Furnishing your baby with the right kind of toy to play with is very good for accelerating the growth of his body and his perception. For infants, the playground is the school ground and it is during their playtime that their mental and physical faculties are enhanced.

Toys are important tools for muscular and skeletal coordination and development

The first things that nature attends to building up during infancy are the internal organs, the muscular tissue and the skeletal framework of the baby’s body. For this purpose, the infant needs to have all the nutrients that those organs require for growth. To accelerate the process, giving baby the tools (toys) for gaining full control of his use of muscles and bones will be necessary.

The mental faculties of infants are not yet capable of inventing ways for them to willfully stimulate their growth. Instead of that, they are endowed with intensely inquisitive natures which lead them to touch, smell and manipulate everything they see and can reach. It is this ‘meddling’ nature of babies that we have to use to teach them the skills they need to learn.

The right shape to look for

Contours that can harm the infant are definitely not appropriate for toys. Included in these are protrusions which are pointed and edges which are sharp. The toy’s outline should also not be angular or pointed. It is best to confine your selection to toys with rounded shapes.

Hoop toys and rattlers, spherical or circular toys are safe for babies. Just make sure they do not contain designs that have sharp edges. Box shapes are dubious choices, especially if boxes with sharp corners.

Coloring substances that are safe for use with toys for babies

Carefully consider the paint that was used on the baby toy. Inorganic paints have chemical ingredients which, even after the paint has dried, continue to discharge harmful chemicals into the air for some time. Also, the fact that babies are prone to put things in their mouths or to lick on their toys makes inorganic paints an unsafe choice. Besides inorganic dyes, you also need to look out for flammable ones. In that regard, most inorganic dyes are flammable.

Before purchasing any toy, you need to know from the vendor what sort of paint was used on the toy. Do not purchase if your vendor does not know. Look for something somewhere else or another person in the same store who knows. Choose toys painted with water-based dyes as these are the ones which are not poisonous and non-flammable.

Latex paint or mild paint are organic and non-toxic coloring substances.

What are latex paints?

Latex (which is really the sap of certain trees) is the binder that is used in latex paints. Binders fix the dye on the surface that was painted. In nature, the sap is not poisonous. When dried, it is not flammable. Therefore toys painted with latex are safe for babies., within normal usage.

What are milk paints?

Your safest option for painted toys for babies are those which were colored with milk paint. The dye consists of nothing more toxic than milk pigments, substances derived from the earth and earth pigments.

Of course, you have to be sure that the baby is allergic neither to latex nor to milk.
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Author Bio: Bennetta Elliott is a writer for Personalized Gift Express, which offers baptism favors, personalized baptism gifts and baby baptism favors

Category: Parenting
Keywords: babies, toys, baby