With magnet toys, your child can playfully explore how to use magnetism

Magnetism is an impressive phenomenon. Metallic objects can move as if by magic. This is particularly impressive for children who do not yet know the physical processes behind it. With the help of magnetic toys, you can give your offspring access to physics at an early age. But even older children are impressed by magnetic games.

Magnet toys promote spatial thinking

Playing with magnetic toys has many positive learning effects for children:

• it promotes spatial thinking
• children can improve their fine motor skills and problem-solving skills
• patience and perseverance are promoted
• it can lay the foundation for an interest in physics and natural phenomena

However, parents should make sure that the game is adapted to the age of the child. If handling magnetic toys is still too complicated for the child, it will quickly become frustrated and lose interest.

Since magnetic toys - such as spheres or play dough - often contain small parts that can be easily swallowed, they are not suitable for girls and boys under the age of three. But also with older children, make sure that they do not put the magnets in their mouths.

You should be particularly careful with magnetic toys that are characterized by strong adhesive force - such as neodymium magnets. You should also not give them to older children, as skin can become trapped between the adhesive surfaces. This is sometimes very painful.

Magnetic toys for young and old

The magnet game Magformers is already suitable for small children. The construction set consists of different shapes and toy magnet building blocks. The contained pentagons, squares, rectangles, and triangles can be put together to form different figures, for example:

• houses
• balls
• cubides
• animals
• cars

Your children can be creative and create many exciting shapes. Another big advantage is that the level of difficulty automatically increases with age. As he grows, your little one will try to build more difficult figures with the magnet toy. The game never gets boring.

Our tangram cube is also suitable for big and small inventors. Children can use it to construct new shapes repeatedly. This can sometimes be quite tricky. The cube is therefore also suitable as a magnet toy for adults. Since it contains no small parts and only weaker magnets are used, the cube as a magnetic toy is also safe for small children.

Would you like to improve your aiming accuracy? Then you should look at our magnetic dartboard. An advantage of this is that the associated arrows have no tips and are therefore harmless. Even your walls will not be affected if an arrow lands next to the target. The magnetic arrows leave no holes, unsightly stains or the like.

Magnetic clay - The malleable magnetic toy

If you are looking for maximum flexible and versatile magnetic toys, we recommend our intelligent magnetic super clay. The dough can be shaped into any shape - whether it is formed into a ball, flattened, or curled. There are almost no limits to creativity here. The highlight is that the clay reacts to magnetic surfaces. So, it sticks to surfaces or can simply swallow smaller parts.

But be careful: Here also, the modeling clay is not suitable for small children, as they can easily swallow the malleable mass and, in the worst case, choke on it. We therefore recommend only making the malleable magnet toy accessible to children aged 6 and over.

Conclusion: Magnetic toys are suitable for (almost) all age groups

Playing with magnets is useful for all age groups but is not suitable for children under the age of three. On the one hand, if present, they can swallow small parts. On the other hand, manual dexterity is usually not developed enough at this age. Otherwise magnetic games are suitable for everyone:

• kindergarten children can improve their fine motor skills
• older girls and boys can put more and more complicated figures together
• adults also enjoy shaping and trying things out

Magnetic toys are not only great fun, but they can also train your child's skills and stimulate their scientific interest.