Quiet Books: A Fun Way to Reduce Your Child's Screen Exposure

Quiet Books, also known as busy books or activity books are educational toys that helps parents in reducing the screen exposure of their children. Usually made of felt or other fabric material, these books are washable, durable and can be passed down to younger siblings. Toddlers need to develop their fine motor skills and hone their hand-eye co-ordination. Toys are fantastic, books are cool; but quiet books or busy books merge the two to create an immersive experience for your child. 
These books provide hours of play along with learning.

Benefits in development:

• Coordination of small muscles, dexterity
• Coordinated control of eye movement with hand movement. - Eye-hand coordination
• Finding solutions
• Inventiveness/Reasoning skills
• Observation
• Visual thinking
• Logic

These activity books help children in learning

• Numbering
• Basic colours
• Association; stacking, sorting etc
• Identifying shapes
• Alphabets

The best features of quiet books is that they are lightweight and portable; toddlers can carry the book themselves and play wherever they want. These quiet books make for excellent travel companion for keeping the kids busy during long flights.  Waiting room friendly; these books make for a perfect gift for toddlers.
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