| Learning starts at home. A kid learns to talk by | | | | certain age group. |
| listening to his/her parents. The ability to do tasks | | | | * Less than 2 Years: Basic color coded puzzles and |
| such as opening a door, using the flush and even | | | | shape identification games are recommended. |
| walking is learnt by the child at home with the help of | | | | * 2-4 years: Basic motor skills are being developed so |
| parents. Learning is not only the formal education | | | | building blocks and simple color or pattern based |
| gained by the child in school. It also comprises the | | | | puzzles are ideal. Story books and pop activity books |
| things that the child learns from day to day activities | | | | are also good for learning names of simple things like |
| at home during the formative years of life. Hence it is | | | | vegetables, fruits and animals. |
| of utmost importance for the parents to pay | | | | * 5-7 years: The child is a lot mature and it is quite |
| attention to the toys they buy for their children. | | | | difficult to correctly guess what would be the most |
| They should keep in mind that the toys that they | | | | appropriate learning toy. But, toys with numbered or |
| buy should not only entertain but educate the child as | | | | alphabetical buttons, spelling puzzles, mathematics |
| well with regards to pattern and color identification, | | | | based activity sets are more apt at this stage, simple |
| numbers, figures and such; so that by the time the | | | | story books can also be read by the child by this |
| child is ready for school he/she is more or less | | | | time. |
| comfortable with these learning processes. | | | | * Above 8 years: By this time most children are well |
| Educational toys can come in any form, ranging from | | | | into school so developmental toys are difficult to |
| books, toys and games to animated movies. These | | | | prescribe. Common reasoning based toys available in |
| toys also play an important role in shaping the psyche | | | | the markets are useful for sharpening the thought |
| and personality of the child in years to come. Recent | | | | processes. |
| studies by psychologists world wide have stressed | | | | The best thing to keep in mind while shopping for an |
| on the role of educational toys in development of | | | | educational toy is to provide something challenging to |
| cognitive abilities of a child and of the ability of the | | | | your kid, but do keep in notice not to provide |
| child to fare well at school in the future. | | | | something that is undoable at his/ her age. Try |
| There are a lot of educational toys available in the | | | | getting educational toys of a slightly higher difficulty |
| market, based on the age group of a child. Age is the | | | | level than what your child has proved capable of |
| important criteria to be kept in mind while buying an | | | | handling. The stimulations to the brain provided by the |
| educational toy because it has been established that | | | | educational toys are what help in creating a healthy |
| there is a clear correlation between the psychological | | | | and clear minded approach to tasks in children. |
| and physical development of a child. Educational toys | | | | Baby toys - At ebeanstalk, we carry a unique |
| should be bought keeping this in mind. | | | | selection of 1 year old toys, 2 year old toys through |
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| when, what follows is more of a loose guideline for | | | | development. |
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