Category A — 32 Sub-categories — Toys for sensorimotor activities — First age
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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1 | 0 months+ | Rattles and rings |
2 | 4 months + | Teethers and teething rings |
3 | 0 months + | Mobiles, with or without sound – toys with miscellaneous figures and shapes to be mounted above the crib and intended to be out of the reach of the child |
4 | 2 months + | Crib gyms and playmats– mats with simple play features or activities; may include overhead structures that may have dangling objects intended for the child to reach, grasp or hit |
5 | 3 months + | Cradle and playpen toys – balls, characters attached to cribs, strollers or enclosures |
6 | 4 months + | Activity playboards– boards that are attached to the crib with various play features such as miscellaneous coloured shapes, shatterproof mirrors, spin- ners that rattle, buttons to push, parts that slide on guides, doors that open |
7 | 3 months + | Squeeze toys – constructed of soft material, with or without internal rattle or noise feature |
8 | 4 months + | Bath toys – animals, small boats and floating objects |
9 | 6 months + | Simple books made of textiles or plastic |
10 | 2 months + | Simple dolls and animals – soft-stuffed dolls and animals made of fabric or plush with or without clothes and fixed details which cannot be removed |
11 | 8 months + | Roly-poly toys, bop-punching toys and pop-up action toys – figures and animals that rock in a to-and-fro motion, made of rigid or inflatable plastic, jack in the box, push-down spinning toys |
12 | 8 months + | Books with thick (chunky) pages |
13 | 5 months + | Simple blocks, nesting toys, and stacking toys |
14 | 6 months + | Simple ball and track toys |
15 | 18 months + | Push-pull and rolling toys with cord or handle |
16 | 6 months + | Simple push/pull rolling toys (without cord or handle) which make sounds and / or have coloured lights – wheeled animals or vehicles |
17 | 18 months + | Wheelbarrows and other vehicles to fill up and empty |
18 | 12 months + | Boxes, tubs, buckets, and containers – to store toys |
19 | 3 months + | Cloth and similar soft material balls and geometric forms |
20 | 18 months + | Toys for sand and water – pails, small shovels, moulds to play with sand and water |
21 | 12 months + | Rocking animals and rocker chairs – size suitable for children to ride and rock |
22 | 12 months + | Push toys with a long handle that provides stability – corn popper, lawn mower |
23 | 9 months + | Learn to walk toys (walk behind) – wheeled unit with a solid base and han- dle to support the child in the early stages of walking |
24 | 12 months + | Self-standing foot to floor riding toys, trikes, without pedals – wheeled toys, vehicles without pedals that are propelled by the power provided by the child’s feet on the ground |
25 | 8 months + | Soft materials in various shapes for stacking |
26 | 12 months + | Sliding beads on a fixed loop or shaft – bead maze or frame |
27 | 12 months + | Shape sorters with miscellaneous shapes and colours– containers and vehicles with holes of different geometrical shapes that only allow parts to pass through the corresponding openings and to fall inside |
28 | 12 months + | Tool benches, pounding benches – toys simulating carpenter’s benches (strictly pounding toys at this age) |
29 | 12 months + | Mechanically and electrically operated toys – vehicles, dolls, animal char- acters etc. made of plastic, metal, fabric or plush, with motions powered by spring or battery |
30 | 4 months + | Balls or cylinders – clear material with visible contents |
31 | 0 months + | Musical boxes – toys to be mounted on or near a crib with handle or button for adult activation |
32 | 6 months + | Simple keyboards or hand-held toys with buttons that activate lights and sounds |
Category B — 23 Sub-categories — Toys for physical activities
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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33 | 2 years + | Pedal vehicles, kick scooters, walking bicycles, balance bikes – tricy- cles, wheeled toys, stable vehicles with pedals, small two wheeled bicycles without pedals powered by the child’s feet |
34 | 2 years + | Child sized electrical vehicles – battery powered vehicles to be driven by children |
35 | 3 years + | Toy bicycles – two-wheeled pedal bicycles with or without training/sup- porting wheels to provide stability |
36 | 6 years + | Skates, two-wheeled scooters and in-line roller skates |
37 | 3 years + | Roller skates (except in-line) – roller skates with wheels not positioned in linear (in-line) direction |
38 | 5 years + | Flying objects – kites, boomerangs, simple airplanes (with rubber band) |
39 | 3 years + | Soap bubbles – toys with accessories for blowing soap bubbles |
40 | 3 years + | Bowling, ―bocce‖-type games, ring toss games – plastic or wooden pin bowling sets, rings for throwing |
41 | 12 months + | Lightweight balls (plastic) |
42 | 3 years + | Toy versions of sporting equipment to imitate real sports versions – baseball, basketball, cricket, golf, shuttlecock, tennis, badminton, or beach racquets |
43 | 4 years + | Simple obstacle and hopscotch-type games |
44 | 3 years + | Games involving objects thrown at targets |
45 | 4 years + | Spinning tops without cord |
46 | 4 years + | Stilt walking (low height), hula hoops, rings to be balanced with a rod |
47 | 6 years + | Yo-yos and spinning tops with cord |
48 | 6 years + | Mini golf, cricket, billiards, table football, and other similar games |
49 | 5 years + | Jump rope |
50 | 7 years + | Electronic dancing mats – for learning dance steps and for following com- plex dance routines |
51 | 3 years + | Activity toys for indoor and outdoor domestic use – toboggans, sleds, swings with open seating, higher slides with more steps, climbers and see- saws |
52 | 2 years + | Activity toys for indoor or outdoor domestic use – swing with seats that surround the child and short slides with few steps for climbing |
53 | 3 years + | Aquatic toys – boards, inflatables (animal/character shapes, boats) |
54 | 2 years + | Wading or paddling pools (with adult supervision) |
55 | 3 years + | Simple electronic floor mats – for following patterns, making music, learn- ing simple dance routines |
Category C — 20 Sub-categories — Toys for intellectual activities
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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56 | 4 years + | Easy puzzles – 20 to 150 interlocking parts |
57 | 2 years + | Simple puzzles and plain-fitting parts – puzzles with up to 20 large parts that have smooth edges and fit together without interlocking, may have pegs for grasping shapes for fitting parts together on trays |
58 | 7 years + | Puzzles – 150 to 500 interlocking parts |
59 | 18 months + | Toy activity panels with fixed parts and turning gears activated by twisting motions or a crank |
60 | 18 months + | Simple building blocks with overlapping parts that may or may not interlock |
61 | 2 years + | Simple matching activities – matching activities based on shapes, colours, or pictures |
62 | 3 years + | Assembly, construction, or building sets – parts with different shapes with diversified fittings and fastenings |
63 | 2 years + | Building blocks that snap/fit together – large parts with defined pattern for construction/fastening/assembly that may include features or themes |
64 | 18 months + | Simple mechanical toys – inclined planes to slide objects, toys actuated by paddles, wheels, and other parts, using water and/or sand |
65 | 7 years + | Toys that involve or demonstrate elementary laws of physics |
66 | 8 years + | Experimental kits, scientific kits – chemistry sets, human body in detail, organic material kits, crystals, herbariums, microscopes, habitats |
67 | 4 years + | Question (images) and answer toys and games – picture matching |
68 | 2 years + | Educational toys – alphabet and simple number learning |
69 | 3 years + | Observation and reasoning toys and games – memory games, games of chance, board games without strategy |
70 | 5 years + | Time-learning games – clocks, calendars, and toys for providing notions of hours, days, and months |
71 | 3 years + | Educational toys – quantity, size, volume, weight, space, and shape notions, learning to tell time |
72 | 6 years + | Games involving spelling and numbers (usually individual player) – crossword puzzles, word finding, Sudoku |
73 | 4 years + | Logical and mathematical games – logical sequences, time sequences |
74 | 6 years + | Games with mathematical operations – including fractions |
75 | 2 years + | Computers, tablets, and hand-held games – computer devices for play, such as simple questions and answers type or matching games; also may be multi-lingual |
Category D — 12 Sub-categories — Toys that reproduce the technical world
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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76 | 5 years + | Functioning walkie-talkies and telephone sets for communication |
77 | 4 years + | Audio and audiovisual equipment with real functions – portable media, karaokes, and microphones |
78 | 5 years + | Home appliances with limited real function – sewing machine, popcorn popper, mixer, blender, ice-cream machine, cotton-candy machine, etc. NOTE: Not all functioning appliances may be appropriate at this age, particu- larly toys connected to mains electricity or with heating functions. |
79 | 5 years + | Detailed scale and/or more realistic vehicle replicas – include features such as doors, hood (bonnet) and trunk (boot) that open and close |
80 | 18 months + | Simple vehicle miniatures, without mechanisms – cars, trains, motorcy- cles, trucks, aircrafts, boats, and ships, and others |
81 | 3 years + | Mechanical and electrical vehicles which imitate adult versions (level of detail, proportional) – spring or battery-powered cars, trucks, aircraft, boats |
82 | 4 years + | Complex remote controlled vehicles with multi-direction and func- tionality– cars, trucks, boats moved by remote control, radio or infrared command, or other |
83 | 6 years + | Complex mechanical or electrical powered vehicles and machines – con- struction equipment, dump trucks, hoists/cranes |
84 | 6 years + | Tracks for electrical cars, trains and accessories – auto tracks, train tracks, sophisticated circuits, with or without accessories, such as platforms, tunnels, obstacles, scenery, vehicles, etc. |
85 | 3 years + | Non-powered vehicles and machines which imitate adult versions (level of detail, proportional) – trucks, aircraft, boats, simple and light, construct- ed from plastic or wood which may or may not travel on tracks |
86 | 3 years + | Simple transformable toys and objects – toys whose parts can be moved to transform them from one character or object into another |
87 | 3 years + | Robots with simple movements or controls |
Category E — 23 Sub-categories — Toys for the development of feelings and empathy
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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88 | 9 months + | Dolls, imaginary animal characters, with no removable components – dolls representing fictional characters, including animal or human forms |
89 | 2 years + | Lightweight dressed dolls, and dolls to dress (excluding fashion dolls) – moving eyes, articulated arms and legs, rooted hair similar to real hair, animated activities, such as crying, bodily functions, smiling or talking, with easy to dress clothing and accessories for imitating familiar activities (bottle, blanket, etc.) |
90 | 3 years + | Functioning strollers, cribs, and furniture for dolls which imitate real versions |
91 | 2 years + | Toy tableware, pots, and feeding accessories for dolls |
92 | 2 years + | Simple role playing toys – home appliances sized to the child, stoves, kitchen sets |
93 | 3 years + | Domestic appliances in a children’s size that are more realistic but with- out actual function – stove, sewing machine, pressing iron, blender, mixer, and other toy appliances |
94 | 2 years + | Audiovisual equipment that imitates real equipment – plastic versions that imitate radios, CD players, portable media players, telephones, cell phones, karaoke, and microphones which may have limited functions |
95 | 2 years + | Miniatures of simple characters – Animals, small soldiers, characters made of plastic such as zoo park, super-heroes, fantasy/fictional characters, and historical themes |
96 | 3 years + | Articulated figures with limited accessories – poseable characters with articulated limbs, moving head and simple mechanisms to simulate heroes, warriors, fictional or imaginative stories and battles |
97 | 12 months + | Imitation dashboard panels – controls imitating driving activities of cars, boats, airplanes or spaceships |
98 | 12 months + | Simple costumes and disguises – slip-on costumes without fasteners and with large openings for arms and legs; basic dress-up materials including hats, headscarves or other hair accessories and shoes |
99 | 2 years + | Costumes, dress up clothing and accessories imitating characters of leg- ends and tales – costumes sized to children with accessories such as masks, helmets, swords |
100 | 3 years + | Objects imitating home and professional activities – housekeeping ob- jects, carpenter and mechanic tools, physician and nurse instruments, police, firefighter and soldier objects such as helmets, tools, weapons and related accessories |
101 | 3 years + | Beauty care accessories for dolls – cosmetics, garments, clothing accesso- ries, high-heeled shoes, and small bags |
102 | 3 years + | Soft or rigid playhouse toys with accessories sized to the children – sales stands, post office |
103 | 2 years + | Soft and rigid structures in which the child can play – houses, caves, forts, tents, and tunnels |
104 | 3 years + | Play sets imitating urban and rural areas – commercial establishments, stores, banks, gas stations, parking lots, post offices, schools and classrooms, train and metro stations, hospital, airports, bus stations, zoo parks, Noah’s Ark, fruit and vegetable sales stands, towns, farms, and any other toys that imitate places and regions |
105 | 2 years + | Books – contain special features such as pop-ups, hidden pictures and dress-me |
106 | 2 years + | Themed mats for play – mats for playing on the floor with designs imitating towns with streets |
107 | 4 years + | Cards, stickers, and albums for collection – with play function |
108 | 3 years + | Doll houses and accessories – houses with multiple rooms and furniture imitating kitchen, bedroom, dining room, etc. |
109 | 3 years + | Fashion dolls and accessories – articulated fashion dolls and their fashion accessories and complements, such as furniture, personal belongings, sports equipment and others |
110 | 18 months + | Dolls for imitating care activities (bathing and feeding) – simple dolls imitating babies, without hair or with moulded hair, with painted eyes and without articulated arms and legs |
Category F — 21 Sub-categories — Toys for creative activities
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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111 | 5 years + | Pattern matching activities – geometrical parts or pins, made of wood or plastic, coloured, to form figures or images |
112 | 4 years + | Stamps with images of animals, characters, designs, alphabet, etc. for printing |
113 | 3 years + | Toys for creative activities – coloured paper, felt boards, or plastic sticks to form scenes or figures, parts with magnets to form play scenes |
114 | 3 years + | Body stickers or paints to be applied on the child – cosmetics, tattoos for skin, and stickers for fingernails |
115 | 6 years + | Crafts such as weaving looms, needle embroidery kits, or other sewing equipment |
116 | 3 years + | Insertion and tying toys and crafts – threading beads on yarn or string etc. |
117 | 4 years + | Perforated and cut out toys |
118 | 8 years + | Engraving and metal work in simple to complex detail |
119 | 6 years + | Clay and ceramic crafts for modelling |
120 | 7 years + | Folding crafts – origami |
121 | 8 years + | Mock-ups, technical models – aircrafts, boats, cars, and motorcycles with parts to assemble |
122 | 3 years + | Colouring and painting kits – detailed materials, stencils, and templates for artwork; large assortment of coloured crayons, pencils, thin-tipped felt mark- er pens, and watercolours |
123 | 2 years + | Colouring and painting materials – simple and limited assortment of mate- rials and templates for artwork; large (easy to grasp) crayons, chalk, broad- tipped felt marker pens, and finger paints |
124 | 4 years + | Painting sets with water-based paints – with brushes and accessories for paintwork or silk-screen |
125 | 4 years + | Drawing sets – toys with canvas and mats made of fabric, paper or plastic to draw, colour and/or erase, ―magic tracing‖ type toys, toys for reproduction and imitation of photocopies (pantographs), sets with writing boards, black- boards, or flip charts |
126 | 3 years + | Modelling (manual) and moulding (with moulds) –manual modelling and mouldingwith putty or dough moulds, utensils for working with model- lingputty |
127 | 5 years + | Moulding with plaster and modelling sands |
128 | 12 months + | Musical toys – simple musical instruments such as: pianos, guitars, drums, tambourines, horns, and others |
129 | 12 months + | Simple play sets – basic structure with three to five figures with limited detail |
130 | 4 years + | Electronic musical instruments – realistic and functional keyboards, elec- trical guitars, electronic drums |
131 | 3 years + | Puppets and simple theatres made of wood, plastic or fabric, with fixed eyes, and detachable accessories |
Category G — 15 Sub-categories — Toys for social relationships
# | Starting age | Description and examples of appropriate toys |
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132 | 4 years + | Simple card games – simple card games, card decks for family play |
133 | 7 years + | Social family games – games for several players, with predefined rules, whether or not requiring previous knowledge of miscellaneous subjects, from medium to difficult knowledge levels |
134 | 4 years + | Co-operative games – board games for teaching teamwork by emphasizing play rather than competition |
135 | 5 years + | Games of chance – dice, coin flipping, bingo, roulette |
136 | 4 years + | Table games with pathways – Table games with pathways to be travelled by using dice or spinners for indicating the number of moves |
137 | 4 years + | Social games for young children – with several players, involving a simple degree of difficulty |
138 | 5 years + | Ability and skill games – games for balancing parts, capturing, hitting the target, among others that require ability, and fast reaction |
139 | 4 years + | Electronic ability and skill games – videogames, hand-held videogames, toys that simulate real life by a virtual character (avatar) |
140 | 5 years + | Simple strategy and reasoning games – checkers, trading card games, dom- inoes, and similar |
141 | 6 years + | Games for strategy and reasoning – chess, table games that require strategy |
142 | 9 years + | Simulation, conquering, and role-playing games – RPG type and sim- ulation, conquering and acquisition games, where the players must make decisions by reviewing several situations and using individual strategies for conquering territories, acquiring assets or real estate properties, building towns, deciding on new positions for characters so as to transform the story |
143 | 7 years + | General knowledge games – games involving knowledge on miscellaneous subjects |
144 | 6 years + | Number and letter games (usually multiple players) – games requiring the creation of or the discovery of hidden words or numbers |
145 | 7 years + | Magic kits |
146 | 6 years + | Game collections – boxes with miscellaneous games |
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