Develop fine motor skills, logic, memory, teach the kid to distinguish the shapes and colors of objects - a sorter toy is capable of all this. If you decipher the name, it becomes clear that the main principle of games with a sorter is sorting.
What sort of sorters are there?
It can be said without exaggeration that the choice of sorters today is huge. In fact, this category includes any toy, consisting of the basis and details that can be sorted. Let's remember the pyramids or matryoshkas known to present parents - they are also sorters. A lot of toys of this category are based on threading the figures on the rod or on putting one into the other. But the most common modern toys sorters for kids are voluminous houses, mushrooms, cars, in which there are slits of various shapes for pushing the corresponding figures. Such a design can be a geometric sorter with figures and holes in the form of circles, ovals, squares and triangles, there may be a sorter with animals that repeats the outlines of fish, cats, males, etc.
At what age is the child interested in sorter?
Sorter can be an excellent gift already in a year, but besides the question of how old to get a sorter, it is important to ask what it should be like. Each age has its own toy, so sorters for children from the year usually consist of large, clear figures, and for children of three years already full of details, letters and numbers. The first sorter can be with prompts, for example, with figures tied on ropes to certain windows. Also, the sorter for the baby can be musical, the sounds that arise when the parts are positioned correctly, stimulate the child for further study. Of course, parents should understand that a child of any age can not be left alone on the first day with a new toy, first a joint game, tips and praise for
How to choose a sorter?
One of the criteria for choosing a sorter can be a material - there are wooden, plastic and even soft sorters for the smallest. Pay attention that the wood does not have a notch, so that the plastic does not have an unpleasant odor and that the soft sorter can be washed . When the model of the toy is chosen, take the time to test it. The slits must fully match the figures, the figures should easily pass through the holes, and it is extremely important that each individual figure can fit only into its window. If the child can push different shapes into one window, there will be no sense in the game.