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Activities such as what color it is can help kids explore there inner creativity and help them understand what each color is and what that color portrays to. And it can boost I kids imagination.

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Having a dog can actually help with a child's emotions like development of empathy, emotion regulation, enhancement of self-esteem and reducing feelings of loneliness.

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Going to a library can strengthen a kids social skills by talking to others while they are reading a book or when they need help trying to find a book the child can ask for help.

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Dancing can help a kid improve physical health like higher self-esteem and feel more energetic, confident, and happier than those who are inactive. And dancing helps kids strengthens their lungs and muscles.

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Playing tag helps children communicate and be social with groups of children, they have to get a group of kids and ask them to play . and it also teaches children about taking turns

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Blankets are a great way for a child to learn how to self soothe to fall asleep or carry it around through out the day because it is a comfort item.

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puzzles help children learn there intellectual skills by teaching the young child how to match up shapes and colors. This is great for young toddlers.

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Playing dress up helps just children use there gross and fine motor skills. They learn how step into there clothes using gross motor skills and they also have to grab the clothes to step into the costume using fine motor skills.

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a kid cooking is a great physical thing to do to help their gross motor skills when they mix and their fine motor skills picking up things and doing thing while cooking also bettering the hand eye cordination

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this toy will let kids know their colors and let them go into their imagination and create anything they want

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a parent gives there kid a stuffed animal and they carry it everywhere they go because it comforts them when they are upset

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being on a sports team as you are younger will help you be more social with people and will help to do things together so this will  create better social skills

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kids can exercise in all different kinds of ways, and they can also social with other kids. 

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painting can be a way of having your child express their creativity.

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bonding with other kids can help with their social skills. 

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having a blanket, can be an attachment as you grow up.

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Reading/looking at book is a great way for kids to learn to share, communicate, and play together. They can read or look at picture books together and learn to take turns.

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An activity table is a good way for children to relieve stress. When a child is overwhelmed with emotion going and playing at this table can help them and focus them on other things.

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A white noise machine is a way to help young kids deal with all the new emotions they are feeling. This noise helps them to calm down when they are upset, on overload, or if they are having difficulty falling/staying asleep.

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Doing a scavenger hunt with others can make the kids interact with one another, and help each other out. This is showing social skills because they will communicate to find the clues.

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Jumping on a trampoline can be a physical skill because children are jumping and helps with the muscles in the legs and makes them stronger.

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This game helps to socialize with other people because not only are you having fun and laughing you're well, twisted around each other.

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Publication date

1966

Genre(s)

Physical skill game

Age range

6+

Twister is a game of physical skill produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves. It is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground. The mat has six rows of large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, green, and blue. A spinner is attached to a square board and is used to determine where the player has to put their hand or foot. The spinner is divided into four labeled sections: left foot, right foot, left hand, and right hand. Each of those four sections are divided into the four colors (red, yellow, green, and blue). After spinning, the combination is called (for example: "right hand yellow") and players must move their matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct color. The game promotes itself as "the game that ties you up in knots".

There is also Blindfolded Twister, a variant where there are four different tactile symbols on the mat, and the players are blindfolded and have to find a circle with the named symbol by feeling.

In a two-player game, no two people can have a hand or foot on the same circle; the rules are different for more players. Due to the scarcity of colored circles, players will often be required to put themselves in unlikely or precarious positions, eventually causing someone to fall. A person is eliminated when they fall or when their elbow or knee touches the mat.

In 1964, Reyn Guyer owned and managed a design company which made in-store displays for Fortune 500 companies. While working on designing a promotion for his client, the S.C. Johnson Company, his son, Reyn Jr., developed the idea that a game could utilize people as playing pieces on a life-sized board. His first attempt he called "Kings Footsie", but when he showed it to the 3M Company, who had a line of up-scale board games, they rejected the idea.

Charles Foley was a respected and successful toy designer for Lakeside Industries in Minneapolis and answered an ad for an experienced toy designer by Reynolds Guyer Sr. of Guyer Company. Foley interviewed with Reyn Guyer Sr. and his son, Reyn, who were interested in product development within the toy business. After interviewing Foley, Guyer and his son discussed the possibility of starting a small division of the company in product development. His father agreed, for a short term, to support his son's idea for product development, and hired Foley, who negotiated a royalty agreement with Guyer Company for all games and toy items designed by Foley. Guyer Company agreed, and officially hired Foley. Foley hired Neil Rabens, an accomplished product design artist with an art degree from the Minneapolis School of Art and Design.

The game ideas ranged from small kids' games to word games for adults. Foley had an idea for utilizing people as a part of the game idea, "a party game". Rabens had the idea to utilize a colored mat, allowing people to interact with each other, in a game idea he had developed while a student in design school. Foley saw the idea and developed the concept for having the colored dots line up in rows, and, with a spinner, created the idea for calling out players' hands and feet to the colored dots called out from the spinner. This would create a tangled-up situation between two people, and the one that falls first would lose.

With the support of Reyn Guyer Sr. and his son, Charles Foley and Neil Rabens submitted for patents (US Pat# 3,454,279) and trademark rights for what was originally called "Pretzel". Foley, with his extensive experience in the toy industry, called on his good friend, Mel Taft, Sr. V.P. for Milton Bradley in 1966, for a product idea presentation. Milton Bradley embraced the idea for the "Pretzel" game but renamed the game "Twister".

Twister became a success when actress Eva Gabor played it with Johnny Carson on television's The Tonight Show on May 3, 1966. However, in its success, it was also controversial. The company that produced it, Milton Bradley, was accused by its competitors of selling "sex in a box". That accusation is speculated to be because it was the first popular American game to use human bodies as playing pieces.

In 1985, Hasbro acquired the Milton Bradley Company, becoming Twister's parent company. The Reyn Guyer Creative Group continues to work closely with Hasbro to develop and market new additions to the line of Twister products.

Co-inventor Charles Foley died on July 1, 2013 at the age of 82.

Phenomenon

Twister, much like its counterpart the hula hoop, was one of the many toy fad phenomena that came about in the second half of the 20th century. Microsoft Encarta labels Twister as being an "industry phenomenon" that "briefly captures the public's imagination, and sells in the millions". Being one of the earliest toy fads and a "national craze for a short time," Twister was a game that was able to bring all age groups together, whether children or adults. Twister, being both globally spread and highly popular, is unlike other games of its stature in the sense that it is accepted by all social classes. In an article by Peterson and Simkus, they state, "While the evidence of the first half of this century suggests strong links between social status and cultural taste, there is growing evidence that there is no longer a one-to-one correspondence between taste and status group membership in advanced postindustrial societies like the United States."

Since its release, many active participants have tried and succeeded in setting records for the most contestants in a game, and the largest combined amount of Twister game mats. The World's Largest Twister Mat was put together on June 18, 2010 in Belchertown, MA on the Belchertown High School football field. Over 2500 students and staff at the Belchertown School District participated in the event. It consisted of 1008 Twister mats donated by Hasbro and measured 244.7 feet X 99.10 feet for 24,156 square feet (2,244.2 m ²). The purpose of the record breaking Twister Mat was to kick off a fundraising drive for Jessica's Boundless Playground.

The previous record, as cited by the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest game of Twister included 4,699 square feet (436.6 m ²) of mats that were combined together. Prior to that, the largest game was played in the Netherlands in April 2005 with 2,453 square feet (227.9 m ²) of mats. The record for the largest number of contestants in a game of Twister was once bestowed in 1987 with 4,160 contestants tangling themselves at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. However, this 1987 Amherst claim was later disqualified upon evidence of officiating inconsistencies. As a result, the category of "Most Contestants" was temporarily banned from the Guinness Book.

Robert Bucci, a determined Engineering student at Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech), successfully entreated Guinness World Records to reinstate the category in 1992 by providing a comprehensively documented event plan prior to their subsequent world record setting event during the 1992 S AA/SF National Convention at Stone Mountain, Georgia.

There are publicly available instructions on how to alter a Twister game to make it accessible to color-blind individuals and to completely blind individuals.

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Publication date 1966 Genre(s) Physical skill game Age range 6+ Twister is a game of physical skill produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves. It is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor or ground.

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school can be a social place for kids. It helps them make friends and learn how to communicate.

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These weighted stuffed animals can be good for when a child is upset. The weight will make it feel like someone is hugging them. They will feel comfort when they snuggle it. This is good to calm the child down, or when the child does not feel comfort at any time

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Magnetic building blocks are a great way for kids to learn intellectual skills, while still having fun and using their creativity. These blocks let kids use their imagination and creativity, and use problem solving to connect different colored shapes.

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Playing bean bag toss helps physically with fine and gross motor skills. As you need to throw the bean bag into the hole using your arm and wrist. Grab the beanbag using your fingers. And go over to take them back out of the hole to try again

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Playing in a playground with other children can help a child be more social. They may talk to other kids to try and make friends, play together and do what each other like by communicating.

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stuffed animals can help kids when they get scared or just need some comort

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These can help calm a baby when their throwing a fit, tired and fighting it, or just upset. They are like a little calming distraction and lights and music also help to keep the baby calm and happy.

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A bike can help with gross motter and fine motter skill. With moving the bite with your feet you would have to use your feet.

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Tug of war helps kids communicate as a group and learn to work together.

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Playing with this alphabet wooden puzzle can help the child practice their intellectual skills because they need to know what the alphabet is in order to place them where they need to go.

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This helps kids think and observe to find certain items in a book and there also a lot of fun!

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Seek and find books can be a lot of fun to share with your kids. The fun story lines and shared reading experience make them a great option for reading together. Check out this list

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Playing soccer could help activate kids social skills because in a sport you have to communicate with your teammates and work together.

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learning blocks help a kid learn about letters and animals.

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Puzzles can help a kid talk to others and use their skills to figure out where the peaces go plus they can share with the other kids

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Children most often play together on plaugrounds. They use their imagination a lot during this time. Games like house, tag, and several others are played with other chuldred druing this time. Therefore, this fits under all catagories and would also fit under social.

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Stuffed animals help comfort kids with all kinds of emotions and teach them that stuffed animals can help comfort when upset.

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A comfort blanket can help a child with their emotional skills because it makes your child feel safe and loved with something comforting like the blanket.

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Playing dress up with friends is good way to practice the social point of pies. Sharing and expressing yourself are big points in playing dress up. As well with sharing different costumes or accessories with other kids.

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Children around preschool age can play with little cars like these to help with gross motor skills. Not only does the child have to use their legs to move the toy car, but they also have to use their hands to steer.

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Kids playing dress up/costumes is a great way to explore a sense of style, and how to dress themselves. This also effects the social well being too, because they are playing with other kids that are dressing up too!

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Playing with this toy could make kids happy because it lights up and does different things which can enlighten their mood and cheer them up if they are sad.

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These bulding blocks can help them put things on top of each other and help them learn their ABC'S for kindergarden.

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Stuffed animals are a good emotional toy. Children learn to hold and carry them which helps them be coumforted. This will help the child learn to control their emotions on their own.

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This can help a child identify colors and know how colors are different. It is also important because they then develop their descriptive language skills.

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They can play with barbies, and socialize by talking, while pretending to be the barbies.

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Playing with clay or playdo makes kids think about what shapes or colors they want to use for designs.

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An example of an emotional item would be a stuffed animal. The stuffed animal could help the child express his/her emotions, and also help control their emotions.

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A great way for children to explore social skills is to be in public areas such as a park/playground. This can work on many of the PIES skills, but for the social portion, the children may encounter new people that they will learn to interact with.

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A reason why a blanket could be an emotional item is because if they are nervous or overwhelmed the child could have it as a comfort item and snuggle it.

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A trampoline is great for some physical exercise. Its fun for kids and helps strengthens the core.

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Jenga uses fine motor skills to try to slowly take out the blocks so it doesn't fall.

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They can use a stuffed animal as an emotional support animal. They could also use it as a self-soothing toy.

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These wooden puzzles help childern try to figure out where each pice goes. This activity also will practice their fine motor skills. Therefore this wooden puzzle is intellectual.

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Cooking with help from parents can help kids invoke intellectual skills because they are learning what ingredients are used to make certain foods, learn the different colors, and have to count while measuring ingredients.

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This bike can help kids use their gross motor skills by moving their legs to get the bike to start going. This is physical because no matter what they have to keep pedaling to keep the bike going.

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This toy would be a great way for children dealing with emotional problems. They can fidget around with the toys, and they can also learn about emotions by the faces on the front.

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Using different things to create a "pumpkin" is a great way to get little kids to explore the different shapes and colors. And to see what they created once the project is finished.

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They can use building blocks to learn what categories and pictures are on the blocks. They can also use it memorize what the images look like.

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This is a great toy for intellectual development. It trains their brain to understand numerical order, what that number is, and matching colors.

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Children can stack and put together these legos with their fingers. This task will help the childs' fine motor skills.

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Playing with toy cars can help a child practice fine and gross motor skills because they can run and crawl with the cars and use their fine motor skills to make the car drive while their pushing it.

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School is were most kids make friends and maybe even lifelong friends. School brings you to be around a lot of people and not all kids are going to like each other, but the closest friends are made from school, kids can use their social skills by making friends at school, or answering a question in class.

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Playing with number and letter blocks can be very helpful to kids intellectually. As they are fun to stack and make towers with they can also be used to practice spelling as well as counting.

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Students can use a Xylophone to practice fine and gross motor skills. They can use fine motor skills by using the mallets to hit the Xylophone. They use gross motor skills to hold the Xylophone.

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Playing with blocks is a great way for preschoolers to use their fine motor skills. They use their fine motor skills by moving and playing the blocks with their fingers and also moving the wrists.

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Playing basketball can meet your physical needs because you are using your hands to dribble and shoot as well as moving your body to run.

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This toy is a great way for kids to practice their physical skills. The child must use their legs and arms (gross motor skills) to push and move the cart. And they would be using their fine motor skills to add/remove things from the inside of the cart.

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Teddy bears can help a kid calm down from emotional meltdowns, or can even help a kids happiness. But when a child has a sad moment, it feels good for their minds to hug a teddy bear. To a child, a teddy bear is like a real person in their minds.

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Childrens books are a great way to help children learn many new things. If a parent reads to their young child a lot, they will most likely be good with reading because they will learn many words at a young age from books.

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This toy would be a great way for toddlers to use physical skills. The child can bounce up and down by using their legs. This toy would be a great way for kids to get exercise in for the day.

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This toy is extremely helpful when a child is learning their emotions. It teaches them to hold which ever emotion they are feeling, while also giving them a comforting plushy.

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By playing with baby dolls, children are learning how to treat babies, while also learning what their basic needs are. This can also help them when dealing with their own needs.

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When children play on the playground there are often other children there. This makes for social interactions to happen, therefore building their social skills.

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An activity like putting shoelaces through the holes in shoes would be a perfect activity for little children to work on their fine motor skills.

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A large dollhouse like this one can be a great social activity to allow multiple children to play together at one time. This then teaches kids how to socially interact with one another as they play.

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A stuffed animal that has some form of comfort such as one that plays music/lullabies can provide preschool children with an item to regulate their emotions.

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Uno is a game that can be played either in a large or small group. It helps with social development because the children are actively interacting with one another.

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These number blocks utilize the child's intellectual skills because it teaches them to count and how to put numbers in the correct order.

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This play dough set can allow preschool age kids to utilize their fine motor skills. Fine motor skills will be used by the movement of hands and fingers to shape the play dough.

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Blowing bubbles is a good way to practice emotional regulation and allow children to improve their emotional development. This activity teaches children to take deep breaths, and the increase of oxygen to the brain helps the children calm down.

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Toys such as play kitchens can help kids develop social skills by getting the kids imagination active so they interact with each other.

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Play forts not only engage the kids, but force them to work together and agree. Simple things, such as, where to place a toy within the fort can cause disputes, which they would need to work out. It engages their social skills, together, they have to overcome obstacles, such as the fort falling down.

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playing the game of life helps children socialize by talking to others. While playing thsi game a child may also need to ask for help

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Playing on the playground not only can help practice physical skills, but also social skills. By playing with other kids they can practice what do do in certain situations, how to communicate with one another, and how to work together.

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Seek and find books are good for intellectual development because the children have to search, find, and differentiate between the various images shown. In addition, they have to sound out the words written on the bottom and determine what object corresponds to it.

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Fidget cubes offer children multiple different and stimulating surfaces. This can be used as a way to calm down and become distracted, instead of acting out. It is also good for children who struggle in social environments and need something to soothe them.

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Carebears are a great way to introduce comfort and introduces different emotions on each carebear as well.

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An Elmo stuffed animal can help a child emotionally because the child can express their emotions to the stuffed elmo. 

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A scavenger hunt in the room can be very social because you have to get up and walk around kids and ask for help.

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An example of social skills would be sports for young kids like T-ball. Sports allow children to communicate with each other while at the same time having to work together.

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Playing tag is a great Physical skill for children, it gets them moving. This is a great way to have fun with your friends.

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Reading Hop on Pop is intellectual because its teaching kids to read. The child would have to remember words that they have learned

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Listening to music can help emotionally because many people find it very calming when upset or angry.

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Memory is a game that could be played with any number of kids allowing them to all take turns and play together.

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Playing games such as jenga with a group of friends is a social game. This will bring teh children togeither, and interacting with one another. Wheather its comunicating where they should take the next block or simply asking one another questions.

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Using pictures and blocks can help with identifying pictures while learning what they say and how to spell each word.

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Wooden letter blocks allow children to build, while making words. They offer multiple colors, and letters that can assist in intellectual abilities.

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Playing hopscotch with friends is a great way to help children practice their social development. Hopscotch allows all kids to take turns and do it together.  