To be precise, educational toys should be divided into two categories: children's educational toys and adult educational toys.
Although the boundaries between the two are not very clear, they still need to be distinguished. The so-called educational toys, whether for children or adults, as the name suggests, are toys that allow us to develop intelligence and increase wisdom in the process of playing.
According to a study conducted by the Royal Academy of Sciences in the United Kingdom, people who frequently play with educational toys have an IQ that is approximately 11 points higher than those who do not play, as well as greater open-minded thinking ability.; American medical experts also discovered that the incidence of Alzheimer's disease in people who play with toys is only 32% of that in the general population, while the incidence in people who play with educational toys since childhood is less than 1% of that in the general population.
Puzzle teaching products are being favored by more and more young parents. Parents of the new generation pay more attention to the use of product scenarios and care about the refinement of products. Traditional toys that are purely playful can no longer meet the needs of new parenting. Therefore, more and more parents consciously choose "specialization", "personalization", and " Puzzle" products.
In fact, educational toys can not only develop intelligence but also have other functions. For example, stimulating development of functions, brightly designed educational toys with attractive lines can stimulate children's vision; while the "sound ring" that sounds when you hold it, and the "little piano" that emits various animal sounds when you press the button, can stimulate children's vision. hearing; rolling colored balls can cultivate children's sense of touch.
Therefore, different educational toys are effective tools to assist children in understanding the world, helping them to contact and recognize novel things in accordance with the responses of various senses in their bodies.
In addition to the above functions, educational toys are also very helpful for coordinating body functions. For example, when a child builds a box of building blocks into a figure, in addition to using the brain, they also need the cooperation of the hands. In this way, through playing the educational toys, the children's hands and feet can be trained and gradually established.
In the process of playing with their peers or parents with educational toys, children are developing their social relationships unknowingly, even if they are prone to stubbornness and quarrels in cooperation or competition, they are actually developing a spirit of cooperation and learning The psychology of people sharing lays the foundation for future integration into the society. Simultaneously, language ability, emotional release, hands-on ability, and so on have all improved to some extent.
The features that can arouse children's curiosity and scientific and reasonable settings are favored by more and more parents and become a helper for parents to educate their children. So, are educational toys really able to develop children's intelligence and help parents educate their children? How exactly do educational toys achieve the role of educating children? These questions are generally answered through two common educational toys, map puzzles, and solitaire games.