How do preschool children choose building blocks when looking for toy nets?

What kind of building blocks do you think are suitable for children aged 1-6? Bian Xiao, who is looking for toys, has compiled the following contents for everyone.

First, safety.

1. Environmental protection of materials

The price is related to the material. Too cheap building blocks use non-environmental protection materials, such as toxic plastics and excessive formaldehyde, which is more risky.

Generally speaking, the surface paint of brightly colored traditional wooden building blocks usually contains lead, which is strongly not recommended for young children. In addition, plastic toys painted with a layer of color are not recommended. Because children like to put toys in their mouths, these colors will be eaten by children in the process of biting, which will do great harm to their brain development and IQ.

2. Particle size

According to my observation, many businesses will take the age of 3 as the watershed, and sell small pieces after the age of 3. Personally, I think, try not to take this risk.

In my own EQ training class, some children aged 5-6 or even older still put toys in their mouths. Therefore, even children in large classes in kindergartens should not be taken lightly. It is still necessary to choose large particle design and attach importance to environmentally friendly materials.

Some toy brands specially designed for children aged 65,438+0-6, such as Brock's large granule building blocks, will consciously enlarge the granules. On the one hand, it is beneficial for children to grab their fingers, on the other hand, it also has the function of preventing swallowing. The risk of small toys blocking the trachea in your mouth should never be taken.

3. Manufacturing process

Finally, the edge of the building block is smooth, without burrs and scratches, and it is round. Most reliable brands should be able to do this.

Second, the texture/sense of use.

1. Is the building block plugged and unplugged smoothly?

The building blocks are too loose, so they will fall off easily after being inserted. The building blocks are too tight for preschool children to break. Therefore, when choosing building blocks, don't just look at the price and grade, but choose ones suitable for children's age and strength.

Step 2 feel the details

Some brands of toys have some caution machines and small highlights, which are especially popular with children. For example, my latest Bruco large-particle building block, its dinosaur teeth, tail, claws and so on are not pure plastic, nor pure silicone, but the feel between the two, which is more q-bomb, and children especially like to pinch and play.

The eldest daughter who loves silicone tail.

3. Fun and playability

Due to the limited development of children's visual and cognitive abilities, the colors of toys must be bright, the color blocks must be large, and the particles must be convenient for children to play and operate. I personally don't recommend those small and complicated building blocks. I think that kind of toy is more suitable for parents' aesthetics and may not be suitable for children. Children bring their own aesthetic standards.

Third, the choice of building block theme.

1. Children under one year old

/kloc-under 0/year-old, children's fine motor development is limited, so they don't need to make toys. /kloc-before 0/year old, it is most suitable to play with toys such as rattles, gutta-percha, bed bells, etc.

2. Children between one and two years old

/kloc-children after 0/year old gradually enter the sensitive period of hands-on. For children aged 1-2, I suggest a simple building block set with the theme of sensory exploration. The number of particles in building blocks should not be too large, and the elements should not be too complicated.

The biggest feature of children playing with building blocks is that no matter how many toys are in the bucket, they must be "smashed" for you and turned upside down.

So on the one hand, too many building blocks are too troublesome to clean up, and more importantly, it is easy to distract children. For example, in the picture, there are about 20-30 large-particle building blocks in the early Elf series, which are brightly colored and printed with animals, numbers, eyes and other patterns, just suitable for children who are just in the basic cognitive stage.

3. Gender differences after two years old

After the age of 2, gender differences and children's own preferences began to appear. Boys may be particularly interested in mobile toys such as cars, while girls may prefer house-themed toys.

However, we need to pay special attention to the gender barrier of toys. Our parents should consciously respect their children's natural preferences and guide them according to the situation, instead of limiting boys to playing cars and girls to playing house according to their inherent knowledge of gender.

This kind of education and way of thinking is not conducive to children's self-acceptance attitude towards life, and it is also easy to lead children to self-denial and it is difficult to give play to their natural advantages.

There is nothing wrong with boys playing with dolls and girls playing with cars.

4. Tiger balm theme

In addition, if you don't know what kind of building blocks to buy, animal themes and dinosaur themes are gender-neutral panacea.

Dinosaur museums all over the world are good places to travel with children, and boys and girls are crazy about it. So are our two children. The English scientific names of various dinosaurs are long and difficult to understand, but I just remember them clearly.

Picture Bruco's latest running dinosaur series, a large number of building blocks, can be multi-dimensionally spliced to open a brain hole. One of its characteristics is that you can control the dinosaur's walking and vocalization with the remote control. There are many dinosaur splicing guides in the matching Bruco building block app.

Brock's official app splicing guide is under construction.

Fourth, the choice of programming building blocks.

After the child is 4 years old, he begins to enter the sensitive period of logical thinking. In addition to logic puzzle games, I personally think that programming is also a good logical thinking training.

Our sons and daughters are all digital aborigines, a generation that grew up surrounded by digital technology. For their generation, programming may be as important as English. In the future era of artificial intelligence, programming language may become one of the communication skills they must have. This is different from digital immigrants of our generation.

Friends who have read my last answer may know that I emphasize family education and parent-child companionship. So far, neither child has attended the paid training class (mainly because it is not cost-effective, so it is better to teach it ourselves). Therefore, it is particularly important for me to choose a high-quality tool to study at home.

After my boss was 4 years old, I tried 4 kinds of children's programming toys, 2 kinds of programming board games and 7-8 kinds of programming learning software.

Generally speaking, my feeling is that children should not choose high-end and complicated learning tools at any age when programming toys. Don't think about buying an advanced programming toy and then using it for many years, saving money and trouble. Just like buying shoes for a baby. We will not buy a pair of shoes 12 cm long for our baby's feet, and then let the baby wear them loosely for many years until his feet can put on shoes.

Unless the economic conditions really don't allow it, you must choose a pair of shoes with the most suitable size and design. Only in this way can the baby walk steadily and develop his sports ability well.

Similarly, so is programming educational toys. We should choose a programming building block that is most suitable for children's current intelligence level and personality preferences. When the child grows up and becomes stronger, buy a new programming toy to keep the difficulty of the toy and the baby's mental ability in a "fit" state.

Programming building blocks like Brock Smart series are both programming toys and patchwork toys. There are many building blocks in it, as well as official guide maps, which can spell out robots, animals, cars and so on in various shapes.

My habit is to work with my children to make blocks and shapes, and then let them use Bruco's building block app to control the robot to make a series of actions. Our children especially like role-playing and making up stories. My sister pretends that the robot gets up in the morning to go to school, passes through various sections and obstacles on the road, and finally reaches the kindergarten. My brother said he didn't need to go to kindergarten, so he grabbed the robot with his hand and went to the playground to play.

After choosing safe, interesting and playable toys for children, let's talk about it again:

How to play with toys? How to maximize the educational value of patchwork toys?

1.？ Protect and guide children's enthusiasm for learning

Learning is a child's instinct.

What our parents need to do is to protect their children's natural curiosity and guide them rather than force them. In the game, the process of splicing is concerned, not the result of splicing. The real essence of our parents' accompanying play is to cultivate children's psychological and learning ability by playing games together, such as constantly trying, being brave in creating, persevering, reflecting and summing up, and facing setbacks.

2.？ Parents should be calm.

When you see other children's beautiful paintings, exquisite spelling and beautiful writing, and then compare the performance of your own children, you will inevitably feel anxious and unbalanced. Therefore, our parents should pay special attention to the influence of children's mentality and emotions on their children, and don't turn their expectations and anxiety into children's pressure, which leads to our criticism and hatred of children.

This practice is likely to dampen children's initiative and make them regard gifted learning as a kind of pain and burden, which is not worth the candle.

3.？ Let children's creation work and cultivate internal drive.

Output is the best way to learn.

A two-wheeled "car" is creation. The simple combination of children realizes the function of "running", which makes him feel the value he created and gain a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. These positive emotions are the best motivation for him to further improve himself.

In my opinion, it is not important to spell out exquisite and beautiful works. Although the child's own creation is simple, it is of great significance to him. When children can interact with their own creative achievements, let their cars wait to cross the road at the traffic lights, and entertain guests attending birthday parties with their own small houses, children will learn the true meaning of creation.

4.？ Encourage children to try and make mistakes and overcome the psychological oppression brought by innovation.

Creation is a very stressful thing.

If we only build according to the drawings and follow the gourd painting, then we are only the executors of the drawings, not the creators. To really cultivate creative thinking, we need to constantly expand our psychological comfort zone and go through the psychological process of creation, trial and error and correction repeatedly.

When buying building blocks, I suggest choosing a multi-dimensional large-particle building block brand like Bruco building blocks. A set of building blocks not only has 2-3 official guiding shapes, but also has a lot of free creative space. We can first assemble familiar building blocks through drawings, and then cultivate creative thinking through free assembly.

5.？ Cultivate children's growth-oriented thinking

The opposite of growth thinking is rigid thinking.

Children with rigid thinking are obsessed with the final result and ignore the process, so they are more afraid of making mistakes and dare not try. Children with growth thinking don't take results as the only measure, they value their own actions, their own efforts and growth.

As parents, don't label your children easily and draw conclusions, such as "You are just not as smart as XX", "You are not good at spelling games" and "Why can't you teach?" .

What we need to do is to help children think with growth-oriented thinking, such as:

I'm in trouble. Is there any way to try to solve this problem?

If I can't solve this problem independently, who can I turn to for help?

If all attempts and help fail and I can't spell what I want, can I think of an alternative? ……

6.？ Don't buy too many toys of the same model, just buy the same type of educational toys of 1-2 model.

Repetition is one of the most important learning styles for children.

Excessive innovation and change may lead children to taste every toy. I suggest that most educational toys should focus on deep ploughing, emphasizing quality rather than weight, so that children can give full play to the essence of each game and play a set of toys to maturity and perfection.

In this way, it is both economical and effective.

The content shared above is completely based on my own experience in buying toys and accompanying children, and only represents my personal suggestions.