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Through play, the child discovers the objects and theirfunctions and learns some social behaviors. For him, the play issimilar to the work of the adult: the toddler imitates the workof his mother, father and grandparents.

He repairs the car like his father and he cleans the house likehis mother.

His work “tool” is the toy. If for the little babythe toy is mostly a decorative object, for the toddler who isjust starting to walk and talk, toys are absolutelynecessary.

The parent must make sure to offer his child adequate toys tohis age and skills level. The most indicated toddler toys are the functional ones, who develop and stimulatedifferent processes and mental activities (knowledge,inventiveness, imagination).

In fact, we can consider as toys all the objects that help atoddler’s play, many of which can be found in ourhouse.

Moving games are one of a toddler’s preferredactivities.

It is very good if near your house is a park with a designatedplace, with special structures for toddlers.

Small sized slides, wooden or plastic material cubes, arrangedin a pyramidal shape helps toddlers develop their musculatureand agility.

If it is possible, the family members, using non-expensivematerials, can make these arrangements in the backyard. Thechildren will use them until they will grow older.

Another open-air game for toddlers that requires manual skillsis sand play. This game requires the toddler to make differentsand shapes and even complicated constructions.

At the sand box, the toddler uses different plastic shapes(stars, cookie), shovels, little buckets, toy cars and kitchenvessels.

Don't hesitate to let the toddler play in sand just because hemight get dirty or because sand play is a germ source.

If you don’t think you can find a box good enough to beused for this purpose, or sand to fill it, you can also buy one.

A toddler also requires toys to play inside the house

For the interior, the most important toys for toddlers are thecubes. They are used by the toddlers as load for toystrucks.

These cubes will later take part in construction games that helpdevelop hand maneuverability, the capacity to concentrate andthe imagination.

Toddlers, both boys and girls, love animals and dolls made ofdifferent materials. It is a mistake to believe that at this agedolls are specific only to girls.

Dolls help toddlers to identify the role of the mother andfather in the family and learn the different body parts that aperson has.

From the list of toddler toys, we must not exclude books.

For toddlers, beautiful colored books, with few images but welloutlined, help enrich the vocabulary and verbalizingperception.

As a parent, you can create short stories based on these images,using words that the toddler can understand, with similaractivities and experiences to the ones the child hasexperienced.

After showing him the images and explained what they are, we canask the toddler “What is this?” “What does itdo?” This way you test the things he learned.

The child likes this because he can see the satisfaction aparent has when he answers correctly.

Besides enriching his vocabulary, this game wakes up in himfeelings of trust and security.

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