Author: Pauline Pan Publish Time: 2022-09-15 Origin: Site
Strictly speaking, educational toys can be divided into children's educational toys and adult educational toys, but no matter which one is, as the name suggests, it is a toy that allows us to develop intelligence and increase wisdom in the process of playing. According to a study by the Royal Academy of Sciences of the United Kingdom, people who often play with educational toys have an average IQ of about 11 points higher than those who do not play. The brain is more open-minded.
Educational toys with bright colors and attractive lines can stimulate children's vision; educational toys with buttons that can make various sounds can stimulate children's hearing; rolling color balls can cultivate children's sense of touch, and children in the process of grasping , not only conducive to exercise hand flexibility, but also exercise their hand-eye coordination ability in the process of catching the ball, throwing the ball, and picking up the ball. Therefore, different educational toys are effective tools to assist children in understanding the world, helping them to contact and recognize novel things in coordination with the responses of various organs on the body.
Educational toys also have the function of coordinating body functions. For example, when children play with building blocks, in addition to using their brains, they also need to cooperate with their hands. In this way, through playing with educational toys, they can train and gradually establish children's hand-foot coordination and hand-eye coordination. and other bodily functions;
In the process of playing educational toys with their peers, children are developing their social relationships unconsciously. Even if they are prone to stubbornness and quarrels in cooperation or competition, they are actually developing a spirit of cooperation and learning to share with others. . At the same time, language ability, hands-on ability and emotional release have been improved to a certain extent.
Puzzles, building blocks and other educational toys can improve children's cognitive ability, analytical ability, spatial imagination, hands-on ability, etc., develop their thinking ability, and stimulate children's sense of achievement. For example, children can exercise balance ability and finger flexibility in the process of building blocks; qualitative understanding of the stability of physical structures; cause and effect of collapse if the stack is not good, and so on.
Transportation toys can improve children's cognition and understanding of the structure of cars, trains and various construction vehicles, improve their hands-on awareness through the ability to assemble, drag and organize, and understand the transformation relationship between objects through building.
In the process of playing, children not only have the exercise of touch and hand-eye coordination, but also improve the cognition of distance and customer service's fear of heights. In the process of swinging, they can feel the changes in the center of gravity of their bodies and the changes in distance; and when children walk or climb the slide, they can exercise their body balance and enhance their body control; In the process, you can feel the speed, which will also help the child's tactile development.
Most people like unbreakable toys. In fact, the durability of a toy depends on the thoughtfulness of the design, the method of manufacture and the combination of materials. A good toy should make children happy to play and be able to infer other things. This can not only satisfy children's curiosity, eagerness to learn, and active characteristics, but also promote their thinking development.
Children of different ages need different types of toys. For example, children under 1 year old like to see brightly colored things; children 2-3 years old like to play with building blocks, puzzle toys and animal model toys. These toys can strengthen The sensitivity of the hands and feet and the logical ability of the brain; children aged 4-6 can play more complex puzzles, combination toys and toys played by family life scenes, which can stimulate creativity and coordination of hands and feet.
