Total 8 blocks are in different shapes, materials, textures & colors. Babies can learn shape sorting, shapes, texture with the soft blocks. And, babies freely sort 4 plastic blocks, which match the openings on the house ceiling panel. More learning from color matching with graphics of side panels, touch & feel, sounds & textures.
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: Listening and attention training - observing your child’s reaction to sounds
Method: Shake the blocks to make rattle sounds to attract your child's attention. Move the sounds around and observe if your child's gaze follows the sounds. This trains your child's listening skills and attention.
Objective: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling different textures
Method: The house is made from soft fabrics and the blocks are smooth plastic. Some of the blocks have bumpy surfaces. Encourage your child to touch and feel the different textures.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - grasping
Method: Encourage children to grasp the blocks with both their right and left hands. This trains their fine motor skills.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - pressing and crinkling
Method: Encourage children to press and crinkle different parts of the blocks with both their hands to make sounds. This trains their fine motor skills.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - crawling towards sounds
Method: Shake or crinkle the blocks in front of your child. Encourage your child to crawl towards the sounds.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - flipping
Method: Encourage your child to flip the flaps on the door and roof.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - swinging
Method: Encourage children to hold the house by the handle, swing the case back and forth and make different sounds.
Objective: Cognitive training - matching graphics
Method: Encourage children to sort the four soft shapes into the house by matching the ladybug, tree, owl, boy and girl graphics.
Objective: Fine and gross motor skills training - pulling
Method: Encourage children to pull the fabric ring back and forth from the hole.
Objective: Developing self awareness - observing herself in the mirror
Method: Allow your child to observe herself in the mirror. This helps develop her self-esteem.
Objective: Fine and gross motor skills training - taking and putting
Method: Encourage children to take and put the blocks into the house.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Use the different colored blocks to teach children to recognize colors.
Objective: Cognitive training - pointing to colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning shapes
Method: Use the different shaped blocks to teach children to recognize shapes.
Objective: Cognitive training - pointing to shapes
Method: Name a shape and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training & eye-hand coordination - shape sorting
Method: Encourage children to sort the four colored blocks into the roof.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning names of objects
Method: Use the graphics printed on the house to teach children to recognize different objects.
Objective: Cognitive training - pointing to objects
Method: Name an object and encourage your child to point to it on the house.
Objective: Eye hand coordination training - balancing and stacking
Method: Encourage children to stack 2-4 blocks, one on top of the other. This activity also trains children’s balance and patience.
Objective: Cognitive training - tidy up
Method: Encourage children to clean up by placing the blocks into the house after playing.
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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