| Children's creativity can be nourished at a young age | | | | and some simple tunes to learn. |
| by exposing them to age appropriate toys. The | | | | The older children will have an opportunity to expand |
| types of toys at that age will be mostly hands on | | | | the number of types of toys that they will play with. |
| toys such as musical instruments, crafts and art. Clay | | | | Children are born with a natural sense of curiosity and |
| modeling is among the craft toys that are | | | | this can be encouraged by buying science and |
| inexpensive and simple for the child to use. | | | | discovery type of toys. The choices for this type of |
| With a minimum of instruction the child can create | | | | toy can start with something as simple as an ant |
| projects that will delight them and give them | | | | farm, a bug collector kit or a butterfly feeder. |
| confidence to go on. A coloring book or nothing more | | | | For the older children with a sense of curiosity they |
| than crayons and a tablet of blank pages will bring | | | | can own their own at home projector planetarium or |
| out the creative side of a child. There are products | | | | a nature kit complete with plaster to make cast of |
| today will allow a child to color with special pens and | | | | animal tracks and supplies to do leaf chromatography. |
| paper that will not permit the child's artistic action | | | | Computers have become away of life in most |
| from leaving the page. | | | | families, while a computer is not strictly speaking a |
| A step up from basic coloring by crayon would be | | | | toy, there are toy-like computer available that will |
| the watercolor paints purchased either separately or | | | | help kids learn how to learn, using a computer device. |
| in kit form. More and more arts and craft projects | | | | These types of kid's toy are single use devices that |
| are coming in kit form, ready to use project kits for | | | | can help a child learn how to spell, do math, learn |
| every possible venture. Toy instruments depending | | | | shapes and learn how to pronounce words. |
| on the age of child could be a drum, a xylophone or | | | | Never before have today's parent had such a vast |
| for the older child a piano or guitar, most will come | | | | number of toys of all types for their children to use |
| with basic instructions on how to play the instrument | | | | for fun and for learning to choose from. |