Colorful and textured animal buddies for multiple ways of play. They can also make excellent bath toys!
Gross Motor Skills. Infant from birth begin to have an awareness of others and objects. Although the baby's most favorite toy will usually be faces, these colorful and high contrast toys can be used to encourage visual exploration during tummy time or face to face play to give them something fun to look at and follow with their gaze or begin turning their heads to improve their head control. As they get bigger at 3-6 months, they might begin holding objects and eventually reaching for them. Presenting these colorful and interesting toys can encourage them to hold and explore more. When they begin to sit-up, they can gain postural stability, balance, and coordinate their movements while moving their hands, grasping and improving their finger dexterity.
Language. Use the toys to encourage back and forth conversations and play with each other. It can be a great way to introduce colors, sounds of animals, and singing familiar animal nursery rhymes.
Creative Play. The first play skill children engage is what we call sensory play, which uses the different senses -- sight, sounds, taste, touch, smell. That's what makes sensory toys such a big hit for them because it's an all-in-one show stopper. They can also use them in other ways as they are growing up, like playing with them as squirt toys in the bathtub or pretending to have pets or even a farm.
Kids will naturally play and think outside the box. Providing them with open-ended toys and characters for their play encourage them to look for different ways to play with it. They can enhance play skills with the toy itself or jointly with other toys, while folding in activities to stimulate language and cognitive skills.
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Items chosen for the shop have been reviewed for non-toxic materials. However, caution is still warranted when children play and interact with any toy. Although we highly encourage free play and expanding the imagination, please still take caution in the appropriate level of supervision of children at play, particularly when toys and items may have smaller parts that pose a choking hazard.
