Role-playing games "Shop", "Cafe" will help children learn about the professions of a seller, waiter, cook. The Village Courtyard will give them an idea of a country house. It is no secret that it is much more interesting for children to learn if this process is arranged in the form of a game. The task of adults is to come up with what kind of activity to offer to the child, to provide the child with the necessary attributes. He will surely like interesting educational games, and this is preparation for school for children. Both girls and boys can be involved, some of them will temporarily become cashiers, others will become sellers, and others will become buyers.
RPG Shop
You will find some attributes for it at home, others you can do together with the guys.
Of course, children will be happy to visit the confectionery department of the store. You will make cakes for this game with them. So the children will develop fine motor skills, a sense of beauty, repeat colors, and train in counting. You can think of an assignment for the child to write the name of the cakes. To do this, you need:
- sponges;
- synthetic winterizer or similar synthetic material;
- glue gun;
- roses from satin ribbons;
- ladybugs, flowers for decoration.
- First of all, you need to attach sponges to the sheet synthetic winterizer. Have your child carve a synthetic white material along these lines. Now you need to glue it to the sponge as if it were the icing on the cake. You can make roses from satin ribbons in any way that suits you.
- These elements need to be glued to the top of the cakes, decorated with artificial sweets with flowers, beads and other decorative items. If you do not want to make flowers from fabric, then you can make roses from corrugated paper to decorate cakes or do something different.
- Take a large sponge, cut a triangle from it, glue a black mesh on top. This will make a piece of cake. As for cakes, you need to make a price tag for it, put it next to this sweet.
The role-playing game "Shop" is not only about the creation of similar assortment goods. To make everything for the game closer to reality, make products from the meat and fish department with your child.
To make a cooked sausage, take:
- stocking;
- filler;
- strong rope;
- scissors.
Cut off the bottom part - the trail from the stocking, fill the resulting tube with filler. It can be a synthetic winterizer, holofiber and even cut unnecessary things. Tie this blank with a rope, cut off the excess.
To make a vobla, draw a fish on cardboard, cut it out. The child will be happy to depict scales, eyes, tail, and other details on it. For fresh fish you will need:
- tray;
- a pen;
- stationery knife;
- sheet;
- cling film;
- Styrofoam.
Have your child touch the newly created cardboard fish to the Styrofoam and trace around it using this pattern. But the cut is better for parents.
If you use scissors, the foam can crumble, so it is better to take a clerical knife, use it for this job. Parents will do this. The child himself will paint this blank. Help him put the fish in the tray, wrap this product with cling film.
You will need the same film to make another product. Together with your child, you will create toy meat from corrugated cardboard. Let the kid then paint it in the desired color.
The rest of the food for the store will come from empty packages. To do this, take a box of juice, dairy products, yogurt, wash them well, wipe dry. Glue the price tags here with your child.
The best not to include cereals in the game if they are in their original packaging, since there is almost a kilogram, and the grain can spill out, because it is covered with a thin film. Therefore, it is better to take small plastic bags, put some cereals in them. You also need to stick price tags on them.
Of course, you can't include real chicken eggs in the game, because they are beating. They are easy to make from styrofoam, giving it the desired shape. You can leave these items in this form or put a white crocheted mesh on them on top.
Fruits and vegetables are also required for this role-playing game. You can use plastic ones or make them yourself.
To make detergents, you need to tear off the sticker from the real ones or cut out of their packaging. Let the child, taking glue, attach the labels to the juice box, milk box, plastic jars.
To make the Shop RPG a success, see how to make vegetables and fruits from a variety of materials. These items will be durable. Children will play in them not a single day.
How to make vegetables and fruits with your own hands?
The guys will be happy to make them out of newspapers and paper. Tell them about the new papier-mâché technique if they are not already familiar with it. Before that, prepare:
- unnecessary newspapers and paper;
- PVA glue;
- semolina;
- paints;
- brushes;
- bowls.
Master Class:
- First you need to tear the newspaper and sheets of paper. If you have real vegetables and fruits or from plastic, then you need to grease them with PVC glue, attach paper pieces on top in several layers. If there is no such base, then use pieces of toilet paper or napkins, all this is folded into a bowl, where glue is poured, diluted in half with water.
- When the mass is well wet, it is taken out of the container, the excess glue is allowed to drain, then fruits and vegetables of the desired shape are formed.
- Now children need to be patient, since all these blanks need to be laid on a tray, put away in a warm place to dry. This will take 1-2 days.
- But after this time, they will get their crafts and continue to create. If the mass of papier-mâché was applied to plastic or real fruits, then let the parents carefully cut this upper part in half with a knife, remove the papier-mâché blanks from the base, glue each pair into a single whole.
- And here's how to make vegetables and fruits that have formed from napkins and paper. Taking these blanks in hand, children will be able to immediately start decorating. Let the glue be applied to the surface. You need to put semolina in a separate container, the guys will sprinkle it on the sticky surface of paper vegetables and fruits.
- This layer also needs to be allowed to dry, only after that you can start painting these products in the desired color using gouache and PVA glue, diluted one to one.
Here's how to make your own fruits and vegetables to make them look so authentic.
Such games for children can be carried out at school or in kindergarten, in the senior, preparatory group. Children will be happy to do this kind of creativity at home.
DIY products from threads and fabric
If parents know how to knit, they will create most of the products for a toy store or cafe from threads. To make scrambled eggs with sausage, you need: yellow, white, burgundy threads. Start knitting with frosting from the center with yellow threads. Using a crochet hook, create air loops, connect this chain to make a small circle. Next, you need to knit in a circle. When the yolk of the desired size is created, change the thread to white, knit a circle with this yarn to the end.
The sausage is made using the same technology, but from dark yarn. Fat circles are embroidered with white thread.
To make spaghetti with ketchup, take:
- white yarn;
- hook;
- red fleece;
- filler.
Using a crochet hook, knit a long chain of white thread. Even a child of 6-7 years old can do this. Teach children to needlework from a young age, teach them how to create such simple objects.
Cut out small circles from red fleece, fill them with filler, sew the edges of the fabric from the back side. Place these drops of ketchup on top of the pasta and the game dish is ready.
With the help of such objects, kids can imagine themselves in a cafe. Some will be a waiter, others will be cooks, others will be visitors. Thus, you will solve one more problem, the children will acquire the skills of acquaintance with professions.
See how wonderful such dumplings look, almost like real ones.
Making them is not difficult at all, the main thing is to take:
- white or yellow fleece;
- circle pattern;
- filler;
- threads with a needle;
- scissors.
Crafting workshop:
- Place a circle on the wrong side of the fabric, outline and cut out. You will need several of these parts, as many as you want to make dumplings.
- Place the filler on one side of the circle, cover it with the other half. Using an over-the-edge seam, join the two halves of the same dumplings. If desired, these blanks can easily become dumplings if you change their name.
- Other semi-finished products will turn into dumplings, you just need to pull their opposite corners to each other, sew in this place.
Fish is easily created from fleece. To do this, you need to cut out 2 identical blanks from this fabric, fill with padding polyester, sew on your hands over the edge. It remains to sew on the eyes from the buttons or glue the purchased ones. Although you can make them from a blister from a tablet, where a small circle of plasticine fits.
Cakes can also be knitted or made as described in the beginning.
So, the children got acquainted with the profession of a seller, cashier, cook, waiter, learned to count better, express thoughts, handicrafts. Perhaps one of them will later want to become a farmer or acquire a farm, the following role-playing game will help in this. She will also give kids an idea of pets.
Role play country courtyard
Another goal of creating such a craft, a game, is to educate children in love for their native land, so that they want to take care of birds and pets. The guys will improve their speech by coming up with short stories on the topic.
To create such a craft, take:
- ice cream sticks;
- a box from a New Year's gift in the form of a house;
- decorative stones;
- straw;
- scissors;
- PVA;
- toy pets;
- flat cardboard box;
- green paper.
Have the child grease the back of the paper with glue and attach it to the bottom and sides of the box. The bench is easy to make with ice cream sticks. You will create a well from matches, gluing four in each row. Tie a thimble to a thread, so the well bucket is ready.
To make a house, glue the cardboard New Year's gift with ice cream sticks.
If you do not have a similar base in the form of a gift house, then cut out the details of the structure from thick cardboard, connect them with slots and glue, then decorate them with wooden sticks. To make a crib for animals, you need to glue the base, cut out of cardboard, with straw. In this case, a blank for feeding birds was used.
In the end, make a fence of ice cream sticks, a bridge, put some hay on the side of the composition, place toy people and animals. By moving them, children can act out interesting stories or come up with a fairy tale. Tell them how to feed the animals, take care of them, the children will embody this knowledge in the game.
Another rural courtyard can be made using cardboard as a basis. If the sheet is large, then just fold it twice to make 3 walls. If the sheets are small, then first connect them together with tape, why cover them with colored paper.
Animal figurines can be cut out of magazines, glued to thick cardboard so that you can play with them without wrinkling. Children can draw a house, trees, grass or cut out of colored paper, stick it on the base.
These role-playing games will help children learn about various professions, about agriculture. Playing with them in a playful way, you will help your children get ready for school. Visual video tutorials also contribute to this.
The first tells you how to make a papier-mâché apple. It will come in handy for a toy store.
The following shows how to make scrambled eggs in a cork. This craft can also be used to play in the store or children's cafe.
