Children's educational toys

The fact is that some parents confuse development with learning. But the learning process is purposeful and initiated artificially (in this case - by the parents). therefore toys used for training (didactic toys), usually have a rather narrow scope, because they are subordinated to a specific goal - for example, to teach a child to fold letters into syllables.

Unlike learning, development is a processnatural, it will occur without the intervention of parents. Developing, the child learns to know the world around him, and children's educational toys should help him to do it. Therefore, almost any children's toys can play the role of developing children - the main thing is that they correspond to the age of the child, the stage of his development. On how to choose children's educational toys, depending on the age, we will tell you.

Unlike didactic toys, whichlimit the free game, children's educational toys should encourage it, push the child to independence. Conditionally, such toys are divided into two groups. The first group helps to form the skills of objective activity and is used at an early age. The second group serves for development of social and personal sphere and is more suitable for preschool children and younger schoolchildren.

Before turning to the consideration of toys for each age, we give a few general tips. Children's educational toys should be made of different materials. An important role in the knowledge of the world is played by touch,so the child must feel different materials (plastic, wood, cloth, etc.) and textures (smooth, ribbed, rough). In addition, children's educational toys should be safe: strong, without small parts, which can break off.

Toys for babies

In infancy it develops perception - including by monitoring the objects and actions. In this regard, the child is well suited pendant toys. They should be large, do not get lost one after another. It can be rattles, bells, bells, three-dimensional figures.

In addition, the sensorimotor coordination - the consistency of perception and action. For this purpose, toys with moving parts, a groove with a rolling ball, a rod with rings (3-4 rings, a diameter of a hole in the ring at least twice the diameter of the rod), toy inserts (two or three shapes that clearly differ in size ). Well develops the motor skills and movements of ball games (of any kind).

Also baby is needed doll - it helps social and personal development. It can be quite simple, the main thing is that the child learns the image of a person in it.

Toys for children from 2 to 3 years

At this age, motor skills, attention, thinking and speech are formed. The child learns the world around him in a visual and effective way (through objective activity), therefore children'seducational toys should stimulate it to this activity. To do this, good pyramids, toys-liners, nested dolls, toys with moving parts, cubes.

At this age the child can start playing withwater (during the bath) and with sand (in the sandbox). Therefore, toys for the bath, shovels, bucket pails, etc. are needed. Also need toys that imitate household items (dishes, combs, towels, etc.) - they will help the child to master domestic skills.

Also children's educational toys should help develop traffic. For these purposes, fit balls, stairs, slides, rocking horse, etc.

For personal development need a doll. At this age the girl already needs a doll-girl, and the boy-a doll-boy. To the doll is to buy a set of clothes, a bed, a stroller, doll utensils, etc. And for development of speech need a book with pictures. Images should be large and reliable. Telling a child a fairy tale, show him these pictures.

In addition to ready-made toys, the child needs substitute items: they develop imagination. These can be scraps of cloth, chestnuts, wooden brusochki, etc.

Toys for children from 3 to 7 years old

At this age the child needs more substitute items for the development of fantasy: he himself will come up with a name and purpose for them. Often playing such "faceless" toys without a specific function entices the child more than playing with bright factory toys.

For role play need a large (30-50 cm) opposite-sex dolls, children, tohim - doll furniture, clothes, dishes, etc. In addition, we need small dolls (soldiers, pups), dolls without faces of undefined sex and age, dolls-animals, puppets for the theater, finger puppets, etc.

In addition, we need materials for children's creativity (drawing, appliqué, modeling, etc.). Try not to limit the child in his work: let him not be afraid to fantasize. In addition, the interpretation of children's drawings will help you learn a lot about your child.