Child Toys

The period of two to six years of age, Children engage in many activities that involve many sensorimotor skills with the help of toys. Toys promote the aspect of a child’s physical, cognitive and social development. Gross motor skill, Fine motor skill, Sorting, counting numbers, telling time and Language (vocabulary) are sensorimotor skills that can be stimulated in children through toys. Toys on the market also cause potential safety hazards no matter the age of the child and no matter what type of toy it is. There are many types of toys that stimulates a child’s mastery in a specific sensorimotor skill, but also cause a safety hazard. There are various number of toys that can stimulate a child’s specific sensorimotor. One motor skill is

The toy is a walker that encourages the development of gross motor skills the child will have the freedom to crawl, walk and maneuver at their own speed. A safety hazard that can come with the toy is if the child doesn’t fully know how to walk and ends up falling or tripping. The VTech Sit-to-Stand Learning Walker is a perfect example of gross motor skill because it involves large movements of the child. Fine motor skills are small movements that involve a child’s smaller muscles such as fingers, toes, wrists, lips and tongues. The Learning Resources Teaching Cash Register a toy that fits in the four-year-old and up age group. The Teaching Cash Register helps children learn basic mathematics and to role play with others. It includes a scanner, scale, fake money and cards that can give a realistic experience for them. A safety hazard with the Teaching Cash Register is children can probably swallow the fake money or mishandle the scanner and scale which can lead to harm. The Learning Resources Teaching Cash Register is perfect for fine motor skills because it uses small movements like picking up money or swiping cards which involve using the hands, fingers and

It teaches color and shape matching, sorting, sequencing, and pattern recognition in a game like setting. Safety hazard that can occur is children biting or swallowing truck pieces which can harm the child. Construction Truck Sort and Match really gets into detail of sorting and classifying certain truck pieces where it belongs, but also teaching color and shape. Counting numbers is another motor skill that children learn to master. Numbers and Counting Chart, a toy that is in the five to twelve-year-old age group that teaches basic number sense, counting, addition and subtraction with a hundred and ninety-four cards featuring pictures, numerals, operations and a number line. I was not able to get the safety hazards for the toy, the only safety hazard is if children start to mishandle the toy and not take care of it. Numbers and Counting Chart makes perfect sense if children are learning or want to improve in counting and numbers. Time and duration the motor skill that a children will master by being able to tell time and hours of the day. Magnetic Elapsed Time Set where