5 Tips for Choosing Toys that are Useful for Children

 5 Tips for Choosing Toys that are Useful for Children

The large selection of children's toys often makes Mama confused which one to buy. While the little one when taken to the toy store immediately looks enthusiastic to have it all.

It is undeniable that the toy industry is a promising business. Children's wishes are combined with the purchasing power of parents, making this toy business even more successful.

Unfortunately, not a few also children's toys that turned out to have a negative impact on the level of intelligence.

Good toys are educative and stimulate children's creativity. No need to be expensive, educational toys you can even create yourself at home. The five tips below you can follow to prepare toys for your little one.

1. Starting from a simple toy

No need to go far to the toy store, Mama can use the items in the house. Providing a picture book or plain white paper and color markers, Mama can free your little one to make any scratch.

Mama can also prepare folding paper and examples to make certain shapes. Then free him to make any shape from the paper. Provide a variety of color choices to make it feel more attractive.

2. Choose toys that exercise children's creativity

One way to practice children's creativity is to give him a playroom.

Mama prepares toys that train her creativity in thinking, such as lego, plasticine, stacking blocks, or folding paper.

This type of toy gives the little one freedom to be creative, arrange blocks into buildings, arrange legos to form robots, or make flowers from colorful plasticine.

3. Toys that stimulate imagination

Remember Mama from childhood when she talked to dolls herself or played lots of dolls like a drama stage?

These simple things turned out to be good for stimulating children's imagination.

You don't need to be surprised or confused if your child talks by himself or simulates things around him.

He could have pretended to set up a tent for camp by utilizing blankets, chairs, even umbrellas.

Then he hid inside with the doll while turning on the flashlight.

Although the house is a bit messy, the important thing is that the Little One is happy and does not endanger himself.

4. Toys that are appropriate to the environment

Preparing educational toys for children can also be adapted to the environment around the place of residence.

If you live in an area with lots of terrain available, Mama can ask her to make a ferris wheel to be played outside.

The wind that blows will make the wheel spin.

If there are many children around your age, provide toys that can be played by many people at once.

The atmosphere of playing becomes more exciting, while training the Little One to interact with people.

5. Mother and Father are the best 'toys' for little ones

As good and as many toys available outside, Mama and Papa are the best education for the Little One.

Moments playing with parents will strengthen bonding with children.

Just watching videos together, reading books, or joking while lying on the bed.

Good communication between children and parents is good for mental development and character formation.

He became accustomed to sharing stories and enjoying relaxing moments with Mama-Papa.

Yas, how exciting is this educational game for this kid! How Ma, have you done it to the little one?