An Ideal Toy

If a parent or teacher sees that what the child is taking from that toy is not the possibilities that the adult believes ought to be present at that time, give the child's a developmental stage, an opportunity thought teaching for example. The child will take from the adult's example of what he or she is ready to take, and may use that example to form a new play behaviors. If any more directive attention is given to the child's play at this point, the activity is meaningless to be play.

             KAPLA, award winner wooden construction blocks from France, is another kind of toys in the trend explained above. KAPLA -- a building block for creating many types of structures. Each set of KAPLA contains 200 planks, 8mm/24mm/120mm - approximately 5" x 1" x ΒΌ", identical pieces of top quality marine pine which are perfectly smooth and balanced. A book with basic techniques and 40 photographs is included with each set. KAPLA is an individual or team game allowing for interaction between children and adults of all ages. KAPLA books include building designs. Red books for beginners, blue books include advanced designs, green books feature architecture and shapes and beige books feature animals. Although the KAPLA books seem to be a limitation to what should be constructed by using the wooden blocks, actually they are just the guide for the children to create their own representations. Same as Quarks, the children need what is in his or her mind plus the three factors, creative, exploration, and imagination, to construct the wooden blocks. Other than expressing creative, exploration, and imagination, this also can improve the children's thinking skill, organization skill, patience, interaction skill and the skill of co-operation with others.

             Lego is the pioneer of today's toys' trend we have talked in the above. It is a plastic building block construct various types of structure. At play, children need fantasy and creativity.

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