Toys that name alphabet letters and everyday words satisfy young children’s need for repetition and rehearsal when practicing words and sounds. Includes a music button that plays 15 melodies and 4 sing along songs and rolling wheels for even more fun. Once babies are either crawling or walking their mobility gives them more opportunities to explore their world. Babies who handle shapes and also fit them through a hole are learning to solve problems through touch and sight. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking.

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Encourages baby’s first words with the simple story and promotes early reading with the familiar book format.Imaginative and social pretend play is beneficial for children as it allows them to explore different ways of viewing the world. Adults can facilitate babies’ language development by playing with them, focussing on particular toys, reading books and naming everyday objects. Adults can influence an infant’s confidence about the world by encouraging and smiling at them when they approach an unfamiliar object or toy. Infants also learn about the links between sights, sounds and feel of toys when these are demonstrated by adults.

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Young children pretend or imagine that, for instance a wooden block is a cake and they carefully ‘cut’ it. Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. interactive SmartPoint locations trigger fun responses when driven over and 6 interchangeable track pieces can be swapped into different combinations. The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood. It helps them to begin to understand that other children think differently to them and have different ideas.

In a study where we observed children playing in a nursery we found that young children engaged in imaginative play, often using the toys in unexpected ways. Launch the included Toot-Toot dumper truck from the top and watch as it scoots down the corkscrew track onto the cradle and down the second track! Manipulative features on the big engine include an extending ladder, big press button and a sliding fire extinguisher.