Types of children’s toys

Generally speaking, children's toys are designed and manufactured for specific age groups of children, and their characteristics are related to their age and intellectual stage. The use of children's toys is based on a certain level of adaptability. In China, the age limit for children is 14 years old.

As a children's toy, it has a crucial factor that it must be able to attract children's attention. This requires toys to have bright colors, rich sounds, and easy to operate characteristics. It is worth noting that due to the unstable period of children's continuous growth, they have different hobbies at different age stages and generally have a mentality of liking the new and hating the old. Therefore, children's toy stores should subdivide toys according to the age group of children, such as 0-3 years old, 3-7 years old, 7-10 years old, 10-14 years old, etc.

In terms of material, common children's toys include wooden toys, plastic toys, plastic toys, metal toys, plush toys, etc; In terms of its function, the most popular among parents is the development of intelligent toys.

Functional class

Puzzle toys: Improve children's cognitive, analytical, and imaginative abilities, and cultivate their sense of achievement.

Beach toys: Beach toys are cheap and are one of the advantageous toys for children to play outdoors. It can develop children's hands-on awareness, enhance their imagination and hands-on ability.

Game toys: On the basis of improving children's cognitive ability, cultivate their hands-on and brain skills, develop their thinking, exercise operational skills, and hand eye coordination abilities.

Numeric abacus text: While training children's embedding ability, practice large movements, train children's fine movements, inspire them to accurately understand shapes, numbers, and quantities, and then exercise muscle flexibility.

Tool class: mainly to help children understand and master the shapes, colors, and structures of various tools, and in this process, to train children's practical operation skills, hand eye coordination skills, and develop imagination.

Educational combination: Cultivate children's spatial imagination and meticulous hands-on skills, thereby deepening their rational understanding of time, animals, transportation, and the shape and color of houses. Building blocks: stimulate children's interest in hands-on activities, cultivate their awareness of rational combination and spatial imagination ability; Clever drag design exercises children's walking ability and encourages their sense of creative achievement.

Traffic toys: By improving children's awareness and understanding of the construction of trains, cars, and various engineering vehicles, training their ability to assemble, drag, and organize on these foundations, improving hands-on awareness and self-care skills, and understanding the transformation relationship between objects through assembly.

Dragging: To improve children's cognitive abilities, let them know the different characteristics of different dragging animals and exercise their ability to walk on a large scale.

Jigsaw toys: Composed of various shapes and rich content of jigsaw puzzles, children develop their ability to think independently based on their understanding of the combination, splitting, and reassembly of graphics, while also cultivating their patience and perseverance.

Cartoon dolls: When parents are busy, they need some entertainment toys to accompany children, and cute cartoon dolls are widely welcomed by children.

Market category

Chinese toy products include plush toys, plastic toys, paper toys, electronic toys, wooden toys, metal toys, leather toys, educational toys, early childhood education toys, fiberglass toys, children's cars, and other miscellaneous toys, among which plush toys and children's cars are the best-selling. There are mainly the following types:

Plush toy - it is a toy made of plush fabric and other textile materials as the main fabric, and filled with various fillers inside. The English name is plush toy. Plush toy has the characteristics of lifelike and lovely shape, soft touch, not afraid of extrusion, convenient cleaning, strong decoration, high safety, and wide application. Therefore, plush toys are great choices for children's toys, decorating houses, and giving as gifts.

Model toys - Electric model toys also attract children and adults, such as tank cars, cars with sirens, and so on. Although the prices of these toys are not cheap, especially electric toys, which are generally around 70-80 yuan, and some even reach as high as 700-800 yuan, their sales are good.

Remote control toys - toys with high-tech appearances such as electronic toys that emit sound and light, remote control toys, and interactive toys that can speak or perform a series of actions are all popular. There are nearly a hundred types of remote control toys sold on the market, mainly cars, ships, airplanes, etc. A remote-controlled car costs about 50-300 yuan per vehicle, a remote-controlled ship costs about 150-400 yuan, and a remote-controlled aircraft costs between 200-800 yuan.

Plastic toys - Plastic has replaced metal, wood, and ceramics as the main material for toy manufacturing due to its low cost, easy handling, safety, and lightness.

Children's toys have shifted from seasonal to seasonal bestsellers - in the past, parents only bought toys for their children during the Chinese New Year holiday. With the change in people's consumption concepts, children's toys have become popular products throughout the year.