Stacking and sorting toys will get the nimble fingers of your children busy. It will require their full focus and concentration as well which can help develop their thinking skills. Moreover, the entertainment they will get from building towers and knocking them down is quite priceless.

Your child would want to play with sorting and stacking toys over and over again the more they have fun with them. The best way to make them enjoy it even more is by joining in on the fun. Take turning turns building and creating various structures, and give them the pleasure of demolishing them, and start over again!

Sorting toys with different categories allow kids to match objects to their purposes. This means that they are beginning to understand the world around them and their place in it.

Aside from these, here are the most notable benefits your child will get from these activities.

Fine Motor Skills Development

Motor skills refer to the movement coordination of the smaller muscles in our hands. It is essential for younger children to develop and master these skills for daily activities such as picking things up between their fingers, writing, eating, and all other little things they do every day. Simply picking up various shapes from the Hape 1-2-3 Shape Sorter, turning them over, and then fitting them to their corresponding holes can help promote these skills.

Visual and Spatial Perception

Stacking toys also aid in profundity perception and improving hand-eye coordination of kids. As they place each piece on top of another, they will have to figure out visually where each piece should be placed in accordance with the other pieces on the puzzle.

For younger children, the Qtoys Rainbow Nesting Blocks is a good nesting toy to start. The pieces of this sorting toy sit and lock with the other pieces, and its design offers plenty of guidance in the visual perception's early stages. On the other hand, Qtoys Tree Blocks Counting Set and other similar building blocks strengthen the skills of older kids. Sets like this one require kids to have graded pressure and control as they try to balance the pieces on top of the other to ensure they will not fall.

Improvement of Problem-Solving Skills

All toddlers get excited when they are faced with obstacles and challenges. They will try their best to seek out a solution to the problems or hurdles. This skill plays a significant role in your child's independence, confidence, and success in the future. Toys like the Qtoys Apple Path Finder encourages kids to think logically and laterally to determine the solution to the puzzle. Logical and lateral thinking is a skill that children are all born with.

Shape sorter toys like the Hape Colour and Shape Sorter is also a useful means to sharpen the problem-solving skills of your child. When he tries to fit a square shape to a triangle hole, and it doesn't fit, he will stop trying to fit it in and moves on to a different hole until he finds the right one.

Shapes and Colour Familiarization

HapeShake 'n' Match Shape Sorter and other shape sorting toys will help your toddler learn about shape names, their differences, and properties. He will learn the distinction between a circle and a square or a triangle from a rectangle. Most of these toys come in vibrant colours, thus making them great for introducing to different colours and their names. There are also shape sorters where kids can learn about various sizes.

Moreover, you can also use these toys to teach your toddler about basic mathematical skills such as the number of sides, as well as angles. The basis of early math skills are the understanding of shapes, patterns, sizes, and the ability to count.

Creative Play with Sorting and Stacking Toys

Children always think outside of the box, so there's certainly no one way of playing with these toys. It is essential to encourage them to find alternative ways on how to use whatever they have. Let them come up with different types of game with the different pieces of the set, and let them create stories around the structures they have built.

These activities are exploratory and will be helpful in fostering both their creativity and cognitive skills. Here are some ways on how to present them with creative play using their sorting and stacking toys:

• Provide Options. The easiest to stack and sort are traditional play cubes, however, make sure to let your toddler play with objects that are smaller. Toys with various sizes and shapes will provide them with unique challenges allowing them to create different structures.
• Speed Stacking. Once your little one gets the hang of stacking, level it up by making games out from it. You may try challenging your kid by playing against him or competing to beat whoever sets the best time of stacking all the blocks without toppling their tower.
• Let them Play with their Peers. It is essential in children's development to enhance their social skills. Once they are able to take part in more involved playtime, it will be easier and enjoyable for them to play with other kids their age. Provide your children with plenty of chances to share their toy set and watch as they build different structures with their friends.