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The following professional review of the new game, BoyongoloTM, was prepared by Dr. Bernadett Takacs, chair of "MIKKAMAKKA" Toy Gallery and Methodological Institute: The BoyongoloTM is a complex modular game system, which is manufactured using colorful and high quality plastic, with LEGO-style elements. In addition to its variability, the uniqueness of BoyongoloTM lies in the group of elements that are designed to be placed on the top of the construction and are equipped with grooves. With the help of these elements, ball tracts can be constructed on which balls of various sizes can run. Why is Boyongolo recommended? With this game, younger and older children, as well as adults, can play creative, intensive, and various games. The game pieces are constructed from high quality durable plastic that guarantees resistance against aging, blunting, scratching, and breaking. It is excellent in its size, colors, the linking of elements hygienic qualities, surface and internal construction. A perfect harmony of form and function is a strength of this game designed based on an original idea. Boyongolo's colors are harmonic - clean basic colors - enhancing well its strong motivational quality. Child and adult will gladly handle it, since this game hides in itself undiscovered secrets as a result of its various functional possibilities. It caters for the specific, age-related qualities of children, and it can be used well for various activities in various stages of development. The attention-grabbing character of Boyongolo is excellent; it is logical, sufficiently variable, and serves multiple purposes. It fosters the players to activeness, and it provides sustained creative and enjoyable activity. The skill enhancing qualities of Boyongolo are good and many-fold. It is suitable for special educational purposes, and for this reason, it can be applied well in the education of children with developmental abnormalities. Its complex intellectual developmental benefits are effective for all age groups, and at least but not least, this game provides tremendous experience of success. To whom it is recommended? Recommended ages: between the ages of 2-4, 4-6, 6-10 and 10-99. In each age group, based on different skill levels, BoyongoloTM can be employed in various types of games. According to the skill-level of the child, at the ages of 2-4 years, it can be applied as a sensory motor enhancer and constructional game. Between the ages of 4-6 years, the creative child can also use this toy for role-play. Between the ages of 6-10 years, it can be used as a constructional game, but-as a rule game-it can also be used as a collective, group or competitive game with game rules. From 10 years of age, it can be used as a construction and group game but it can also be used as science game to investigate the laws of physics. It can be recommended to children who show normal development or development that is different from average: both to gifted children with exceptional skills and to children with developmental difficulties. Boyongolo's enriching therapeutic effects can be utilized to attenuate developmental difficulties, specifically cognitive, visual, movement, and learning difficulties. It cal be utilized as part of the special educational therapy especially for the correction of the following skill-related difficulties:
Boyongolo can be utilized as a one-player constructional game; moreover, it can be effective as part of a two-player adult-child interactive game by getting involved children with less initiative. Alternatively, it can be used to foster intense cooperation between two children or within among the members of a group (of adults, children, or mixed groups). It can be employed well as a game of cooperation, but also as a game of competition. How should Boyongolo be played with? At home and at educational institutions, Boyongolo provides a rich storage of possibilities. It can be used especially effectively at kindergartens and schools if a larger number of game pieces are available and the game is set up on a special table with a ledge. White leaving children's initiative and direction roam free, educators can provide instruction to shape the following skills: Movement: this game is excellent for the development of fine motor skills; coordination motor sped, rhythm, and hand-eye coordination improve almost automatically. Perception and more specifically visual perception: spatial orientation, discrimination of spatial relations and directions the recognition of shapes and angles, multisensory - especially visual-motor - integration can be shaped.
In the area of sociability, among personality traits - self-esteem, motivation, responsibility, activeness, and among group traits - cooperation - can improve. There are various possibilities for parents and teachers:
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