Woman’s Day found out which toys develop logical and imaginative thinking, fine motor skills, improve attention and help children grow up talented and curious.
From the age of one and a half, babies begin to perceive information by ear, it is at this time that it is important to read them as many fairy tales as possible and sing lullabies. Talking toys will be able to help parents in this: dolls, cartoon characters and animals. Modern talking dolls can not only say “mom”, “dad”, “I love you” and laugh, many of them know dozens of fairy tales, lullabies and children’s songs. The most modern baby dolls are made of high quality vinyl or soft-filled. They are anatomically accurate, naturalistic and copy real babies.
The talking doll helps the child learn the alphabet, memorize poems and melodies, develops hearing, imagination and imaginative perception of the world.
Talking Ben Dragon-I, from 900 rubles.
An improved version of talking dolls – interactive toys. They have sensitive zones and sensors, light sensors, understand when they are turned over or shaken, react to tickling, dance, and can also hear and maintain a conversation. These can be dolls, talking animals, or fantastic characters.
Price: from 1500 rubles.
Experiments with magnets, a set for making chocolate, historical excavations and magical experiments – scientific and educational and scientific and entertainment experiments will help your child learn a lot about the world around him.
Price: from 540 rubles
The fashion for environmentally friendly natural materials has reached children’s toys. Wooden toys are becoming more and more popular. There are a great many of them: these are the usual dominoes, loto and inserts, and cubes, and logical pyramids, trains and doll houses, constructors – you can list it endlessly. The good thing about wooden toys is that they are non-toxic and durable.
Another type of eco-toy is kinetic sand. For a baby, it is good because it develops motor skills, and for parents – because it does not crumble into small grains.
This is a cross between plasticine and wet sand. It consists of 98% natural sand and 2% polymer, due to which its unusual properties are manifested: it can be used to build a variety of shapes, it does not leave marks on the hands and can be used as a relaxing agent.
Price: from 700 rub.
Stained glass painting, decoupage, interior toys are a hobby not only for mothers. However, the choice of children’s kits for creativity is even wider – add to the already named 3D mosaics, making key rings from pompons, toys from sock, thermal mosaic and sculpting kits.
Price: from 145 rubles
Constructor Ecoiffier Pirate ship, 1350 rubles.
Surely these toys will be interesting not only for children, but also for parents, because the assortment of puzzles is no longer limited to numbers and Rubik’s cube. However, the latter has not yet lost its relevance, and many other puzzles have been created on its basis: “Gorgon’s Cube”, “Sphinx Mystery”, “Snake Cube”. And then there are puzzle balls, sets and puzzle constructors.
Price: from 360 rubles
Designers help to form spatial thinking, accuracy, attention and the ability to act according to a given scheme. Wooden constructors are good – they are pleasant to the touch and environmentally friendly. By the way, there is a series of wooden constructors, from which you can build small copies of real houses, mills, castles, create entire villages and cities. The price of such sets starts from 1500 rubles. for one item and from 3000 rubles. for the castle, for example.
Plastic constructors are cheaper, from 1500 rubles. for a set, but they also have a rather big choice: beaches, buildings, houses, rooms, cars, animals.