Category: How to use the toys

This group of MONSTERS OF EMOTIONS, made with colored felt fabric, is a good gift for children and adults. It invites you to play with your little one from 8 months onwards, helping him recognize and identify his emotions according to color. You will see how it perfectly leads you to carry out activities and talk with your child about how emotions manifest in our body, and you will see what causes sadness, joy, fear, anger, calm, and love. This helps you work on your emotional side and increase your vocabulary. It is a fundamental tool for prevention and preparation for life.

As a family, we can:

Create open communication about the feelings that arise during the day, speak naturally and listen to your children, and talk and share your emotions as an adult.

USE OF TOYS:

Dictionary of emotions

This activity can be done from 8 months of age to 5 years.

1. Choose the right time and place to play with your little one.

2. Take a character (monster) that expresses an emotion.

3. Pleasantly describe the character, for example: “Look what a cute toy, it’s yellow, and it’s smiling, it’s a happy monster.

4. Repeat with the baby twice a day.

5. The next day, repeat the same (Happiness) and add one more character (sadness).

6. The third day presents joy, and sadness and adds one more (fear).

7. So on until the whole group of emotions is gathered.

8. Play as much as the little one allows you and create activities according to their needs.

Guess what emotion it is

Requirements:

 A dice of colors.

The monsters of emotions. (personage)

1. Choose the right time and place.

2. Put the monsters of emotions in a box or basket.

3. Mention and reinforce to your little one the colors of the dice.

4. Gather the family together to share the game.

5. Everyone sitting on the carpet/floor.

6. Choose a family member to start the game.

7. Roll the dice and mention the color that came out (for example, red).

8. Look in the box or basket for the personage color and imitate the emotion.

9. One of the family members must guess which personage it is.

10. Respect his rhythm and do not interrupt him when he is playing.

11. Thus, successively, all members of the family participate.

It is a sensory toy suitable for children from 11 months to 3 years old. This sensory toy is educational.
Don’t interrupt him when he plays with sensory bags. give him a chance to do it at his own pace
When the little one is calm and relaxed present the toy following the steps indicated.

Objective:
Develop a sense of touch, sight, and fine motor skills, and increase your vocabulary.

Using the toy:
* Invite him to sit next to you.
* Place a rug or carpet on the floor.
* Put the sensory bags on a small tray or box.
* Tell him, “These are sensory bags.”
* Invite him to sit next to you.
* Take out the bags one by one and place the ones that have a blue cap on one side and the grey cap on the other side, forming 2 rows.
* Choose a blue cap bag and feel what’s in it, let the child take it and experience it.
* Put the bag that touched in front of you.
* Select from the other row a bag, feel what it contains, and allow the child to also take and feel what’s inside.
* If it is not a couple of the first one because it does not have the same texture and weight we return it to its place.
* If we think it’s your partner, take the two sensory bags and place them together in the center of the carpet or tray.
* Perform the same procedure with the rest of the sagging.
* Invite the little one to do the activity.
* In this material, the error control can be found under the bags with a dot of each color.
* It allows you to make a mistake and celebrate your achievements.

Helps increase your vocabulary:
* Mention what the toy is called.
* Encourage him to touch the material.
* Ask him questions about the toy.

This sensory book is dedicated to the beaver family, especially for children from 1 to 3 years old. This soft and calm book has tactile and sensory elements. Includes the beaver story written by Magic Shapes, where the adult can read to the child helping him to become more interested in reading and learn more words.
For children under 3 years of age, stories should be short and not longer than 15 minutes. Reading the story over and over again increases young children’s ability to remember and retain words.

Benefits of the sensory tale:

• Stimulate your senses.
• Strengthens emotional ties.
• Develop creativity.
• Exercises memory.
• Strengthens hand-eye coordination.
• Promotes the development of fine motor skills.
• Promotes oral language development.
• Arouse their interest.

USE OF TOYS:

1. Choose the right time and place.
2. Let him pick up and look at what is in the book/story.
3. Mention the shape of the toy and its name, for example: “Look, it’s a red cloth book, it’s rectangular in shape, it has movable elements (apple, beaver, etc.)
4. Enjoy the moment calmly and quietly.
5. The little one who feels close to you and the book.
6. Have her look closely at the movable objects in the story.
7. Begin reading in an unconventional tone of voice to get their attention.
8. Change your voice according to the character, and make eye contact with your little one.
9. Let him touch the characters in the story.
10. Explain in your words what each moment means (when you think it is appropriate)
11. If he is restless, or tired, do not press him. Continue at another time.

The Beaver Family

Very far from the city where the forests and rivers are, there lives a wonderful family of beavers. They are very cute and charismatic. They are rodents that like to live in the water and share responsibilities as a family.
The beaver mother woke up very early to prepare a delicious breakfast. She noticed that her house was filling up with water, she quickly picks up the baby, hugged him, and walked to the forest in search of dad beaver, she was sure that he had the solution.
Dad, dad beaver, help! … the house is filling up with water. It can’t be! Daddy beaver said. Well, let’s get to work, let’s use our strong and resistant teeth to gnaw the trees. We need medium branches and trunks. I will get into the water to investigate what is happening. My super flat oval tail will be my rudder and it will help me to take the right direction. I will come back soon, remember that we all beavers are engineers of nature, we can change the environment, turn a river into a lake, create bridges, and build our burrows in water. Together we will make it, see you.

Baby beaver says: Mommy my tummy is making sounds, I’m hungry, what can I eat? Oh, look there is a tree full of red apples. I will pick four and take them home to eat. Daddy should be here by now, look he is already on the shore! Family, I see that you have gathered a good number of branches and trunks, thanks for all your help. Now it is time to take everything gathered to cover that great hole that is filling up our burrow with water. We will make many trips on the river, we will cross it and carry mud and stones, and our front legs will help us to support them. The important thing is to work as a team. Our home will be stronger than a rock, and we will be safer! Set mission accomplished, we are done, it is time to eat and rest!
How can we not love the Beaver if he shows us that he is a hard worker, he has family and environmental values?

The Robot is a toy made of large and small cubes where the child has to join the pieces. These games to connect or fit together are part of the activities that children can develop from the first years. It recognizes shapes, characteristics, and colors, exercises coordination and manipulation, managing to put the pieces in their correct place. These toys arouse the curiosity of the little ones, training them to discover and solve problems.

Use of the toy:

1. Show the robot to the little one so you will get his attention.
2. Talk and tell him that he is a robot that has many pieces.
3. Begin by gently pulling the pieces out to capture the child’s gaze.
4. Reassemble the robot, trying to get the little one to observe you.
5. Place the toy near the little one so he can experiment on his own.
6. Give him a chance to do it at his own pace and don’t interrupt when he’s playing.
7. When he finishes playing, you can describe what the robot is like: color, shape, etc.

The language cube is a toy for children from 6 months to 2 years old. At this age, children are like sponges they absorb everything you want to teach them. By playing this game we are not only reviewing the vocabulary, but we are also implementing visual discrimination, and we are working on attention.
It helps you have a wide vocabulary:
• Talk and communicate with your baby, thus stimulating their language.
• Convey love and emotion by verbally responding to their sounds, it is a way to motivate them.
• Complete the sentence that he wants to tell you. For example: if the baby says “pa”, you say “papa”.
• Allow yourself to be wrong and celebrate your achievements.
• Ask him questions and encourage him to be curious.
• Give him a chance to do it at his own pace and don’t interrupt him when he’s playing.

Use of the toy:

1. Make the language cube sound, and you will get their attention.
2. Allow him to pick up and look at the shapes on the 6 sides of the cube. Give him his playtime.
3. Name the shape of the toy and count the sides. For example: “look it is a cube and it has 1, 2… 6 sides, it is a cube of many colors.
4. Name the shapes on each side. For example: “I see an apple, it is red and round.” Do you want to touch it? Play as far as the baby allows it.
5. Put the items in the language cube on a table or blanket.
6. Roll the cube and let him mention the name of the figure that appears (1 to 3 years old)
7. Have the kid look through the blanket or table for the item shown on the cube rolled before.
8. Let him make a comparison between what is real and what is in the cube.
9. This makes the activity more fun.

The rattle is one of the baby’s first favorite toys for 3 to 6 months, it entertains him, stimulates his senses, improves his eye-hand coordination, and creates an emotional bond with the adult.

Use of the toy:

1. Make the rattle sound, the child will move and you will get their attention.
2. Put the rattle in the baby’s hand and gently shake it.
3. Play hide-and-seek with the baby and gently move the rattle to the right side, then to the left side. You will see how he moves his head and his eyes trying to locate the toy.

Use of the toy:

1. The 6 sides of the cube should be used, preferably starting with the figure of the circle.
2. Start by presenting the cube without moving it in front of the baby’s face at a distance of 12 inches (30 cm). When we see that the baby’s gaze is fixed, we begin to move the black and white cube with a horizontal movement slowly to the left, up to the height of the ear, then we move the cube slowly to the right, up to the height of the other ear (two times).
3. Then we center the cube in front of the baby’s face at a distance of 12 inches (30 cm). When we see that the baby fixes the gaze we begin to move the black and white cube in a vertical movement slowly from the center, first upwards upper part of the forehead and then down to chest height. You have to “look” for the baby’s gaze.
4. For the last circular movement, the cube should be centered in front of the baby’s face at a distance of 12 inches (30 cm) when we see that the baby has fixed his gaze and we begin to move the cube in a circular movement and from there rotate towards the clockwise right.
5. In the end, we can say sweetly: “Very good” or give you a smile.