Toys- the True Mates of Children and Excellent Contributors for Their Physical and Mental Development

Children are keen observers and curious learners.  They can easy absorb things like sponges.  They carefully observe the color, size, and shape of the toys they are provided with.  They learn that there is a new world of endless imagination and knowledge.  This makes them quick learners and paves the way for them to learn the alphabets and numbers.  This also helps them to retain the curiosity even when they grow older.  Playing with toys helps the children in their physical and mental growth by improving the research and experimental qualities, besides making them active and alert. Involving with the toys helps the children in improving their analytical and problem solving skills, fine motor skills, logical thinking and math skills.  These games help in enhancing the memory capacity and hand-eye co-ordination.  Playing with toys also helps to improving their social skills by communicating with the other members.  The games like builder-bricks and Tangram help them improving pattern matching qualities and trigger imagination.   Playing with the toys helps in triggering the psychological development and strengthening of the neurological paths.  In this way children learn many skills that make them successful in school and in life.  They start enjoying learning through play.

Benefits of playschool toys in children

• Enhancing the imagination and put the imagination into practicality
• Developing the basic motor skills by improving the visual and auditory senses.
• Improving problem solving and logical skills
• Expanding the memory capacity and increasing the concentration level
• Developing greater awareness about the surroundings and developing the perspective towards the environment
• Identifying the innate talents

Selection of exciting toys which enables learning with joy and excitement

1) Mobile: – Moving objects can attract the child’s attention towards the toy and helps in improving sound and texture discoveries, hand-eye co-ordination and also relation between cause and effect.

2) Bottle with floating objects: – Filling a plastic baby bottle or soda bottle with water and adding floating materials like shells, rocks, glitter etc  and closing with a cap and securing it with non toxic glue encourages the child to shake the bottle and chase after the moving objects. This helps in improving the intentionality and interaction between cause and effect.

3) Knock-Knock: – Drawing or gluing different pictures and covering or attaching with rectangular papers and asking them to knock a particular rectangle and identify the inner picture helps the children to discover and name different things.

4) Books: – Drawing or collecting pictures and gluing them to cardboard sheets and binding them forms interesting books for kids.  This helps in developing the faculties like early learning, language and vocabulary, prediction, ‘wh’ questions and the like.

5) Puppet play: – Making attractive puppets and letting them to tell stories with them helps in improving their imagination, abstract thinking, language and sequencing.