Children’s toys are educational for children:
1. Using toy games is not just for playing, but a good way to educate children. For example, in the game, children sometimes act as a traffic policeman with a baton in his hand and carefully direct vehicles and pedestrians; sometimes act as a doctor and treat patients; sometimes they use building blocks to build buildings, as if they are architects.No matter what role children are playing, they must imagine what kind of role they are playing, imitate their actions and language, experience their feelings and attitudes towards people and things, and learn from them that people are serious and responsible, treat others warmly, etc. Quality, this kind of game also lays a good foundation for children no matter what jobs they will do in the future.
2. The use of toy games can cultivate good personalities of infants and young children, and is an effective means of ideological and moral education for young children. In the game, children imitate adults' attitudes toward labor and everything, experience people's thoughts and feelings, and can gradually understand the social moral codes and customs.
3. Use toy games to educate children on aesthetics. A variety of games create conditions for children to gain a sense of beauty. In games, children can not only feel beauty, but also improve their aesthetic ability and learn to use various methods to create beauty.
Conducive to the growth of children:
1. Toys mobilize children's enthusiasm
The physical and mental development of children is realized in activities. Toys can be freely manipulated, manipulated and used for children, which conform to the children's psychological hobby and ability level. It can meet their needs for activities and increase their enthusiasm for activities. For example, a rocking horse toy, children will naturally ride on and swing back and forth, which not only meets their activity requirements, but also makes them feel positive and happy, so they will never get tired of playing for a long time. Another example is doll toys, which can cause children to do a variety of activities. Children of all ages can play games with dolls according to their own life experiences, which can vary from simple to complex.
2. Toys enhance perceptual awareness
Toys have the characteristics of intuitive images. Children can touch, hold, listen, blow, watch, etc., which is conducive to the training of various sense organs. Such as colored towers, blow molding toys, various dolls and toy animals, etc. are conducive to visual training; eight-tone bears, small pianos, tambourines, and small horns can train hearing; building blocks, plastic pieces, and structural models can be developed Space perception; various jigsaw puzzles, inlaid toys, soft plastic toys, etc. can exercise the sense of touch; pulling duck carts, trolleys, tricycles, two-wheeled vehicles, etc. contribute to the development of kinesthesia. Toys not only enrich children's perceptual knowledge while developing sensory and motor abilities, but also help to consolidate the impression that children obtain in life. When children do not have extensive exposure to real life, they understand the world through toys.
3. Toys cause association activities
For example, toys in hospitals and doll houses can cause children to associate with hospitals and families, and can encourage them to develop creative role games; some toys for labor tools can cause children to perform simulated tasks such as planting trees, digging rivers, and building. Some toys are specially used for thinking training, such as various chess and various intellectual toys, which can improve children's ability of analysis, synthesis, comparison, judgment, and reasoning, and cultivate the depth, flexibility and agility of thinking.
4. Positive thinking and imagination
And through other activities of the hands or body. For example, when playing with plastic toys, children must conceive, imagine, and choose materials to achieve the established purpose; when assembling, they must use both hands and brains. Toddlers will encounter some difficulties when using toys for activities. These difficulties require them to rely on their own strength to overcome and persist in completing tasks, thus cultivating the excellent quality of overcoming difficulties and working hard.
5. Help develop collective ideas and cooperative spirit
Some toys are required for children to use together. Such as telephone toys, there must be both parties on the phone, and even a pager, which can help children understand the learning and life experience, practice and partner cooperation. Another example is the "long rope" toy, which requires many children to use collectively. In the long rope skipping game, the children coordinate each other's movements and strengthen the collective concept.