Choosing toys by development

TOYS FOR LEARNING

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Facetime phase:

  Mirrors

  Frolic play

  Banging rattles

  Mylar balloon (with supervision- of course)

Reaching for toys (on back and tummy) Early Cause and effect. 

Is aware that objects exist when not seen

Finds toys hidden under things

Crawls to or walks to get what they want

Pulls string toys

Not mouthing toys as much

Looking at toys briefly

  Gertie Balls

  Banging on pots/pans

  Toys that respond to movement or sound

  Toys that you pull

  Toys that you can imitate together: drums, rattles, blocks that you bang together

  Lighted toys

  Cause-effect boards

  bubbles

Reaching with more stability (sitting with/without support)-keep cause and effect, moves hands bilaterally, purposeful exploration of toys, handing toy to you if can’t operate it

  in/out/dump/ fill, pull

  Coffee can and lid filled with balls or scarves 

  Pulling toys with a string

  Cause -effect toys

  Tactile box

Pretend play begins: “pretend to go to sleep” or “eat” play food: common objects and toys are used  appropriately, may use chair to get things, uses trial and error to discover toys. Child is crawling or walking

  Play houses; play fridge/stove

  Shopping cart

  Trucks

  Dinosaurs

  Trains/planes, etc

  Musical instruments for kids

  Puppets

Pretend play includes more than one thing

  characters or current craze: houses, characters

  Characters from favorite movies or books

  Mr Potato head

  Play-Dough

Indirect cause and effect 

  Gearation

  Voice-Activated toys

  Remote switch toy

  Fluorescent light tube holder and anything you can race through it (cars, balls)- they are see through

Pretend play continues to develop along with problem solving skills:

  Characters from Star Wars, GI Joe, Barbies, etc…

  Markers, paper

  Marbles for classification as well as old-fashioned fun

  Flashlight 

  Play-Dough

  Transformers- there are quite a few that are made for the younger ages as well : Rescue Bots, but often kids can do some of the actual Transformers for the older ages

  Legos 

Pretend play: dolls, dress-up , super heroes, Playmobil

  Transformers

  Hot wheels

  Science kits

  Brio kits are back

Games

  Blink card game

  Mad Libs

  Outburst Jr. board game (classification and word finding, vocabulary)

  Apples to Apples Jr. (classification and vocabulary)

  Guess Who board Game

  Sorry: have Disney Sorry and others. (sequencing, reading, some problem solving)

  Osmo: LOTS of new games including coding

  Rush Hour

Hands-on games for beginners:

  Don’t break the ice

  Catch the Fox

  Jumping Jack

  Pop up Pirate

IPad apps

 cause-effect stages:

Art of Glow

My First App: Build it up

Eggroll games: coloring farm, coloring zoo

Bubble Paper (or just use real bubble paper )

PDJ apps: cyclotron

Cause and effect sensory light box

Helpkidzlearn: FIngerpaint

Pretend play apps:

Bluebear: puppy doctor

TocaBoca: Pet doctor (there are many!), Hair Salon, Toca kitchen

Disney: color play, palace pets

Sago Mini: Bug Builder, Café, Dress-up, planes

Tiny Dentist

Mr. Potato Head

Pretend Play that incorporates a narrative or alt-reality:

Early:

Sago Mini: boats, ocean swimmer, school, road trip,boats, space explorer, etc

Tiggly: Submarine

My PlayHome

Olaf

Toca School

Play date: Rescue Bots dino island

Toca elements

Toca Builders

Later:

Minecraft

Toontastic  (create a story movie)

Pokemon playhouse

Freddi Fish

Putt-Putt

Angry Birds

Minion rush

Learning:

Toontastic

Heads-up

Tiggly: alphabet kitchen (they have tiggly chef and others too)

Hideout (phonics game)

Tinytap (free and has scads of activities from school-based to speech-language)

Bitsboard

Osmo: words,numbers, pizza company, coding

Downs Ed international Special Stories, Special words

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