What Are the Best Brain Building Toys For Children?
Brain building toys are worth considering next time you are shopping for a present or looking to renew some of the toys in your home. These toys are ones that challenge the brain to be creative and imaginative, therefore helping to connect synapses in the brain. Great Brain Building Toys are ones that: • are open ended – do not require a right or wrong response; • encourage your child to manipulate, interact or figure something out; • provide opportunities for experimentation and new discovery; • require active handling; • Teach about relationships such as top, middle, bottom, small, big, bigger, biggest; • encourage your child to pretend, such as toy tools, dress up boxes, utensils and small play figures. Some examples of these materials could include – nesting and stacking toys or objects, common household objects such as tools, cooking utensils and gadgets (for creative problem-solving and imaginative play), containers for dumping and pouring, art materials, stringing or sorting dif
