Toys and the Five Senses

The five senses are important when it comes to picking out toys for children.

You need to take into account the look of a toy. Is it pleasing to look out. Whilst conventional toys are cute and fluffy there are a new style of toys that are scary and weird. When toys are based on characters from TV or films then it's important that they look very similar to their counterpart! If they don't then the toy decreases in interest and playability.

When toys make a noise it unusually makes children happy! Toys that can be banged, shaken or make a tune are always fun to play with. Toys that make a lot of noise are often more fun! Toy drum kits will be popular for this reason for ever! Whilst toys that can be noisy without much skill are preferred, it's always wise to weigh up the noise making ability of a toy before giving it as a gift!

Touch is important for younger children who will want to reach out and grab toys. Having different textures or materials makes a toy more interesting to babies and this is why many activity toys for them have so many different materials and types of fabric used in their construction! As children develop and grow they can enjoy different toys that don't always feel soft and fluffy - and moving on to harder materials like those used in building sets is an important step. As children grow they want toys that are more interesting and have the ability to do many different things.

many toys are odorless, as part of their design, but some toys such as Play Doh! evoke memories in an instant with a single sniff! For adults, the smell of Play Doh, will once again take on when they were young, and so many parents have played with him as a young man, even grandparents! For many people, the smell of a new book is something special! There were some toys made of strawberry smellStrawberry Shortcake dolls that smelled! You do not have an equivalent for the boys yet, although the smell of engine oil in the engine main hangar at Manchester Science Museum is pretty close!

The final taste is a toy imported rare, but there have been toys were mostly sweet, more like to be converted. There were actually appears whistle a note, based sweets, cakes and candy bracelets made allthe baking toys that help you to make edible treats!

Children's toys can include more than one sensory area at a time. When you come to pick a present for a child consider which of the senses are used by the toy! Some toys will obviously use several senses when played with, and some may encourage the use of imagination to bring out the other sense involvement! Even a kitchen play set can produce noise when you use spoons as drum sticks!