Article by Thomsen Lucas
Ways of providing Education are transforming day by day. When a child is born, then he is not aware about the surroundings and does not know how to behave and live in society. So he is made aware of the surroundings. He is also taught how to behave like a civilized person, this is called education.
Educational toys always play an important role in imparting education to the tiny tots. These days’ multi-sensory educational toys (in Danish pædagogisk legetøj) are being more and more popular. A multi-sensory learning system is a unique way of learning. It also indulges a lot of puzzles for the children. These toys develop the whole sensory system in the body of a child. These toys are also called, special needs toys. These are used in hospitals, schools, nurseries, child care homes and especially in families’.
Here is the list of few multi-sensory toys:
An Educational toy which is – a spongy rubber ball -enhances the touch senses in the child. Child can feel and touch the tentacles of the ball.
A special educational toy, which is a multi-colored board, with holes like zigzag lines, helps the child to learn about color. He can also develop his learning to move his hands in a zig-zag movement and adopts they way to write for the first time. He can also develop his drawing skills with the help of this tool.
A multi-colored table with a wiry structure helps the child to move his hands. This wiry structure also has beads in it. These beads are wooden beads. Which are counted safe for children, these type of multi-sensory Educational toys and puzzles for children (in Danish puslespil til børn) always help them to attain in a play way manner? No need of a permanent teacher or the observer, he still learns to keep things in proper sequence.
Multi sensory educational toys also teach a child to recognize different shapes. A wooden hut-type toy is there, which consists numbers and alphabets. There are holes around. Child puts the alphabet in same particular shape. For instance, there is a whole of alphabet ‘A ‘ and ‘A ‘ wooden alphabet is given to the child. He learns to put same alphabet in same shape given.No doubt, these Educational toys are multifaceted. These days ways of providing education are being hi-tech day by day. Still, the most effective way of educating children is Educating through Educational toys and puzzles for the children.