Toys and the Imagination

Toys and the Imagination

Toys are essential in the encouragement and formation of a child’s imagination. Montessori worked on the understanding that the play things if a child should encourage their own imagination to make real. This essentially means something should imitate and encourage without disrupting the imagination.

Wooden toys are the ideal for this form of play. Their lack of sound or light interference allows the child’s brain to relate its own effect to the toy, thus nurturing their own imaginative creativity.

It has been said that the deepest form of the imagination is found once a relationship has been formed. We believe that children should own toys which they can build a relationship with. A teether such as Sophie the Giraffe can become a child’s familiar and therefore its comforter. A doll can be his or her confident and a small pirate can relate to a child’s varied and magnificent stories.

By nurturing the imagination in our children we are encouraging freedom of thought, self found wrongs and rights and most of all, identity. Woodn’t it be lovely have a wonderful range of toys to encourage exactly this. Please have a look at our online shop and browse though our captivating products.


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