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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