Now to purchase a high-quality educational toy for a child is not a cheap pleasure. Such toys are quite expensive, and for the full development of the baby you need to play them regularly. So what about young parents in this situation? There is a way out - to make educational toys with your own hands, because it is not difficult at all!
Try to combine regular classes with educational toys and games with improvised materials available in your home - this approach will allow your child to more actively learn about the diversity of the world around him. It is not difficult to make educational toys for children up to a year with their own hands . Take a look around and you will find a huge amount of improvised materials from which you can quickly make teaching aids for your child. By their developmental properties, they are often not inferior to expensive store analogues. Take, for example, games with cereals - these unpretentious activities develop fine motor skills and they will certainly enjoy the little one.
Place two cups in front of the baby: a cup with cereal and an empty cup. First, gently moving the child’s hand, helping him, try to pick up an incomplete spoon of cereal from the vessel, wait until the cereal ceases to pour from the spoon, and then transfer the spoon with the cereal to the right cup and knock it over into the container.
Give your baby a spoon and two small containers (preferably plastic). In one of them, place a little cereal and show the child how to pour cereal from one vessel into another with a spoon. "Cook" with the baby porridge for the doll and soup for the bear. This simple game will help teach your child how to handle a spoon.
There is an opinion that it is much more interesting for children under three to play with things that are used by adult family members. Therefore, do not rush to buy expensive bright toys for the child in stores, but take a free minute and start making crafts with your own hands from "adult" improvised tools.
A rattle made using a cream jar with caring mother's hands, which can be better! The jar must be thoroughly washed from the remnants of the cream, dried and poured into it coins, buttons or cereals. In a variety of boxes and jars, you can pour various “fillers”, while achieving different sounds of homemade rattles.
A multifunctional rug is a very popular and useful educational toy, it is quite possible to make it with your own hands. To independently build such a rug, you need to take as a basis a piece of durable fabric of about 1 mx 1 m. On top of the fabric, you can sew bright, colorful patches of different textures - leather, fur, velvet, as well as fabrics with fun children's themes (hedgehogs, trains, balls). Mixed with them you need to sew buttons, bells, laces of different sizes and colors. Such a homemade children's designer, thanks to a combination of various forms of sensory influence (sound, tactile, visual), perfectly stimulates the development of hearing, visual and tactile functions of the baby and attracts his attention for a long time, giving parents the opportunity to relax a bit.
Connect older children, dads, grandfathers and grandmothers to co-manufacture toys for the baby. Try to make developing toys with your own hands with your child - after all, all children like to be indispensable helpers and partners. Remember that the time you spent with your child will never be wasted. The main thing, making educational toys with your own hands, do not forget that their main task is to be fun, interesting, varied and in no case games should not bore the baby and not remind you of boring activities.