With the arrival of a child in the world around him, he constantly learns, and his very relatives and friends should do everything in their power to help him. A large role in the development of the child can be played by playing a developing mat for children, which will be useful for kids aged 0 to 6 years. Next, we will look at how a developing mat for a child will help him learn to distinguish between sounds, colors, recognize various objects to the touch and start talking and walking.
What is a rug with developing arcs?
Such a developing accessory for babies consists of the rug on which the child will lie (and then sit, crawl, walk). The rug can take the form of a square, a rhombus, an oval, but more often a rectangle. Above it are fixed arcs, on which various toys are located. They can glow and make different sounds (sing or talk) when you touch them. Such mats for children can have different prices, which will depend on the size, the number of functions and the quality of the accessory itself.
Developing mat Tiny Love (Tiny love)
Firm Tini Love is a brand-name toy company. The game mats of this firm are focused on a certain age of the child, so when choosing this should be taken into account. Let's see now what functions the mat can perform:
- From 0 to 6 months, the baby is enough to look at and feel the toys that are attached to the arches, with the child either lying on the back, or turning on its side.
- From 6 to 10 months, the developing mat should teach, and then help the baby crawl. In such a rug the surface should be not even, but bumpy, and colored toys should be placed mainly on the rug, and not on arcs.
- From 10 to 18 months the main goal of the game mat is to help the child learn how to walk and prevent the development of flat feet . Such mats have a corrugated rubber plane, walking along which helps to strengthen the muscles and ligaments of the shin and foot.
Developing mat Fisher Price
Fisher Price gaming mats are also a brand in the production of children's educational toys and are of high quality. Developing carpets of this company imitate various corners of the globe with the appropriate flora and fauna. For example, it can be a beautiful, bright green forest, Africa with giraffes and monkeys, sea with seaweed and fish. Such mats are designed for children of different ages. So, for babies from 0 to 3 months they are quite simple, because at this age the kid can only lie on the back, look at the toys and take them in the handle. From 4 months and for older children, the structure of the rug becomes more complicated, which helps start to sit down, crawl and walk earlier.
How to sew a developing mat yourself?
Many moms are sure that the best developing mat is one that they themselves made for their baby. It is impossible to say with certainty what is better, but undoubtedly, cheaper.
Thus, a game mat for children helps the child to know the world, develop visual, auditory, tactile and motor abilities. I want to emphasize that none of the modern educational toys can not replace his mother's attention.