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Justification

This toy will support

development of the children
in the different domains, such
as:
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Imagination and
creativity: When the
children evolve their
imagination by playing a
several roles and
experiment with new
methods of doing things.
Based on that Vygotskys
said, Imaginative play is
a crucial component of a
child's (Sawyer, 2014).

Linguistic:
Children are active learners
and play gives them the
opportunity to evolve their
language through
communication with others.

Fine motor skills:

Piagets believes that
Motor skills are an
essential component of
development for children
(Henniger, 2010), So this
toy promote coordination
by simple movements of
the hands and fingers.

Social and emotional:

In this domain, children
can develop positive

References
-Bruce, T. (2011). Learning Through
Play. UK: British Library
Cataloguing .
-Henniger, M. (2010, Jul 20). The
Importance of Motor Skills.
Retrieved from
Education.com:
http://www.education.com/re
ference/article/importancemotor-skills/
-Sawyer, K. (2014, Oct 21).
Vygotsky on Collective
Creativity. Retrieved from
The Creativity Guru:
https://keithsawyer.wordpres
s.com/2014/10/21/vygotskyon-collective-creativity-2/

Features

Purpose

For clarifying, Stuart minion is

the toy that his head is ovalshaped in yellow color, it has
one eye, two yellow hands
with a black palm of the
hands and two blue legs with
black feet. Moreover, the
minion is in average weight
and not too big, so children
can carry with them
everywhere and play many
times with it.

In general, children of this

age will play with the toy in
numerous of ways to engage
in certain types of play. Based
on Parten, she classified 6
types of play but regards to
my toy I chose 3 types that
were suitable.

What is minion?

Age
Appropriateness

Regarding to children, I
created an creative, suitable
toy that named minion, I took
this funny, crazy character
from a classy animated
movie because it's famous in
these days, children loves it
and they never get bored of
watching him. Furthermore,
in this movie there are ten
minions and I chose Stuart
minion.

To promote the information,

this toy is for children who
are between 3 to 6 years old.
Create an appropriate play
environment is important for
children and I invented this
toy for this age ranges
because there are wonderful
opportunities for play. Like,
children get motivated and
supported by people they
spent time with them.

- Parallel play
plays
separately from others
whereas with toys that are
same as others.

For instance:
-Solitary play
children
play alone and there is little
interaction with others.

-Co-operative play
children play together with
sharing goals for their play.
The features of play for this
toy are, children can play
alone and with others,
children rehearse the future
in their role play, also
children pretend when they
play.