Toys and the Age of Children

Much has been said regarding the selection of toys according to age, either the chronological or developmental. However, research shows that this alone is important as a general guide.
The development of the game, and consequently of the toy, is a gradual process, and its common denominator, continuity.
That is, each stage of the game is due to the stage that preceded it, and the current, toward its end, it will give the premises of the post. Thus, in one stage there were issues concerning the present status to what has been, and what is to happen: then determine that an object-own toy is one particular age, can lead to serious errors in the education of boys and girls, in the development of their games, and the selection of toys. Nor, of course, you can go to the extreme of not taking into consideration the age for the choice of toys, because to some extent for each age have its special characteristics and properties that are typical and features.
But in general it is more important than toy fit the mental level and the development of the social life of the child and the child, that the restrictions to a chronological age.

However, chronological age does seem to have an importance in the consideration of the structure of the toy. In smaller children the best toys do not have to replicate the object in question but broadly reflect its function.
However, the boys and girls at the end of infancy are much more interested in the details and are less tolerant of clumsy distortions of reality in material provided to them for their games.
In short, according to the progressive increase in age-toy object is to more accurately reflect reality, to enable a better development of children's play.

Age is also an important determinant as to the possibilities that the toy allows free enterprise and creativity of the child and the child.
The biggest mistake you can do in the lesson of the toys is to select those that do not allow the change and do not lend them unleash their creative ability.
A final point in reference to age is limited to the size of toys.
In the early ages children prefer large toys. Hence, for example balls that are used with these are more bulky than those used with the larger groups, which is related to their motor and intellectual possibilities.

The child is also interested in small reproductions: automobilists, zoos miniatures, toy soldiers, hardly attract the attention of children.