Do-it-yourself play aids will help your child's development. Offer the kids lots of fun and homemade musical instruments. Play aids allow kids to develop observation, creativity, curiosity, independence. You can make auxiliary items for this process from scrap materials.
Making game aids for children: master class
There are plastic bottles in almost every home. We'll use them for the next tutorial.
Game "Flower meadow"
To provide yourself with everything you need to create this kind of entertainment, take:
- a cardboard box with low sides, for example, from under sweets;
- plastic bottles;
- colored cardboard;
- scissors.
To make this playbook, cut out circles in a cardboard box along the diameter of the neck of the bottle, and flowers from thick paper of different colors. Cut off the necks of the bottles, thread each one into its hole, screw the caps on. The child will wear flowers of the same color on them.
Here's how to play with your toddler using these items. Tell him to:
- put flowers of the same color on the lids;
- I would put plants of a certain color on this makeshift flower bed;
- I counted how many colors and what color it turned out.
Clothespins game
She will help the child develop their fingers, improvise, come up with interesting stories.
For crafts, use plastic clothespins so that the child can easily squeeze them and put them on the object. To make a tutorial like this, take:
- cardboard;
- colored paper;
- felt-tip pens;
- clothespins of different colors;
- scissors.
Crafting workshop:
- Use templates or draw figures on cardboard: various funny animals, suns, clouds, flowers, little people.
- Stick colored paper on the cardboard, draw the characters' features with a felt-tip pen.
- Place the clothespins in the box. Let the child take them out and prick them: in the sun - rays, on fish - fins, on a caterpillar - legs, on a cloud - rain, and so on.
It will be interesting for the kid to come up with stories with these characters, and adults will help him with this.
Game "Feed the Animals"
This kind of fun will also appeal to kids, it will also require clothespins. Children will learn what some animals look like and what they eat. To do this, you need to cut a circle out of cardboard, use a ruler and a thin felt-tip pen to draw segments on it. Paste or draw the following products into each one:
- fish;
- nuts;
- carrot;
- bananas;
- grass;
- corn;
- bone;
- acorn.
On pieces of other cardboard, depict the following animals:
- a cat;
- protein;
- hare;
- monkey;
- a cow;
- mouse;
- a dog;
- pig.
Place a clothespin on the edge of each animal's face. With this mechanical device, have the baby place each animal next to the food that he is eating.
Tactile covers
For such an interesting game you will need:
- caps for baby food and plastic bottles;
- pieces of skin;
- trimming of various fabrics;
- glue;
- fur;
- scissors.
Cut from different fabrics (silk, drape, fleece, bike) two circles for each type. Now stick one blank of the pair on top of the lid, and put the second in a box or bag. First, show the child the fabric on the lid, let him touch it. Now, without looking, he will take out a pair of circles from a bag or box. In the same way, he will find a cover with pieces of fur, leather.
Finger theater
This kind of fun helps children develop motor skills, hand coordination, thinking, and speech. You can make a finger theater that the child put on these parts of his hands for small characters. But you can make the heroes in such a way that the child's toes turn into their feet for a while.
The kid will surely be amused, as the character walks or runs briskly, thanks to the child.
As you can see, you need to cut out figures of people and animals from cardboard, stick colored paper on them, paint the character so that it is clear who it is.
In place of the legs of each, it is necessary to cut out two equal circles. When it is necessary for a specific character to move, the child will thread his index and middle fingers here, "walk" with them.
This is how you can make a finger theater with your own hands.
Outdoor and indoor outdoor games for children
They will also help your child's development. After all, after quiet entertainment, the baby needs movement. Both boys and girls will be happy to help parents make the following playbooks.
They are made very simply. First take:
- carton boxes;
- colored paper;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- glue.
Cut the bottom and top off the cardboard box. The inner and outer parts must be pasted over with plain paper. If it is light, for example, blue, then glue red, green rectangles on all four sides outside.
Cut out the wheels from dark paper, and their inner part from yellow paper. Make headlights out of this.
You can think of many games for children using these items. For example, children will simply stand inside such a car, run a race with their peers or with adults.
If there is not enough space at home, then you need to carry out such outdoor games. Of course, in the playground, where there are no real cars. Let the child try himself as a driver, and the other will become a gas station worker.
It's just as easy to do. To do this, cover a tall cardboard box with colored paper. Make a hole at the bottom of the structure, attach a piece of corrugated pipe or an old hose from a vacuum cleaner here. Stick a pointer showing the amount of gasoline.
For girls, you can hold a competition on the theme "Who is the most beautiful of all will go by car", and then at the same time do exercises, telling them that now they need to run on their toes, as if it were a light sports car driving. They will then stomp their feet as they move, like a heavy truck is passing by.
You can also do the following game tutorials with your own hands.
Move the fish
This entertainment will help strengthen the coordination of movements of children, prevent the development of flat feet. To organize such fun, take:
- gymnastic hoops;
- sponges for dishes;
- marker;
- scissors.
Draw on each sponge the outlines of the fish and their eyes, cut out these blanks.
Put the hoop on the floor, place the inhabitants of the deep water in it, how many participants there will be, as many hoops are needed. Every child will put the caught fish here. But you need to take them not with your hands, but with your feet.
Air football game
It will help develop the baby's lungs and promote proper breathing. To make such a desktop entertainment, you need to take:
- plastic egg from Kinder surprise;
- glass ball;
- 2 cocktail rolls;
- marker;
- a box of chocolates.
Draw an analogue of a football field on the inside of the box. There should be markings for the gate, a central circle in which you will place the glass ball. In place of the gate, put half a plastic egg, give two children cocktail tubes.
On command, they begin to blow on the glass ball through the tubes in order to drive it into the opponent's goal.
Catch the ball
For the next educational game, take:
- plastic bottles;
- colored paper and glue or wide electrical tape;
- rope;
- bottle caps or small balls.
Sequence of the game:
- Cut the bottles to about half, you need a neck piece. To prevent the child from getting hurt on a sharp cut, cover it with colored paper or electrical tape.
- Tie one end of the rope to the neck of the container, attach a ball to the other, you can use a bottle cap instead.
- This game trains dexterity. Let the child try to push the ball into the container by tossing it up. If several people play, the winner is the one who managed to do it the most times.
Interesting outdoor games in the fresh air also contribute to the development of the child, help to harden him, strengthen his health. You can attract several children from the yard, show them funny fun.
Fishing rod game
For her you need:
- long rope;
- scissors;
- small weight.
How to play:
- Cut the rope to the desired size, tie a weight to its end. One child becomes a driver, others stand in front of him in a semicircle.
- The driver takes the end of the rope without a weight in his hand. In this case, the second edge with a weighting agent is located near the feet of the children.
- The leader will rotate around its axis, while the rope should make a circle. When the weight starts to come up to the feet of the children, everyone should jump. If someone did not have time to do this, was hurt by this subject, he himself becomes the leader.
Instead of a rope and weighting material, you can take ordinary jump ropes of the required length, use them as a fishing rod.
Game "Chairs"
This fun can be included in the outdoor entertainment program. Take folding stools with you, use them. Both children and adults can play such outdoor games. You will need musical accompaniment. Place the chairs in a circle, their number should be 1 less than the number of participants.
Put on some fun music and let the competitors run around these attributes. When you turn off the song, everyone should take a chair. Anyone who did not get this attribute is eliminated from the game. For the next round, you need to remove one more chair, and so on.
Traffic light game
The kids really like her. For her, you need to put on accessories of different colors in advance, this trick will help you win. You can put handkerchiefs of different colors in your pocket, tie laces of different colors on your sneakers.
- One person will play the role of the Traffic Light. He stands with his back to those around him. When the game starts, the traffic light turns sharply towards the competitors and pronounces a certain color.
- Now, in order to pass to the other side, each participant must hold onto the item of this color that he has.
- If there is no such color on the details of clothing, then the person quickly runs to the other side. If the traffic light managed to leave it at this time, it means that the unlucky runner must now take the place of the driver.
Children's musical instruments with their own hands
It is also important to develop the child's ear for music. To do this, make the game tutorials presented below.
Sounds of the rain
To recreate it, you will need:
- cardboard tube from baking paper or foil;
- scissors;
- awl;
- toothpicks;
- glue;
- colored tape;
- cardboard;
- cereals.
Use an awl to poke many holes on the surface of the cardboard tube.
The more there are, the more the instrument will resemble the sound of rain. Now insert toothpicks into these holes, fix them with drops of glue. Cut the sharp ends of the wooden skewers flush with the cardboard tubes so that they do not go over the edges. Cover the bottom with a piece of cardboard, secure with a piece of tape.
Experimentally find out how much cereal is needed so that when shaken the instrument makes sounds similar to the sound of rain. You can add buckwheat or rice, but millet is the best. Cover the top hole of the tube with a circle of cardboard, also fix it with colored tape.
You can make another noise instrument as well.
Castanets
To make it, you just need to take:
- a sheet of cardboard;
- scissors;
- reliable glue;
- plastic or iron bottle caps.
Cut a rectangle out of cardboard so that it is comfortable for the child to hold in his hand, bending it in half. Glue the covers on the first and second edges of this blank. The child will bend the cardboard, knock one half against the other.
If you have large buttons, use two. Sew on each elastic so that the child can put them on their fingers and tap one against the other.
Metal lids on cardboard will make more shrill sounds.
You can make a noise musical instrument from other materials. They will use nutshells, coffee cans and other waste material that is usually thrown away.
Noise musical instruments
For this take:
- two toilet paper rolls or empty metal cans where coffee used to be;
- cereals or small stones;
- beads;
- cardboard;
- colored paper;
- stationery rubber bands.
Manufacturing features:
- If you are using toilet paper sleeves, then glue a mug of cardboard to their back ends.
- Cover them with a sheet of colored paper, securing it with rubber bands.
- Pour small pebbles, beads, sand or cereals inside, fix this hole in the same way.
- If you are using empty coffee cans, then after filling them, fix in the same way on one side only.
Do not give these toys to a child under 3 years old. Keep an eye on the older ones as well, because these noise instruments have a small filler. And here is another funny little thing from junk material.
To make this musical slingshot, take:
- wooden rogulin;
- sandpaper;
- thin elastic band;
- acorn hats;
- small metal buttons on the legs;
- awl;
- scissors.
In each acorn cap, make through holes with an awl, 2 pieces each. Thread the elastic through the thick-eye needle. String acorn caps and small metal buttons on it.
After the pistachios or walnuts are eaten, they leave a bunch of husks. In order not to throw out this garbage, create other noise music playing aids out of it.
To make this type of ratchet, take:
- dense threads;
- two sticks;
- awl;
- shells from pistachios.
Sand the spear sticks with emery paper to make this workpiece smooth. With an awl, make a hole in each shell, string these elements on the thread. Then you will need to tie them to one or two sticks.
An interesting noise musical instrument is also obtained from walnut shells. Holes are also made in them with an awl, threads or elastic bands are threaded here, then tied at the top. The child will begin to shake the instrument, holding it by the handle, interesting sounds will be obtained.
Drum
To do this, you would take:
- a metal can of cookies or tea;
- awl;
- semolina;
- thin satin ribbon;
- 2 helium or ballpoint pens;
- two containers from under shoe covers;
- Scotch;
- scissors.
Master class on creating:
- Sprinkle semolina on the bottom of the metal can in a layer of 1 cm, this will allow the sounds to be made not to be too loud.
- With an awl, make a couple of holes opposite each other with an awl on the top of the wall, thread the tape here, fix it by tying it. Tape the lid to the jar.
- To make drum sticks, unscrew the tip from the handle, make a small hole in the cover of the shoe cover with a knife. Pass the pen body into it, screw the tip.
- Close the shoe cover capsule. If you want to get an even more interesting sound, then first pour cereals, small pebbles or beads into these two small containers.
For the next reel you will need:
- an empty can of canned food;
- burst balloons;
- stationery rubber bands.
Pull a piece of a burst balloon over the jar, if there are others, you can put them on top. Secure the structure with a rubber band and the drum is ready.
Wind instruments
You can easily turn cocktail straws into a pipe. The tip must be cut at an angle.
If you want your child to make different sounds, then make straws of different lengths.
And if you take these blanks, fasten them in pairs with colored tape, arranging them in size, you get such a musical wind instrument.
For the following, you only need two items:
- comb;
- tissue paper or foil.
Cover the teeth of the comb with foil or tissue paper. When a child takes this part of a musical instrument into his mouth, blowing on it, he will be able to make funny sounds.
Here are some do-it-yourself playbooks so that a child from an early age receives all-round development. How to make musical instruments from scrap materials, see the video.
How to make play aids for a child, the following review will show.
