Do you want to see inchworm move? Just press him down. Yeah, the inchworm is walking around.
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 and attention training – observing your child’s reaction to sounds
Method: Squeeze the inchworm to create sounds from different directions. Observe if your child’s gaze follows the sounds.
Objective: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling different textures
Method: The inchworm is made from different materials. Encourage children to touch and feel the different textures.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - twisting
Method: Encourage children to twist the inchworm’s head to make sounds.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - squeezing
Method: Encourage children to squeeze the squeaker in the inchworm’s tail to make sounds.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - spinning
Method: Encourage children to spin the inchworm’s wheels. The colorful beads in the wheels create sounds and visual stimulation for your child.
Objective: Gross motor skills training – crawling
Method: Push down on the inchworm so that it moves forward. Then encourage your child to crawl after the inchworm.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - sliding
Method: Encourage children to slide the inchworm back and forth.
Objective: Gross motor skills training - pushing
Method: Encourage children to push down on the inchworm to make it move forward.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Teach children different colors.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning facial features and body parts
Method: Teach children facial features and body parts.
Objective: Cognitive training – pointing to facial features and body parts
Method: Name a facial feature or body part and encourage your child to point to it.
Objective: Sense of distance and eye hand coordination training - going through a tunnel
Method: Build a tunnel or arch for the inchworm to travel under, using boxes other everyday objects. Encourage your child to aim the inchworm to crawl through the tunnel. Parents may increase the difficulty by varying the width and distance of the tunnel.
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.
Apart from the learning methods provided here, have you or your child discovered fun and creative ways to play with your K's Kids toys? A different combination of Chain-an-inchworm? An interesting, new way to teach language using Learn to Talk™ ? Or do you simply want to share your feelings and opinions?
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