1. Suitable puppets for babies 0 - 3 years
For babies and toddlers, sock puppets, full-bodied puppets or glove puppets are the most appropriate.
2. Name that puppet!
It is important to give more character to your puppet by naming it.
3. Have a spare puppet as back up
Your toddler can grow attached to your puppet. So when buying a puppet, it's best to buy two of the same kind.
4. Choose compact puppets when traveling
When travelling, stick to the hand puppets that are easy to transport. Just make sure that you supervise your toddler when playing with finger puppets that are not toddler-safe.
5. Choose a puppet that is your child's favorite cartoon character
Here's a surefire way your toddler will enjoy playing with your puppet.
6. Use a puppet rack display
It is best to use puppet display rack is better than putting your puppets in a shelf or toy box. Your puppet can get lost amidst all the toys so this creative display of this toy not only gives your puppet a proper "home" but also becomes an inviting reminder to do puppet play whenever you can.
Selasa, 28 Oktober 2008
The Best Toddler Toys
Making a choice for toddler toys is especially difficult. Toys for toddlers need to be educational, developmental and fun. The best toddler toys stimulate toddlers and are evergreen, meaning that they can be played with even at a later age. Any toys that are small enough to pass through a paper towel core must be kept away from children under three years of age. Here are the best toddler toys:
1. Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Baby Grand Piano
This helps your toddler gain awareness of cause and effect and also entertains.
2. International Playthings I-Play Nest and Stack Buckets
The brightly colored Nest and Stack Buckets could be used for stacking, sorting, and even as molding and scooping sand in sandboxes.
3. LeapFrog LeapStart Infant & Toddler Learning Table
This educational toy introduces infant and toddler to the alphabet, numbers 1 - 10, shapes and colors through music, good choices to encourage learning in toddlers of 24 months.
Remember, when considering toys, to follow age recommendations featured on toy packaging for safety and always supervise toddlers.
1. Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Baby Grand Piano
This helps your toddler gain awareness of cause and effect and also entertains.
2. International Playthings I-Play Nest and Stack Buckets
The brightly colored Nest and Stack Buckets could be used for stacking, sorting, and even as molding and scooping sand in sandboxes.
3. LeapFrog LeapStart Infant & Toddler Learning Table
This educational toy introduces infant and toddler to the alphabet, numbers 1 - 10, shapes and colors through music, good choices to encourage learning in toddlers of 24 months.
Remember, when considering toys, to follow age recommendations featured on toy packaging for safety and always supervise toddlers.
Toddler Worldview Shifts At Age 2
The researchers gave each of 30 toddlers objects to play with. “That knowledge fuels learning of objects' names. Recognizing objects with abstract shapes may prepare toddlers for symbolic play,” Smith hypothesized. Now, you take one step higher in fostering creativity by offering toys that will engage his imagination to form and create.
How to Encourage a Toddler's Pretend Play
1. Set aside a corner of your home where you can create a pretend play area for your toddler. Stock the area with toddler-size versions of the adult world.
2. Collect empty food tins, cereal boxes and cartons, can become anything a child can imagine. Talk with children about the difference between real and pretend.
3. Maintain a box full of old clothes and hats that can be used for dress-up.
4. Encourage your toddler to think outside of the box by using common objects to represent real life things. Use paper plates to represent lily pads for frogs.
5. Integrate music into your toddler's imaginary activity. Show your toddler how to play air guitar and hold a little concert.
6. Get on your hands and knees and play with your toddler.
7. Role-play scenarios with dolls and animals. Make up stories with your toddler.
Tips & Warnings
1. Watch your toddler after day care. Many toddlers will use their toys to review relevant events from their day.
2. Don't gender stereotype play.
3. Allow toddler to stop the pretend play if he becomes frightened by what is happening. Toddler's imaginations blossom, but at the same time new fears develop. Your reassurance will mean a lot as toddler explores the new and exciting world of pretend play.
2. Collect empty food tins, cereal boxes and cartons, can become anything a child can imagine. Talk with children about the difference between real and pretend.
3. Maintain a box full of old clothes and hats that can be used for dress-up.
4. Encourage your toddler to think outside of the box by using common objects to represent real life things. Use paper plates to represent lily pads for frogs.
5. Integrate music into your toddler's imaginary activity. Show your toddler how to play air guitar and hold a little concert.
6. Get on your hands and knees and play with your toddler.
7. Role-play scenarios with dolls and animals. Make up stories with your toddler.
Tips & Warnings
1. Watch your toddler after day care. Many toddlers will use their toys to review relevant events from their day.
2. Don't gender stereotype play.
3. Allow toddler to stop the pretend play if he becomes frightened by what is happening. Toddler's imaginations blossom, but at the same time new fears develop. Your reassurance will mean a lot as toddler explores the new and exciting world of pretend play.
Senin, 27 Oktober 2008
How to Enjoy Playhouse Disney With Your Toddler
Steps
1. Remember that Playhouse Disney is only the morning slots.
2. Get a toddler to dance to music. Almost all of the Playhouse Disney shows have songs or their characters singing.
3. Figure out what shows are appropriate for your toddler.
Tips
1. If your toddler interacts with the television show (dances to music, follows characters' actions or answers questions, etc), he or she will love the show more.
2. Because Playhouse Disney is during the morning, enjoy breakfast or lunch with your toddler while watching the shows.
3. If you search the internet, such as YouTube, you may find videos pertaining to Playhouse Disney.
There's an opportunity for toddlers to flex their developing muscles on playhouses and gyms, too. To encourage these skills in toddlers, Bowman recommends that parents provide props for their toddlers to use during playtime in a playhouse.
1. Remember that Playhouse Disney is only the morning slots.
2. Get a toddler to dance to music. Almost all of the Playhouse Disney shows have songs or their characters singing.
3. Figure out what shows are appropriate for your toddler.
Tips
1. If your toddler interacts with the television show (dances to music, follows characters' actions or answers questions, etc), he or she will love the show more.
2. Because Playhouse Disney is during the morning, enjoy breakfast or lunch with your toddler while watching the shows.
3. If you search the internet, such as YouTube, you may find videos pertaining to Playhouse Disney.
There's an opportunity for toddlers to flex their developing muscles on playhouses and gyms, too. To encourage these skills in toddlers, Bowman recommends that parents provide props for their toddlers to use during playtime in a playhouse.
Planning your Disney Vacation
1. Choose the dates you plan to be at the Disney Resort.
2. Select your preferred hotel.
3. Begin making your calls to make your hotel or package reservations. Make your reservations… early. The Disneyland Resort Hotels fill up early during the busy season.
4. Make car rental reservations if needed.
5. Confirm reservations: make hotel requests (bedding type, view, crib)
6. 30 Days before you leave make Fantasmic! Balcony or Riverside seating reservations.
7. Check with your toddler's doctor: get any documentation on shots or health records needed for travel.
2. Select your preferred hotel.
3. Begin making your calls to make your hotel or package reservations. Make your reservations… early. The Disneyland Resort Hotels fill up early during the busy season.
4. Make car rental reservations if needed.
5. Confirm reservations: make hotel requests (bedding type, view, crib)
6. 30 Days before you leave make Fantasmic! Balcony or Riverside seating reservations.
7. Check with your toddler's doctor: get any documentation on shots or health records needed for travel.
Selasa, 21 Oktober 2008
Educational and Cheap Toddler Toys
Looking for an alternative to expensive educational toys? Great developmentally, appropriate toy ideas for toddlers are detailed. Promote learning on the cheap!
12 - 18 Months
Undoubtedly, parents of toddlers this age have had to deal with the continual clean up of dumped toys and other items. At this age, toddlers are practicing spatial skills, and dumping and sorting helps achieve this. Stacking toys are a wonderful tool to help children sort and organize. Other appropriate suggestions include pounding toys, books, and balls.
2 – 3 Years
Consider buying toys that stimulate activity and enhance large and fine motor skills. As toddlers throw and kick balls, they build gross motor muscles and practice hand-eye coordination. Great quiet play learning toys for toddlers in this age group are simple puzzles, basic coloring and painting activities, and building blocks.
Pay attention to the recommended age range of the toy. Parents may think that their advanced toddler can handle a toy intended for an older toddler. Wash the toys thoroughly before giving them to your toddler.
Cheap, poorly designed toys are not worth the cost. Inexpensive, well-made toys are the better bargain. Simple, hand-made toys can inspire creativity and imagination. Toddlers can learn just as well from “cheap” toys as from expensive toys.
12 - 18 Months
Undoubtedly, parents of toddlers this age have had to deal with the continual clean up of dumped toys and other items. At this age, toddlers are practicing spatial skills, and dumping and sorting helps achieve this. Stacking toys are a wonderful tool to help children sort and organize. Other appropriate suggestions include pounding toys, books, and balls.
2 – 3 Years
Consider buying toys that stimulate activity and enhance large and fine motor skills. As toddlers throw and kick balls, they build gross motor muscles and practice hand-eye coordination. Great quiet play learning toys for toddlers in this age group are simple puzzles, basic coloring and painting activities, and building blocks.
Pay attention to the recommended age range of the toy. Parents may think that their advanced toddler can handle a toy intended for an older toddler. Wash the toys thoroughly before giving them to your toddler.
Cheap, poorly designed toys are not worth the cost. Inexpensive, well-made toys are the better bargain. Simple, hand-made toys can inspire creativity and imagination. Toddlers can learn just as well from “cheap” toys as from expensive toys.
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