What is inside Patrick's tummy? It's a rainbow stacking game! The Patrick Stacker contains 5 stacking cups with beautiful, embossed numbers, patterns and Patrick and friends characters. It also teaches colors and exercises your baby's motor skills and logical thinking, as he stacks the cups from large to small to build a tower.
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: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling
Method: The lids are bumpy and the cups are smooth. Encourage children to touch and feel the embossed texture of numbers and different patterns.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - grasping
Method: Encourage children to grasp the cups with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - stacking two cups on a flat surface
Method: Encourage your child to stack any two cups, one on top of the other, on a flat surface.
Objective: Watching water trickle - in the bath and at the beach
Method: There are two small holes in each cup. Your child can use the cup to scoop water and watch the water trickle out the small holes. This is great for playing in the bath or at the beach.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - stacking two cups
Method: Have your child hold one cup in each hand, and then encourage her to stack the right cup onto the left cup, and vice versa.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training – putting the cups away
Method: Encourage your child to put one cup in another, until they are all neatly stored away in the biggest cup. Then close the Patrick lid.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning cartoon characters
Method: Teach your child the names of the different characters.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding characters
Method: Name a character and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - from big to small
Method: Encourage your child to stack the 5 cups, one on top of the other, starting with the biggest cup and ending with the smallest one.
Objective: Learning about size
Method: Use the five different sized cups to teach your child about size.
Objective: Creativity training - building sandcastles
Method: Children can use the cups to scoop sand or as molds for building sandcastles.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Use the different colored cups to teach children to recognize colors.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - from small to big
Method: Encourage your child to stack the 5 cups, one on top of the other, starting with the smallest cup and ending with the biggest one.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning numbers
Method: Teach your child to recognize numbers and to count using the numbers and graphics on the cups.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding numbers
Method: Say a number and encourage your child to find it.
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.
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