More Than Play
DINOROARS HATCHLINGS
ROAR! GRRRR! SQUAWK! Every child dreams of having a dinosaur of their very own. Now DINOROARS HATCHLINGS make that dream possible. With pats and squeezes, the Hatchlings come “alive,” moving their heads from side to side and roaring like real dinosaurs! These interactive toys are sure to get your child’s imagination going. He’ll have a blast playing with his prehistoric pet, thinking about how his Hatchling should behave, where he would like to live and how he would play with other Hatchlings.
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It’s More Than Play... This Toy Also Teaches:
Imagination
Conceptual Thinking
Language
Tactile Play
Bonding & Attachment
Cause & Effect
Fine Motor Skills
Imagination
What would happen if you took a dinosaur to the grocery store? Would it eat all the food? What if it went to a soccer game? Would it play along? Is the Hatching friendly or ferocious? Messy as a pig or neat as a pin? Because dinosaurs lived in an environment much different from the world we live in today, playing with the Hatchlings encourages imagination and creativity. As your child plays with each dinosaur, he is imagining how a dinosaur would move and speak, where a dinosaur would live and how it would interact with other Hatchlings. Imagination encourages children to initiate their own play and stimulate their own thinking. Imagination may also help children develop visual memory. Remembering experiences and developing visual memory are important when playing and reading. A strong imagination helps children write stories, solve problems and think “outside the box” when they get older.
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Conceptual Thinking
Playing with the Hatchlings, creatures from another time, helps children to develop initial understandings that time existed before they were born and that also there is a future. These concepts are abstract and difficult to grasp. However, playing with dinosaurs—creatures that lived in another time—helps a child to begin to understand the passage of time. When the seed is sown that there was life of a different kind roaming the earth, it helps children make sense of new realities and that another world exists outside of their own world. Understanding these concepts helps foster an inquiring mind—a mind that wants to learn more and maybe one day research other experiences both historical and maybe futuristic!
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Language
The Dinosaur world uses very different language than we do! Playing with the Hatchlings encourages children to make and explore new words, make up new words, make appropriate (and inappropriate) noises and assume the identities of his dinosaur pals! Mimicking the sound of these dynamic dinos will encourage children to make and explore the different sounds they could make. This experimentation is important, because processing sound is the beginnings of spelling. In order to spell, we teach children to break a word into sounds. To be able to do this, kids need to learn to sort auditory information. This begins when children hear and mimic sound.
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Tactile Play
Because the Hatchlings come “alive” when they are patted, they encourage your child to practice touching and feeling their fuzzy fur and distinctive dino features. Your child’s skin contains millions of sensory receptors, allowing him to learn about his world through texture and sensation. The experience of different textures on the skin sends information back to his brain. His brain remembers what the surface feels like and when he has that same feeling again, the brain finds it easier to understand, as the sensory information has already been recorded. This helps your child integrate sensory information. Tactile play allows children to learn about size, shape, texture and length—information that may help them as they develop a sense of their bodies and space.
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Bonding & Attachment
Even the scariest monster under the bed would have trouble standing up to a dynamic dinosaur! The DINOROARS HATCHLINGS can help your child feel safe and secure, and their soft skin makes them perfect for hugging! Attachment to people and playthings helps children feel loved and comfortable bonding with others. Attachment also teaches the understanding of responsibility and nurturing. A small companion like the Hatchlings helps children understand that other creatures need to be cared for. Positive attachments play an enormous part in developing the security a young child needs. Children learn best when they are in nonstressful, loving, positive environments.
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Cause & Effect
Touching and squeezing different spots on the Hatchlings makes them spring to life with different movements and sounds. Once children make this discovery, they are beginning to understand the concept of cause & effect. Children learn that if they do something (to the toy) that it will create a different and exciting result. Understanding cause & effect not only empowers children to control their play, it helps them learn how to figure out how lots of everyday objects work—from garden hoses to gumball machines!
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Fine Motor Skills
When your child picks his Hatchling up by its horn or pats it on the back, he’s developing his fine motor skills. These small, refined muscle movements are used to perform delicate tasks. In order to develop fine motor skills, children need to first master gross motor skills (big muscle movements), build strong finger muscles and experience lots of different surfaces and textures. Exposing children to lots of tactile sensations through sensory play can help prepare them to develop fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are the foundation for a number of future skills, such as holding pencils, paintbrushes, knives or forks.
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Learn more—together!
Want to join the fun? Playing with your child can boost his learning, and it gives him more time to bond with you! Try these simple tips to enhance your child’s play experience:
- Help your child make up a new name for each dinosaur. Are the names silly or serious?
- Talk about what kind of habitats dinosaurs would live in. Use cardboard boxes, pillows and blankets to make a new home for his prehistoric pal.
- Take a trip to the local library and find books on dinosaurs. Discuss differences between dinosaur species. Which dinosaurs ate meat and which ate plants? Which dinosaurs once lived where you live now? Which dinosaurs lived on land and which lived in the water?
- Talk about dinosaur size. Were dinosaurs bigger or smaller than you are? Were they taller than a basketball player? Were they taller than a school bus? How wide were they? Were they wider than a swimming pool? Use a string to measure and talk about length and width.
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