My daughter is going to start school this academic year, I am looking forward to her exploring life, and meeting a lot of little people her age. But until that starts, I still have a few months to entertain her. Whilst I was browsing flipkart for some books I came across ‘buttons’ by Miniland Educational, I have been looking for something like this, something to work her hand eye coordination.

I got her all excited before the delivery, and she really did enjoy it. This is one of those toys that enables your child to coordinate their eye movements and hand movements simultaneously, it’s a great exercise for vision too, especially if your child has any visual problems.

Here are some quick specifications:

Company: Miniland educational toys

Price: Rs.299 (on 40% off offer) The offer is still on

No. of pieces: 40

For ages: 3 to 6 years

Purchased from: Flipkart

Quality: Excellent

contents: The box comes with a pamphlet of their other toys

I have come across the beads and string, however I wanted something more interesting and versatile. And I am very happy with it. She likes it too.

What I liked most about this product is the quality of the strings, the string has aglets on it, usually these synthetic strings are difficult to maneuver into the hole because of their flimsy nature, especially for first timers. It’s a well thought after toy, also it came with cards that had patterns to copy. So once your child is used to the basic drawing of strings into the buttons, they can follow the patterns. This maintains the interest in the toy. Also the buttons are of four colours with varied numbers of holes, ranging from one to five holes. As a parent you can control the “difficulty” level too. My daughter for some reason found it insanely hilarious to draw strings through two holes!.

All in all this company has been a great find, maybe many of you have already discovered it, I am definitely looking forward to purchasing more such toys for my daughter.

This is also a great gift for someone, educational toys and books are always a great gift.

Tips: Let your child explore them on his/her own, let them make sense of the buttons and the strings. My daughter first organised them by colour as you can see in the picture above. You can learn a lot about your childs personality when you let them be and give them space to do what they want. Once they’ve acquainted themselves with all the contents, you can do a mini demonstration, and then let them try themselves, let them try 100 times if possible, don’t hold their hands, the whole aim is that the child does the coordinating. It requires a lot of patience, but trust me the feeling of achievement on the childs part is very important, you will enjoy his success, this builds self-esteem and confidence.

This company has great toys for kids who’re interested in science, I have browsed through some, it’s a fun way to keep your child interested in science or even build interest in it. You can check out more of their toys at Flipkart.

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