How to Select Children's Outdoor Toys

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How to Select Children's Outdoor Toys

 


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    Choose stackable toys for outdoor fun. Stacking is an important part of infant and toddler development. Children's toys that stack encourage motor skills and hand-eye coordination and make useful beach or park companions.
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    Consider children's sports toys. Sports like baseball and soccer not only build strength and large motor skills, but they are also helpful for children's social development.
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    Help build your children's understanding of wildlife with toys designed to hold bugs. Bug toys allow your children to capture a piece of outdoor life and observe it without harming the bug inside. Bug viewers teach respect for outdoor creatures and introduce children to science.
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    Select outdoor toys and activities that focus on analyzing the night sky. Constellation play sets and children's telescopes feed curiosity about the moon, stars and galaxy.
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    Make your sidewalk into a canvas with outdoor chalk. Purchase outdoor chalk to bring out your child's inner artist.
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    Play with sand toys in the sandbox or the beach. Sand buckets and shovels allow kids to build castles with sand and dig for treasure.
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    Buy toys with wheels for an outdoor driveway activity. Select popular battery powered toys online.
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    Get help playing from the wind with toys that fly. From kites to battery powered flying machines, kids can learn about the sky and air travel through outdoor play.
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    Cool off with water toys. Help your children beat the heat with toy squirt guns, sprinklers, water balloons and other outdoor water toys.
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    Get kids running by chasing, throwing and kicking balls. Choose several varieties for different games including kickball, tag, bounce-ball and catch.



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