How to Make Your Playroom the Ultimate Fun and Educational Space, According to Experts

In addition to fine motor development, kids also need toys that allow them to work on their gross motor skills. Gross motor development involves larger movements like jumping, rocking, climbing, and swinging. Trimmer recently added this Rock-a-Boat Seesaw to a home, and she also loves Pikler Triangles for climbing and wobble chairs for kids' core strength.

Smart D2 Playrooms often uses moveable stepping stones that kids can run and jump across, but they've also done projects with rock walls and even monkey bars. In addition to strengthening their motor skills, "physical play helps kids to relax, it helps them to focus, there's just so many benefits to it," Bowen-Poole said.