Toys is important to babies and toddles as well to growing kids because using toys, they can also learn. Playing is learning.
Here are some of criteria in choosing the right toys for your kids:
- Provide opportunities for insights and self-understanding
- Allow to express their feelings
- Help to learn through experiences
- Enable the exploration of self and others
- Develop self control
- Help to gain interest and attention
- Permit reality testing
Here are some toys recommended by therapist:
- Kitchen and food toys such as kitchen utensils, pizza, hotdogs, eggs, fruits and veggies, pan, etc.
- Doll family such as doll house, baby bottle to play real life and nurturing play
- Art materials such as crayons, paints, markers, clay, play doh, coloring books, etc.
- Board and card games such as jenga, connect four, memory cards games to build frustration tolerance and know to apply rules and instructions
- Cash Register can play as cashier on a grocery
- Dress up such as mask, pricess dress or superhero cape to feel powerful and allow imagination
- Musical toys such as piano, guitar, etc allows kids to make own music
- Phone toys such as walkie talkie to allow kids to talk to each other
- Sand for sensory benefits and for emotional release
- Vehicle toys such as cars, trucks, etc.
- Form sword, alligator shark, rubber knife, plastic gun to employs acting out, aggressive and scary toys