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10 Qualities of Excellent Educational Toys for Preschool

If you are home schooling or running a day care or are simply a caring grandparent, you will be looking for the best educational toys for preschool. Educational toys for preschoolers help kids reach their developmental milestones. For preschoolers these goals will include emotional and social skills, color recognition, alphabet and numeral awareness, fine and gross motor skills and early math, reading and engineering concepts. For more information click here.  best educational toys for 4 year old & best toddler toys for 2 year old.
When choosing educational toys for preschool, here are some of the qualities to look for:
1.     You will want high quality durable toys that will last a long time and stand up to the challenges of toddlers and preschoolers. Look for toys made of wood or strong flexible plastic. These will sustain the inevitable dropping and unintentional abuse from the kids. For more information click here.  3 year old educational toys &educational toys for kids 3 years old
2.     Importantly, educational toys for preschoolers need to be washable and safe – no rough edges, no small bits to swallow.
3.     Bright solid colors are great for early color recognition, but also shades of colors are a bonus for comparisons.
4.     Educational toys for preschoolers need to be age appropriate. Don’t choose toys with complex instructions or you will be playing with them. For more information click here. jumbo lacing beads for toddlers & best interactive toys for toddlers
5.     Toys need to be the right size for little hands. Thepieces should be easily manipulated and fit smoothly together,otherwise it will be a frustrating toy. Good quality toddler sized pegboard sets have pegs that fit snugly into the base and can be also be stacked to make a tower.
6.     Educational toys that help kids practice multiple skills are economic and more challenging. An example of this is colorful jumbo stringing beads, which are great for fine motor, color recognition, sorting, matching and sequencing. If the beads have various shapes, you are adding geometric awareness.
7.     Toys that grow with children are again economic and can be used in different ways depending on the developmental level of the child.  One of the best toys for 2 year old boys is jumbo nuts and bolts with wheels and cross pieces. Very young children will simply use their fine motor skills to screw together the nuts and bolts. Older children will design and build vehicles and structures. Another example is wooden alphabet blocks for 3 year olds. This is one of the great traditional toys for 3 year olds for letter and alphabet awareness; 2 year olds will use the blocks for making towers. For more information click here. block sets for toddlers, activity cube for toddlers
8.     Educational toys for preschoolers are great if they can be used both individually and cooperatively.
9.     Toys should be challenging enough to encourage problem solving but success oriented to limit frustration.
Finally toys should be fun and entertaining. They should be able to hold the child’s attention and encourage focus and perseverance.

There is a huge variety of good quality educational toys for preschoolers. These guidelines should help with your selection.

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