This fun and interactive little train is perfectly sized for little hands, includes a SmartPoint™ location and two cargo cars with a block stack and rotating cargo for role-play fun. Young children playing with toys use their imagination to invent scenarios and play out the consequences. Olivia interacts with MagicPoint locations, showing her friendly personality through fun phrases, lights, melodies, songs and more.

Children can engage in imaginative play with other children where they have agreed on a story or scenario that they want to act out.Babies begin to learn about conversational turn-taking from an early age; if a baby is babbling the adult waits for a pause and then talks to the baby. Imaginative and social pretend play is beneficial for children as it allows them to explore different ways of viewing the world.

Press Eileen’s light up windscreen to hear her taik, and watch her cone light up as she plays sounds and music. Babies who handle shapes and also fit them through a hole are learning to solve problems through touch and sight. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. Lily interacts with MagicPoint locations, showing her friendly personality through fun phrases, lights, melodies, songs and more.interactive SmartPoint locations trigger fun responses when driven over and 6 interchangeable track pieces can be swapped into different combinations. During the first year of life infants’ visual development is rapid and they begin to identify objects through shape, colour and texture.

Mums and dads will love that this toy inspires imaginative and creative play, as well as develops your fine motor skills too. Includes cement mixer, dumper truck and bulldozer, each with their own fun phrases, sing-along songs and realistic sound effects. Place the Ice Cream Truck on the 3 SmartPoint® locations to trigger songs, melodies and flashing headlights. MagicPoints interact with characters showing their friendly personalities, fun phrases, motion, lights and more.Play set also includes a Toot-Toot Drivers fire engine with moveable ladder, 2 sing-along songs and 6 melodies. In a study where we observed children playing in a nursery we found that young children engaged in imaginative play, often using the toys in unexpected ways. The Toot-Toot Drivers Fire Station features lots of fun manipulative areas including spinning fire pole, slide with flip-down flames, open and close windows, spinning disk, launcher, pop-up fire, lift, alarm and swinging flag.