How to choose a designer for a girl?
The designer for many decades is considered perhaps the best developing toy for children of different ages. Initially, its beneficial effect was not considered obvious. Therefore, the models of designers produced focused mainly on boys.
Even today, a designer especially for a girl is a comparative rarity, but in the age of mass online shopping, finding the ideal option is not a problem. It remains only to choose a suitable set of children.
Why does a girl need a designer?
Some parents still believe that the designer is designed to give an idea of the construction and assembly of equipment. Because the girl is unlikely to be such an activity. At the same time, educators around the world insist that a superficial understanding of the device of a house or car is far from the maximum that a designer can give a child. The benefits of the assembly for boys and girls are the same; it consists of five points.
Improving fine motor skills
At the time of birth, the child can do almost nothing. And as he does not own his legs to walk, so hands or fingers can not yet perform complex actions. You need to train a lot to learn how to perform complex tasks with your hands. You can get skills with your fingers, thanks to the game with the designer.
Development of imagination and creative thinking
In a society, a person who can learn everything by heart is rightly valued above. The one who is able to come up with something new on their own is valuable, for example, a way out of a situation that seems to most hopeless to most people.
At school, such a student is able to get out of the lesson at the expense of her own logical reasoning, having only a superficial understanding of the topic being studied. But this skill also requires training. And the designer, allowing assembly of the most unexpected things from standard parts, very much contributes to this.
Mastering the concepts of shape and color
This advantage concerns the smallest children. You can ask your child to put aside only blue or round details to understand how he has mastered this concept. If not, you can fix it, because the baby is always interesting to deal with bright objects.
Teamwork and microclimate
The more complex the designer, the more help the child will need to assemble. In a kindergarten or school setting, peers can do this, in fact, potential friends. At home with the assembly can help parents.
Due to the jointly spent time, parents and children are getting better connected.
Harmless entertainment
The designer is interesting. Today, many children spend too much time on computers, smartphones and other gadgets that negatively affect vision and can give a dubious message. Playing with a designer can be a worthy competition to technology. At the same time it is harmless.
Criterias of choice
Contrary to the fact that many parents are not oriented in girl designers, manufacturers managed to create a fairly wide range of such products. This allows you to find the best option, but complicates the task of choice. In order not to be mistaken in the choice of the designer for the girl, you should check with a number of criteria. Consider the main aspects.
Universality of parts in a set
A gift may involve the assembly of one conditional castle with a princess. However, such a set pretty quickly get tired because of the monotony.It would be more logical to invest money in such a set, from which you can assemble a lot of different products.
Easy assembly and disassembly
Some manufacturers make their designers so unsuccessful that even an adult can find it difficult to connect or disconnect two bonded parts. For a small child, such a task is not at all feasible. It is clear that such a drawback will discourage the child from the desire to engage with the designer.
It is advisable to check before buying how simple the process will be from a physical point of view.
Required level of development
Even a smart baby in 3 years is difficult to assemble a model that has hundreds of parts. And vice versa, a girl of 10 years is unlikely to be interested in collecting a set for a child of 3 years, because the whole process will take a few minutes. Marking the age on the box is rather arbitrary, because all children develop at different speeds. If the discrepancy is obvious, such a designer should not be taken.
Hobbies
Even the most versatile designer has a specific direction, responding to the needs of the future owner. If parents want the gift to be liked by the girl and not idle in vain, you need to choose it taking into account the interests of the daughter. For example, a designer is considered a popular option, from which you can assemble a fairytale castle. Many parents consider such a decision to be the only possible option for a girl’s designer, but there are babes who like boyish games.
It happens that girls prefer puzzles, which can also be considered a designer, as well as a metal constructor with a screwdriver and a key. It is necessary to consider which of the toys the girl loves more, and only then choose.
Security
When buying children's products, it is important to check the quality certificates. In large stores, sellers are required to have them, buying toys on the market is risky. If possible, you should check the designer for the presence of unpleasant odors: they say about the low quality of the used raw materials or dye.
Colors
The number of colors does matter. For example, little girls like bright colors. Experts advise against avoiding acidic shades, since there are no such dyes in nature, and chemistry can be harmful to the baby's health. For children, the designer choose a bright, but with a relatively poor palette (5 colors are enough). Over time, you can diversify the palette of colors, add believable details to the set. For girls from 7 years and older there are no color restrictions.
Packaging
A constructor is a folding thing, if at least one part is lost, then it will not be possible to assemble a complete model. At the same time, the little girl will surely want to take her favorite toy with her or a kindergarten. Reliable and durable packaging will teach the child to keep his belongings in order, will help him to always have an adorable hobby at hand. Some manufacturers produce designers in plastic cases to solve this problem. Judging by the reviews, it is very convenient.
Manufacturers
It is not always possible to evaluate all the above criteria in advance. In such a situation, it remains to acquire a set at random or trust the reputation of a trusted manufacturer, which has been famous for many years for the quality of its products. To do this, you can pre-examine the reviews and ratings of manufacturers on the Internet. If you highlight the popular brands involved in the production of kits for girls, you should note the Danish (internationally popular) designer Lego, the American Magformers or the domestic brand "City of Masters".
For each age
Although each box should be written, for what age this designer is suitable, it does not allow parents to look at the entire range systematically. To do this, you need to understand what criteria a good designer must meet for each age group.
Clear
Some experts argue that the first types of designer you can buy a child from 6 months. However, it is better to wait at least 1.5-2 years. At this stage, the game will be at least primitive, but fully conscious. The parts should not be especially connected to each other, otherwise the child will not master them. Cubes, beads, pyramids, stickies - that's all that is worth buying.
Designer details for this age should be large enough so that they cannot be swallowed or shoved into the nose, ears.
Preschool
At this stage of development, the girl lives in the world of fairies and fairy tales, from the designer she already needs a certain plot that would carry her away. Do not expect a child of outstanding design skills. The kit should consist of a relatively small number of parts. Three-dimensional models may still be too complicated to assemble, but for puzzles it's time, although it is worth starting with relatively small pictures.
Primary School
At the age of 8-9 years, children sincerely believe in fairy tales, this remains the main theme of the games. The gameplay becomes more complex, includes more elements of fantasy. At this age, the child often imitates the behavior of adults during play. For this you need the necessary entourage. This implies that there are not only characters that can be controlled, but also various places where they could walk (at home, shop, park).
Toy vehicles and various household items would perfectly complement the game. Although the girl can make up for the absence of all these accessories with her own fantasy, it is much more interesting to play with visible things. So now the designer will be relevant, allowing you to assemble a real town. In this area, competitors have no Lego.
Adolescence and older
At this stage, the game gradually begins to fade into the background, giving way to a hobby. The girl may no longer be interested in playing with figures of princesses. But now she can collect the castle from Lego with pleasure, since this is an element of creativity, allowing you to relax, distract from problems and once again improve your own self-esteem. That modeling is considered the main motivation for the purchase of the designer. However, some girls may be interested in the electronic kit, which allows you to visually learn the basics of physics and electrics.
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