Friday, December 17, 2010

Educational Toys For 10 Year Olds

Today we live in a good age because there are so many educational toys available, far more then previous decades. The growing interest of combining entertainment and education is on the rise. There are educational toys for any subject and interest your 10 year old boy or girl has. Developing a child's analytical, linguistic, and motor skills as early as possible will be highly beneficial for them in the long run. Some of us hated or disliked studying when we had to, but if we had some of the educational toys and games like today we might have taken a different more open approach to studying.

Kids would like to play sports, ride bikes, and play with their action figures or dolls most of the time, but just like in the adult world, work and studying has to be done. A great way to build a 10 year olds vocabulary is through word association games and verbal puzzles. When learning is put in game form it becomes more fun and interesting for young kids. typically, when young kids are having fun and are interested they will remember more of what they learned.

Learning math can be relatively boring for some children with many of us hating math as kids. Multiplication mosaics combines math with art. How so? When a correct answer is given the child fills in the chart and as they continue a mosaic of an object appear, thus, creating some type of art. Not only are they learning their multiplication tables but creating pictures at the same time. Not just multiplications can be used with this type of game but division as well.

For those future engineers a paper airplane making book would be ideal. Not only does it combine technical with artistic skills, but also give the young child to see what the efforts have created. For more detailed and difficult projects model airplanes, ships, and cars would be a challenge for any 10 year old. Do-it-yourself chemistry sets and rocket sets would be very valuable also.

Another game that promotes creative thinking and problem solving abilities are divide and spatial games. These games typically have images you must separate using sticks so each image has its own individual space, it sounds easier then it actually is.

If you would like to teach a 10 year old financial responsibility so they know money doesn't grow on trees there are games that can achieve this also. It is never too early to teach children how to budget and manage money.

this is the time when kids really start to know what they are interested in and it is important to nourish there education and creativity with the proper games and learning tools.

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