Toy Functions In Children Physical And Mental Development

By Author: Danica Wang
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Toys with bright colors, beautiful style and sweet sound can attract children's curiosity and attention. Toys are specific objects and can meet children's desire to play and manipulate. The diverse playing methods and toy kinds can cause children's interest. Good toys can stimulate the child's desire to play games and are good textbook for young children to learn, also their favorite partners in life.

First of all, toys can mobilize the kids' enthusiasm of activities. Physical and mental development of children is achieved in activities. Young children can play manipulate and use any toys freely, in line with children's psychological preferences and ability level. For example, the "rocking horse", young children will naturally ride on and shake back and forth, which not only meet children's needs of activities and also enable them to have a positive pleasant emotion.

Second, toys can promote a variety of sensory activities and enhance perceptual knowledge. Toys have the visual feature. Children can touch, take, listen to, blow, and watch toys, conducive to variety of sensory training. For example, the colorful ...
... set of towers, plastic blow toys, various dolls and toy animals are all conducive to visual training; octave bear, small piano, tambourine, small trumpet, etc. can train hearing; building blocks, structure model can develop space perception; various puzzles, inlaid toys, soft plastic toys, etc., may exercise the touch feel; pull duck cars, trolleys, tricycles, two wheelers etc. help the development of motion perception.

Third, the visual feature and realness of toys can cause children's associative activities. For example, the hospital toys and doll house toys can cause children's associations between hospital and home, promote the children to carry out creative role-playing games. Some labor tools toys can cause children simulation labor actions like plant trees, digging river and constructions. Some toys are designed for mental training, such as various board and games, all kinds of intellectual toys etc. can enhance children's analyze, synthesize, compare, judge, reasoning ability and develop their depth, flexibility and agility of thinking.

Fourth, in the process of playing toys, children do active thinking or imagination, and show out through hands or other body activities. For example, playing the building blocks, children have to think, imagine, and to choose materials to achieve the intended purpose; they use their both brain and hands in hands-on assembly.

Finally, toys help children to develop collective concept and mutual cooperation spirit. Some toys need children to cooperate to play. Such as toy phones, need to have dialogue between both sides. This can help children to learn about the life experience, exercise and partner cooperation.

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