creativity and imagination, you are setting the stage for a colorful learning experience that enhances all areas of their development.