Play & Learning

Between 18 months and 2 ½ years, most toddlers start to experience a language explosion – with new words being learnt and spoken daily. As this happens, your little one’s imagination will kick in. Thoughts and words begin to create images and stories in your child’s mind. And with that, the most fun stage of play emerges – imaginary play. Imaginary and fantasy play is the way in which your toddler will practise social norms and role pay situations that may be stressful for him. This is critical for social and emotional development. Since this is such a critical stage, you should help to scaffold the development of imaginary play. Here are some ideas you can use to be prepared-ish to encourage...

As your baby approaches 18 to 24 months an amazing verbal phenomenon happens – your baby starts exploding with new words – literally learning significantly many (more than 10) new words daily. We call this the language explosion and during this time little ones go from using 20 individual words to hundreds of words combined in simple sentences (like “Where doggy” or “Mommy sad”). Your older toddler can understand almost all instructions and begins to learn concepts like number and colour too. It is always important to remember that little ones are all unique and develop at their own pace, so your little one may experience the language explosion a little later than other babies. If you are concerned...

According to the concept of “function pleasure” coined by the famous psychologist Karl Bühler (1879-1963), “children obtain pleasure through movement.” As the name winfun suggests, we want children to ‘win’ new skills while having ‘fun’. As one of the world’s leading providers of baby and kids products designed for different developmental phases, all winfun® products are designed to nurture development through play. The winfun® product development team includes a number of child psychologists and parents, committed to developing products for pre-school children that combine innovative features and fun for the whole family, and that encourage learning and healthy development through play, encouraging...