During the first six Months, your babies grow up and develop their skills very quickly. Parents can obviously observe from when babies develop their physical development, especially their fine motor skills. This happens when they try to grab or hold objects. They learn how to control muscles. Moreover, they understand sensory stimulation and express their needs both physical and emotional to parents.
Appropriate Toys for 0 to 6 Months
Visual Stimulation:
Encourage your babies to focus on objects and stimulate their vision development like mobiles and baby gym.
Motor Stimulation:
Help your babies use for batting, grasping and kicking such as mobiles and baby gyms.
Auditory Stimulation:
Soothe your babies with gentle sounds using music boxes or rattles irrors.
Intellectual Stimulation:
Grab your babies’ attention in looking at pictures and listening to other people tell story through using floating baby book or photos book with vivid colors.
Encourage you babies to learn about themselves and surroundings such as unbreakable safety mirrors.
Between the sixth and the twelfth Months, they are known as little explorers who are always curious. They are motivated to explore the world by crawling around and grabbing objects within their reach. Their surroundings are very attractive for them as they are eager to find new discovery. They love making sounds while sitting on the floor. Sucking and biting toys are also their favorite hobbies since the first tooth is coming. Soon they will be able to bite and chew soft foods.
Appropriate Toys for new 6 to 12 Months
Touching and Holding:
Develop tactile skill with different kinds of surfaces; smooth, soft, rough using sensory toys such as The Sensory Tumbling
Help babies make teething easier and chewing by cutting the teeth through massaging the gums to relieve pain like teethers and gummy rings
Social and Emotional Development:
Keep your baby happy and engaged in playing such as The Baby Car
Muscle Development:
Develop the large muscle groups and improve balance using roller, clutching toys and walkers
Improve fine motor skill and coordination using soft balls and clutching toys
Intellectual Stimulation:
Engage babies explore, discover and figure things out by themselves such as The Sensory Tumbling
Encourage babies’ early attempt to communicate with you through recognizing pictures and listening story using soft cloth books or wooden toys such as The Mirror Baby Book and The Vehicle Puzzle
Develop creative play during bath time using floating toys such as The Sea Life Bath Set
Between the ages of one and two, it’s obvious for parents to see their physical development grows. As it is known as a huge change for your little ones since your child is beginning to leave the stage of babyhood and become a toddler. They have gained many new skills and have a high level of energy. They can move faster every day and require less support from you to help walk and discover independence while recognizing their need for security. They also love imitation whether they are sounds or actions. Discovering surroundings is still their favorite hobbies. They are eager to learn more about their daily routine activities, for example, taking off clothes and socks.
Appropriate Toys for 12 to 18 Months
Muscle and listening Development:
Improve gross motor and balance skill such as push & pull toys
Encourage fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination through drawing or hammering and pounding toys such as The Hammer Balls
Engage auditory skill by learning the difference between sounds, and to improve fine motor dexterity and hand-eye coordination using musical toys such as The Fish Castanet
Social and Emotional Development:
Make kids have bath time exciting and an exploration of the properties of liquid and force, including discovering how things float, dive and move in water like bath toys such as The Sailing Boat
Intellectual Stimulation:
Develop mathematical skill by teaching kids about shapes, colors, orders, sizes and patterns using stacking toys, nesting toys and shape sorter toys such as The Owl Sorter and The Nesting Boxes
Improve matching and sorting skills, to encourage imagination and creativity with patterns and colors using blocks of different shapes and colors such as The Stacking Wheels and The Happy Engine Help kids practice their listening and speaking skill such as The My First Phone and The Dino Car
At this age, your toddlers will make a significant improvement in not only physical but also intellectual and emotional. They begin to walk, run and climb with better skills, and this is when a new sense of independence emerges! As your toddlers continue to explore the world, you may see them watch and imitate others. Probably they prefer playing alone to playing in groups. However, socialization is important for children to learn their social and emotional development; therefore, introducing them to new friends is a good idea.
Appropriate Toys for 18 Months to 2 Years Old
Fine Motor and Coordination Development:
Support kids using their small muscles and hand-eye coordination by grabbing, stacking, and sorting such as large and small balls, sorting and stacking toys and wooden fruit
Emotional Stimulation:
Create their own sound by toy instruments such as The Solid Drum and The Concertino
Intellectual Stimulation:
Improve mathematical skills by learning about shapes, categorization, including comparing and ordering objects such as The Stacking Ring, The Sort and Count Cups, The Sorting Puzzle and The Twist and Shape
Language Development:
Encourage kids to speak in sentences such as dolls and wooden cameras like My First Camera
In this stage, they’re neither babies nor children. Familiarly known as “Terrible Twos”, this in-between stage can be frustrating for parents. Some children may not follow your instructions but they still depend on you for love and approval. Emotions are difficult for toddlers to control: they can be temperamental. Their moods can change within a short period of time. The best way to deal with them is to allow them to take adventure when appropriate but provide consistent guidelines for acceptable behaviors. Soon they will understand the differences between good and bad or right and wrong.
Appropriate Toys for 2 to 3 Years Old
Fine and Gross Motor Skill Development:
Improve strength of gross motor skill which involves movement of large body part and balance skill such as rocking horse and bike ride-on
Enhance fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination such as puzzles and nuts and bolts
Social and Emotional Development:
Help kids learn about their own emotions such as The Mood Memo
Intellectual Stimulation:
Teach about shapes, categorization and trial-and-error learning such as The Geometric Sorting Board, The Geometric Peg Board and The Shape Sorter
Develop problem-solving skill by offering greater challenges and being a good way to give kids victories such as puzzles and gear puzzle toys
Creativity and Imagination:
Give your children the opportunity to learn new set of words and to help make learning new vocabulary fun and engaging such as alphabets and numbers toys like The Alphabet A-Z and The Numbers 1-10, including pretend play toys like The Kitchen Set or The Breakfast Menu Set
Between the ages of three to five years old, their development is apparently seen to be growing up quickly in many directions. Your children are curious, energetic and sociable. They have come a long way on the path towards independence. It’s time for them to join kindergarten, and may already have attended a playgroup or preschool. Home is still their safest place after experiencing all new adventures.
Appropriate Toys for 3 to 5 Years Old
Fine Motor and Coordination Development:
Develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination such as The Balancing Cactus, The Dough Set and The Lacing Beads
Improve mobility and strength on outdoor play equipment like playing golf and toss game such as The Mini Golf-Full-Set and Meadow Ring Toss
Enhance hand-eye coordination and finger dexterity, including encouraging self-help skills .They make children very proud of their independence such as The Tie-Up Shoe
Emotional and Social Skill Development:
Encourage to express their feelings through pretend play and socialize with others and also to know how to live with others in society such as The Doctor Set and The Fantasy Blocks
Intellectual Stimulation:
Help your child to learn about symmetry, balance, shapes and colors in a variety of different sizes and themes and are compatible like the colorful wooden blocks such as The Creative Blocks
