In this regard, games and play, and consequently the toys that they play with, are very helpful for this purpose. Children's educational toys therefore, are critical in every child's learning and development. This almost insatiable hunger for learning in children, expressed in their natural propensity to play, should not be wasted on toyd without much relevance to their educational development. It is for this reason that toy manufacturers have taken great pains and conducted deep research into a child's learning levels and capacities in order to come up with an educational toy that would be a fount of knowledge. Examples of children's educational toys include Vtech's portable laptop computers that teach kids spelling, math basics, geography and carry games that test and enhance analytical skills and logic. With the rise in demand, it won't be a surprise when the price tag that comes with these educational toys and games will also decrease as the years pass. Right now, these kinds of toys are still a little expensive (though it hasn't stopped most parents from buying them). In the future, due to the overwhelming interest, educational toys and games will be accessible to everyone. Your kid can learn while having fun, playing with her new educational toy. The LeapPad Learning System is a set of books that seem to come to life with music, silly sounds, various games and voices, while your child is reading. This way, your child gets to catch up with the intonations of specific words and the way they are pronounced. With this your child can play games and be organized by keeping schedules. It also sees what your children write by using a small camera. All this, accompanied by its very original shape -- the shape of an electric toothbrush. Can you imagine it? They still manage to give it a fun toothbrush shape with all of those electronic features. While it may be tempting to buy the largest and hippest educational toy in the bunch, it would be best to, instead, buy something that will bring the greatest value to the child. Get an educational toy that has many features, even though it is small, against an educational toy that looks really swanky but is lacking in the "educational" department.