Almost in any modern yard there is a sandbox where children of all age very much like to potter. Games with sand are interesting and informative, and many kids are glad to sit in a sandbox for hours.
Pulls kids of all age to sand as a magnet. Even absolutely tiny children try to build something from wet sand, pour from a bowl into a bowl, sometimes even taste. To provide to the child even more fascinating pastime, many cheerful interesting toys for a sandbox are thought up. Both simple sovochka and buckets, and more difficult toys are presented in such variety that when choosing no wonder and to become puzzled.
How to choose toys for a sandbox
Safety – the main criterion on which purchase for the child has to be carried out. Scoops and molds, buckets and other toys have to be made of non-toxic material, not have keen edges and foreign smells.
Sand set which the bucket, a scoop, several molds, a rake and a sieve enters is considered good. That it will be more interesting to child to play in sand, than it is more in a set of details. It is convenient to have in set two scoops of the different size – with the fact that it is less, it is possible to fill with mold sand, to pour sand from one bowl into another, big – to fill sand in a bucket or a body of the truck. Toys have to be bright, not acid color, not irritating children's eyes. It has to be pleasant to child to look at them.
Toys for children of different age
When choosing toys for a sandbox it is necessary to pay attention to weight and volume of details in set. The toy, the more conveniently, especially is more lightweight if the child is small. Plastic should be chosen the fact that is stronger – blows it should sustain much. It is not necessary to choose a bucket of huge volume – the child can not cope with it. Small molds which will easily go in in a palm are suitable for children of ten-twelve months. It can be figures of animals which it is possible to recognize easily, geometrical figures, other clear objects. Except molds, it is good to get also such objects for the aid to development of the child as a watering can, a strainer for sand sifting, a rake. If kids play sand, for example, not in the yard, and on the seasonal dacha, such objects gain special value. Playing with the objects reminding certain tools, the child can imitate work of adults. Children with pleasure knead "dough" and "bake" pies from sand, carry machines or wheelchairs with cargo, lap in water. Children of more advanced age can get also the other toys intended for games with sand, like a mill, trucks, sifting machines.