Toys should be chosen taking into account what motor skills and functions develop in the child at a given time, and which will progress in the near future. It's not at all difficult when you know what's what and why.
Fact
The child perceives the toy exclusively emotionally, and the requirement of psychology is that the emotions are positive. Scientists have long proved: the more positive emotions a child receives, the stronger his health and immunity. If the toy does not like the baby, do not insist that he play with her.
What's happening
Visual perception and hearing begin to develop. The kid learns not only to look, but also to consider the subject.
What toys are needed
The main thing is sensory brightness. Suspended mobile phones with bright figures. Ophthalmologists say that color does not matter. The child watches the color and movement. Calm melody develops the hearing and soothes.
Fact
The development of a child depends entirely on his environment, and around him since birth ... mom and toys. The latter must be diverse.
What's happening
The first conscious movements, attempts to grasp, motor activity significantly increases. Intensive development of the tactile sphere (touch). Research, grasping, holding objects, the kid turns over, attentively looks at everything and listens.
Rattles of various shapes from different materials. Toys that can make a pleasant sound from an easy touch. As before, crumbs are interesting suspension toys.
Tip
Do not buy rattles with small balls inside and glued from parts. If they break up, the child accidentally can swallow these balls
What happens? Intensive development of the movements of the hands: shifting the object from one to the other. A crumb learns to act simultaneously with two objects and two hands. The kid sits, crawls, manipulates various objects (takes out, presses). Well distinguishes voices and intonations.
Multifunctional development centers (they often include a mirror, bright figures, moving up and down, spinning balls, cylinders, bells, a music block). Soft books made of fabric or plastic. A variety of toys for the bathroom. Gaming centers-simulators, to which the kid would like to drag on. Balls of different sizes, with the exception of tennis. The first plush animals. Teethers in the form of the most interesting toys for the child.
Stimulate the research activity of the baby. Show a lot of new things (for you it's just a tinsel, for example). The novelty of what he saw and felt during this period is very important for him.
What's happening
There are purposeful actions. Visual-motor coordination develops. Experimenting with the available items: the crumb throws the toys out of the arena, knitting the paper. The first words appear. Logical thinking begins to develop. The child takes the first steps.
Pyramids, cups-liners. Toys that help in learning to walk. Stable machines that can be rolled back and forth. Rocking, balls. Musical toys: a drum, a metal telephone, a telephone, a children's synthesizer. Cardboard books with eyes and inserts from various fabrics. Clippers, walkers, touch cubes. Multifunctional game panels. Hammers. A variety of toy animals. "Dry" pools with balls. Home swings.
Tip
Encourage any desire of the child to make something, sew, glue and give someone, if you want to grow up a good, diligent and hardworking crumb.
What's happening
Development of personality, intensive development of speech. Visual-shaped thinking develops, and then a more complex form, verbal and logical. The leading activity is a story-role game, in the process of which the imagination develops. Learn to read, produce simple arithmetic. He likes to make things very much.
What toys are needed Sets for various kinds of hand-made articles (making stained-glass windows, bas-reliefs, frescoes, plaster figures). For the manufacture of beads and bracelets. Complex constructors, the simplest technical sets. Sets for modeling. Dolls with clothes and accessories. Thematic sets: shop, hairdresser, kitchen.
Machines and robots on the control panel. Children's computers and simple electronic games. Characters from children's full-length cartoons. Board games-hodilki and others. Checkers, chess, quiz games. Sport games.
The most interested children play with toys that give them the "joy of achievement." This will help designers, various sets for creativity.
Books made of cloth or cardboard contribute to the development of visual perception, interest, understanding of speech. Allow children to turn pages, they do it with pleasure. The building of cause and effect relationships, active research of the surrounding world. The child can walk, climb, run, more skillfully owns hands, looks at the pictures with interest.
Clockwork, talking toys, a machine on a string, a gurney, a ball, Lego-type constructors with large details, building blocks, a logic cube, a ball for playing and balls with training pens.
Sandbox toys: scoop, rake, shovel, molds, bucket, sieve.
Tip
At this age it is time to teach the baby to order. To do this, you need to get a few boxes for toys and do not forget to remove them there after the game.
What's happening
Coordination of movements. Development of emotional perception. Perfection of speech, communication, socialization processes. Period of getting used to kindergarten, independence. Formation of character, development of logical thinking and imagination. There is relative motor dexterity. The kid begins to understand the relationship between people, their rules. More confidently draws pencils and paints.
What toys are needed
Small toys: little animals, dolls, cartoon characters, who can become a communication partner. Accessories for story games, household items: furniture, dishes, irons, washing machines, carpentry tools. Designers of the Lego type with medium-sized parts. Sets of soldiers. Glove dolls. Plasticine, paints, pencils.