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This is the way children play with Maxamec!

Studies of children playing it in many different environments tell us that. We know it not only creates a lot of joy for the moment but it is a long lasting challenge and possibility for a growing child over the years to come. The main reason is that Maxamec fits into most of the play forms, the first exploring month of joy onwards to a nearly teen-ager developed play of hobby character.

 

One year of age

Children normally try their first steps by this age. It is a mile-stone in the child’s development. This ability provides them lots of joy and enables them further quick progress. A walker is a very useful thing that enables the child to practice on its own, something that enhances its self esteem. Maxamec walker can be recycled into more handy toys once a child walks. Toys that can further develop it to new achievements and motor skills.

Two years of age

Children of this age love to crawl and move by low build wheel vehicles. With Maxamec the parents and elder brothers and sisters can build a broad variety of different models that meets the demands of a child’s need of function and variation. And for a child’s play with soft dolls and animals there are a “limitless” number of possibilities with both vehicles and different furniture; dolls carts, cars, aeroplanes, houses and prams- all suitable for the little Teddy. It is also a great fun to the parents to be able to participate and create the toys their child play with.

The birth of an “Einstein”

Small children often prefer to disassemble things. It is not due to any built in desire to destroy but a sense for exploring the world. As soon as a child is able to disassemble a Maxamec nut, it is soon able to tighten one and to assemble a toy on its own too. First of all it is training its fine motorical skill. Soon the full brain is participating in the play and the child starts to build. It is not only building with Maxamec parts, it builds something much greater in its own brain. Its fantasy, creativity, logical and mathematical sense are challenged for new achievements and starts to develop on the child’s own premises, simple and joyful. Build or construction play can start even at the age of four and go on for many years as long as it finds it meaningful. A twelve year child often is more consumed than ever by creating new designs and innovations. The simplicity of the building material is the great challenge.

 

Limitless play

Children in the pre-school age are members of a fantasy world. Here as in our dreams there are no boundaries for what can be possible. In fantasy play games, low realistic toys do function best due to the fact that they can be many things. Maxamec provides a broad spec of requisite for the play that quickly can be reshaped to fit as the play takes on a new path. A shuttle can be a U-boat in no time. This U-boat transforms into a barn and on to a circus and so on. Children of pre-school age have further greater joy by Maxamec in their movement play games as they can enjoy wheels in all circumstances; additional to cars, scooters and aeroplanes an assortment of constructions, named only by the children.

Maxamec role play games

Everything does not have to move on wheels to be fun. To build ones own furniture and then make use of it is something for a child that Maxamec brings. A puppet show that enables a child to act via the dolls as he discreetly watches his audience without being seen by the audience. Who does not want to be a ruler on its self made throne or captain on its own ship? Maxamec has the advantage to present realistic enough models in spite of its simplicity when it comes to right illusory role-play game gadgets.

The play turns to hobby

Older children have the greatest challenge in Maxamec as they create new models out of their own brain. In spite of the simplicity of the parts quite complicated structures can be developed. How to use the newly made model is sometime of lesser concern, the way is the goal. A hobby is under way.

Maxamec unites

Children can build together in a common project. The parts are sizable and the children have space enough, they enjoy being able to cooperate. Older children like to build models together that can be played by the younger. Girls and boys build together, Maxamec tears down boundaries between ages and sex

 

 

 

 

 

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