Non-Battery Operated Children's Toys: How Battery-Less Toys Affect Children's Play Time by anna dawson


Non-Battery Operated Children's Toys: How Battery-Less Toys Affect Children's Play Time by ANNA DAWSON
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Non-Battery Operated Children's Toys: How Battery-Less Toys Affect Children's Play Time

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Non-battery operated toys such as wooden building blocks or play sets allows the child to build a play situation themselves. There is little to no predisposed influence that the child may rely upon therefore their imagination and ability to create their own style of play must be used. The child will create scenarios and substitute objects as props in their make believe world. The rules that govern the play from the child's perspective are flexible and roles or perspectives can change at a moment's notice to fit the child's needs. This stimulates cognitive skills and emotional stability as the child learns how to cope with different scenarios in their young life. Creating fantasy worlds and playing with non-battery operated ride ons has benefits beyond mental and emotional development. The basic game of placing wooden shapes in specific shaped holes on a box helps a child to develop memory skills as well as basic and fine motor skills. As a child begins to master one toy it is beneficial for a parent to introduce another toy to continually stimulate their child's problem solving skills. Forms of play that can benefit the development in the early years of a child's life are limitless. Allowing the child adequate time to play and providing them an environment conducive to imaginative play is one of the most important things a parent can do to influence the mental, motor skills and emotional development of their child. Toys are a large part of how a parent can enrich this environment and care should be taken to ensure that what a child plays with is safe as well as enriching. Wooden toys are a simple way in which a parent can ensure that several of these goals are met battery operated toy cars

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