Toys to stimulate babies up to 3 years old by skills and abilities
In order to facilitate and guide the task to the Three Kings, we offer a list of toys that refer to the development of the skills of your children from birth to 3 years, in order to achieve a good sensory integration and thus help them lay the foundations for the correct acquisition of learning.
It is not about charging the Magi with gifts, or making an endless letter of toys to distribute among family and friends, but to choose only what you want to enhance or reinforce in your children.
Appropriate toys from birth to 3 years
Our little one since he was born, is subjected to a series of sensations and stimuli that change continuously as he manages to explore himself and everything that surrounds him. When something discovers it, it repeats it and realizes it again and again for the mere fact of feeling satisfaction when doing it and also, for knowing and expanding the immediate consequences that occur.
The various early stimulation practices They show that it is essential to stimulate our children since they are born, to facilitate more and better their new and continuous learning in order to develop a series of skills and abilities that they will need for later learning. What are they and what do they consist of? With what toys can you develop those skills?
TOYS TO STIMULATE THE TOUCH PERCEPTION OF 0 TO 3 YEARS
Use everything that allows the child to develop the sense of touch.
- Balls with different textures
- Tapestries of activities that allow the child with their hands: fasten-unbutton, zipper, loops, belcro, crumpled paper, soft paper, different fabrics ...
- Tapestries of activities that allow you with your feet to appreciate different textures by the change of material: hard, soft, smooth, sanding, smooth, rough ...
- Dolls or stories with different textures
- Fabric stories with textures
- Color with sponge and tempera
TOYS TO STIMULATE THE VISUAL PERCEPTION OF 0 TO 3 YEARS
Find games and toys that attract you visually. They prefer to look at a bright stimulus more than another that hardly has color, that has contrasts of color. The most indicated toys for visual stimulation of babies are:
- Mirrors
- Books and stories of images
- Games of lights with images that are reflected on the ceiling or walls with contrasts of lights
- Mobile cradle colors
- Rattles of feet and hands
- Finger puppets
- Flash Cards: cards with simple and contrasted drawings.
TOYS TO STIMULATE THE AUDITIVE PERCEPTION OF 0 TO 3 YEARS
Intimately united with the previous ones, the child sees everything that he touches, bites him, and if he also listens to it, it is much more attractive and fun.
Do not forget that in the earliest ages our baby recognizes us by the smell, by our silhouette when he sees us and, by our voice, and understands our messages by the tone with which we speak to him and we turn to him. The games that can help us for auditory stimulation are:
- Music Box
- Discrimination of sounds
- Little house with animal sounds
- Rattles
- Phones
- Handyman with textures and sounds
- Activities CD or DVD
- Classical music and children's music
- Little animals or plastic dolls with their own sound (useful for bathing)
- Pianos, xylophones and any other children's instrument
TOYS TO STIMULATE MOTOR COORDINATION FROM 0 TO 3 YEARS
When we introduce a child to something that he likes, he tells us with his eyes, with a smile and with his whole body. Do not forget that to be able to explore you need to see everything that surrounds you and move around in your environment. This stimulation can be achieved with toys such as:
- Buggy
- Drag objects
- Tricycles
- Balls, mats, cars ...
TOYS TO STIMULATE COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
The child needs to communicate and communicate with both the adult and their peers. Here it is fundamental to develop the symbolic game and the knowledge of the animal world.
- Plastic animals
- Medical games, cleaning ...
- Store and food games
- Board games (dominoes, memory, puzzles, stories ...)
- Cars
- Dolls, carrichoches, dresses ...
- Computer educational games.
TOYS TO DEVELOP THE MANUAL SKILL
It is extremely necessary to coordinate their movements and face further learning such as the oculo-manual coordination and laterality necessary for reading and writing.
- Puzzles of silhouettes and few pieces
- Fittings
- Stackable
- Buildings
- Houses of shapes, cubes, keys ...
- Thread boards
- Modeling with plasticine and coloring with a brush, sponges ...
Yolanda Romero Rubio and Ana Mª de la Calle Cerrato. Early Childhood Teachers of the Eurocolegio Casvi and Coordinators of the Game "Gartu in the Infant School" of CMY Multimedia
