Funda Toys

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We are a manufacturer of developmental and conscious play tools that assist to unlock children’s full potential through incidental and open-ended play, using discovery and tools that are developmentally appropriate.

11/03/2023

Our trainer knife is far easier to cut with, motor skills wise, than the handled knives that often come standard in these fruit cutting kits. Your toddler will gain more control and master a new skill in an age appropriate way while feeling success. Once they have mastered this skill they are able to move on to the handled knives with ease.

Our knives are R220 a set and we ship Nationwide 🇿🇦💪🏽.

02/02/2023

Blocks are one of the best tools to encourage holistic development at every stage of early childhood.

Blocks are open-ended and encourage imaginative play and problem solving. Children explore fundamental concepts of mathematics and physics. The different shapes encourage shape recognition. Children are able to sort the blocks, classify, construct and participate in visual play, all of which aid cognitive development. Block play also encourages social and language development through cooperative play and collaboration.

Funda Toys sensory blocks add another dimension to play with primary coloured perspex in the centre. Through incidental play, children learn about colour, and as the light shines through the blocks, the colours mix and form secondary colours. This lays the foundation for learning about the colour wheel and colour mixing.

30/01/2023

Cast light shadows on the wall at night, using our Sensory Blocks and a torch/light.

Make moving pictures or constructed towers, what ever you choose you're sure in for some fun!

We have our last set of Sensory Blocks available before we discontinue production, so now's your time.

DM to order, we ship Nationwide 🇿🇦💪🏽.

26/01/2023

The developmental aspects of cooking with young children.

Social-Affective Development:
Hands on cooking activities help children develop confidence and new skills. Following recipes encourages children to be self directed and independent, it also teaches children to follow directions and develop problem-solving skills.

Physical Development:
Fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills are developed through chopping and slicing. It trains dexterity in children’s hands at a young age.

Cognitive Development:
Cooking encourages children’s thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. It also allows children the opportunity to use the knowledge they have and apply it by counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect.

Language Development:
Cooking offers the opportunity to develop language by linking it to all other areas, including Mathematics, Science, Arts, and Literacy. This is done by encouraging children to talk about what they are doing, counting, and watching materials change color, texture, and medium.

Our Beech wood Child Safe-knives cost R220 and we deliver Nationwide 🇿🇦💪🏽. DM to enquire.

25/01/2023

Why high contrast cards?

Babies are compelled to look at high contrast images, especially from birth to +-14 weeks old and up to 6 months.

Babies not only love to look at high-contrast black and white patterns, but it is also incredibly conducive to their visual development. The high contrast distinctively stands out in their blurry worlds. They find the high contrast patterns attractive and it grabs their attention, helping them focus. They find the contrasted images with simple lines and bold patterns easier to interpret and it supports different areas of development, for instance:

Cognitive development - It develops and lengthens their attention span, improves memory and stimulates the development of the optic nerves, without over-stimulating them.

Newborns’ brains contain very little myelin. This is the reason babies process information at a slower rate than adults. Most areas of the brain begin adding myelin in the first 2 years of life in the areas that receive the first input from the senses (visual input).

High Contrast images assist the physical development of the baby in the following manner:
-Visual Development:
Bold black-and-white images stimulate the development of the optic nerves. Focusing on such visual stimuli trains newborns’ vision, teaching the eye muscles and brain to coordinate and function optimally. If you continuously provide opportunities for visual input the retina strengthens, the optic nerve grows, and the visual part of a baby’s brain thrives and develops significantly.

-Enhancing tracking abilities:
Tracking is when a baby moves their eyes to follow an object. Tracking helps your baby to learn where an object is in space and how it differs from its background so that they can reach for it.

-Muscle development:
Through tummy time your babies’ neck, back, and chest muscles develop, preparing them to hold their neck up and eventually for rolling.

We will discuss the benefits of high contrast cards on the affective development of your baby in our next post.

17/01/2023

From birth, babies use their eyes to discover the wonders of their surroundings. Even before they learn to reach and grab for objects with their hands, their eyes are the tools being used to take in information about, and stimulation from, their environment. This is incredibly important for their development, holistically.

At birth, babies are unable to focus very far, they can only see objects clearly that are about 20-30 cm away from their face (the first three high contrast cards are perfect for this period, these are the butterfly, the tiger stripes and the bull's-eye).

Bold black-and-white images stimulate the development of the optic nerves. Focusing on such visual stimuli trains newborns’ vision, teaching the eye muscles and brain to coordinate and function together. Consequently, research has proven that black and white contrasts register powerfully on a baby's retina and send the strongest visual signals to a baby’s brain.

We offer a set of 6 High Contrast Cards that have been specially and specifically designed to meet your babies visual development needs for the first 4 months of their life. Get in touch to order for R180 a set.

12/01/2023

Enjoy our Baby Domes, designed to give your baby a year of play!

From birth The Baby Dome can be a safe and secure space for your baby to exercise their visual development using our high contrast cards that are positioned on adjustable arms to keep the cards about 20cm from your babies head (and further away as they develop). Your baby can enjoy tummy time, learn to grab objects and learn cause and effect using danglies.

Get in touch to order, you can get a Baby Dome for R1000, including delivery to anywhere in South Africa.

03/01/2023

Happy Twenty-plenty-three!

We hope you have had a slow, family filled time with the opportunity to nurture your nervous systems, be present with your kids and recharge!

And if not...

We see and feel you, mama! You are doing a frikkin great job and we want to thank you for all the space you hold for your loved ones. You are seen and appreciated!

Funda Toys is going through a change this year! We will be discontinuing certain items and bringing in a bunch of new items. We are open again on the 10th of Jan and we look forward to sharing our new journey with you!

Thank you for walking this journey with us!

20/12/2022

We wish you all a happy festive season.

Remember less is more!

15/12/2022

Our Child-Safe Knife |
.. Is not just for in the kitchen.

Use it in clay, playdough, slime or any sensory play.

It's on special until tomorrow for R200!

DM to order.

06/12/2022

Come and find our Baby Domes and High Contrast Cards at the Made in the Cape artisan market Gift Fair in Noordhoek, Cape Town from the 8th to the 11th December.

We hope to see you there 😉

01/12/2022

Friends who chop together stay together 😜

Shop the perfect stocking filler, a child safe cutting knife! Enjoy years of meal preps together.

R220

Address

NOORDHOEK
Cape Town
7975

Website

http://www.fundatoys.co.za/

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