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Toy buying guide - 2 - 3
June 8, 2005 01:18 PM EST | Toys | Email to Friend
Older toddlers love testing their physical skills - jumping, climbing, and throwing - and enjoy toys for active play. This age group also possesses good hand and finger coordination and enjoys putting these skills to work with basic arts and crafts, puppets, blocks and simple puzzles. Imaginative play also begins in the third year.
Toy Suggestions:
- Balls (1 3/4 inches and larger)
- Backyard gym equipment (swing, small slide, small climbing apparatus)
- Building blocks and building systems
- Blocks with letters and numbers
- Wading pool/water toys
- Puzzles with knobs (whole-object pieces that fit into simple scenes)
- Dolls that can be bathed, fed and diapered
- Dress-up clothes and accessories
- Hand- and finger-puppets
- Kitchen equipment and gadgets
- Play household items (telephone, lawn mower, workbench, shopping cart)
- Non-toxic art supplies (crayons and coloring books, clay, finger-paints, sidewalk chalk)
- Child-sized table and chairs
- Play scenes (e.g., farm, airport) with figures and accessories
- Sandbox/sand toys
- Tricycle and helmet
- Play vehicles
- Wagon
- Shape sorters
- Playhouse
- Storybooks
- Stuffed animals
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