RECOMMENDED TOYS FOR EACH AGE: FROM FIVE TO SIX YEARS OLD

There is little time left for Santa Claus and the Magi to arrive, and surely many children have already prepared their letter of gifts to put it in the mailbox in the next few days. Perhaps, among your preferences is one of the star toys this season, although there may also be children who are still not sure what to ask for.

If it is the case of your little one, we want to help you with proposals for toys appropriate to their age and stage of development. This time let's focus on children between five and six years old, a stage where creativity, physical activity and socialization prevail. Do you want to know what toys would be the most recommended at this age?

The development of children from five to years

The development of a child from five to six years is difficult to define concretely, because they are at an age when the changes are slower and the rhythms vary greatly from one small to another.

In any case, most children of this age quite dominate their physical abilities , and they like to test them with new challenges that they are imagining, both at home and in the street and in the park. They are children who have a obvious communicative ability and curious about many things, constantly asking parents everything they don't know.

As far as the game is concerned, they like to play with other children and with dad and mom, although on many occasions they find it difficult to accept defeat. They are also passionate about music, dancing and singing, and enjoy listening to more elaborate stories and stories than when they were little, as well as staging works that they have previously heard or invented.

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It is for all this, that It is advised to offer the child toys that are consistent with their development and interests, and that they also comply with the following requirements:

Help them improve memory.
Serve to strengthen your motor skills, help them stimulate fine motor skills and define laterality (if right or left handed).
Stimulate language, both the oral comprehension and expression As the understanding of writing.
Serve for experiment with material modeling, and learn more about the different shapes that objects have.
Help them develop the imagination.
Foster your socialization capacity with other children

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What toys to buy from a child between five and six years old?

Toys that develop gross motor skills

We can give toys that help them continue learning to know and master your body and your physical limits, as well as others that favor the sense of balance and coordination. Likewise, let's not forget to include toys that invite socialization and to play in company.

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For example:

Elastic beds
Two wheel bicycle
Evolutionary skates
Scooters
Garden zip line
Folding soccer goal for indoor and outdoor

Toys that develop fine motor skills

From the age of five, children's fine motor skills are already quite developed and they are able to trim, manipulate very small objects and paint with great precision. But it never hurts to continue stimulating this development with chord toys.

Small construction parts (Lego type), craft games that require precision, or those in which you must use scissors, are a perfect choice.

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For example:

Legos of Super Heroes, from five years
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Pottery game to create and decorate clay pieces
Creative game to learn to cut
Wooden case with beads to make bracelets

Toys that promote their autonomy

It is important to promote the autonomy of our children since they are young, with activities according to their age that help them learn to fend for themselves and overcome the challenges they encounter in life. Through the game too we can help to promote that autonomy.

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For example:

Wooden puzzles to dress the bear family, and thus learn about the different clothes that exist, and that will help you when dressing alone
Any doll with clothing accessories that they can dress and undress for different occasions
Cleaning set
Chef's apron and hat and kitchen accessories, to help mom and dad to cook

Toys that encourage creativity

At the level of creativity, in addition to playing musical pieces and creating things with constructions, they can also be expressed through drawing and writing. There is many games that can help us develop this area.

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For example:

Play-Doh modeling clay game with molds
Projection desk for creative activities
Blackboard for children
Magic sand case with molds
Wooden musical instruments set
Blackboard briefcase to draw and build

Toys that promote their socialization

At this age the child begins to share his toys on his own initiative, and to find others to share game time. In addition, although many find it difficult to accept defeat, the child begins to understand that sometimes he wins and sometimes he loses.

Therefore, from this stage you can promote socialization, team play, concentration and the importance of respecting the opponent and knowing how to lose, through board games or similar.

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For example:

Wooden table football
Board game of the three little pigs
Fishing game
Crockery crocodile
Stubborn
Parcheesi and ground goose

Symbolic game

At these ages, children still playing to be people who are not and developing the symbolic game even more obviously than when they are small. For this reason, games such as costumes, kitchens, dollhouses, tool cases, nursing utensils, puppet theaters ... enhance your imagination and creativity, and make for a while that character you want to be .

Books

And we cannot finish our review without recommending giving away books. They are not toys, but they are fun, helps them understand real-life situations, allows them to learn vocabulary and move them into a fantasy world. Stories and books should always be obliged gifts, because reading is pleasure and is learning, among many other things.

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More about toys recommended by ages:

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Recommended toys for each age: from one to two years
Recommended toys for each age: from three to four years
Recommended toys for each age: four to five years

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