Toys and Child Development: A Look at the Laugh and Learn™ Learning Basketball

The babies physical development "provides children with the abilities they need to explore and interact with the world around them"

• Every child is an individual – with different needs depending on their age and abilities, for an example, when physical play is involved more consideration must be given to a child who has become mobile than to an older child, when

Because of research Physical development is part of the three prime areas of learning in the EYFS, joining Communication and Language and Personal, Social and Emotional Development, these three areas are particularly important for the learning development of the under threes, this will Secure the foundations for future success in all aspects of their life and learning. Early year’s providers and practitioners are required to enable their environments to ensure that they are giving the children quality experiences and resources to allow them to naturally learn and develop the physical skills necessary to support them throughout their lives. At our nursery we follow the EYFS guidelines which give us the approximate age and what the child should be able to do or aiming towards and what us, as practitioners should be supporting the child to achieve or help them to move on to the next stage. Providing Physical play experiences for the children such as books to explore, messy play, painting, climbing equipment and balls and other equipment to throw, kick and catch will give the children opportunities for moving and handling.

The types of toys children play with can affect how they develop. Toys can help or hinder a child’s development in intelligence, social skills and personality. Certain characteristics may be genetically entwined in a human being, but some characteristics and behaviors can be learned, from parents, surroundings, and the toys with which a youngster plays. Elise Moore, author of “How Do Toys Aid Development”, stated “if play is the work of the child, toys are the child’s tools” (Moore, 2).

Children develop normally when they are exposed to different types of play that allow them to express themselves while using their imaginations and being physically active. According to the Center for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness, “Play is child’s work”; this is true because it is a child’s job is to learn and develop in their first few years of life, in order for them to do this, they play (CHETNA). Not only is playing a child’s full time job, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights listed play as a right of every child (Ginsburg). Through their full time job of play, the children develop emotionally, socially, physically, and creatively. Children need to participate in child-led play in order to

Children aged five or six would not be able to play on playground apparatus that is only suitable for children over 8 years of age because the apparatus would be too high or have more complex climbing equipment and would not meet their age of development. Age appropriate apparatus and equipment should be available to aid their development. Apparatus/equipment for a child with special educational needs who is over 8 years old would not be suitable if their development age may only be equivalent to a 5 or 6 year old therefore they need access to apparatus/equipment to meet their developing age with approved adaptation and 1:1 support if necessary.

0-3 years: New born babies start by off by just turning their heads towards soft light. By the age of three months the baby is able to follow moving objects and respond to bright colours and bold images. At six months the baby will start reaching for objects, watching them fall and put things in their mouths to explore. Around the first birthday it can use the hands skilfully and move around, including dropping things on the floor and looking to see where they are. (This is called object permanence, where the child will be aware of an object/person even if it is out of direct visible sight.) It will also be able to recognize familiar people at longer distance (6 meters). Between the age of one and two children enjoy hide and seek games and it will find partially hidden objects. It is able to build towers of cubes when shown, turn pages of books, look at correct picture when the image is named and point to parts of the body, match colours and shapes, do jigsaw puzzles and concentrate for longer. The child starts using objects correctly (drinking from a cup, brushing

I gloomily sulked, dreaming about being back home. If I were there, I’d be enjoying a fun game of basketball. Basketball was my favorite thing to do! I looked out the small window of our barrack, staring at the rough land dotted with bushes and weeds. There was no way I could play basketball on that terrain. I sighed… Here at the concentration camp, there was nothing fun to do. That's when the brilliant idea hit me- I could build a basketball

One reason being that they can actually handle and grasp the type of stacking ring they are playing with. Stacking toys are very good at developing a baby's gross motor skills(2014). The blocks/rings usually have something unique about them. Colors, sounds, and certain textures also help stimulate the senses of the infant. Each block will have something about them that is unique along with a matching color. Eventually the child will know what sound is going to be heard with the color ring he grabs, causing the child to learn cause and effect(2014). With the easy design of the simple stacker it will help the child build confidence because he or she is able to accomplish somethung by themselves(2014). Something so little and simple can do so

This toy would facilitate a child with a great deal of muscle tone development. Muscle tone is the amount tension in a muscle during rest.This toy stimulates the child to develop muscle tone though the actions of sitting on the floor in front of the toy, sitting upright on top of the toy, keeping their hands on the handlebars or the lid of the compartment to keep it open and keeping their legs down and on the ground when sitting on the car. To play with this toy while in sitting, either in the front of the car or to the side to play with the buttons on the dashboard, the child needs to maintain an upright posture. This upright posture allows the child to be at the proper eye level and also allows their hands to be at toy level as well. This also applies to when the child is sitting on the toy; for the child to get the most benefit out of the buttons, keys, knob, lever and handlebars, the child needs to be sitting in the upright position on the toy. The child’s muscle tone development can also be encouraged by maintaining a gross grasp on the handlebars as well as extended shoulders to maintain the proper arm position. This also applies when the child must hold the lid of the seat open to place objects inside or to look inside. Lastly, the child must be able to keep their legs stable on either side of the car while sitting on it. Tone is needed for this skill so that the child can maintain their position as well as stabilize themselves. The child could be stabilizing

When listening to the stories and songs I didn’t realize how beautiful they sounded. I realized that children’s books are not about entertaining the children, they are about teaching them a life lesson or a lesson about their culture. I was happy I got a chance to learn part of the sounds of the Navajo alphabet and have multiple different stories read to me. I am also extremely thankful that they took time out of their day to explain how the Shoe game works to me and others who attended the celebration. The more we played, the more fun everyone who attended had.

This toy is age appropriate because there’s a seat that helps the child develop their leg muscle as they can’t support themselves at that age. Each leg that supports the upper half of the toy supports movement by the baby which allows for muscle development. The sensorimotor stage involves learning from touching and using the senses a human possesses. Also

0-3 years From the stages between 0-3 year’s children are learning their reflexes, about people around them, how to play alongside others etc. During this stage it is very important that all children get every type development without any problems as this may cause harsh conditions for them in the future.

Doodle Basketball 2 is an extension of a stimulating entertainment with great layout as well as comparable physical scientific research. Play Basketball on a sheet of paper as well as value the ingenuity as well as life-altering setting. Your factor is to grab the best concentrates having fun with the established variety of rounds. Fire the sphere with the pile without it touching the side and also boost added rounds. The even more you rack up, the a lot more various benefits you get. Rating and also open whole new spheres.

What is play? Play is “a recreational activity; especially the spontaneous activity of children.” (Webster, 2010) Play is such a basic function and daily routine in a child’s life. Although the roles of play and the types of play change though age, it all incorporates in the growth and development of a child.