Buttons, doors and gears
⏱️ 10 min📦 things you have🏠 indoor🤲 sitting🧠 Cognitive🤸 Motor
Figuring out how toys with buttons, doors and gears work is problem-solving with the answer built into the object: press it, and it tells you. One mechanism explored to exhaustion teaches more than a shelf of things half-touched.
🧺 You need
- one object with a working mechanism and no accessible battery compartment
🛡️ 🚨 Nothing with an accessible battery compartment — coin and button batteries are among the most dangerous things a toddler can swallow, and "what does this open" is precisely the question they will ask of a small door. No mains cables, no anything that heats.
Source: ZeroToThree — From Baby to Big Kid: Month 18
🩺 Vuila shares play ideas, not medical advice — for questions about your child's development, talk to your pediatrician.
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