20 most necessary and interesting items and toys for the development of fine motor skills: how to make and how to play, the child’s correct grasp of toy parts.

20 most necessary and interesting objects and toys for the development of fine motor skills

About the main factors of success in the development of fine motor skills of children. We have already talked about it in articles (massage of hands and fingers, how to correctly carry out and select exercises) and\

In this article, I have compiled a list of the most interesting and unusual objects and toys for children to develop fine motor skills. And I give ideas and recommendations on how best to use them and what to pay attention to.

1. BRIGHT SATIN Ribbons OF DIFFERENT WIDTH.

Take bells or bells and tie bright multi-colored satin ribbons to them. Tie a string across the crib and attach bells to it. Place the ribbon in the child's hand and ring it. With this exercise we encourage the baby of the first year of life to grab the ribbons and cause the bells to ring.

2. TOOLS AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS:

- spoon (we transfer balls, large beads, small pom-poms from the tray into a vessel with a spoon; we transfer with a spoon and sort two types of nuts - for example, walnuts and hazelnuts),
- a net (we use a net to catch small floating toys in a basin or in the bathroom),
- sieve (sift through a sieve and separate the beans from the semolina).
- hammer (use a hammer to drive pegs into holes of different sizes),
- a stick (we use a stick to move the toy towards us if it is far away and inaccessible),
- spatula and scoop (we work with sand),
- fishing rod for magnetic fish,
- a cord with a wooden needle for stringing various objects,
- a jug or ladle (we pour water from one vessel to another).

Such games with objects develop sensorimotor coordination, visual-effective thinking, and coordinated work of both hands of the baby.

3. SHOELACES, BANDS AND ROPES.

Instead of ribbons, you can use ribbons of different textures. Tie ribbons and strings of different textures to sounding or ordinary toys, and hang the toys above the child’s crib. Place the ends of the ribbons in the baby's palms. Show how you can make toys move. The baby will grab the ribbons, training his fingers and learning to grasp the thickness and texture of the cord when gripping.

4. WOODEN KHOKHLOMA TEA SPOONS.

From the age of 3 months The baby's fingers begin to gradually unbend. Before this, they were tightly clenched into a fist. Therefore, to develop the ability to grasp an object, you need to purchase toys or objects with a handle that the baby can grab onto. You can use small, light Khokhloma teaspoons.

You will find exercises with spoons in the section

Baby is 3-4 months old Give only objects with an easy-to-grip handle shape.

You can tightly tie two wooden spoons to each other as a pair (through a hole in the handle or by tying the spoons tightly with a cord) and give the game to the child. With these spoons you can knock on a chair or against each other, wrap a string around objects or on your fingers and unwind it, take one spoon and watch how another spoon swings on the string. This will be interesting for a one-year-old child.

5. BALL THROWS.

If you have a gymnastics complex or a wall bars, then make a ball drop on them for your child to experiment with balls. You will need three plastic pipes of different diameters (you can buy them at a hardware store) and balls of three different sizes from different materials. The child climbs along the wall to the upper edge of the pipe and lowers the ball into it. He needs to empirically find a pipe of a suitable size for the ball so that it can roll down the pipe. When climbing, the baby alternates between arms and legs, which is also useful for his development. Below, the balls fall into the box with different sounds.

6. PIPETTE.

You will need a bulb pipette with a plastic thin end from the pharmacy. Show her how to act. We squeeze the bulb, lower the pipette into a glass of water and unclench it. Water filled the pear. Then pour the water through a pipette into an empty jar. You can drip from a pipette onto flowers drawn on a plastic modeling board (“water the flowers”), drip from a pipette into cells on the palette (one drop into each cell), make colored water using watercolor paints and mixing them (we drip with different pipettes from different jars and see what happens when mixing colors).

7. RUBBER PEAR (sold at the pharmacy).

Buy a small pear. By pressing it, you get a stream of air that can be used to blow away a piece of cotton wool or a leaf from the table. You can even play football, trying to force a cotton wool into a goal made of two cubes with a stream of air. For children in the first year of life, a pear is not needed; this role is performed by rubber toys - squeakers, by playing with which the baby develops hand strength.

You can play rain with a rubber bulb: squeeze the bulb to make splashes. This game can be played outside in the summer or at home in the bathroom.

8. HOMEMADE GARLAND FROM TOYS.

When a baby of the first year of life learns to grab toys and hold them in his palm, you can give him a toy - a homemade garland.

Take toys 5-7 cm in size for her and connect them tightly with a ribbon into a circle. You can use rings of different colors and sizes from a plastic pyramid and string them on a rope, use balls, cubes and bricks from sets of geometric shapes in a garland - they require different positions of the fingers when grasping and develop the baby’s hand. You cannot use small toys in the garland that the baby could swallow.

You can make a garland from plastic bottles with lids. In each bottle we make two holes opposite each other, and stretch the cord through them. We put small toys on the sides of the vessels. Fill the vessels with different fillers. The vessels can be moved along the cord, held in the hand, and different sounds can be produced. For fillers, you can use any large elements that will not spill out through the holes: buckwheat, beans, peas, semolina, bells, paper clips, buttons, pasta, large beads and other items.

9. RATTLES WITH DIFFERENT HANDLE SHAPE. From 5 months

Give your baby rattles with different handle shapes - this is very important! The handle can be in the form of a stick, loop, club, ring, dumbbell, or animal tail. If you sew or knit rattles yourself, then select different textures for different parts of the rattle, put different fillers or bells into it. The baby will learn to make various movements to grab a toy, taking into account its shape, act differently with his fingers when grasping, feel different textures, peel off parts with Velcro and fasten them again.

For each type of handle, the child’s hand makes its own specific type of movement - sliding or looping movements, so this principle of selecting toys is very important for the development of the baby.

10. PLASTIC BOTTLES WITH LIDS - NOISE MAKERS (for tasks on sorting objects).

We mix two types of filling in one box - peas and beans, or shells and pebbles, or buttons and small bells. And ask your child to help you make sounding toys. We fill bottles or matryoshka toys, barrels with filler. One container contains one type of filler. First, the baby sorts two types of objects (puts peas into one nesting doll, and beans into another nesting doll): “Matryoshka Katya loves peas, she has a polka dot dress. And Matryoshka Lena loves beans.” Then you can sort up to 5 items. After making the toy with the baby, we try to ring or rustle it.

11. SLINGOBEADS.

Baby sling beads can also serve as a garland. They need to be knitted or sewn in a special way. It is advisable to use different threads to get different textures of the beads. The beads should be large, of different colors and sizes. The baby can play with beads only in the presence of his mother. The beads must be fastened very firmly so that the baby cannot bite off and swallow the part.

12. PIECES OF FABRIC.

Child from 5 months and older Only pillows and scraps of fabric of different textures (corduroy, broadcloth, chintz, silk, velvet, wool, knitwear) can be given for games. Give your baby the opportunity to grab a piece of fabric with his fingers. Once your child grabs the piece, slowly pull the other corner of the piece, encouraging your baby to hold the fabric tightly in his hand. This develops his hands.

When the baby grows up, let him select pairs of scraps according to texture.

13. TOYS WITH MOVING PARTS.

From six months and older We need toys that can change their appearance - with moving elements, ropes for pulling parts, with rotating parts. They will encourage your baby to interact with small objects and develop his hand. These can be ready-made toys, textile books and rugs, sewn patchwork balls of different textures with removable elements.

14. BALLS OF DIFFERENT SIZES.

Ball games develop the correct grip of objects and the separation of the thumb from other fingers. The baby begins to hold objects, clasping them with his palms and thumbs of both hands. At the same time, he begins to hold his thumb separately from the other fingers - this is a special stage in the development of fine motor skills (For more information about the importance of separating the thumb from the other fingers of the baby’s hand, read the article).

Balls can be thrown forward, down, up, rolled into a goal or into a hole in the ground, caught, pushed away, thrown into a basket on the floor, thrown and caught up, run, holding the ball with both hands in front of you.

Balls can be rolled downhill. To do this, make a slide out of a long, narrow sheet of cardboard with sides in the shape of the letter P. Place it on a stack of books or a low bench to create a slide that can be used to roll balls and balls. You can vary the height of the slide and see how far the ball rolls.

15. NESTING DOLL OR BOCHATA FROM TWO HALVES.

The baby learns to disassemble and assemble a nesting doll and at the same time develops his fingers and the ability to relate the details of objects. What kind of nesting dolls do we give to the baby to play with? 1 year 1 month – 1 year 3 months
– two nesting dolls with a difference in size of approximately 3 cm. The small nesting doll does not open. From 1 year 3 months to 1 year 6 months.
Two nesting dolls with the same difference in size, but both of them are detachable (that is, they consist of two parts and open and close). From 1 year 6 months to 1 year 9 months
- three nesting dolls with the same difference in size. Two detachable nesting dolls, one – the smallest one – is one-piece. From 1 year 9 months to 2 years
- three nesting dolls with the same difference in size, but all three nesting dolls are detachable. From 2 years to 2 years 6 months
– a child can assemble a 4-5-seater nesting doll by himself, all the nesting dolls open up. From 2 years 6 months to 3 years

– the child learns to assemble a 6-seater nesting doll, and all the nesting dolls are detachable (open and close).

You can read how to teach a child to play with nesting dolls in the article

The development of fine motor skills is also helped by the baby playing with pyramids of a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

16. SPINNERS.

First, the baby learns to launch a spinning top, and then large-sized tops. And after that, give the baby small tops. Instead of a top, you can use and spin any other objects: pyramid rings, balls, plastic bowls, etc.

17. WIND-UP TOYS.

It is useful for the development of fine motor skills to wind wind-up toys with a key.

First, the baby learns to dress a doll, a bear, a bunny, and then - to dress himself.

19. CLOTHESPENS.

Teach your child to play washing and hang small items and toy clothes on the line to dry. The rope should be at the child's eye level. The baby attaches each item with a clothespin. Teach him to “open” and “close” a clothespin and attach it to a rope.

20. FIGURES - “Velcro” MADE OF POLYSTYRENE OR POLYPROPYLENE (sets are sold in children's stores).

Teach your child to dip the figurine in water and attach it to the bathroom wall (the figurine will hold tightly), and to make your own compositions from the figurines. The figurine is grasped with all fingers, with the thumb separated - show the baby the correct grip.
For the development of fine motor skills, it is not the number of toys or games at home that is important, but the child’s correct grasp of small elements in the game.

IT IS IMPORTANT: Make sure that in all games for the development of fine motor skills, the baby correctly grasps small elements of toys: with a pinch (three fingers) or a tweezer grip (thumb and index finger). Show me how it's done. First, use three-dimensional elements for such a grip, then use flat ones (grasping flat objects is more difficult for a baby).

The baby grabs large parts with a handful, small ones with tweezers with the tips of his fingers.

You will find more materials for the development of children in the sections of the site and

You will find more interesting ideas and basic theoretical principles about the development of fine motor skills in children in the articles on the “Native Path” website:

— — myths and truth about finger games, how to properly conduct finger gymnastics and finger games with preschoolers, exercises for the development of fine motor skills, hand and finger massage for the little ones.

How to determine the level of development of fine motor skills in a child, exercises for fingers in pictures and poems, exercises by Maria Montessori, shadow finger theater.

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The essence of the whole game comes down to the maximally constructed series of one color falling out, that is, how much money you have enough to raise the bet. I thought so until I realized one thing that I didn’t attach much importance to at the very beginning of the game.

There are 3 rooms with different maximum bets:

• 1 hall - from 0.01 rubles to 5 rubles;
• 2nd hall - from 1 rub. up to 500 rub.;
• Hall 3 - from 5 rubles. up to 2500 rub.

So, let’s say we play in the first room with a maximum bet of 5 rubles. By placing a bet of 1 kopeck, if we win, we win 2 kopecks, that is, we bet as much as we won. But if you count the series:

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512.

That is, the maximum series is 10. And then, making the tenth bet, if we win, we will lose 12 kopecks, because we bet 5 rubles, and not 5.12 rubles. to recoup all previous bets.

So, after playing for several days, my streak only reached 9. I started thinking, what if I play for larger bets in the second room. That is, the bet is 1 ruble, but I topped up my casino account with 1000 rubles in order to play the maximum series. To my surprise, the streak increased to 10 and I lost.

Hypothesis with playing only 3 minutes a day

I was very upset. I started studying and watching all the videos about playing roulette. The guys promise mountains of gold everywhere, and their game plans differ, but what’s most interesting is that they all win!

I will work at a loss

Do you think anyone would want to make their casino so that it brings only losses? And people only won in it? Even if not all. No. Never and no one.

The essence of casino algorithms is to adapt to your gaming strategy. Don’t be surprised, but the algorithms in the casino know that you are playing according to the strategy, thus they increase the series, the same number appears several times in a row, zero. And the series increases so much that the bet is not enough and you lose all the money.

I used the method of playing alternately bet on one strategy, after winning, bet on another strategy - all in vain, it is calculated in a couple of bets and the casino already has complete control over you.

Iron composure

Not only did it take me a lot of nerves and time to get to this point and study all these principles. Fortunately, not money. To place a bet on one color in a row requires incredible nerves of steel, believe me, it’s not so easy when you see that my color is losing and your nerves are screaming to bet on the opposite one! Sometimes I got lost and failed, but fortunately I tested all my algorithms on pennies).

Then I just couldn’t resist playing because it seemed to me that I had finally developed a win-win version of the game! No, that's not true, THERE IS NO FREE TIME ON THE INTERNET! And there are no free casinos either. This is a myth, a scam and an impudent fawn!

You will never know what your series will be, because by using one or another method of play, the casino changes its algorithms. Yes, this is so, I have noticed this more than once - it was clearly and clearly visible!

There's not even a possibility

In on-line casinos there is not even an elementary mathematical probability with which a color should appear.

The option with the game only for 3 minutes was solved the very next day! Yes, that’s right, the algorithms are built on the principle of luring you into playing, giving you the slightest chance of winning, and then stripping you dry. They know in advance that no one will win anything.

There will be a third part...

At all times in culture there are special characters - heroes. Heroes can be real or fictional. But heroes always lead, because that is their role - to be leaders. Who is the hero for a child today?
What is it like and where does it lead? Modern parents are faced with a huge variety of the most extraordinary characters who appear in the nursery faster than adults have time to realize who they are and how they got into the house. Over the past ten years, we have experienced many such creatures - Tamagotchis, Teletubbies, Spiders, Ninjas, Petshops, Winx, Transformers - heroes of children's games and fantasies. Today there are two armies of new aliens in the “arena” - Bakugans and Zoobles. We present them together because in part they are “relatives”.

Who are Bakugan, how do they differ from Zoobles and how to play them?
Bakugan - (Japanese) is a fighting monster that reveals its true power during battle. The Bakugan toy is a ball that consists of a folded monster and a stand, and opens when it comes into contact with a special magnetized playing card.

Zoobles is positioned as a Bakugan for girls. Its principle is the same - an opening ball, but the internal content is different. If the Bakugan ball contains the body of an entire monster, most often with wings and a stand, then the Zoobles ball is rather its head, in which, upon contact with a magnet, eyes or ears can open, and the lower part of the body can appear below. Zoobles himself is a tiny peaceful animal from the island of Zoobl, he can look like a bunny, bird, fish, etc.

Both toys look like ordinary small multi-colored balls. However, in essence, we have a new type of toy - a synthesis of several types of toys at once. The first successful move in creating this toy is that it easily fits in a child’s palm - the most suitable size of the toy for children 6-9 years old. The second success is that the balls are designed to be multi-colored, different in size and “filling”, that is, they can be collected. The third discovery is a little secret - someone lives in a small ball, a creature with legs and wings, it is revealed only under certain conditions. Fourth - when revealed, the creature is filled with special magical power. Possession of this little secret gives protection from enemies or possible fears. Fifth, a small ball stepped from the screen of a modern cartoon - provides a certain status among peers.
At first glance, Bakugan as a toy can be interesting for children of all ages - even one-year-old babies can show interest in the surprise - there was a ball that turned into a creature. However, the time of playing with a surprise toy is extremely short - a few minutes. Therefore, in this capacity, Bakugan will not hold the attention of children for long. For a much longer time, toys are interesting as a collection of multi-colored balls - you can look at them, roll them around, hide them in houses, push them together, in a word, you can play with them like ordinary small balls. For children of primary preschool age (3-5 years), balls can become an interesting material for experimentation, because they have a mechanism with a spring, which is activated by contact with a magnet. Here you can launch a whole scientific study - where the ball will open and where it won’t, and what if you throw it into water, lean it against a metal surface, push it against each other, etc.

At the age of about 4 years, children begin to discover the character traits of the hero inherent in his image. A child who is not familiar with the plot of the cartoon and the rules of the game, based on external signs, such as the color and appearance of the toy, can imagine it as good or evil, cheerful or sad, determine where it can live, what to eat, who to be friends with and what to do.
How to play Bakugan? At its core, the game of Bakugan is a strategic board game, where balls with monsters are chips. In strategy games, the child thinks through his moves, learns to anticipate the actions of a partner or opponent, and develop clever tactics. For children over 7-8 years old, playing Bakugan is an exciting and meaningful game that develops arbitrariness, attention, memory, logical and spatial thinking, communication skills, and the ability to work in a team.

However, if the Bakugan themselves are just harmless balls, and the game is a useful collective activity for children, it is in the nature of the characters and in the features of the cartoon itself that there is a possibility of turning it into a rather destructive activity. In 2011, employees of the Center for Games and Toys of the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education conducted a small pilot study of children's play with Bakugan toys. One group consisted of children who watched a cartoon and had their own Bakugan balls. In the other group, the children did not watch the cartoon, and only saw the balls or played with them before. Observation of children's free play was recorded on video. Observations of the games of preschool children showed the following. The majority of children who watched the cartoon about Bakugan showed signs of increased levels of verbal and motor aggression in directed and role-playing games. Let us give an example of a transcript of a game played by children aged 5-6 years.
- Bakugan, they will burn the trees, the road. They will attack the railway and train.
- Thousand-thousand (the girl pushes the Bakugan and throws them onto the trailers, onto the train) - they crashed!
- Yes, they will all die, all the locomotives and passengers.
-Let them take locomotives and grab them (the boy grabs the trailer with the tentacles of the Bakugan) and throw them, and then burn them with fire, he has fire (burns the trailer for fun).
- Yes, they have a lot of weapons, we have weapons, we will burn everyone, all adults and children too, burn and throw everyone away.
- They come to life at night... No, they don’t come to life... They will eat me, they are scary
- Yes, they eat people at night and scare them!

This content of children's play is largely due to the complex, rich, bright aggressive scenes from the cartoon. At this age, children are not yet able to retain all the complexity of the story, the plot and relationships of the characters, and also transfer the plot into the space of a complex strategic game. However, after watching the cartoon, a deep emotional experience remains, which is reflected in the children’s play. In this game, children were able to express their experiences in an acceptable playful form and in an imaginary space, but the plot of the game could have turned out differently if it had not been for watching the cartoon.
Children in the control group, who did not watch the cartoon about Bakugan, demonstrated experimental games and games with everyday stories.
-Let's play them! Hey, it's Bakugan!
- I'm closing it! They are magnetic!
- Oh, look, it's now blue, now it's dark!
- Move away, we're flying! Mine flew to another planet!
- And mine flies! And - this is a ball, it opens up! - these Papugans are always closed!
- Not Papugany, but Bapugany! Do they cling?
- No, you need to turn it over!
- Not necessary, can be on either side
The child’s need to overcome himself, to strive to be the best, to strive to be a hero today is provided by such, at first glance, strange creatures. Children react sensitively to the appearance of something new and immediately try out new characters for strength. The content of a child's game can tell adults about what is happening to the child and what he is most interested in. Board games of Bakugan and sets for director's games of Zubles can seriously compete with computer games; they distract children from monitor screens, bringing back the forgotten tradition of playing together “live.” These sets are most appropriate for playing by younger schoolchildren. At younger ages they can be a fun toy to experiment with or direct play with character toys.

Bakugan and Zoobles are small monsters that fold and open when a certain impact is applied to them: when they come into contact with a magnetic pad, when they hit a hard surface, for example, when thrown, etc. Despite their similarity in principle, these toys differ from each other.

Bakugan

Bakugan is translated from Japanese as a fighting monster that reveals its essence and true strength during battle. The Bakugan itself is a ball consisting of a monster and a stand. The Bakugan ball contains the body of an entire monster, which has wings and much more. The advantageous difference from other toys is that it combines several types of toys, and besides, it easily fits in the palm of a child.

Experts assure that the palm size is optimal for a child aged 6-9 years. Although in practice, children begin to play Bakugan earlier - from the age of 4.

Bakugan are also colorful and have different sizes and fillings, making them possible. In addition, each ball hides different heroes, who are revealed only in certain ones. The Bakugan opening mechanism is a small spring that is activated when it comes into contact with a magnet. Thanks to this, entire studies can be carried out on how and when the balls open. You can check whether it will open underwater, when colliding with another Bakugan, etc.

Playing Bakugan is a whole strategy. You can come up with your own plot, develop moves and actions for the heroes. You can also assign your own characteristics to characters: character, behavioral characteristics, etc. Therefore, it is believed that Bakugan is a toy.

Zoobles

Zoobles toys are Bakugan. They are small and mischievous creatures that live on the mystical island of Zoobl. Zoobles are a development from the same company that made Bakuganov - SpinMaster.

When Zoobles is asleep, he is just a normal ball. However, once you place it on a special magnetic pad, it opens up into a cute creature that you can play with. Zoobles, unlike Bakugan, are cute animals. In each of them you can guess the features of a particular animal - cats, dogs, etc.

Zoobles, like Bakugan, are quite diverse, thanks to which you can create entire collections, gather families and play role-playing games. In addition, modern manufacturers have tried and created an entire industry for Zoobles: houses, swings, cars, etc.

You don’t have to worry about storing such small toys. So, for example, Zoobles have a special house in which they can be kept in a sleeping position.

Girls will definitely appreciate sets of silicone clothing for Zoobles. After all, thanks to them you can turn magical animals into real fashionistas.

Today, Zoobles and Bakugan are in great demand. And parents really appreciate that such toys not only entertain

Which?! Idiot?! This?! Invented?! - this thought appeared immediately after several attempts to use this product for its intended purpose. The author of this masterpiece is either stoned or an elementary loser. Let's start in order. I saw the toy in fixed price, it was so bright. interestingly written. Like, fill the balloon with water, tie the balloon, throw it! (to the manufacturer) On the back there is a picture of HOW to fill the balloons with water.

Sorry, I studied physics at school about 35 years ago and the laws were somehow forgotten. This is by the way. The balls are small, about three centimeters, and come with something like a funnel.

You need to put the ball on the funnel and put it TIGHTLY (according to the laws of physics) onto the water tap. The ball fits perfectly onto the funnel.

Oops! - what kind of tap is the toy designed for?! This funnel hangs on mine, and on all the taps in the apartment. You just can’t pour it in a stream, according to the same physical laws. But I realized all this already at home, alas...

I poked and poked and dragged around this misunderstanding like a cat and mouse and tried to just cheat it. The green balloon burst, but the next red balloon was inflated and tied. It turned out so small.

Well, at least some benefit, for that one point. Children may find it interesting to inflate. But water bombs. indicated on the package, the child will not wait. A wish to the manufacturer: if you don’t know how, don’t try it. And then another thought - go buy a new faucet, or something...for forty-ruble rubbish))).