Safe and Non-Toxic Toys for Infants
Baby experts all agree that the practice of giving toys to babies is very conducive for its physical and mental development. This is because for infants, the only time for accelerated learning is playtime. Their playpen is their school.
For developing muscles and bones, toys are indispensable tools:
The first things that nature attends to building up during infancy are the internal organs, the muscular tissue and the skeletal framework of the baby’s body. For this purpose, the infant needs to have all the nutrients that those organs require for growth. To accelerate the process, giving baby the tools (toys) for gaining full control of his use of muscles and bones will be necessary.
The minds of young infants have not reached a stage of development where it can invent its own ways of training and stimulating the muscles and bones of the child. Instead, nature has given babies an overwhelmingly inquisitive nature such that they are prone to investigate and manipulate everything that they can see and reach in their effort to adjust themselves to their environment. It is this instinct that makes toys very conducive for infant learning
The right shape and size to look for:
Contours that can harm the infant are definitely not appropriate for toys. Included in these are protrusions which are pointed and edges which are sharp. The toy’s outline should also not be angular or pointed. It is best to confine your selection to toys with rounded shapes..
Hoop toys and rattlers, spherical or circular toys are safe for babies. Just make sure they do not contain designs that have sharp edges. Box shapes are dubious choices, especially if boxes with sharp corners.
Safety considerations about coloring substances:
The materials used for coloring toys should also be one of your selection criteria. Firstly, avoid dyes or paints that have toxic chemicals in them. While this kind of toy is new, the paint may be invisibly exuding toxic discharges into the air. You should also remember that babies love to lick at and put things into their mouths. Some coloring substances are also flammable, Even if you wouldn’t think of leaving a candle lit in baby’s room, there are unpredictable accidents that happen every day in the world.
Before purchasing any toy, you need to know from the vendor what sort of paint was used on the toy. Do not purchase if your vendor does not know. Look for something somewhere else or another person in the same store who knows. Choose toys painted with water-based dyes as these are the ones which are not poisonous and non-flammable.
Latex paint or mild paint are organic and non-toxic coloring substances.
What are latex paints?
Latex (which is really the sap of certain trees) is the binder that is used in latex paints. Binders fix the dye on the surface that was painted. In nature, the sap is not poisonous. When dried, it is not flammable. Therefore toys painted with latex are safe for babies., within normal usage.
What are milk paints?
An even safer option for toy paint is milk paint. Milk is actually part of the mixture that constitutes the binder for this type of paint. The other ingredients are lime and clay. The pigments used for milk paint are ‘green’ ones.
Of course, you have to be sure that the baby is allergic neither to latex nor to milk.
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