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What toys are needed in 4-6 months?
Last reviewed: 19.10.2021
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From three to six months, children are particularly lively in responding to new subjects. Familiar toys no longer cause much interest. A child of this age will be interested in cubes. Cubes should be such that the child can take them in the handle. They should not be heavy, papered with paper. The cubes should not be too small for the child to take them completely into the mouth, and if the cube is pasted with paper, it will quickly get rid of the saliva, as children always try everything on the tooth.
Children are very fond of "sounding" toys: various rattles and bells, which, when shaken and struck, ring. If you tie garlands of bells to the cot, the kid will touch them with a pen, listening to the melodic overflows.
Rattles are good because, on the one hand, they are convenient to take in the handle, on the other hand, it is very convenient to take them into the mouth (namely so long as the child learns the properties of objects), and on the third side they make sounds.
Children really like toys like "matryoshka" (a thing inside another object). For example, you can fill up colorful beads or buttons in a plastic bottle.
Beads roll, make sounds, you can watch them. The main condition for playing such a toy is to see if the cork is tightly tightened so that the child can not reach the small parts.
Very good puppet-dolls. By the age of six months the child already understands that if the toy is pushed, it starts to swing and make sounds.
As before, at this age, household items can be no less interesting toys: cups (plastic), spoons (metal and wooden), lids from pots, empty plastic bottles, colored paper. Especially like children rustling polyethylene bags. But we must remember that a child can accidentally put them on his head, and can not remove.
Do not leave your child alone with the bags! If the baby really likes to play, then observe the rules: the crabs should be clean, the paint should not be removed from them, and the bottom should be cut out.