Maybe you will be surprised to learn how many handy tools you can use to create educational toys crumbs. The problem - how to develop a child before the year at home - will cease to be a problem as soon as you become familiar with our recommendations. You will immediately notice that your kid is quickened and accelerated the pace of development, and his peers are far behind.
Just note that up to six months in the arsenal of toys, the baby will have, perhaps, only rattles and all kinds of lids - after all, he should, at least, learn to keep objects in the handle so that you can then continue the studies.
But from six months to a year you will find a variety of subjects.
Let's start with - where to store all the toys. The best way to do this is to fit a large heavy box (so that it does not roll over if the baby takes it as a support and stands next to it, holding onto its sides). Thus, the box will serve as a "machine" for the child's physical development, and help keep all his favorite toys clean. After all, a caring mother, of course, and without that a day later, rinses them in soapy solution - and in the box they will almost not be dusted.
When you have decided on the place of storage of toys at home, look around - what objects, in your opinion, you absolutely do not need? Just look, that they did not have sharp corners and small parts, because just such here. Unnecessary, we will use objects as developing toys for a child up to a year old.
The structure of the booklet can be anything - it all depends on your imagination. Let's say that on the first page you attach a large bright sun with rays-ribbons, which you do not need to attach to the main fabric tightly. Let the rays freely hang out - you will see how interesting it is for a child to play with them. On the second page, make a flowering lawn: take green threads for embroidering or knitting and build from the bunches of grass, glue a large white daisy with petals or soft white fabric and rustling leaves.
On the next page, sew a pocket of a bright piece of dense fabric, "plant" it on a large zipper - let the kid try to open it. And inside the baby's pocket there will be a surprise - a pasted dog that squeaks when pressed (the peeple can be pulled out of any toy). The fourth page of your book is decorated with a large ball, sewn from colorful pieces of cloth, different in texture. Sew a pair of buttonholes or your old thin strap with a shiny buckle - the baby will be interested in trying to tear it off the page.
Also, the book can be decorated with all kinds of laces and Velcro - in general, all those that need to open and close not with the entire palm of your hand, but with the tips of your fingers. Believe me, such a book will entertain your crumbs not for a day or two, but will serve as a favorite developing activity for up to a year.
Find a big plastic cork at home (for sure, you have something like that: throw it away, and nowhere else), and pierce a hole in it. In the hole, insert either a thin ribbon, or a tight and strong thread, at the end of which tie a lot of large buttons and beads. Only do it more carefully - God forbid, the baby will bite or tear off and swallow a small object! If you do everything on your conscience, the little one will immediately be interested in a new "rattle", will touch the small beads with fingers and press them in the palms - and this is the notorious development of fine motor skills of the hands.
Another entertainment, however, is unlikely to be long-playing, will be a bead of multi-colored and different in diameter buttons. The more this variety - the longer the child will play with the necklace, which will necessarily try to taste and touch all-all buttons.
In a set of toys that will develop a child, there must be cubes and other geometric figures. If you can not buy cubes of factory production, look for small boxes at home with the necessary shape and glue them with bright colored paper - these cubes are ready !. Teach your child to build a pyramid out of them, and then - to destroy it. By the way, many mothers are worried that at first the child is trying to destroy the pyramid built by you. Do not worry, this, on the contrary, is the first sign that the little one is learning to create the world around him. This means that he is very interested: what does the pyramid consist of and how did you manage to make it?
By the way, to help develop the skill of creation in a child of up to a year will help ordinary plastic cups - a cheap and practical guide for the development of the baby at home. Let the little one try to put one glass in the other, and into it the third, fourth, and so on until he gets bored. And after that, ask him to draw them one at a time. When this activity bores the child, instruct him to put the glasses one by one. Let him experiment, he learns the most important laws of physics. Just make sure that the fragile plastic does not break down - its sharp edges can hurt the child, and then his desire to play will evaporate.
Surely you have already begun to feed your child with baby food bought in stores? Of course, glass bottles are unlikely to be useful for games, but you can easily use caps. Cut out the color simple pictures by the diameter of the lid - and insert them into it. These are such big and funny coins. By the way, it will be especially interesting to put them in a saucepan or something metallic - after all, when they hit metal they will make such a sonorous sound! The kid will be delighted.
In the kitchen there are many items that can take your child's attention for long hours. For example, pans of different shapes. Colors and sizes - in them the kid can fold his toys to later get them. Also children like to play with spoons: be sure to give the child or aluminum, or, preferably, plastic - let him learn to keep it in the handles. And you must show the baby how to use this cutlery, for example.
If you are not afraid that the baby can splash your carpet or linoleum on the floor of the apartment - then boldly put the water in a cup (ceramic, so it does not break, or even better - aluminum) and give it to your crumb. Children really love water - and drink and squirt it, and try to take it in the handle. Let the kid understand what water is and how to handle it. Just do not take in head to scold the baby, if he spilled a lot of water - you will upset the child, and it will no longer want to entertain with the cup.
You will not believe how interesting is the process of twisting and unscrewing the cork on the bottle. Only show the child a couple of times - how to do it, and you can not take more from him, either the cap or the bottle itself - will so entice his occupation. If there are a lot of plastic bottles in your house, try half filling them with different cereals or small toys, beads - such a big rattle will take the baby for an hour!
Look for houses old and unnecessary magazines for you - let the kid try to look through them. Of course, the pages of the edition will be in order, but the crumb will come to an indescribable delight - after all, the leaves are so pleasantly rustling under your fingers. And how amusing is the paper bursting!
Maybe the next tip will seem a little strange to you, but even the most ordinary roll of toilet paper, in which the baby is sure to roll, will come in handy for the development of the child - you'll see! Then follow the process of releasing yourself from the grasp of the paper - and this is already your physical development and savvy.
Take a medium-sized cardboard box, make a few holes in it, and place the ribbons inside. Let their tips look out of the holes: you will notice that your child struggles to get a ribbon with tiny fingers and take it out of the box.
Take out your straw hat from the chiffonier (although it is better to take something less "prickly", for example, panamka) and show the baby how to put it on the head. Put it on the child, saying: "Here, Yaroslav wears a panama ... But my mother wears a panama!". Then let the crumb try to pull on you Panama on your own. Let him not be able to do it the first time, but soon the dexterity of small pens will improve, and he will not miss your head!
Surely, you have a large box of home appliances (for example, a TV set) in your home. Put it in the middle of the room, and the kid will be interested in it. Will try to climb inside this improvised house. Just watch carefully so that the baby does not fall!
Obligatory subject in the house where there is a small child, there should be balls of different sizes. At least two are small and big. The first of these can be with soft rubber studs - this is an excellent purchase. Such a toy will make an easy, but very effective massage of crumbs handles.
Do not regret money, and buy a doll for the child, preferably owner of long hair. If you have a son growing up, and you are afraid that your dad will be against such an acquisition, take the pupsa. On the example of such "humanoid" toys you can teach your child different actions. Playing with the doll, try to feed it, saying: "Lala is eating - and Yaroslav is eating," to put him to sleep: "Lyalya bayu-bai, and Yaroslav bayu-bai." To stroke a doll on the head, massage her or gymnastics, wash her face ... in general, do with the pups everything that you do with your child - so it will be easier for him to perceive all these actions and processes. You will not notice how he will quietly fall asleep while lulling the doll and himself with her side by side.
Most likely, on the shelves you have-dust souvenirs, donated by friends for the holiday: horses, dogs, bear cubs. Bring these toys to the lessons with the baby: let them feel them, examine them. Watch only that he does not try to shove in his mouth or smash presents - yet, this is a memory!
Look for friends who have older children, boxes from the famous Kinder Surprise. You will need 6-10 pieces, depending on your desire and mood. If you know how to knit - great! Tie these barrels with colored threads, fasten them in one chain - you will get a caterpillar. On the first barrel draw (or sew the purchased ones) eyes and mouth - let your caterpillar smile cute to the child. You can pre-fill the box with something rustling, free-flowing.
For games with the child, you can use many other things: combs, rubber peeples, a mirror, a basin with linen from which the kid will try to pull everything out and climb himself there. The child can selflessly finger all sorts of laces and ribbons on your clothes, ring the little bell and especially - consider the photos! Show the crumbs more often a family album - and relatives in person will know, and have fun for glory!
If you give the kid a pen - pull the rod out of it, because the child can try the office for taste, and the paste - the substance is not at all useful, besides, the rod has the property of rusting.
Do not let your child play with a jar of cream - he can open it and swallow the cream, which will certainly cause intoxication in a tender child's body.
It is also desirable to limit the contact of the child with the paper that is used in the printer, and with books consisting of thin sheets - all this can cut the baby's fingers, besides, children often try to eat paper.
In principle, if you are careful and vigilant, there should not be any problems with toys from improvised means - just make sure that things are safe, without sharp corners and edges, without small details. And remember that the best child develops in love and care, rather than in forced occupations that do not deliver his mother any pleasure. If you feel that you do not have the desire to teach your baby, let it be your father or grandmothers. And then you can give the baby to the developing center - good, there are plenty of them in any city!
And remember that at the age of up to a year forms about 70% of the basic knowledge and skills of the baby - do not let this process take its course, and from your crumbs a real child prodigy will grow!