Which educational toys They really need children in the first period of development, i.e. which care for the proper development of the child, are beautiful and at the same time safe? We advise! Below is a choice of proven bestseller development toys for toddlers for each stage of development from birth to the age of two.
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For 0 months +
Sensory toys
They strengthen the development of cognitive abilities by stimulating the senses. You can squeeze, bite them, often make sounds. They support small motor skills by exercising fingers and hands. They invite you to discover the world with all senses.
Motor toys
Strengthen the development of motor skills. They support small motor skills by exercising fingers and hands. If the child is sitting and arranging towers from them, he also practices large motor skills, leaning and reaching.
Safe and soft are the first sensory toys. For squeezing, hugging and discovering textures. They support the science of grip and translation from one, to the other hand and later the sense of proprioception. They complement the soft warm touch of loved ones and stimulate the sense of touch. They also stimulate developing eyesight. They also work when an adult shows a stuffed animal, speaking to a child.
Mobile to hang over the cot
Moving pendants with various shapes and colors, stimulate the eye and development of the muscles holding the eyeballs. They will take care of the development of the child's cognitive abilities and peaceful stimuli that teach to distinguish between shapes and colors, distance and size. According to the Montessori method, indicated for young children, when they are rested and full; They have a calming effect on the child.
Contrasting first toys that stimulate developing eyesight
Contrasting Sensory blankets, rustling They stimulate and exercise the senses of touch, hearing and sight. A tiny child sees vaguely, so everything will be useful in contrasting colors, preferably White-red-black that exercise eyes.
Early -development toys from 3 months +
Scrub - stimulate and massage the gums, serve to practice the muscles of the tongue and mouth. They stimulate and massage the gums, serve to practice the muscles of the tongue and mouth, which supports the development of teaching, swallowing and speaking. They also stimulate the development of grabbing, hand transmission and small motor skills.
Sensory toys
They support the further development of gripping, already conscious catching for things. Exercise of grip, coordination of the hand and muscles and nervous system through multi-faceted stimulation. Activity books are also included in sensory toys.
You can read more about sensory books for babies in our article entitled Sensory books - what is it?
Sensory books
They stimulate the development of all senses, encourage interaction and coordination of the hand-book. The child practices small motor skills, discovering various textures and moving small elements.
Motor toys
Various textures and shapes They provide many sensory sensations. They practice touch, eyesight, and the rolling and compression proprioception and balance. They stimulate the nervous system and provide stimuli to the development of small and large motor skills and dexterity games.
Gymnastics and learning to fall aside, so exercising a large motor skills, as well as touching, catching and squeezing hanging toys, i.e. small motor skills training. Soft and diverse pendants stimulate multisensory and calm down in a similar way to mobila.
The first mirrors
Toys practicing large motor skills strengthen the muscles of the neck and shoulders, encourage you to support the head and move longer. They also teach how to observe their facial expressions and catch the hands of moving objects. Raising the head is the basis for the development of further skills, including sitting.
From 6 m +
Sensory toys for children by 6 m +
ScrubGryzaks continue to practice manual skills, grip, hand coordination and mouth and mandible muscles. When expanding your diet, you can give your child a teether with food so that it practices his motor skills and strength and precision of grip.
Sensory toys
Ratches stimulate hearing and grip. For six months up, when the child is already sitting on or learning to sit down, you should continue to encourage movement, rising and rolling, which stimulates proprioception, sense of balance. They do the toddler great and help practice physical coordination and hand-coordination.
Motor toys
Elements that can be applied, translated, raised and set up support the development of the sense of balance and large motor skills. And at the same time they practice spatial thinking and motor coordination of toddlers.
Wooden natural toys support the child's development in accordance with Maria Montessori's pedagogy. Motor beads and balls practice small motor skills, hand-to-coordination and transmission from hand to hand.
They develop small motor skills and hand coordination and work polyisensory, i.e. many senses at once. They also encourage you to throw, and thus the development of grip, crush and large motor skills. They show their own agency.
Early -development toys from 9 m +
They develop small motor skills, finger agility, grip and also serve as teethers. Soft and colorful encourage you to practice small motor skills and muscle strength of the fingers and hands. A great exercise also for the toddler's brain!
They strengthen high muscles and motor skills. Laying practices large muscle groups, a sense of balance and maintaining it, shows your own agency. Motor toys will learn a child with different material properties. They develop visual "sensing" of objects.
Early -development toys from 12 m+
Scrub
Gryzaks continue to stimulate touch, motor skills and muscles of the baby's mouth. In addition, they practice large children's motor skills if you can arrange towers from them.
They stimulate sight, hearing, touch and strength of grip and muscles. The child can already sit and hold larger toys in his hands, which also practices large balance and motor skills.
Motor toys
They practice small and large motor skills, imagination, a sense of their own body, i.e. proprioception and coordination of hand-room.
Sensory balls
They work polyisorically. They support the development of the sense of balance, high motor skills and proprioception and muscle strength. They encourage you to move, follow the ball and bend over it.
Exercise of the sense of touch, sight and hearing, small motor skills, spatial imagination and a tweezer grip that helps in lifting small objects.
First 12 m+ blocks
Laying towers from blocks practices a sense of balance, high motor skills, proper muscle tension (stable seat and getting up) partly deep feeling. Encourages to learn the basics of physics.
Toys on wheels
Toys on wheels and to pull
They stimulate the development of large motor skills and muscle strength. They give motivation to move and joy in their own agency when setting them in motion. Supports the development of walking with support, pushing and supporting.Children's rides
They practice the sense of balance, proprioception, eyesight and high motor skills as well as speed, agility, independence and faith in your own strength. Necessary for proper motor and sensory development will also give a large dose of fun.
Early -development toys for children aged 18 m+
Sensory toys
Soft and heavy cuddly cuddly stimulates not only the senses of sight and touch, but also deep and proprioception. Conditioning and moving mascots is a very good exercise.
Sensory balls
Advanced balls for squeezing, throwing, rolling. They practice muscle strength, high and small motor skills, and senses of sensation, deep sensation, eyesight and hearing. It is necessary to develop good sensory integration.
Motor toys
Pusher are the perfect toys practicing movement, walking and maintaining a vertical and stable position of the body, showing their own agency and basic principles of physics. They encourage further development of the skills of walking and pulling up and getting up.
Educational cubes
They help develop curiosity and a sense of their own agency. They teach manual efficiency, develop small motor skills and provide a lot of stimuli for development.
Sorters
They teach counting, separating, sorting and stacking. It is learning mathematical and logical thinking and learning about the concept of durability of objects. Creating groups, subgroups, distinguishing, segregation and stacking supports the child's brain development and is the basis for the proper development of speech.
Construction set
The blocks build patience, imagination and spatial thinking, and also often have different educational values, such as familiarizing with a specific topics as well as textures and properties of wood, rubber and other materials.
Toys on wheels
They perfectly stimulate children to move, developing their motor skills. Creative physical fun is a job that is needed for every toddler who further develops walking and moving toys.
Children's rides
They stimulate to continue motor development, support the development of the sense of balance, feeling your body, proprioception and orientation in space.
Early development toys for children aged two
Sensory toysThey stimulate, give occupation and calm down. Maintaining larger objects in the handles supports the development of strength. They exercise all senses, they work multisensory. They stimulate the whole child's nervous system, the brain, hearing, supporting the development of musicality, which is also extremely needed in learning languages.
Motor toys
They support the development of child motor skills, learn with the laws of physics, practice patience, accuracy and control of their own body. It is also a toy in the style of montessori pedagogy.
Sensory balls
The balls encourage movement, support the development of motor skills and all senses as well as motor coordination, hand-room and proprioception. They can also be used for fascial exercises and a delicate massage.
Sorters
They teach sequencing, counting, adding, and basic ordering according to various features. They develop innate so -called gene numbers and innate mathematical skills.
Construction set
They practice motor skills and spatial imagination, as well as gripping and moving small and larger elements. Combining and separating is also an exercise of manual skills and planning.
Toys on wheels
They practice further motor development of toddlers, encouraging them to push, pull or arrange toys. Pulling, turning, turning and entering one car into another is great fun and exercise.
Rock toys
They practice proprioception, labyrinth and a whole sense of balance and calm down. Rocking is necessary to develop later motor skills and appropriate sensory integration.
Rides and first running bikes
Running bikes, carts, scooters and all rides care for adequate motor and sensory development and are an introduction to learning to ride a bicycle. Children exercise multisensory senses and stimulate their nervous system in the right way, providing stimuli and developmental sensations.
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