8 Ways Toys Can Help Your Baby Learn

The best thing that he understands is that when we jiggle the rattle, a sound should come. Thus, his inquisitive mind gets an understanding of the relationship between the rattle and the sound.

2. Study And Discover The Environment

For babies who are newborn to about 10 months, the market is flooded with toys that foster curiosity, teach them about different shapes and sizes, help them learn to crawl, and explore their sense of touch, feel, taste, and vision. One such game is the activity gym, which has lights, hook-on toys, and music.

The baby usually enjoys gym time because they lie down and try to grab the toys that are hanging while listening to music. This helps the baby in developing the upper body and his neck, which is a prior necessity to start rolling, crawling, or trying out any other physical aspects.

3. Understanding Spatial Effects

The baby relates to the concept of throwing, dropping, shaking, or hitting a toy against some surface. They relate to this concept when they forcefully collide two objects, resulting in a loud noise. When they lightly strike them, a soft but barely audible noise is produced. This helps them get a clue between heavy and light, high and low, up and down, big and little, and many other spatial effects.

4. Hand-Eye Coordination

 A ball is a round and bouncy toy that interests everyone from a small baby to a big adult. Rolling, throwing, and catching a ball help develop hand-eye coordination. Another important aspect of hand-eye coordination is the stacking of eggs, blocks, or cups.

It also teaches them about volume. They see how a small object can fit into a bigger one. Initially, the babies will not stack them in the right order, but most likely pile and drop them as they like.

5. The Concept Of Gravity

Babies from 6 months onwards enjoy throwing anything and everything while sitting at a height. They can throw a spoon, car, pencil, toys, sippers, feeding bottles, or anything that interests them, and they are elated once the object is fetched by parents or relatives. They even learn that a few objects, when thrown, will bounce back, some will roll, others will stop, and a ball, if thrown up, will automatically come down. All in all, they get introduced to the concept of gravity.

6. Sorting And Differentiating

Around the eighth month, most babies have gathered enough strength to hold the toys with the help of their fingers and start picking up the toys and keeping them inside a box. But as the baby grows, they are in a position to put the respective shapes in their selected slots.

This helps the baby learn the relationship between two objects and the concepts of sorting, and systematic arrangement. More so, it allows the fostering of finger skills, and an “I can do it” sense of skill.

7. Concept Of Physical Deftness And An Element Of Creativity

Swings, doll houses, and small or ride-on cars and trucks help kids build confidence, balance, and strength. Also, playing with clay, finger paints, or crayons, with the help of an adult, helps kids develop their artistic skills and fine motor skills, which they will need to write.

8. Development Of Language And Even Societal Skills

In today’s time, books are also presented as toys, and if a story is read to the baby with full action and with pictures that make sound and light, then not only the baby’s vision but also his communication skills also get developed. Likewise, if babies indulge in, and pretend to play with dolls or stuffed toys, their expression of emotions and feelings is improved, and the baby gets a sense of playing with everybody.

Thus, the bottom line is that toys are not only related to fun, but also assist in the holistic development of a child. By making efforts to make learning more effective, we need to teach them through educational toys and also be a part of the learning so that we can instill positivity and confidence in them, which in turn will help them to retain the learning and provide encouragement at each step.