Educational toys aid learning amid lockdown

This pandemic has been the most significant disruption to the educational system as children are unable to attend schools safely. However, this crisis doesn’t mean that children can’t continue to learn creatively at home, including educational toys. Parents across the world are coming up with different solutions to keep the children engaged. Educational toys are in trend for enlighten and engage kids while parents are busy with their work at home

 “According to India Toys Market Report 2021, The Indian toy market reached a value of $ 1.2 Billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.2% during 2021-2026.”

 There has been increase in the sale of toys as now parents have started realising the significant role of educational toys in their lives. Parents have been buying toys to keep their kids occupied, and this holiday season is likely to be a big one for the toy companies.

Here is a selection of six toys that will help children understand different cultures & challenges worldwide, while also inspiring them to be future role models.

1. Orboot Globe

PlayShifu, one of the fastest growing AR toy company has come up with Orboot Globe, an interactive Augmented Reality globe recommended for 4 – 12 years kids. This offers an interesting phygital experience where you can explore not only countries, their capitals, cities but also, their culture, monuments, animals & many more.

This globe comes up with a ‘passport’ that can be filled in and stamped when one is through with a particular country. It’s an addictive learning tool.

2. My Chemistry Lab

When kids are asked questions like, what they want to be in the future or what their aim in life is. We all have heard the most common answer – Scientist. This toy prepares a child to be a scientist by providing their science lab in a package. Find out various subjects of science like reactivity, blending while performing fun and safe test at home. It comes with all essential contraption and incorporates balloons, baking soda, beakers, droppers, Safety goggles, guidance manual, etc.

3. Kano

Kano is a PC kit specially designed for kids aged 6 & older, this kit is no less than a laptop which is designed for learning art, science along with the coding. Kano has hardware components and the kid needs to fit the parts to create a functional windows 10 tablet and this comes with a MicroSD Card slot & detachable keyboard.

4.  Mobile phone Toy Study

SaleOn has manufactured Mobile phone toys for kids who are fond of mobile phones and this educational mobile phone will help your youngster study & learn new words. Designed for kids between 2–6 years old, it helps in learning the alphabets with sound. Along with this, it has also a few inbuilt rhymes to help them learn new poems. It flashes light while pressing the button.

5. Plugo

Under PlayShifu’s (AR-based educational toy company) umbrella, there is a Plugo platform which consists of three games – Count, Letters, and Link. It starts with a count where you can set the level from Pre-K to Grade 5 and what you would like your child to learn. There are five story based games, with more than 250 puzzles and challenges. The game has reasoning bits and is suitable for developing a child’s brain.

This game also has the option of playing scribble by forming words. It helps with basic grammar concepts, again through story-based games.

6.  Sudoku Game

Sudoku number game is useful for the improvement of knowledge and exercises your sensible reasoning capacity. This game is for two children, downpouring their intelligent reasoning capacity & advancing the insight improvement for kids.  Use it to learn numbers, number–crunching, mathematical examples. There are guidelines, and you can pick the proper game level to play.