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The Resurgence Of The Wooden Toy by
A young child’s imagination can turn the most simple object into something new and exciting. An ordinary stone can easily become a racing car or a super jet, and a large cardboard box is all that is needed for a trip to the moon. Pretend play makes up a large portion of childhood playtime. Encourage your child to play make-believe because this type of creative play builds skills in several essential areas of development.
Through dramatic play and pretend, young children take the new ideas and concepts they are learning and practice using them in real-life situations. Preschoolers and early elementary children will often play house to work out difficult situations they may experience, like fears at night or trips to the doctor. A child who has just learned some interesting facts about dinosaurs may use blocks and toy dinosaurs to recreate the world the dinosaurs lived in.
Toys like miniature household appliances made of wood or wooden dollhouses with miniature furnishing invite children to explore various roles and develop their social and emotional skills. Empathy begins to emerge as children pretend to be someone else and deal with life in their shoes. Through cooperative dramatic play, children learn to take turns and share as they learn important problem solving skills.
Group play also helps children to solve problems as a team. Cooperative pretend play gives children experience at working together with others to reach a goal and helps leadership skills emerge as well. By testing out new scenarios, children boost their self-esteem and become more self-confident. Pretend play also helps young children to begin to distinguish the difference in fantasy and reality.
Toys like wooden doll furniture help children to develop language skills. Preschoolers learn to create their own stories during play and soon realize the connection between written and spoken words, a basic pre-reading skill. Vocabulary will begin to expand as children learn uses of new words and are introduced to words specific to their interests.
You can help your child gain a number of pre-reading and pre-writing skills by providing her with plenty of books, as well as crayons and paper, in addition to a variety of wooden toys that encourage imaginative play. With a wooden shopping cart and cash register, children can write their own grocery list while a friend is building her math skills.
Pretend play also develops thinking skills. Children will use important cognitive skills, as well as logic, to decide who plays what role or how to construct a pretend fort. Self-control and appropriate behavior can also be learned during cooperative pretend play. Advanced abstract thinking skills will begin to form as children learn to use one object to represent something else, like using a block to represent food.
Objects that can be used to represent the ordinary things your child encounters each day are the best toys to encourage pretend play. There are a variety of wooden toys available for imaginative play, including miniature play sets like farms and jungles, dollhouses, and kitchen furniture. Small cars, ride-on toys, and rocking horses also provide creative play opportunities and are often made of wood. Wooden toys are safe and much more durable than plastic, meaning your child will enjoy hours of developmentally appropriate play as well as the children of generations to come.
Gary Clay is an authority on Radio Flyer and owner of traditional toy shop MonkeyShine.
Article Source: http://www.earticlesonline.com/Article/The-Resurgence-Of-The-Wooden-Toy/128419
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DOWN HILL DEBRY KIDS & CARTS BY WOODLAND SCENICS SUPER $15.49 |
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KIDS LIONEL GRAVEL GUS JUNIOR TRACTOR PLOW AND WAGON CART IN BOX VGC $9.99 |
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KIDS SHOPPING CART PLAYSET,PRETEND PLAY GROCERY,NEW $20.95 |
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Early Tin Litho Tea Set Tray Children with Goat Cart – Made in U.S.A. $16.95 |
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Nostalgia Electrics CCM-505 Vintage Collection Cotton Candy Maker $31.98 This Carnival Cotton Candy Maker is modeled after the Antique Cotton Candy Carts of the early 1900′s. Easy, safe, and fun for the entire family. Simply pour the sugar mixture into the top, turn the unit on, and instantly make fresh carnival-style cotton candy right in your own home…. |
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Riding in Barney’s Car [VHS] $12.99 The kids give Barney a car as a gift, and they all go for a spin, running errands to the cleaners, the car wash, and a gas station. How to balance chores and fun is the theme here, and it’s effectively done. –Tom Keogh … |
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All About John Deere For Kids, Part 1 $9.97 Summary:0About the Author:•I was born and raised in The OC (although I never actually called it that until the TV show), and went to The Richard Nixon Elementary School for two years- a fact I find both amusing and embarrassing. After high school, I was desperate to flee suburbia and see the world, so after traveling around Europe for awhile I settled in Mykonos, Greece for several years, bef… |
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Lap Desk with Light and Drink Holder $14.00 Portable lap desk with 2″ cushion, 12″ Lamp and Cup Holder has everthing you need to work from home or in your car. Great for writing letters, doing homework, working on your lap top, reading to your kids or working on a bus, airplane or train. Shiny silver top that wipes clean! Will hold most lap top sizes, complete with 2 inch cushion padding, 12 inch flexible Led Light and built in drink holder… |
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Vintage Toy Pull Back and Go Mouse Sponge Doll Package included: 1 x Vintage Toy Pull Back and Go Mouse Sponge Doll… |
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Educational Insights SpinZone Magnetic Whiteboard Spinners $9.50 Instantly turns your magnetic whiteboard into an interactive game board with three jumbo spinners. Ages 3 yrs. +…. |