Toys are an essential part of every kid’s life. Apart from giving happiness and enjoyments, toys are also important for child development. Often children have the ability to turn any object into a toy. These objects can be something real such as a pot, a set of keys, a car, a doll or something which can be re-created into something different. These include clay, paint, play currency, and so on. These type of toys help children to develop imagination, to make decisions, to enhance creativity, and to spend their time in constructive ways. Here are some of the essential skills that kids develop with toys.

Motor Skills
Toys improve motor skills of children by engaging them in physical activities. Toys help kids to balance and coordinate well. The various activities also give a good opportunity for kids to remain physically active. Toys encourage babies to move their arms and hands and help them build their gripping strength.

Emotional Development
Toys help children to express their emotions by donning various roles while playing with dolls. They can create and imagine situations such as playing house, a day at the farm, or a visit to their favorite place. They invent an imaginative world that helps them to develop emotions, to make them capable of creating rules on their own, which also help in emotional maturity.

Social Development
Social development is important in everyone’s life and toys develop skills such as respect, cooperation, and sharing in kids. Children interact with adults and other children of their age with the help of toys which it helps them to understand the world around them. Toys help children to learn and to negotiate. Moreover, toys teach them to categorize and how to organize in a better way.

Cognitive Development
Toys help to develop cognitive skills by increasing a child’s concentration and grasping power. Cognitive development is essential because it develops mathematical and language skills in a way which is fun and easy to understand for kids. These skills help them to solve problems creatively.

These skills can be easily developed but it is essential to pick the right toy. Toys should be selected based on a child’s age. It is important to consider various aspects while buying toys. These factors include safety, the material used to make the toys, skills that can be developed with a toy, and type of toy, etc. It is important to look out for safety hazards such as loose parts, small pieces or parts to avoid choking and sharp edges and broken pieces to avoid injury.