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Toys for Toddlers
Give your baby a head start with popular educational toys for children. Young children need stimulation to grow and develop, and educational toys are perfect to jumpstart your child's education. Start your baby off early with these great learning toys which will both entertain and educate. Toys for Children Ages 3 Through 5 Years Old • Avoid toys that are constructed with thin, brittle plastic that might easily break into small pieces or leave jagged edges. • Look for household art materials, including crayons and paint sets. Make sure that the product has been reviewed by a toxicologist and, if necessary, labeled with cautionary information. • Teach older children to keep their toys away from their younger brothers and sisters. Toys for Children Ages 6 Through 12 Years Old • For all children, adults should check toys periodically for breakage and potential hazards. Damaged or dangerous toys should be repaired or thrown away. • If buying a toy gun, be sure the barrel, or the entire gun, is brightly colored so that it's not mistaken for a real gun. • If you buy a bicycle for any age child, buy a helmet too, and make sure the child wears it. • Teach all children to put toys away when they're finished playing so they don't trip over them or fall on them. Great Idea! - Home made toys. Some simple ideas to amuse your toddlers with things that you can find at home. Get away from paying too much money for toys. Toddlers may need constant stimulation, but they don't always need exorbitantly priced toys. Quite often you can find things around the home that will amuse them for endless hours, and if they don't, well you haven't wasted a lot of money and you have spent some quality time with your child. Just look around your house for things that you can use to amuse your toddler. They love to do grown up things in a childlike way. TODDLER CARS It can be made of some empty cardboard boxes. Sit the box down, cut out the top and bottom. Punch holes on either side of the front and rear and attach some thick string front to back. You may need to adjust the straps depending on the height of your child. Next, pull out some paper plates or construction paper cut into circles and attach them to the sides as wheels and one more for the steering wheel. Now let the kids get to work decorating it with racing stripes, wipers and horns. Now you have a fantastic homemade toy car that will sure to provide lots of laughs! PERSONALIZED BOOKS Why not make the book from scratch. Sit down with your toddler and tell a story together. Add your child's name into the story! Record the silly story and draw some pictures together. Bind it together using a hole punch and string and their you have it! Add some photos. PROP BOXES Toddlers love to be involved in dramatic play. See what it is that interests them and set about making some themed boxes for the appropriate time. Find a cardboard box or an old hat box and decorate it with what will be found inside. For instance, your child could be into hairdressing so fill the box with an old hairdryer (cord removed), brushes, rollers, caps and more. If they like to play kitchen then fill it with cooking utensils, bowls and plates etc. For a tool kit you could find some little tools at your local dollar shop. The possibilities are endless and when the mood strikes it is great to pull down a box with all the relevant props! DOLL HOUSES You can find lots of little things to make a dolls house. Shoeboxes and larger boxes are great. Stand the box on its side and rest it against a wall. Here you have a great little house. Paint the outside a nice appealing color and attach some little fabric swatches as curtains to the cut out windows. In a larger box, a shoebox will suffice as a little bed and lots of items around the kitchen can be used. Use your imagination! CUBBY HOUSES Toddlers love a good cubby house, to find a little space to get away from it all. Be your own engineer and bring out the sheets, boxes, parachutes, towels or whatever else you can find that will provide a little shelter. Next, construct your cubby and fill it with stuffed toys or books. Very often simply changing the environment provides the best amusement!
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