When you pick plastic toys for your children, you should take care if they are completely safe or suitable for your children. However, you can just follow the following simple three steps to choose the plastic toys.
First step: watch
You should first note the marked age range on the surface of the package. It is important to choose the toys based on your children’s ages. The complexity of the toys is different for the children at different ages. Moreover, children at different ages have different needs on the safety of the toys. The baby often put what they can get into the mouth; therefore, small toys are unsuitable for the baby at small age.
Besides the age and safety, you should also pay attention on the warning mark and warning instructions on the package of toy. Some instructions may have the professional advices that you never know. Last, you should choose the toys that are made from thick plastic materials.
Second step: touch
It is important to touch the toys with hand to find that whether the toys have burrs and sharp points just in case of hurting the surface of the baby’s skin.
The head of the sunken screw should not protrude on the surface of the toys. In addition, there should no gap between the plastic materials.
The toys with gear wheel and roller chain should have the function of avoiding the case that the children may put fingers into the toys.
Some parts on the plastic toys can be taken down. If you baby is less than three years old, you should make sure that the diameter of the parts should be longer than 31.75cm, which can prevent the children from swallowing them down.
Third step: test
After you are sure the toys are safe and suitable for your children, the last step is to test its functions. In addition, you should check that whether the non-removable parts on the toys are fixed well enough such as buttons, the eyeballs of the animals and so on.
The first thing that the parents should consider is the safety of the toys. The second thing we should consider is whether the toys are suitable for your children at their ages. You just can follow these three simple steps to choose toys for your children.