Parents should learn to distinguish between the concepts of the quality of toys and their quantity. No need to buy out an entire children's store! Just make sure that your little one's toy box provides them with a wide range of different types of play experiences. Here are some quick tips.
For HAND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT, choose collapsible toys with small enough parts, but such a size that the child cannot swallow or choke on them under any circumstances. The child should spend a lot of time working with his hands, especially his fingers, which will help develop speech and hand coordination.
For the PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT of a child's legs, arms, and back, it is good to use bicycles without pedals or a machine, where you need to push off the ground with your feet, thus movement occurs. Also, playing with a ball, digging, catching, running is a good "exercise". Visit playgrounds with your child, let him climb various surfaces, tunnels, swing on a swing, run through obstacles. The child will receive many positive emotions, spend excess energy and improve muscle tone.
For the CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT of your child, use paints, pencils, asphalt chalks, colored paper, clay. These handy tools will allow you to show your individuality and talent. The artistic creativity of children under 1 year old is not drawing, but rather experimentation, games with paint and paper, but such games are important for the development of fine motor skills, imagination and the formation of the concept of color.
BUILDING and CONSTRUCTION GAMES develop children's spatial orientation, the ability to separate the whole, parts. Logical thinking also develops, because in order to assemble even a simple structure, you need to think carefully about how to connect the parts. For the construction game, it is good to use constructor sets made of different materials, preferably wooden or cardboard.
READING is a very important component of children's leisure time. Provide your library with interesting children's books with illustrations that occupy at least 50% of the spread or page, read fairy tales to the child, show pictures. Do not forget about the types of toys that develop the child's musical skills.
Let's remember that children's games should be an integral part of a child's daily life, just like sleep and food!