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Best Educational Toys for 2 to 4 Year Olds

Are there educational toys that are equally age appropriate for 2 year old boys and girls and for 3 and 4 year olds? Yes! As children mature they will often enjoy the same toy but in different ways. For instance, jumbo sized pegs and pegboards are one of the best toys for 2 year old boys and girls. This age group will practice grasping the pegs and successfully placing them in holes. They may make a tower of 2 or 3 pegs and, with adult support will start identifying and matching by color or will count, one, two, three. They will be aware of numbers and the concept that one peg means one. Pegboards are also great educational toys for kids 3 years old . At this stage the child will be more involved in building higher towers and in simple math skills such as sorting, one to one correspondence and greater counting. They will also be aware of simple addition and subtraction. At age 4 kids will be building on their earlier skills, developing more complex patterns and sequences. For more

Counting Toys for 2 Year Olds

As a parent or educator, it is so satisfying to watch a toddler learn new things. Toddlers show such enthusiasm when they successfully place all the shapes in the sorting box or make a block tower without it toppling. This is the stage when kids are learning to count and are acquiring basic math skills, such as knowing that the number one, means one item. These are simple ideas to an adult but are the foundation for future understanding of more complex ideas. We can take advantage of the child’s passion for learning by providing educational counting toys for 2 year olds and counting games for toddlers .                                                      Counting toys for 2 year olds do not need to be complicated. Plastic colorful counting bears with sorting cups are a super example of a simple toy that offers so many opportunities for learning. With adult guidance the toddler can count the bears while dropping them into cups, learning numbers by rote. They can sort the b