Cake: 20cm(W) x 18cm(H) x 20cm(D)
Magic Wand: 16cm(H)
Knife: 11.7cm(H)
Exercise your little hands to light up the candles.
Light up all candles and the birthday song begins.
Blow out the candles with the cheering sound.
It's time to cut the cake and share them with your loved ones.
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 experience
Method: Turn on the music (by pressing the pink strawberry) to attract your child's attention and observe her reaction to the music.
Objective: Grasping fine motor skills training
Method: Encourage children to grasp the pieces of cake with both their right and left hands. This trains their fine motor skills.
Objective: Sense stimulation
Method: The birthday cake is made from different materials. Encourage your child to touch and feel the different textures like the soft cake pieces, the plastic candles and the knife.
Objective: Placing the magic wand in the cake
Method: Encourage children to remove the magic wand from the cake and then put it back. This trains their gross motor skills, eye-hand coordination and sense of balance.
Objective: Pressing
Method: Encourage your child to hold the magic wand in her hand, and to press the button with her thumb. The star will light up when the button is pressed. Allow her to press the button with both her right and left hand to train her fine motor skills.
Objective: Learning colors
Method: Use the different colors of the cake to teach children to recognize colors.
Objective: Recognizing facial features
Method: Use Patrick to teach children different facial features.
Objective: Pointing out facial features
Method: Say a facial feature and encourage your child to point to it on Patrick.
Objective: Throwing
Method: The cake pieces are soft and easy to grab. Encourage children to throw the blocks and to train their arm muscles.
Objective: Recognizing characters
Method: Teach your child the names of the eight characters.
Objective: Learning numbers
Method: Teach children the numbers 1 to 8 using the numbered pieces of cake.
Objective: Pointing out numbers or characters
Method: Say a character name or a number and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Learning the names of fruit
Method: Teach children the names of fruit using the graphics on the cake.
Objective: Completing the cake
Method: Take the cake apart then encourage your child to put it back together. This trains her eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.
Objective: Lighting candles
Method: Encourage children to press the button on the wand and wave it over the candles, one by one. When all candles are lighted, the birthday song will play. This trains children’s eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills.
Objective: Blowing out candles
Method: After lighting the candles and listening to the birthday song, encourage children to blow out the candles. The cake will play cheering and clapping sounds. Children can learn how to blow and also gain a sense of achievement.
Objective: Cutting the cake
Method: Encourage children to cut the cake with the little knife and share the pieces with friends. This trains their fine motor skills as well as social skills.
Objective: Catching and throwing
Method: The cake pieces are soft and easy to grab. Use the blocks to play catch with your child and to train her catching and throwing skills.
Objective: Odd numbers
Method: Use the numbers on the cake to teach your child odd numbers.
Objective: Even numbers
Method: Use the numbers on the cake to teach your child even numbers.
Objective: Playing in the dark
Method: In a dark room at night, children can use the magic wand as a flash light in exploration games.
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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