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SpyNet Stealth Recording Video Glasses ~ Record Video & Photos NEW HIGH TECH TOY $7.99 |
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Girl Tech Digi Makeover Virtual Makeup Toy $10.00 |
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Fun Tech Toy play Phone Station Beep & Talk Fun $3.99 |
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V TECH ALPHABET APPLE TALKING LANGUAGE TOY $7.50 |
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Mattel Girl Tech Fijit Friends Purple Willa Interactive Dancing Toy Damaged Box $59.95 |
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Fun Tech Toy play Phone Station Beep & Talk Fun ja-ru S $3.99 |
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Mattel Girl Tech Fijit Friends Purple Willa Interactive Dancing Toy *Used* $49.95 |
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Gumbots Raptor Gumball Bank, by Toy Tech, NEW works $36.54 |
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Mattel Girl Tech Fijit Friends Green Sage Interactive Dancing Toy – Damaged Box $52.95 |
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Tech Link Battery Operated Walkie Talkie 1999 DSI Toys $14.99 |
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VTech Village Town Hall Safety Station Library Electronic V-Tech Toy $12.99 |
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V-Tech Crazy Legs Learning Bugs -Educational- Interactive Learning Toy Ages 1-3 $25.00 |
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Mattel Girl Tech Fijit Friends Green Sage Interactive Dancing Toy *Used* $44.95 |
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Girl Tech Digi MAKEOVER Virtual Makeup Toy $10.39 |
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VTECH V-TECH 3-in-1 Smart Wheels TODDLER RIDE ON TOY $78.95 |
Developing Skills with Pretend Play Toys
How many times do you look over and see a child involved in pretend play? Children from a very young age engage in spirited and fun pretend play. This can be anything from using a pencil as a magic wand to whipping up something in their toy kitchen. Pretend play is instrumental in developing many key skills in young children.
When a child is engaging in pretend play, some of the skills being developed are social and emotional skills. Getting the opportunity to act like someone else teaches him/her to walk in someone else’s shoes. Letting them experience how others are possibly feeling. Also there is a give in take when switching up roles that is great for the child to learn about taking turns.
One of the most important things a child learns is cognitive thinking skills. This is a skill that will benefit them not only now but for a lifetime. It’s what allows them to find creative solutions to problems. The skill of processing the information that attain. And as an adult good problem solving skills are a bonus in both work and interpersonal relationships.
Pretend play brings the imagination out in all of us. Studies have shown that kids that regularly are engaged in pretend play later on in life have much higher levels of narrative expression, allowing them to really be able to communicate on a higher level.
So many times it’s fun to listen in as your child engages in pretend play. Some of the vocabulary will amaze you. You will often find yourself and words and phrases you often say coming out of their mouths. Using this pretend play he is learning to use his vocabulary to tell a story. In life this will help his go from spoken word to written word easier.
Pretend play also teaches kids to adapt and use what they have at hand. Watching a kid pick up a block to use as a phone or putting blocks on plates as food in their toy kitchen are all ways kids learn abstract thinking. The ability to use random objects to get them what they need is priceless as a lifetime skill.
Pretend play is so important that in virtually all young learning centers you will see a corner devoted to it. There you will often find many education toys that with imagination can be anything. Often you will also see toy kitchens which are one of the most popular ways to spark that pretend play. Wooden toys also serve as great props. Anything that inspires pretend play is a great addition to a young child or even older ones toy collections.
With the invention of Video Games, and all sorts of high tech toys pretend play has taken a back burner; and it is really sad. Pretend play brings inspires to kids to dream to be anything they wish. It allows them to pick up wooden toys and become a princess or a knight. Pretend play allows them to spend an afternoon cooking up Your Favorite dish on their toy kitchen. Pretend play is what all little kids need to learn all of life’s important lessons.
About the Author
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Where can I buy toys Girl technology in Canada
I recently heard of Girl Toy technology. There is the IM-ME and the Journal of video and the Password Journal. I wonder where you can buy in Canada. I live in Canada. Thank you.
well how about Toys R Us or walmart!
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