Do gifted children play with toys? Or are they too mentally smart for toys?

Question

Do gifted children play with toys? Or are they too mentally smart for toys?

Answer 1

I think they still play with toys...but more elaborately than other kids. For instance, a typical kid with toy soldiers may just play with a couple at a time, doing mere nonsense play fighting. A more gifted child may setup some kind of large battle formation with many toy soldiers and create a more complex way to play with the toys. They may also spend more time observing the features of their toys...maybe even by taking them apart to see how they work.

Answer 2

Sure they use toys to facilitate their imaginations. In most cases they find more amusement in a single toy than persons not as gifted.

Answer 3

they play with toys

they make toys out of whatever is around,

they even create new games

Answer 4

I was identified as gifted when I was 8. I played with toys. Regardless of how smart I was, I was still a child and became amused by the bright colours and all the workings of the toy.

I loved strategic mind games like Rush Hour and backgammon and chess, but I also loved having a tea party with my Barbies :)

Answer 5

Gifted children play with toys just like any other child.  They often have overactive imaginations.

Answer 6

We learn best through play. So it makes sense that gifted kids play a lot, both with toys and with their imaginations.

Answer 7

Yes they do.

Some of them have extensive imaginations that they are more fascinated than the normal kids.

For example, gifted children will never get bored with, say, fifty pieces of Lego blocks because they create so many things out of a very few. While a normal kid, though he has more blocks and pieces, often sticks to the model (car, castle, etc.) Lego provided.

Another example, gifted kids play more with dolls and they create colorful and unique stories, for example, Barbie went to Tibet and climbed Mt. Everest. Normal kids stick to the conventional such as tea parties, palace balls, encounters with the prince, etc.

Answer 8

I think that all children even if they are gifted or not have the right and the opportunity to play. They are just kids having some more skills than the usual.