Useful Tips for Buying Plastic Toys for Children
Toys not only bring the children a lot of fun, but also enhance the intellectual development of children, parents buy toys first consideration is safety for the children, cannot let the children suffer the accidental injury in playing. On the market today, there are many plastic toys, divided into the dynamic toys and the static toys. The dynamic toys are mostly the inertia plastic cars, electric cars, electric doll, clockwork toys etc., and static toys such as blocks, puzzles, animals, action figures, or cartoon dolls, children's kitchen, and household appliances. These toys are light weight, colorful, very attractive to children. So parents can refer to the following three steps in buying plastic toys for children.
First, you should see the age range on the package. Choose toys that suitable for your baby's age stage. Toys suitable for children of different age stages usually have different complexity, for the need of children intellectual development at different age stages. Besides, the toy requirement of safety is different for different age children.
Besides, you should pay attention to the warning signs or warning on the package instructions. For example, the flying toy like kites, are not allowed to play in place having wire head over or the nearby.
Carefully read the product operating manual. Note that whether the thin plastic toy bag has small holes. Select toys made of relatively thick plastic material.
Second, touch
Use hand to ouch the surface of the toy, and feel whether there is the burr and sharp edges, so as not to cut the skin when the children play.
The head of the countersunk head screws and other fasteners cannot be outstanding the outer surface of the toy. The flat head, round head wood screws should be countersunk. The plastic toy assembly should be close and fit, leaving no gaps.
The rotational parts of the toys (gear drive, chain drive), such as various types of toy car, its rotational parts should be covered close so that children will not put hands into and clamp fingers caught.
Some small parts can be taken down from plastic toys, such as small parts the doll holding in his hand or wearing on the body. For toys intended for children under 3 years old - these small parts diameter should be greater than 31.75mm, so that the children will not easily swallow and cause unnecessary harm. Check small parts, such as the buttons of the doll and animal eyes, toy car fixed accessories, etc. to see whether it has loose.
Finally, check the function of a variety of toys. Install the battery on the electric toys and listen to their sound, look at their lighting and check whether other actions are normal.
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