Toy Toys And The Toy

This toy is appealing to this age group because it brings a visual to abstract concepts. It is also fun to build and put the pieces together. Children love using their imagination to create different images.

Specialty Toys, Inc., sells a variety of new and innovative children’s toys. Management learned that the preholiday season is the best time to introduce a new toy, because many families use this time to look for new ideas for December holiday gifts. When Specialty discovers a new toy with good market potential, it chooses an October market entry date.

Toys play quite an important role in children’s lives, along with their socialization. Kids spend a vast amount of time playing with toys, alone and with their peers or parents. In todays age when it comes time to buying gifts for children everything is color coded. There are many boundaries that separate

In many shops, there seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles and pretty pictures whereas the boy's cards are covered in camo kind of illustrations and also have action figures on the covers. The children's clothes are separated into sections where there are labels for the boy's clothes and labels for the girl's clothes. The girl's clothing is all pretty and pink, it is covered in sparkles. Whereas boys clothing has camo patterns, blue colors, and pictures of action figures.

The two most popular were the plastic Little Tikes slide, and the foot powered carts and scooters. These toys saw the most use during free play, but puzzle pieces, a ball pit, and books were also used. While at the garden, the kids loved picking ground cherries, raspberries, tomatoes, gourds, and an array of herbs. Most of the time there were kids in all of the flower beds, showing no favorites during this activity. The first time a saw a separation between boys and girls was when we visited the apple tree and the pond. At the apple tree, most of the the boys were more interested in throwing apples through the hollow hole in the tree, and the girls were more impressed with rolling down the hill. The boys, when we were down looking for frogs at the pond, loved to stomp their boots in the water (and get their pants wet) while the girls played with toys in the sand. Although there were a few kids playing with the opposite gender group during this observation, the majority of these groups were of one

In a near by Walmart I analyzed some of the toys that were on the boy section. Most of the items that I saw had an influence of violence and/or job related roles that men are usually known to work in. For instance, the Nerf N-Strillee Elite Cross Bolt Blaster, is designed to make boys feel the experience of having a real crossbow which can be viewed as a violent toy. This item had two main colors, blue and orange, which usually signifies as

The first toy that I chose it called the woodland friends 3-in-1 musical mobile. This creation of Fisher and Price is marketed for infants zero through five months of age and only costs twenty five dollars. For this age

The store in which I completed my observation was Target. Target’s general layout made it easy to decipher the section designated for boys and the section designated for girls. While Target did not specifically label the aisles by gender, it was not difficult to decipher where the toys for each gender were located. The section designated for boys encompassed about three aisles consisting of various toys that would interest boys, while the section designated for girls encompassed three aisles as well. Target also consisted of about two aisles of gender-neutral toys. The kinds of toys offered for boys included guns, action figures, building sets, and cars. Types of toys offered for girls included dolls, stuffed animals, play kitchen sets, and

     I noticed the girls’ toys engaged fine motor skills more than the boys’ toys did. The girls have several different types and sizes of dolls to choose from – however, this also makes dolls or items used with dolls (Barbie clothes,

The toy that I picked is the Nickelodeon Deluxe Slime making kit. The toy is a do-it-yourself slime making kit that makes customizable slime. The kit comes with glue, slime activator, scented and non-scented colorant, glitter, beads, measuring cups, mixing sticks, and “easy to follow instructions”. Nickelodeons signature marketing tool is slime, so the appeal of toy is very high in kids. Another reason why I picked it is because there is a high trend in slime making in kids today. I personally saw many kids that I use to babysit make slime, sell it, and even have their own slime Instagram accounts. Also, I technically don’t know if I am buying this toy for a boy or girl so it’s a very gender-neutral toy that I think all kids will enjoy. As a kid, I use to play with Polly Pockets which are tiny dolls that have jelly clothes so it’s easy to change outfits. I also use to play with my Razor scooter a lot because it was my main source of transportation as a child.

Girls liked playing with toy dolls that they could make say and do what ever they wanted, and they could live in a fantasy world with their friends. Boys liked playing with their toy trucks and tools because it was fun to run things over and play with toys in the dirt, or with the tools, they act like they could actually be like older boys or their fathers and build stuff. Neither one of the toys that the boys played with seemed that it would scar them for life. With Barbie they more and more have made her a more positive role model by having her say encouraging things. So when it comes down to it, how a young boy plays with his toys is the same as how a young girl plays with her Barbie’s because they both just want to have fun with a toy, and they can make it do whatever they wanted. Young children could have control over something which both genders liked to do.

From these two questions you can cypher out much information. First, I would want to know the age of the child. This way I can swiftly hone in on a) how to approach the child (what kind of language to use and where the child will be developmentally) and what types of play would be most appropriate. Given the time constraints, knowing a child’s age helps narrow the drawing board of techniques, into a specific plan of action. Second, I would want to know what the child most responds too. So, if the girl is five years of age and loves most playing from dolls, you can assert the child has a nurturing spirit, in which she

Items such as Barbie dolls, baby dolls, ponies, and dresses are located in this section. Barbie dolls are a staple in female toys market because young girls are taught to aspire to adopt the general appearance of these dolls to look pretty in a “girly” way. Dolls of babies that you can feed, clean, and nurture are exclusively targeted to girls due to America’s view that women must take the largest role in raising children. Horses and ponies are advertised to girls for their grace and elegance, something part of an ideal girl’s demeanor. The dresses also embody the beauty aspect of Barbie dolls to immerse girls in those concepts.

“ We code children’s use of the toys in the areas using a coding instrument that we have developed: thinking/ learning/ problem solving, social interaction, and creativity.”(Prof. Trawick-Smith) The research done at NAEYA says that toys for a classroom setting are very important, and should be chosen as carefully as the curriculum for the students. “ ... ninety percent of preschool

· Categorize into Multiple Segements such as Action Figures & Accessories,Arts & Crafts, Building Sets, Dolls, Games /Puzzles, Infant/Preschool Toys, Youth Electronics, Outdoor & Sports Toys, and Plush Vehicles