Learning Games For Your Children Toy Building Sets And Card Games

There is something special about children and their toys. During my youth, I can’t recall a girl who didn’t own a Barbie or a boy who didn’t run about the garden wielding action figures to take over the world. LEGO sets were scattered all over the floors of every playroom I came into as a kid, including my own.

We would build amazing things with those LEGO sets; tall buildings for our Barbie doll or stuffed toys to live in, a store for them to shop in; the potential was only limited by our imaginations. While toys like these don’t perfectly fit into the category of educational toys, they have the ability to show children some valuable lessons.

Toys of all shapes and sizes and genres are important to children, even those that parents may not at first believe to be educational toys. This is as true today as it was 30 years ago when I sat playing strategy games with my sister. It is through play that children learn best, and they develop their imaginations and their critical thinking skills. While parents may think that only learning toys have the ability to teach a child anything, that would be a mistake. In essence, most toys are learning games when you realize that a child learns from free play. Read More