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Encouraging Creativity in Children
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Tori Schladen
Family Resource Project Center
for the Partially Sighted

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First Toys
Introduce color, shape and texture exploration.
Next Toys
Build on experience and familiarity.
Later Toys
Provide more complex play experiences that promote development.
Manipulative toys enhance emerging skills and provide opportunities to learn problem solving and self entertainment. Addresses children's special needs by offering a variety of special needs toys to stimulate the senses in ways that enhance development. Developmental play involves cognitive, fine motor, gross motor, creative and imaginative play experiences and build problem solving and social skills. These child development toys are arranged by primary classifications.
First Toys Blocks & Building Distraction Music
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Impulse Toys Sound and Light Active Play
Texture Creative Pursuits
Communications Imaginative Play

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