Activity Center
Ryan is a wonderful activity center for the baby. Peek-a-boo, teether, shapes, colors ,textures, touch and feel, huggable, sit on it... and he whinnies! You have Ryan, you have them ALL. There are 28 activities on Ryan, let's count them all.
Senses
The fundamental senses of seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling & feeling encourage a child's curiosity.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are those smaller actions between the thumb and fingers or using the toes to wriggle and feel the objects.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body.
Logic
Logical training enables babies to make connections between pieces of information.
Creativity
Colors, shapes, learning how to draw, getting familiar with music and rhythm, all goes to aid the growth of a child's creativity.
Linguistics
Linguistic Intelligence is the ability to use sound and language for expression and comprehension of others while a child is developing.
Emotion
A healthy child should be able to control and express his emotion, and interact effectively with others with mutual trust.
Communication Skills
Good communication skills lead a child to perform cooperative tasks and become productive team members.
Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem is an overall sense of achievement a child feels from the important people around him. Task basis activities could help children to build up a stronger self-esteem with a better judgment about their own worth.
*These are recommendations made under normal circumstances. Parents can determine which activities are most suitable depending on the progress of individual children.
Other Recommended Toys
Objective: Hugging
Method: Ryan 28 is made from high quality materials. It is soft and comfortable, great for kids to hug. Hugging builds a sense of security and teaches them to care for others.
Objective: Listening training
Method: Shake the rattles or pat the zebra to activate sounds to attract your child's attention and observe her reaction to the sound.
Objective: Sense stimulation
Method: Ryan 28 is made from different materials. Encourage your child to touch and feel the different textures and to chew on the teether.
Objective: Fine motor skills training
Method: Ryan 28 is made of crinkle paper, rattles and other small parts. Encourage your child to grasp at and shake the different parts with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Bead mazes
Method: There are two bead mazes at the back of Ryan. Encourage children to move the beads along the wire (or track). This trains their gross and fine motor skills, as well as their eye-hand coordination.
Objective: Egg shaped rattle
Method: The egg shaped rattle can be detached from Ryan and used as a wrist rattle. It can also be hung on strollers and taken along on trips.
Objective: Learning to sit and ride
Method: Help your child sit on Ryan. Encourage her to pat the zebra to activate the sounds and to experience the joy of riding. For safety, place cushions or mats on both sides of the zebra.
Objective: Recognizing body parts
Method: Use the zebra as a teaching aid to teach children to recognize animal body parts.
Objective: Pointing out body parts
Method: Say a body part and encourage your child to point to it on Ryan.
Objective: Learning colors
Method: Use the different colors on Ryan to teach children to recognize colors.
Objective: Pointing out colors
Method: Say a color and encourage your child to point to it on Ryan.
Objective: Developing self awareness
Method: Children can look at themselves in the mirror on Ryan’s left front leg. This helps develop their self awareness. Parents can also place their child's photo or a family member's photo in the clear pocket. This helps the child recognize faces.
Objective: Learning shapes
Method: Teach children to identify shapes using the shapes on Ryan.
Objective: Pointing out shapes
Method: Say a shape and encourage your child to point to it on Ryan.
Objective: Shape matching
Method: Encourage children to match the square, circle and triangle.
Objective: Learning numbers
Method: Teach children to identify the numbers 1 to 3 on the saddle.
Objective: Learning the concepts of “inside” and “outside”
Method: The zebra shaped teether can be placed inside and outside of the pocket found on Ryan’s back leg. Use this to teach your child the concepts of “inside” and “outside”.
Objective: Look and find
Method: Let children find which part of Ryan the following photos depict. Parents can also take their own photos for this activity.
Sharing
We sincerely hope that the guidelines provided by our K's Kids Parents' Support Center will help you make the most of your K's Kids product. We hope that every child with a K's Kids product will benefit from playing and learning from it.
We also believe that every child is unique and full of creativity.
Apart from the learning methods provided here, have you or your child discovered fun and creative ways to play with your K's Kids toys? A different combination of Chain-an-inchworm? An interesting, new way to teach language using Learn to Talk™ ? Or do you simply want to share your feelings and opinions?
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