It is a playmat, it is a book. It is handy for taking along.
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.
Objective: Sensory training - observing while lying down
Method: Place your child on the playmat so she can observe her surroundings.
Objective: Listening and attention training – observing your child’s reaction to sounds
Method: Crinkle the elephant’s ears to create sounds. Observe if your child’s gaze follows the sounds.
Objective: Pampering - building a sense of security
Method: The elephant is made from high quality materials. It is soft and comfortable, great for hugging. Hugging also teaches children to care for others.
Objective: Rolling over
Method: Encourage and help your child practice rolling on the playmat.
Objective: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling
Method: The elephant is made from different textures and materials. Encourage children to touch and feel the textures and to chew on the teether.
Objective: Fine motor skills training – pressing and crinkling
Method: Encourage children to press and crinkle different parts of the elephant with both their hands.
Objective: Fine motor skills training – flipping pages
Method: Encourage children to practice flipping the pages of the book.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning animals
Method: Teach children the names of different animals.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to animals
Method: Name an animal and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training – storytelling
Method: Encourage children to tell you what they see from the pictures in the book.
Objective: Advanced fine and gross motor skills training - buttoning
Method: The teether acts as a button that holds the book together. Encourage children to button and unbutton the teether. This also trains their eye-hand coordination.
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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