Other Toys
Few think that the best material for the mental development of an early child gives babies life itself. Objects for this can be found on the street and at home. In order to fully play with the child, you do not need to buy anything specially - we have everything at hand. A simple calculation shows that only in the first 3 years of life mothers can save on buying toys more than 2oooo thousand rubles. If, of course, they spend a little time making toys with their own hands. But it's not even about saving. The experience of families, where they use both "ready" and homemade toys, shows that kids are more likely to play with "domestic" ones. Why? Psychologists give dozens of reasons for such a strange, at first glance, phenomenon.
The toy industry is guided by the tastes of those who pay for them, that is, the parents. Therefore, children often do not come across exactly what they really need. What subjects do you advise not to throw away (may be useful for future toys)?
The main thing here is not to overdo it and not to fill up an apartment with useful items. So relatives will escape! But still, do not throw away cardboard boxes (from everything!), Plastic jars and bottles of different colors, shapes, sizes, transparent and no, with lids and without. Sticks, rags, ropes and ribbons, buttons and beads, old keys, buckles, idle hours ... And most importantly - pictures! Cut out all the magazines that are in the house before you get rid of them. Add them to files. You will see, they will be useful to you! Ideas will come ...
And what can be a simple cloth? (Let it be a handkerchief.)
A sheet or a blanket - this will first come to the head of an adult! And a clearing, sea, home! And so on. What can be a wand? You can enumerate for a long time! For example, a pen (pencil, brush), a spoon (fork), a scapula, a thermometer, an arrow or a sword, a stick ... The imagination of the child is unlimited! The main thing is that adults do not give "wise" advice like: "Throw this stick! Look, what a thing your dad bought you! .. "
Why do children like to play simple toys? For example, in bottles from "imunelek" buttons and the like?
A small child is interested in everything! But first of all it is interesting what adults do, what they have in their hands. If mom "plays" with saucepans, why should he play with the game pad (thousands for two, not less!) - he would also have a saucepan! That would be fun with my mother pobrenchali! In addition, simple subjects give the child much more room for creativity.
Homemade toys seem uneasy. How to make them safe?
To make the toy safe, it should not have small parts. Or, you can take this toy from the shelf only to your mother and play it only with your mother. For any toy (especially for home-made ones), all parts must be properly secured so that the child does not break off or tear off. Watch this, from time to time conduct an audit in your toy kingdom.
Children , growing several generations ago, and toys, it really was not - they played for days on end in sticks and pebbles. How could it happen that prominent scientists, writers, composers grew out of them?
The main thing that the child develops by playing with a wand is imagination. Namely, the imagination is the engine of progress, of science, of art. Without imagination, we would be sitting in a cave.
comprehension and application than ready-made toys, which have a specific function and nothing more. What can I do with a bottle of Immune? Open or close, put something in it, shake it to check what's there. They can be folded into a box or pulled out. You can push through the opening of the bottle, checking whether it will fit or not fit. They can also be rolled on the floor, laying on their side, or rolling from the hill. From several jars you get an excellent turret!
Without which toys can not do the baby? What should he have in the first place in order that he grew up smart and smart?
Everything that surrounds the child can and must develop it! The main thing, do not forget to use the richest storehouse of games and toys - nature! Let the child play with cones, pebbles, shells, chirochki, chopsticks, acorns and chestnuts.
Do not forget about the "dirty" games - in the sand, on the ground, in the water. It is a storehouse of knowledge and skills for a child of almost any age! Observe the nature and teach the child to observe. Study birds not by pictures, but in the park! Or in the zoo - there are even more opportunities! Be sure to go to the forest, if possible, rest at the pond (at sea or at least on the river). Pay attention to everything that you see around the kid.
A child whose environment is rich in visual stimuli (in other words, if the baby has something to look at) is usually more calm and alert during wakefulness than a crumb, devoid of different "pictures" in his environment.
The simplest toy: take the balloon, put a little bell in it or a small box full of croup. Very weakly inflate it, that it was the size of a pear. The kid will joyfully crush him!
Age: 1-4 months
Black and white toys
In the first months of life, when the baby's pens are not yet developed enough, and he can not touch anything, the main sources of information for him are hearing and sight. It is necessary to start with black and white pictures. And first with those with more straight and broken lines, plus the simplest images of the face (an oval, two thick dots instead of the eyes and an arc - the mouth). Gradually go to more complex images, including circles, curves, more complex shapes. A little later add a red color, and then full-color images and toys. The main drawback of the pictures - they always fall. Take an ordinary medium-sized cardboard box. Inside, put the lid on the plastic bottle (to make a sound when you shake to attract attention), cover with white paper.
Above - arbitrary creative "outpourings" with a black felt-tip pen!
Age: 5-8 months
The second life of old gloves
Take old baby gloves. In each "finger" put different fillers. In one - several beads, in the other half of the lid from the felt-tip pen, in the third - crumpled kapron rope (it creaks when rubbing), the next one - a rustling cellophane bag and so on. In the hands, fill the sintepon or cotton wool. In the base of the fingers, too, so that the fillers do not fall out. You can sew them up - at will.
In the palm of one glove you can put a small plastic jar with beads inside. At the base of the gloves, sew on a rag. But in the base of one of the gloves, put something else interesting to be probed through the fabric, for example, a large button or a wooden ring from the eaves.
Age: 9-12 months
Box of wet wipes
Take the jar from wet napkins, cover with pictures. Inside, put something that will make a sound when you shake. On the side, make a hole by heating the nail on the plate. Through the hole, pass the satin ribbon. The second end of the tape is pushed from below into the hole in the lid and close it. From each end, thread the tape along the button and tie the knot so that the button does not fall off. The tape goes there - here, if you pull on the buttons. When the tape is stretched, the lid of the jar closes, and when the top button is near the can, the lid does not close. There is something to think about! ..
The optimal distance on which the baby can see well is about 25-30 cm. It "catches" only objects that are not farther than 30 degrees to the left and to the right, above and below it.
Newborns prefer contrasting black and white patterns rather than colors, because during this period their "sticks" (cells in the retina sensitive to weak light and distinguishing only black and white) work better than "cones" (cells that see colors in bright light). Newborns prefer straight or broken lines with curved or wavy lines. In addition, they are attracted by simple images of faces.
Later he begins to like more complex patterns (4 concentric circles, not two) and curved lines and shapes, rather than straight or broken lines. Many children begin to distinguish colors by the two months, because "cones" begin to work in the retina. Kids see red and yellow colors better than blue.