3 Toys to Support Talking

Round up of my favourite toys to support speech & language development. Here are my picks for August.

Fisher Price Piggy Bank

This toy is a great one for children from 6 months up to early primary age! The ‘container play’ element of this toy (putting items in and out of containers) is fun and highly motivating. If you have read anything I have ever written you know I am all about making learning fun, so that box is ticked here!

While your little one plays with this toy there are so many opportunities to model language, concepts: colours, numbers; positional language: in, out, next to, under; action words: push, press, pick up.

This toy also lends itself to working on early social skills, turn taking & requesting (asking for the coins).

Magnetic Fishing Rod

Who said bath toys have to stay in the bath!?

This fishing game is designed for the bath but why not use them when your little one is engaging in water play, either in a tray table, or just fill a washing up bowl with water and place it on a towel and off you go!

To make this a communication-boosting activity you can do something silly while your little one is playing (the key here is to make communication irresistible!) so that might be covering the fish in bubbles, having your little one ‘catch’ your finger as opposed to the fish, making the fish dive into the water before your little one catches them. These silly moments create opportunities for communication to occur whether that’s them looking at you, smiling, laughing with you, commenting to you - it all counts!

Magnetic Emotions Game

This game is a lovely way to introduce the concepts of emotions to your little one. If they aren’t yet talking in sentences or find understanding longer instructions tricky, don’t worry too much about going full-on with this one but there is no harm in gently introducing the different feelings vocabulary.

I also like the idea of using this almost like a puzzle for really little ones, and just having them stick the magnets on, you can come back to the feelings words later!

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