Loves of Kids

                                                 LOVES OF KIDS

People have suspected that play helps children learn.Play is the most important activity in the lives of children. Sometimes it seems more important than eating and sleeping. Sometimes play is easy and fun. Sometimes play is trying hard to do something right. Play is the work, the occupation of childhood. If you study how a child grows, and watch children play, you will understand why play is so important.

           A.   Blowing Bubbles

Blowing bubbles is a fascination of every child. The inherent joy of seeing those colored and uncolored bubbles rising in the air and filling the atmosphere is a treat to watch. Kids simply love it and even adults won't deny the fact that blowing bubbles is a real fun-time experience. The fun-filled experience is often hampered when parents complain of the money their kids waste in blowing bubbles. Well, kids do tend to waste money for the ingredients required in making soap bubbles; however, you can be frugal and yet creative, if you just give some thought to it. http://www.dogsdata.com/dogs-playing-with-bubbles.html



         B.  Playing Blocks

Playing Cubes A great addition to any children's program and provide hours of fun playing blocks. Early education not only starts with educating your child in school but it also starts when your kid start playing with toys at home. These game are not meant for entertaining your child but these games also teach their kids to increase their intuitive skills at early at early age. There are some toys that have been specifically designed to sharpen designed to sharpen the skills and enhance their learning. These allow for children to experience an opportunity to join in with each other in building and interactive play abilities.

Different colors of blocks.

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      C. Playing Toy Cars 

Some might think that a car themed playhouse would only be for boys, but in reality, many girls love looking at and playing with toy automobiles. Creating a space that a car buff will both love and feel comfortable in takes combining a few different design elements and accessories. While it can be done as cheaply or as expensive as parents would like, the thing to keep in mind when assisting a child in decorating their playhouse is to let them pick what they like. Above style, their happiness should be your ultimate goal. Strengthens hand-eye coordination skills and improving hand dexterity while building a toy car consider building a visual model for your child to copy. http://www.headant.com/teaching-kids-about-the-place-they-live/


  D. Fun in the kitchen – offer on kid’s aprons 

It’s easy to pick up something from the supermarket but homemade cakes are so much nicer and great fun to make with the kids.. Baking is educational too…think of how all that weighing and measuring can give your

little ones a head start in the classroom.Our little bakers tested this throw it all together and mix recipe and loved making them (especially licking the bowl). It might seem like giggles and tea parties to you, but each moment your child spends pretending to be a pirate or feeding a doll is a moment spent building physical skills and developing complex thingking. A great way to bring kids in the whole kitchen experience. Cooking playing can be a great bonding experience.

Our little bakers tested this throw it all together and mix recipe and loved making them (especially licking the bowl). It might seem like giggles and tea parties to you, but each moment your child spends pretending to be a pirate or feeding a doll is a moment spent building physical skills and developing complex thingking. A great way to bring kids in the whole kitchen experience. Cooking playing can be a great bonding experience.

  E. Climbing Box






It's a universal phenomenon: Give a child a toy and she'll play with the wrapping. While older kids may turn a box into a spaceship, very young children don't have the ability to think symbolically about a bit of cardboard. Your one-year old loves the box simply because it is a box. She can drag it along the floor, sit inside it, open the flaps, and close them. Among babies and toddlers, this is known as functional play. It helps them learn about the physical nature of objects and simple concepts such as opening and closing.


What can you do: Be sure they're safe. Check boxes for staples and stay close by to monitor her play.



                                             Kiddy Doctor






You're excited for your kids to have a play date with their good friends they haven't seen in months. They come over, and you and their mother are catching up when you notice that the noise died down. And you both know that when things get quiet, your four, five, and six year-old children are usually up to something. You and your friend get out your squirt bottles, and sneak up on the children to give them a good surprise for their mischief. You quietly climb the stairs, to where the children are playing. However, instead of surprising the children, you two open the door to the playroom and find that your children are in their birthday suits, playing doctor! They look up at you, and your son proclaims, "I have a have a patient mommy!"




              Kids are prone to: Getting Dirty






(See for: www.childcarelounge.com/parent-articles/get-dirty.php)

Sometimes games can get dirty. Other times, getting dirty is the game. He squishes mud between his bare toes, dumps sand over his head, or sticks his face in mashed potatoes. The thrill is creating a richer sensory experience. He doesn't want to just look at mud, he wants to feel it. Just like he wants to watch sand fall and smell potatoes close to his nose. He might not mean to make a mess.....it just happens in the course of play.

What you can do: Messy play can be very good for kids, so give him space where making a mess is okay sometimes, but reinforce safety( like not putting non-food items in his mouth).




     Computer Games: Is it good for Kids?




However, the general use of mobile phones, computers and internet was unrelated to creativity. The results showed that boys play more and that they prefer games with "sports and violence", while girls prefer games that involve "interaction with others", however the type of game didn't have an impact on the level of gained creativity.


The study was unable to conclude which aspects of the game promoted increased creativity, however manufacture/ designers of the games should " identify those aspects that promote" the increase of creativity. "Once they do that, video games can be designed to optimize the development of creativity while retaining their entertainment values such that a new generation of video games will blur the distinction between education and entertainment," said Linda Jackson, professor of psychology and lead researcher on the project.( see for: http://www.raisesmartkid.com/of-video-games)


                                           Childoods Behaviors





Childhood in developed societies seems to be pronounced by one main thing: toys. People start giving them to your child before he or she is even born and it just gets worse from there. Evolutionary, we didn't have 

 “toys” – infants would observe and interact with their environment, playing with whatever they could find. This type of play develops imagination, creativity, an understanding of cause and effect, and allows children to interact with nature. But for the most part, we have  done away with that, though it’s one of the elements of Evolutionary Parenting I wish would become more mainstream (for more, see Toys: Fun For All or Creators of ADD?). Nowadays, toys are talked about as being “developmentally appropriate” but they mostly still do the same thing – occupy your child so you don’t have to with minimal effort on behalf of your child.

(see for: www.zerotothree.org/child-development/)



MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS


This has got to be the toy category I support the most because they aren’t really “toys”. My daughter is a music fiend – she was dancing to music at 5 months and will regularly unlatch while breastfeeding to sign for more music whenever one of her favourite songs is done. It’s not too surprising given she comes from parents who love music and one (dad) who’s actually a competent musician, but most kids love music anyway so allowing them to create their own can provide hours of joy. I will say now that I am NOT talking about the toy guitars where you press a button and it plays a long tune or full song; that is NOT a musical instrument. I am talking about buying or making your child drums, shakers, a harmonica, symbols, etc. The first music set we bought our daughter was a plastic (I know, I know, bad for the environment, but it was cheap and there) with castinettes, rattles, a drum, trumpet, symbols, and tambourine. She loved it. We have an amazingly cute video of her ‘jamming’ with dad—him on bass, her with the tambourine—and it’s still one of our most used toys. We’ve since moved on to wooden toys because they are better for the environment, more beautiful, and safer (they don’t crack leaving sharp pieces of plastic that cut). My daughter was given a wooden tambourine which has replaced the plastic one to play with and we got her the wooden xylophone to go with it. Frankly, I’m thrilled anytime she gets into playing music and I strongly recommend it for all kids of all ages.

( See for: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pages/kids)