Once your child hits one, there are a lot of milestones they will hit. This will be the year of a lot of firsts! They’ll start walking, talking, and exploring on their own. This is the year that they’ll be unstoppable, wanting to discover everything, wanting to do everything on their own. This is a great year to build your child’s focus, their fine and gross motor skills, their awareness of the world about them. It is also the year when your child learns to be independent and develops routines that will lay the foundation for the rest of their lives.
This is the reason that children love toys and tools that allow them to feel capable, and enough and maybe, even a little bit like a grown up. Toys and tools with a scope for pretend play, toys and tools that make everyday more approachable and easier to understand for them.
And House of Zizi has just the perfect products that fit this developmental need in your child’s life. Starting with:
Child sized Household items
Child sized items are great for promoting a healthy mealtime routine, while also honing a child’s hand-eye coordination and developing muscle movement. We have a child size Chakla-Belan, a Mortar Pestle, Wooden Knife and Whisk as offerings, that make the perfect tools for your little one to exercise their imagination and pretend to play a chef, a scientist, a baker.
These accessories go a long way, improving a child’s muscle development in the initial few years and then helping them weave new stories and hone new skills.
Sensory Tray
If you’re a parent not convinced about the multifaceted benefits of sensory play then let me quickly enlist them. First, it engages all your child’s senses at once, touch, sight, sound, smell and taste, increasing their awareness of the world but also teaching them (very subtly) cause and effect. Teaching them that when they pop a bubble wrap, they hear a slight pop to that when they play with slime, it makes their hands slippery.
It also is a very engaging and fun way to improve muscle strength, (pouring, scooping and crawling through the textures improves fine and gross motor skills) and hand-eye coordination. My favorite thing about messy play though is how it helps almost all babies unwind, it helps them calm down. It has meditative effects in that way.
That done, the House of Zizi Sensory Tray is the ideal product to include in your child’s everyday exploration of the world around them. It’s a big tray that comes with 6 smaller trays to be used for sorting. These are easy to clean and maintain, great for containing the mess (as best as possible) and can be used to engage your child for hours on end.
Sandpit
Here’s another tool that will make a great garden accessory as well as the perfect tool to engage your child and his/her friends for hours. A sandpit is a very versatile product, great for building and engaging young, creative minds, amazing for planning a treasure hunt to keep the busy bees involved. It also makes for a great, ready-to-dig-in sensory activity.
Wooden Blocks
Blocks are toys that have been passed down generations and for good reason, their open endedness allows children to play freely, with zero rules and again engage for long hours!
This delightful toy will be another great and versatile addition to your child’s collection. It can be used to build, stack, knock down, and it builds focus, imagination, creativity and patience!
This set includes a total of 105 blocks in 5 different sizes, which together fit into a large tray.
So be sure to try these House of Zizi products which are such classic items that your child is sure to enjoy for a long time. And not only that, all House of Zizi products are eco-friendly, made with mango wood, making them durable as well as sustainable.