When it comes to toys, people's first thought is often a furry doll, in fact, there are many kinds of toys. Especially for families with children, educational toys have become a high probability choice when they buy toys.
Functions of Educational Toys
Development of intelligence
Strictly speaking, educational toys should be divided into children's educational toys and adult educational toys, although the boundary between the two is not very obvious, but still should be distinguished. The so-called educational toys, whether they are for children or adults, as the name implies, are toys that allow us to develop intelligence and grow wisdom in the process of playing. Do educational toys really have the function of education? According to the Royal Academy of Sciences research found that people who often play with educational toys have an average IQ about 11 points higher than those who do not play. The ability of the brain to think openly is higher; U.S. medical experts also found that the incidence of dementia in people who started playing with adult educational toys before the age of 50 is only 32% of the general population, and the incidence of people who have been playing with educational toys since childhood is less than 1% of the incidence of the general population.
Stimulate the response of various organs
In fact, educational toys have more functions than just developing intelligence. For example, they stimulate functional development. Educational toys designed with bright colors and attractive lines can stimulate children's vision; while "ringing rings" that ring when held and "small pianos" that make various animal sounds when pressed can stimulate children's sense of hearing; and rolling colored balls can develop children's sense of touch. Therefore, different educational toys are effective tools to assist children in understanding the world and help them to match the reactions of their senses in order to access and perceive new and exciting things.
Coordination of bodily functions
In addition, educational toys also have the role of coordinating bodily functions, for example, children will build a box of blocks to create graphics, in addition to the use of brain, but also with the cooperation of the hands, so through playing with educational toys, training and gradually build up the child's hand-foot coordination, hand-eye coordination and other bodily functions; has the role of practicing social activities, children in the process of playing educational toys with their peers or parents, unknowingly in the development of their Even though they tend to be argumentative and quarrelsome in cooperation or competition, they are actually developing a cooperative spirit and learning to share with others, laying the foundation for later social integration. At the same time, language skills, emotional release, and hands-on skills are all somewhat improved.
Development of Educational Toys
The various benefits of educational toys dictate that in today's era of greater concern for physical and mental health, it will receive increasing market attention and that toy manufacturers will place greater R&D efforts on educational toys.