Most of our clothes have zippers, even on accessories like bags and purses. Most people might not think that a common accessory like a zipper can also be a great learning tool for a child just beginning to develop motor skills. Let's explore how to use the humble zipper as a learning toy for children.

Develop fine motor, coordination, and problem solving skills

In addition to its practical function, zippers can also help children develop fine motor skills. SBS zippers consider children's habits of using zippers, can provide children with a variety of large size zippers with large size pull head, so that children pull up or down zipper more easily. Use these zippers on the zipper board and make a fun toy. Or incorporate zippers into training shirts or vests so children can learn how to use zippers on clothing they wear.

In addition to developing fine motor skills, zipper play can help develop a child's hand-eye coordination and attention. When exploring the use of zipper, children often need to focus on grasping the pull head with their hands, pulling the pull head, paying attention to the direction of the pull chain, so as to realize the opening and closing of the zipper. In the early education practical ability class, children can learn the basic knowledge to solve the zipper problem. The teacher can put a small toy or snack behind a closed zipper and ask the child how to hold the toy or snack. Lead the child to understand how to open the zipper to get a prize. This is a good learning process, which can actively mobilize his attention and fine motor skills.

Zipper with independent capability

Teaching children how to dress themselves can be tricky and frustrating, but not if zipping up is a fun activity. Children can zip and unzip safely from the age of 3, so this is a good age to teach children how to dress themselves, such as having them try to zip their own clothes or teaching them to unzip their shoes after putting on a raincoat or shirt. You can start your child with the zipper board mentioned above. After training, this will make it easier for your child to pull up shoes and shirts. This will increase your child's confidence as well as autonomy.

The zipper serves as the initiator of alphabet learning

Kids learning the alphabet can use a zipper board that arranges the zippers in the letter Z. These boards can be used in the process of learning the alphabet, spell the corresponding letter shape on the zipper board, let the children touch and operate the zipper, deepen the impression of the letter, recognize the shape of the letter and learn to pronounce and spell the letter, in the game to achieve the purpose of learning, can make learning more interesting.

At SBS, we professionally manufacture all kinds of zippers, which can also be used as a perfect learning tool to develop children's fine motor skills, attention and even hand-eye coordination. Whether at home or at school, zippers with high quality precision construction, brilliant colors and waterproof fabrics will be great toys to develop children's abilities.