Children love farmyard animals, especially the sounds they make! This "farmyard" is full of fun, noisy animals, but is still compact enough to take anywhere. Press the musical notes to hear animal sounds! It comes with a mirror, teether and crinkly flower petals
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: Listening training - reacting to sounds
Method: Press the animal noses to play music and animal sounds. Then observe if your child moves her head or gaze to follow the sounds. This trains her listening skills and attention.
Objective: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling different textures
Method: The box 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 - grasping and pressing
Method: The farmyard is made of crinkle paper and other small parts. Encourage your child to grasp at and press the different parts with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - swinging
Method: The farmyard comes with a soft handle, great for children to hold on to. Encourage children to hold on to the handle and to swing the box.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - crawling towards sounds
Method: Press the animal noses to activate music and animal sounds. Then place the farmyard in front of your child and encourage her to crawl towards the farmyard.
Objective: Developing self awareness using a mirror
Method: Encourage your child to observe and recognize her own image in the mirror. This builds up her self image.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning animal sounds
Method: Ask your child what sounds certain animals make. Then encourage her to press that animal to activate the correct the sound.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - throwing
Method: The farmyard is soft and easy to hold on to. Encourage your child to throw it to train her gross motor skills.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning animals and their characteristics
Method: Use the animal graphics to teach children to recognize animals and their body parts.
Objective: Cognitive training - pointing out animals and their characteristics
Method: Name the facial features or body parts of specific animals (like, the pig’s nose, or the sheep’s ears) and encourage children to point to them.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Teach children colors using the colorful graphics on the farmyard.
Objective: Cognitive training - pointing out colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Gross motor skills, cognitive and memory training - throwing and naming animals
Method: Allow your child to roll the farmyard across the floor like a dice. Encourage your child to name the animal that lands facing up.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - playing catch
Method: The farmyard is soft and easy to grab. Use it to play catch with your child and to train her catching and throwing skills.
Objective: Listening and memory training - telling apart different animal sounds
Method: Without your child seeing, press one of the animal noses to activate an animal sound. Then encourage your child to tell which animal the sound belongs to.
Sharing
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