Vision Development Toys and Games
For 2-Year-Olds
With two color options, there are so many reasons that I love this toy that I just had to put it on here for 2-year-olds so your little one can get many years of play out of it. While I do encourage active play and play outdoors as much as possible, I was also the child who played pretend school and I don’t see any harm in facilitating the ideal of enjoyable learning and associating the table or desk as a fun place to play and learn with a great Action & Reaction component. Having said that, this table is also set up to have many interchangeable packs that cover various subjects and creative projects. I’ve listed my favorites below. All in all, I really believe this is a must-have for all your little ones to help them have an organized play and start relating that school is fun!
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If there is one thing that our children really need to learn about it is our bodies and everything about them! The majority of the health conditions in the United States costing the country the most are actually preventable with lifestyle choices. In my humble opinion, our anatomy and physiology just are NOT taught in enough detail in school so anything that draws attention to "how WE work" is always a winning toy or book :-)
How fun is this one?! This is a great skill Building toy and encourages creativity as the gears can be moved and rearranged. Specific skills worked on include; fine motor, visual form constancy, visual discrimination, visual closure (seeing how the parts are going to need to fit when one is missing), and visual form constancy. This toy is also a favorite as it has a great Action & Reaction component to it. This requires your little one to move items and interact with the toy to get a fun response from it and thus has a great Action and Reaction component. I really do love this one
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This is a great multi-use toy for promoting fun mobility. The great thing about this push and sit toy is that it can really be enjoyed long before your little one is walking. Because the sides are covered with fun interactive elements, your little one can sit right next to this and play with it or work on their balancing skills and sit on it while you push them around. When their legs are long enough, they can sit and “scoot” themselves along. And obviously, when they are learning to walk, this has really great stability with a longer base to help them on their walking journey.
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Again, as I do sports vision training, I do get a bit biased for sports-related toys, but this one really is great. I love that they creatively made this toy with so many little things to engage and interact with. If your little one isn't standing yet, there are things down low to play with and the height will draw their attention up to their superior field and get them opening up their awareness. Plus, who doesn't love the eye-foot aspect of kicking the goals! There really aren't many toys that engage kicking in a fun and hopefully controlled way - and yes I say "hopefully" because I know my little Alison can get a bit crazy dancing, jumping, and spinning on her feet.
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If you want to get the kiddos getting physical without breaking the bank, then this jungle gym is the way to go. I was always a very active child and I remember when the ideas of having mini ball pits in your house came about. While I never did get my indoor ball pit, it is really nice that they’ve made this interactive toys so much more affordable. This gym, of course, has much more than my dreamt about ball pit and includes game built into it to work on gross motor skills. This is certainly going to be taking up our indoor patio as soon as our little one is able to enjoy it.
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Of all the toys my 2 year old, Alison has, she will drop everything sometimes and look for her "color pen" to do nothing but color these. These have to be one of the best things to keep in your purse or even just sitting on the coffee table. You fill the little bottle with water and it works as a pen revealing the colors on the reusable pages with no mess at all. And as you read before, these are amazingly portable. The skills include visual-motor integration and visual discrimination and these have a great Action & Reaction component. These are a must-have for travel and every parent will thank you many times over for these little life-savers.
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