DIY games for children are made very simply from improvised means. The ideas presented will help the development of toddlers and older children. In the game, children learn new things, develop. For every age, you can recommend their own tabletop entertainment.
Educational games for children 2–3 years old
At this age, it is important to train fine motor skills, the following pictures with lacing are perfect for this:
- Sun;
- cloud;
- flower;
- machine.
To make crafts of this format for children, you will need:
- white and multi-colored plastic;
- awl or screws;
- scissors;
- fishing line;
- yellow lace.
If you don't have sheets of plastic, use a white one from an old plastic bucket. Small parts are made from colored containers of the same material. If you don't have any of these, use cardboard. For the first game for children with your own hands or, asking someone, you need to cut a square out of white plastic, rounding its corners with scissors. Make a circle out of yellow, attach it to the main sheet with a fishing line. To do this, make holes with an awl, and then sew with a transparent cord.
Cut flowers from colored plastic, attach them in the same way. To make the rays of the sun, the holes must be larger. You will do them with a heated self-tapping screw, which you will hold by the cap with pliers.
When the holes are cool, give the lace to the child, show how to weave it to make rays. The kid will love these educational games for children. The second is based on the same principle. Only for her, in addition to white, blue plastic is needed. From it you will cut out a cloud and also attach it with fishing line.
Next, make holes with a self-tapping screw. Let the kid weave a string into them and tell how the rain is dripping.
Other educational games for toddlers are also interesting.
To make such a flower, you will need:
- Empty shampoo bottles
- awl;
- scissors;
- lace;
- cardboard.
Cut out the blanks from the shampoo bubbles. Cover the core of the flower with petals made of this material, make holes with an awl that will pass through both elements. The child will be able to braid the cord and thereby develop fine motor skills.
Boys will love this machine. To make it, enlarge the image, transfer it to a sheet of plastic, outline and cut out. Make the wheels from a white plastic milk bottle. Make holes with an awl, start weaving in the lace, let the child continue this interesting activity.
We can also recommend other games for toddlers 2 years old. They are based on the same manufacturing principle, but the toys are bulky. Take the ketchup lid and punch a hole in it with a hot nail or drill. Put a drop of glue into it, put a felt-tip pen, the upper part of which must first be split with a sharp knife. Attach the fly agaric cap to this crevice. It is cut from a red ketchup bottle. White circles can be made from a light milk bottle or buttons of this color can be used.
After making holes in the red plastic with an awl, attach white elements to this mushroom head, fasten with lacing.
Exciting games for children 3-7 years old
Arrange fun entertainment for the company of children. You can play "Rybalka" and your family. It is easy to do it yourself. This children's game is not only fun, but also a useful activity that helps the development of fine motor skills, coordination, and strengthening of the arm muscles.
Here are the materials from which you can make fish with your own hands. From:
- fabrics;
- felt;
- plastic;
- thick cardboard.
For creativity, you will also need auxiliary materials:
- felt in a contrasting color;
- ready-made eyes or beads for eyes;
- for a rod - a wooden stick;
- paper clips;
- magnet;
- rope.
If you want the figures to be voluminous and colorful, then take a colored fabric, cut out 2 blanks for each fish. Sew them in pairs, fill with padding polyester. If you want to sew felt fish with your own hands, then first make paper blanks, attach them to this dense fabric, outline and cut out. Thus, you will make fish from other materials, for example, from plastic. Now you need to attach 2 eyes to each. To do this, first a felt circle is glued, and a bead is glued onto it. You need to put a paper clip into the nose of these inhabitants of the deep sea. It is these metal parts that will help the fishing rod to be magnetized to them.
We make it as follows. To make a fishing rod, tie a string to one end of a wooden stick. To keep it tight, you can make a recess in this place with a knife in a circle, and then wind the twine here, on the edge of which you need to tie a magnet, and the game for children, created with their own hands, is ready.
How to make a finger theater?
Here is another entertainment that will make any holiday fun and diversify your leisure time. The Finger Theater will allow you to play any fairy tale, and one person can perform several roles.
Perhaps your child is a born actor. Then he will, changing his voice, his intonation, speak for different heroes of the action.
One of the most popular heroines of Russian folk tales is Mashenka. Sew it together with your daughter, after which she can try herself in an interesting role. To create this heroine of the game for children, you will need:
- felt of different colors for: body, sundress, decoration, scarves;
- rope or yarn;
- tapes;
- 2 beads for eyes;
- threads;
- scissors;
- needle.
Looking at the following photos, you will learn how to sew a sundress. But first you need to carve it out. Requires 2 similar parts, differing only in the neck cutouts. It is smaller on the back than in the front. In the photo, the sundress is cut out of yellow felt, the body of the doll is orange, and the frill of the sundress, pockets and headscarf are made of red.
Please note that the doll's scarf consists of two parts: the front part with a cut out round hole for the face and the back of the head. We begin to sew a sundress. Attach a pocket to its front part, sew it with threads. Light ones will become an interesting decoration element. Sew the second pocket in the same way. Put the fringe of the sundress on its wrong side, stitch the shelves and back from the bottom.
We continue to sew the Masha doll. Place the shelf on the front of the body, stitch both parts together along the neckline, armhole. Roll up the thread as in the photo, lowering it over the doll's face. Put the front piece of the scarf on top, stitch it with your head along the inner circle.
Cut off the bangs from the threads, sew on the eyes. 2 stitches of white threads will turn into a nose, decorate your mouth with red.
We will sew the doll with our own hands or with the involvement of children further. Thread a needle with a thick eye, sew a stitch at the back of the head, then attach a few more pieces of it on one and the other side of the back of the head in the same way. You should have 4 strands of braid, connect 2 central strands together.
After adding ribbons, start braiding. When you reach almost the end, tie a beautiful bow. Sew or glue the back of the headscarf to your head.
Now connect the back and front halves of the doll, sew them on the sides on all sides except for the bottom.
Duplicate the scarf with the outer seam, after which the main character of the finger game for children is ready.
This is how the doll will look from behind:
By the same principle, you can sew other characters of the fairy tale:
- bear;
- hare;
- kolobok;
- mushroom.
Let the child, putting these soft toys on his fingers, come up with a new interesting story. Thus, developing their speech, vocabulary, imagination, thinking.
Home entertainment for the whole family
Children really like it when adults play with them. If the child is sick or the weather is bad outside and you don't want to go for a walk, spend this time enjoying yourself together. There are many quiet games, because if children are not well, active noisy fun at this time is contraindicated for them.
Teach your beloved children an old-fashioned entertainment called "Fleas". Such games are made with their own hands, literally, out of nothing. After all, every house has buttons, and a cardboard box can be reached by taking out a pair of shoes. For such, you need to cut the sides so that they become 5 cm high. A box of chocolates will also do.
Use a felt-tip pen or pen to draw the markings inside the container. It will resemble a football field. In the center, draw a circle, on the sides - opposite each other, two gates. You can first paste over the halves of the field with colored paper of two colors, so that you know who the flea will jump on.
If you are doing entertainment for children in the country, then you can carve a "flea" out of wood. Linden is best suited for this. Grind off the edges of the circles, then you get the elements of fun that were done in the old days. For a DIY game, you can use the following attributes:
- circles made of wood;
- buttons;
- coins;
- beans.
The latter very funny "jump" if you press on their edges with coins. Take beans of two colors - for each competitor their own.
You can come up with the rules of the game right on the go. For example, whose flea will jump higher and further, or which one will end up in the goal or in the opponent's half. In this case, you need to hit her with your "flea", throwing that from above.
You can also compete in accuracy. Each player is given the same number of flea beetles. You need to get into the opponent's goal with your own. If the "flea" remains on the playing field of its color, the owner of the attribute takes it and uses it in the future. And if she did not hit the goal and remained on the opponent's field, he takes her for himself.
Whoever has more such trophies at the end of the game won.
If you want to make another quick game for kids, then tic-tac-toe is for you. The field is drawn on paper, and the chips are made from bottle caps. On top of some you need to draw crosses, and on others - zeros.
When it's your move, place the cover of a suitable pattern on the field, and then your opponent puts in his. You can make chips not from lids, but from a soft material. For these, you need to prepare:
- the cloth;
- tapes;
- thread with a needle or glue.
It is better to use a dense fabric that will keep its shape and will not be frizzy. If it is thin, cut out 2 squares and sew them in pairs. Sew cross-stitched ribbons to the front side of the fabric squares. Attach circles from the same braid to other blanks. They can either be sewn on or glued.
If the baby does not allow you to cook in the kitchen, demanding attention, figure out what to do with him. Draw a game board on a sheet, attach it with magnets to the refrigerator. Connect the ice cream sticks with a cross, tying on a magnet. Toes can be made from felt or other suitable material. They are attached in the same way.
Intellectual games for children from 7 years old
Older children can be introduced to chess and checkers. A simple sheet of cardboard is suitable for the board. You need to draw vertical and horizontal stripes on it, shade them to get squares and apply symbols.
If you want to make a chessboard with your own hands, so that it is large, then use a sheet of plywood. Stick the masking tape vertically and horizontally on it. Cover the surface with dark paint. When it dries, peel off the tape and see what kind of even squares you get.
Craftswomen can sew a field of dense dark-colored fabric, onto which they will sew light squares.
Ordinary bottle caps or flat buttons turn into checkers. Only for one player the light ones are taken, for the other - the dark ones. Chess attributes are also easy to craft. Draw knights, pawns, etc. with a marker or felt-tip pen on the lid. You can use paper circles for this. Draw on it and then glue to the lids.
You can also make dominoes yourself. To do this, dots are applied to the stones or figures from salt dough with a proofreader.
When making dominoes with your own hands, be guided by this scheme:
As you can see, making games with your own hands is very easy. To do this, use materials at hand that will help the development of children, teach them new things and allow them to have fun and usefully spend their leisure time.
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