How to make educational toys with your own hands for different ages

Make educational toys for your children - it's very cool! There are many interesting ideas and wonderful works. The manufacture of such gizmos helps to cope with postpartum depression. Today, let's talk about toy ideas by age, from birth.

From 0 to 3 months

At this age the baby will be interested in rattles, carousels, beads.

From 3 to 6 months

Now baby will like: tumbler, fabric beads with different fillers and from materials of several invoices, a mirror, soft rugs, rattles in the form of rings, dumbbells, rag balls, bracelets with sewn buttons, beads.

Let's talk more about mats.

Pad in the form of puzzles.

Let's see developing toys from felt by own hands:
- a rug with an application of characters from a fairy tale;

is a funny robot.

They can be sewn from different types of fabric. For this, take scraps left from old things. The more varieties of material, the more interesting it is to develop. Usually such materials are used: silk, velvet, felt, cotton, a little fur( it is important that the pile holds tightly, and it should not be much), etc. By the way, scraps can be knitted from yarn of different colors or knit with fabric. Make such a rug and of 2 layers: the top will be from the scraps, the bottom - for the lining. To litter it was softer, you can lay a thin layer of foam or batting. On the rug sew buttons, carabiners, buttons, ribbons, laces. For older children, they make applications from letters and numbers.

If you can find plastic eggs, you can make knitted toys-gremelki.

Knit them with their short knitting needles in a circle without seams or crochet. Then they put on plastic eggs. Fill the capacity with cereal, buttons, beans, vermicelli, etc. Funny muzzles in animals are made of cloth or painted with paints, or you can embroider floss with floss. The last option, probably, is more safe, because at this age the child studies everything first of all on the palate and does not want the torn off eye to pop in the mouth or the baby to get the paint stained.

From 6 to 9 months

At this age the child will be pleased to play with pyramids, matryoshkas, with sounding toys on the buttons.

From 9 to 12 months

Now books with large bright pictures, rustling books, glove and finger dolls, pails, liners, cubes, boxes of different calibers, toys on wheels will be appropriate.

From 1 year to 1.5 years old

In this age period there is an interest in music toys, laces.

From 1,5 to 2 years

Now the objects of the surrounding world are beginning to attract attention: animals, flowers, leaves, grass, sticks and so on. The child likes all kinds of locks and lids from bottles and cans.

Here is an example of crafts made from juice caps:

First, on a white cardboard sheet, make an application or print a color image from the Internet with large images, and then glue the caps from the juice.

We continue to talk about locks. You can sew a book with different fasteners.

Or make a soft toy and dress it in an exclusive suit with all kinds of locks and, of course, shoe in shoe laces. Such educational toys for kids with their own hands will be an excellent simulator of fine motor skills.

Let's see another example with fasteners.

How to make a toy with buckles, you can see here.

Video for making puzzles.

From 2 to 3 years

In the arsenal of interests appear story-role games.

From 3 to 5 years old

The child plays with puzzles, lotto and similar games.

More video on the subject:

Toys should not have too many toys. Sometimes pots, wooden and metal spoons are more interesting to the kid than cubes, and if your mother lets you tinker with the dough, then this is just the limit of happiness. It is important to always remember: no matter how expensive the toy may be, it does not replace parental attention and love.