| Children's toys are great for learning and for having | | | | wheelybugs and strollers. |
| fun and the appropriate toy for a child can enhance | | | | Great ride on toys for children this age are tricycles, |
| their educational and social skills. The best way to find | | | | pedal toys, steering vehicles, and rocking horses. As a |
| a toy that is appropriate for any child is to find a toy | | | | child gets into the 5 years and older stages they |
| that is age appropriate, fun and educational. A toy | | | | want to explore even more and that is where |
| should help a child to explore and push the limits of | | | | puzzles, pattern making, matching, sorting and |
| their age and help them to progress to the next level | | | | counting toys come into play. Children also learn great |
| with ease. Physical, emotional, social and mental | | | | socialisation by playing make believe with dolls and |
| development should be enhanced by the right type | | | | puppets, and costumes. The creativity and audio |
| of toy for a child. | | | | -visual skills start to shine through. Games and skill |
| The best toy for a child is one that is age | | | | development eventually becomes second nature as |
| appropriate. A child that is a newborn up to 24 | | | | the child starts to grow. |
| months old should have a toy that is colourful has | | | | A child needs to learn motor skills, social skills, how to |
| shapes and sounds. This will help the child to learn | | | | push and pull, how to throw and catch and how to |
| different sounds and to learn different textures and | | | | manipulate objects. All of these can be learned |
| beautiful colours. Toys like stuffed animals with lots | | | | through play with other children and the appropriate |
| of colour, shapes, buttons, and dials are great. Once | | | | toys. From birth to the young adulthood, all children |
| the child starts to move around and walk, toys that | | | | should be challenged and encouraged to help them to |
| they can pull up on and help them to stand are very | | | | develop all of their skills to optimum levels. |
| useful. | | | | All toys should be age appropriate, creative, durable, |
| Once a child gets into the 2-5 year old stages, they | | | | safe and fun in order for a child to stay interested |
| would benefit from building, stacking and playing with | | | | and to learn from it. Colours, textures, shapes and |
| blocks, and riding on slow moving trucks and cars. A | | | | sounds can be learned at a very early age and this is |
| child at this age is trying to utilize their motor skills, | | | | the basis for future learning for any child, and this can |
| vocabulary and hand eye coordination. Also they are | | | | be learned as early as possible. Motor skills, |
| learning to use their fingers in a more advanced | | | | social-emotional skills, and auditory skills are all |
| manner increasing their dexterity. A few great push | | | | developed in cohesion with each other and the more |
| and pull toys are wagons, wheel barrels, and lawn | | | | a child learns the more things in the world become |
| mowers, shopping carts, carriages, ride on | | | | easier to understand. |