Five Handcrafted Toys For Cognitive Development of Your Child

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Five Handcrafted Toys For Cognitive Development
of Your Child
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• If you are a young parent, you might have
  experienced that the needs of your child change
  rapidly as he or she is developing new skills
  everyday. However, it is important to be
  conscious of the products that we let our
  children use. As responsible individuals, we must
  start training our children from a tender age to
  adopt and choose products that are sustainable in
  nature. More often than not, this means that you
  will have to pick up handcrafted toys that are
  made using wood, natural dyes etc. It is also
  essential to choose toys that support the
  cognitive development of your child and are
  engaging and entertaining just the same.
• Toys have existed in India since the Indus Valley
  Civilisation. Since then, these simple playthings
  have evolved into what they are today. Toys and
  games are not only meant to entertain children
  but also to teach them how to develop their minds
  and boost their cognitive skills. Unlike the
  fancy and expensive toys available in the stores,
  traditional handcrafted Indian toys and games are
  simple and take their inspiration from nature.
  They are designed keeping in mind how a child
  would react to them and how it is applicable in
  real life.

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• Here are five interesting handcrafted toys, that
  you can buy from online Handicraft items for Home
  Decoration
• 1.Rattles and Dug Dugi
• This is one of the earliest toys that are
  introduced to a child. Among the many handicraft
  items online, you can find beautiful and
  colourful rattles designed for infants.
  Channapatna toys offer a wide array of rattles
  that are famous throughout the world. They are
  often vividly coloured and come with a bell in
  order to help a child use multiple sensory
  organs. Rattles are also great toys to help a
  child to learn the early lessons on holding on to
  items, grasping skills etc.
• A variant of the rattle is the Dug Dugi. The
  traditional versions of Dug Dugi are made of wood
  and leather. However, an improvised version is
  made of paper. Strings, with mud balls at the
  end, are attached to both sides. The core is then
  attached to a stick resembling a lollipop. When
  the stick is shaken left to right, the mud balls
  attached on either side to the string hits the
  core to produce sound.

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• 2. Dolls
• Traditional Indian dolls, unlike the dolls of
  today, were made of the simplest materials
  available from plant shoots and cloth to clay and
  sawdust, and then coated with bright paints.
  During olden days, dolls and toys were not just
  casual play materials but are connected to the
  social and religious rites of a community. In the
  northern part of India, Janmashtami Celebration
  of (birth of Lord Krishna)is relevant in its
  entirety by means of clay dolls. In the Southern
  part of India, the Dasara festival (A Celebration
  of goddess Durga) is called Bommai Kolu or Gombe
  Habba meaning the display of dolls.

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• 3. Bhatukli
• This is a miniature version of kitchen utensils
  and other household items that were scaled down
  to the finest detail. They were made of copper
  and brass and were played with by kids as they
  watched their mothers cook and their family
  members making use of day to day household items.
  Today, these miniature utensils provide us with a
  clear idea of what life was like in rural
  households.
• 4. Pachisi
• The Pachisi board was prepared from a cloth in a
  patchwork design. The four arms/limbs of the
  board were conjoined at the center called Char
  Koni and each arm of the Pachisi had three
  marked squares called castles. This game is a set
  of 12 beehive-shaped wooden pawns in colors of
  black, yellow, red, and green. The players threw
  cowrie shells on the Char Koni and the move of
  the pawns was determined by the number on the
  shells that fell with an open face. The goal of
  this game was to get all the four pawns,
  belonging to each player, to complete the round
  of the board as fast as possible.

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• Today, the Pachisi game has improvised versions
  called Ludo and American Parcheesi.
• 5. Pallanguli
• Pallanguli is believed to have its origins in the
  hindu holi book of Ramayana when it was created
  by Lord Rama for his wife Sita to pass her time
  in captivity of demon Ravana. The game starts
  with six seeds placed in each cup. The player
  starting first picks up the seeds from any of the
  holes and moves anti-clockwise to place one seed
  in each hole. If the player reaches the end of
  their cups, then he/she goes to the other side of
  the board. When the player drops the last seed
  he/she has, they take the seeds from the next cup
  and continue placing them in the same way. If the
  last seed falls into a cup with an empty cup
  following it, then the seeds present in the cup
  following the empty cup are captured by the
  player.
• Bringing up a child is a great responsibility,
  and ensuring that you are offering the best
  platform for your child to learn and develop is
  the aim of every parent.

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• The market is full of all kinds of toys for kids,
  and it is very important to choose the ones that
  are not only engaging but also help your child in
  their overall development. By choosing
  handcrafted toys that are made using sustainable
  material, you are also starting them early on the
  path of sustainability, which is an asset to the
  world both today and tomorrow. While Channapatna
  toys offer you toys like pull-along toys,
  stackable and rattles, there are other crafts
  like Rajasthani puppets, Bankura horses etc that
  are beautiful, enriched with traditional details
  and are a perfect companion for older kids.

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