There are a lot of things that nobody taught us, but we know them, and most of them we learned while playing with the things around us. A child can find joy and excitement in discovering things. Play is an essential activity in a child's daily activities, contributing in a manner similar to health and development. For a child, a plaything can be anything from a simple stick or a stone to complex play objects. Playthings are indirect teachers for kids, which implant knowledge in a playful mode. Hence, the right kind of toys has direct implications for the overall development of the child.

Playing is an excellent and unique means of improving the child’s perceptual, manipulative, and conceptualising abilities while he is having fun. Although the importance of concrete experience in the learning process has long been recognised by educational psychologists, children are rarely given the opportunity to learn through play and manipulation. Our educational system is too bookish, promoting routine learning of facts and methods rather than encouraging learning of facts from experience.