Choosing safe toys for kids

Durable and well-finished

Children like to play with throwing toys, so easily broken or broken products can hurt children. You should also check that the edges are not sharp or sharp, and that wooden toys do not feel grain or scratches. Plastic toys can swallow debris when a child bites it if the connection is not well finished.
Made from non-toxic materials

Children search for anything first. Toys are often inserted into the mouth of a child, so make sure that you do not use harmful substances to the human body. Also, see if the paints painted in various colors are toxic, and make sure metal toys do not contain heavy metals such as lead or mercury.

Cloth toys check material and stitch condition

When the child sucks and sucks, the material is checked to make sure there are no problems. The best thing is cotton products. Synthetic fibers should be checked for fluff or dust. Also, when you are stuck, you do not have cotton or other substances that leak out into your mouth.

There is no danger of fingers or hair getting caught

There are cases where a child's fingers are caught in a connection part or a small hole of a toy, and a hair tangles. Look at the hazards of the toys and check that there are not too many holes.

Easy to clean and disinfect

Kids' toys often enter their mouths and must be cleaned and disinfected. Toys that are difficult to wash with water are a problem in hygiene management and should be avoided.

Please check the quality mark

When choosing toys, you should look at various things such as the manufacturer, the sales company, the material, and the target age. Particularly in the case of working toys, the toy safety standard is inspected and purchased with the ST mark attached. This means that you have passed the safety test through various tests, so you can choose with confidence. It is also safer to choose a toy with a basic quality mark.

Choosing a good toy

Fit to developmental stage

It is most important to understand the developmental level of the child according to the age of the child and to choose appropriate toys at that time. It is not helpful to show different colored mobiles to newborns who can distinguish between black and white. It is not useful to buy a car that can ride and play with a crawling child too. On the other hand, it is not right to give a rat a toy to a well-run child.
It is good to be able to stimulate the five senses

Five senses such as visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and tastes develop vigorously until the third year of life. Therefore, it is better for toys to be able to stimulate this sense as much as possible. For example, if a toy phone is colored in color and has a variety of button shapes that can be pressed, a variety of stimuli can be produced if there are various sounds.

Play a variety of toys are good

Toys are perfect toys that can be played in various ways through the transformation of the toy rather than the kind that the child just looks at. In other words, children can change their shape by touching with their own hands. For example, it is better to use clay that can make various shapes like a robot that a child carries with his hand rather than a finished robot, or a block-like toy that can be piled up at will.

Choosing toys by age

1 ~ 3 months after birth

Toys that stimulate vision and hearing
Two months before birth, only black and white are distinguished. Since we can see vivid primary color, we change color from monochrome mobile to bright primary color mobile. The hearing function also develops and turns the head toward the sounding side, and it gives a variety of sounds by the mobile, the melody toy which is the sound of the rattle or the sound. The toy can be held by hand. The doll of soft cloth is also helpful for tactile stimulation.
4 to 6 months of age

Toys for hearing and tactile stimulation
They become sensitive to the sound, they can neck and flip themselves, they can hold things by hand and move them to another hand. Therefore, it is good to have a toy that sounds like a hand-held or mouth-blowing toy, a drum-banging drum, a chuckle, a wheeled toy that can move by hand, and a rattle. It is a time when a child needs to put in his / her mouth and chews, so a tooth-growing period is necessary, and a doll made of cloth or a ball is a good toy.

7 ~ 9 months of age

Toys that change when touched by hand
At this time, the children are not only crawling, but also they can sit comfortably without help. So instead of checking with your mouth, you can now grab it by hand and search for it by shaking or squeezing it. A ball that changes when touched by a hand, a toy telephone, a musical instrument toy such as a trumpet or a drum, and a toy that carries a piece of a figure are good. Water play toys that you can play with when bathing is also useful.

10 to 12 months of age

Toys with lots of fingers and toddlers
Now the children are caught up in the surrounding things, or take a step to take a lot of movement, such as touching anything, touching and looking to see the push. Therefore, it is good to play with toys in order to help toddlers. You can drag strings on toys with wheels, move your body variously through balloons, or push them in, pull or drag them. Blocks, simple shapes, and phones are good for toys that can stimulate many memories with your fingers. It is also helpful to give them crayons and paper and allow them to swing freely. It is when you start to learn to speak slowly, so it helps you to read a book or to learn simple words through house play.

13 to 18 months of age

Toy to help speak
It is a good time to put a word card of a realistic picture on a thing or read a picture book with a simple plot because it is the time when language development starts in earnest. It can also stimulate language development by playing various sounds from the melody book. Also, because it gives rise to the awareness of imagination and situation, simple role play with mother helps child's thinking power and linguistic ability. I like to walk around with my toys and ride with my wheels.

19-24 months of age

Toys that can be applied and play, toys that stimulate the senses
At this time, the children like to follow adults, and toys that can play role play, such as hospital play, kitchen play, are good. Playing with colored clay, matching big puzzles, or putting beads on a line helps stimulate the senses. Block play can develop creativity and composition.