DIY children's educational toys made of fabric. How to keep children busy at home: making games from scrap materials

Now in stores there is a huge number of all kinds of children's toys for every age and taste. But homemade “developmental toys” for kids do not lose their popularity among creative parents. You can make anything with your own hands - mobiles and crib pendants, all kinds of rattles, comforters, Stuffed Toys, educational mats, books and much more.

How to make a mobile into a crib

Today, mobile phones for newborns are extremely popular. This accessory not only adds a special charm to a child's room, but is also an excellent educational toy. The baby gets stronger physically, trying to get toys and play with them. Visual functions are also developing, when the child follows the pendants and their movement.

Of course, buying a mobile phone is not difficult, but the prices are quite high. If the family has limited funds or just wants to decorate the baby’s room with some unusual thing, then making a children’s mobile yourself would be a great idea.

Mobile "Birds"

A beautiful, entertaining little thing that will decorate the room of both boys and girls.

For work you will need

Felt pieces different colors(it’s better to take the rags as brightly as possible).
Beads – 15 pcs.
Gold cord (thin) – 4 m.
Hoop (wood or plastic). Hoops are needed for a round base; if you couldn’t find them, thick wire will do.
Satin and lace ribbons (you can use scraps from previous crafts).
Colored threads (you can use floss).
Filling for figures (sintepon, holofiber).
The sun is made from a fleece scrap, but you can also use felt.
Glue (you can use regular super glue).

Description of work

1. First you need to make bird patterns. You can use this template for this:

You can carefully transfer the patterns from the monitor screen or print the template on a printer

Advice: When making bird patterns, if the patches are small, it is better to cut out the bodies and wings (large parts) first. Beaks, flowers and leaves can be made from small scraps.

You should get something like this

2. Now you need to sew the birds. The beaks are sewn in immediately.

You need to leave a small hole to stuff the bird with stuffing.

3. Each bird needs to be filled with padding polyester.

There is no need to stuff the toy heavily with filler. It's needed to add some volume.

4. You need to sew wings through the hole. Sew on beady eyes.

The wings are sewn on with a neat “cross”

5.Now you can sew up the hole by immediately inserting the hanging cord (measure approximately 35-40 cm). The wings should be sewn together with the same neat “cross”.

The bird is ready

You will need 6 such birds. It's better to make them colorful

6. Now you need to make decorations for the cords on which the birds hang. These will be clouds, leaves and flowers. Decorations can be firmly sewn to the cords or glued with glue, gluing two pieces together.

Felt flowers and leaves can be decorated with beads and decorative buttons in the shape of ladybugs

7. The sun will be in the center. In this model of a children's mobile, it is made of fleece and decorated with floss embroidery (face and rays). You can get by with felt.

You also need to attach a cord to the sun to hang it from the frame

8. Next you need to make a frame from a hoop. We leave one rim from the hoop (outer) and tie the prepared figures to it so that they hang at different heights. Now you need to wrap the rim with satin ribbons, crossing them in the middle of the ring.

The ends of the tape can be cut, carefully tucked under the winding and glued

9. You can cover the rim with lace around the perimeter. All that remains is to hang the mobile above the crib using a cord and a ribbon cross in the middle of the ring.

This is what a suspended mobile looks like, we tie the sun to the cross

The mobile is ready!

You can make not only birds from felt, but also a lot of other simple, funny figures. For inspiration you can use the following ideas:

Polar bear(you can also make a brown one using the same pattern)

Owl is one of the most fashion trends modernity

Cute kitten

And this is a diagram for creating various frames from thick, strong wire. Points are places for attaching hanging toys.

Delicate mobile for a little paper fairy

Such beauty will not go unnoticed and will cause a lot of admiration among the child and guests of the young family.

This mobile looks lovely and costs several times less than its commercial counterpart.

In addition, making it for the baby with her own hands will give mommy a lot of pleasure.

For work you will need

A frame in the form of an unnecessary hoop or thick wire.
Thin wire for the cross.
Butterfly paper (it is better to use durable and beautiful paper for scrapbooking).
Scissors or scrap hole punch.
Thin line.
A needle with an eye that matches the thickness of the fishing line.
Super glue.
Pieces of tulle, tulle, satin ribbons for decorating the base.

Description

1. Work begins with the frame. It can be made from an old hoop or bent into a ring of thick wire. The crosspiece is made from wire of smaller diameter.

The basis of future beauty

2. Now you need to make a lot of butterfly blanks - 110 pcs. If you have a scrap hole puncher, the production of blanks will take very little time. Otherwise, you will have to arm yourself with scissors and use them to cut butterflies out of paper.

You can use this template or draw a butterfly yourself

3. Finished butterflies need to be strung on a fishing line, 5-6 pieces each.

It is convenient to use a needle for stringing on a fishing line. You can securely secure the butterflies with a small drop of super glue.

4. Finished fishing lines need to be tied to the frame and cross. It is better to hang butterflies at different heights.
5. Now you need to decorate the frame. For this, pieces of ribbons and tulle will be used, which can be wrapped or tied in knots around the frame.

Frame decor

6. All that remains is to make a few tulle ribbons and hang the mobile. Ready!

This is such a beauty

A few more ideas for modern mobiles for babies that are easy to make with your own hands:

A mobile made of balls made using the felting technique. Branches as a frame

Felt flowers for baby

Beautiful sakura and paper doves

DIY rattles for newborns

You can also make rattles for babies yourself. It's not difficult at all. Here are the most simple ideas:

A jar of vitamins with a lid and peas or Revit-type vitamins. The lid must be carefully screwed on, or better yet sealed with superglue to prevent the contents from spilling out.

A bottle with beads and water will keep your baby occupied for a long time

For small child It’s better to find a small bottle (0.25 l) so that it’s not too hard for him. This toy will perfectly develop your little one's hands.

Toys of a more complex design will also be within the power of even novice needlewomen.

How to sew a rattle bracelet

To work you will need:

Scraps of felt or fleece fabric – 9 pcs. different color.
Threads in color (you can take floss).
Sintepon (holofiber is also suitable).
Velcro for fastening.
Adhesive fabric.
Needle.
Scissors.
Iron.
Pencil or chalk.
Cardboard or pattern paper.
A bell to make the rattle ring (you can use a part from old toys or a fishing bell).

A child will definitely like such a bright and cheerful toy.

Progress

1. First you need to make patterns - a strip for the bracelet (16 cm x 2 cm), circles for the middle of the flower (5 and 3.5 cm in diameter), a piece for the petal.

Patterns for toys

2. Now you need to transfer the patterns to felt. For the bracelet, petals and circles, you need to make allowances to sew the blanks.

We cut out the petals according to this principle

3. From the adhesive fabric you also need to cut out a 3.5 cm circle and two parts for the bracelet, but without allowances.
4. Glue adhesive cloth felt parts, after moistening it with water.
5. Sew the petals by folding the pieces in half, turning them inside out, and stuffing them with filler.
6. Sew the bracelet (do not sew up one short side), turn it inside out, and sew up the hole with a blind stitch.
7. Sew on the Velcro.
8. Next, you need to sew a small circle to the middle of the bracelet with the adhesive side up.
9. Now you need to sew all the flower petals to it.
10. Sew a large circle on top of the petals, making it voluminous. Leave a hole, fill it with padding polyester and put a bell in the middle. Sew up the hole.

The toy for the baby is ready!

How to sew a developmental cube for a child

Materials

Square patches of fabric of various shades and patterns – 6 pcs.
Non-woven base for squares.
Filling (foam rubber, padding polyester).
Pieces of felt, buttons, braid and other accessories for decoration.
Matching threads.

This cube will be great for developing baby’s motor skills, sensory and color perception.

Description

1. You need to cut 6 blanks from the fabric. The cube can be made small or large. Please remember that seam allowances are required.

First 4 squares

Then two more on different sides

5. Now you need to sew the development from the wrong side. There is no need to stitch the corner of the last edge all the way. Through this hole you will need to turn out ready product and fill the cube with filler.

6. Then carefully sew up the hole using a hidden stitch.

The cube for the baby is ready!

Making toys for your baby with your own hands is not at all difficult, and how much joy it will bring! If there are older children in the family, then you can involve them in making “developmental toys” for the younger family member. This is a great way to spend time fun and usefully.

Children are naturally curious. They want to touch, try, examine everything. After all, any interaction of a child with the outside world is a kind of school of life. This is child development.

AND good parents They are looking for all sorts of ways to educate their child. But small children, unlike adults, cannot sit for hours and study new topics: be it the alphabet or the names of objects. Therefore, educational games come to the aid of parents. Today the online magazine “Korolevnam.ru” will tell you about educational games for children from 3 years old.

At the age of three, a child can already do a lot on his own, his fine motor skills are improving, he knows some colors, the names of animals and birds, he understands where an object is large and where it is small. To help him consolidate acquired knowledge and acquire new ones, parents can make educational toys with their own hands.
“Home” educational toys for children have undoubted advantages:

- Firstly, you will know exactly what materials they are made of, therefore, it is possible to almost completely eliminate harmful substances from the toy;

- Secondly, you can design the toy the way you want, make it the color, size, content you need, and choose the educational material that you think is right (you can choose the same images for the alphabet as you wish);

- Thirdly, the process of making such toys is very interesting, you can involve the children themselves in it, and adults themselves will enjoy this activity *wink*

Educational games involve different activities, therefore, materials for games can be divided into groups:

— Cards for games (these can be figures, letters, numbers, animals, plants, etc.);

— Paints and sensory bags for drawing (you can draw with your fingers, brushes, cotton swabs, the paints themselves can be voluminous);

— Mixtures for modeling (plasticine, salty dough);

— Colored mixtures for applications and games (multi-colored rice or “sand”);

— Books (felt, cardboard, fabric, etc.);

— Available materials (clothespins, lids, jars, etc.).

— Now you can consider all groups separately.

Cards for games

Figures. You can come up with a huge number of games with them. The shapes can be simply printed or drawn on a piece of paper, or cut out - depending on the task you want to give your baby.

Examples of tasks with “Shapes” cards:

— The most common and widespread thing is to paint. Print an image (not very large) of a circle/square/diamond or etc. and give it to the child along with pencils/markers/paints of your choice. To this task, in addition to studying the figure itself, you can add the study of color, comparison of sizes (large-small-medium).

— Circle along the contour, or connect along several points. The principle is the same, you can put this task before the previous one - outline it, then color it, etc.

- For older children and for parents who trust their child with scissors - cutting out shapes. At first it can be stripes, then more complex - squares, circles and other shapes.

- For those who have already mastered the types of figures - print different figures on a sheet of paper, prepare the cut out figures separately (you can use thick cardboard), find the matches of the figures - put the cut out circles on the drawn ones, do the same with the rest of the figures.

- Similar to the previous game, you can do the size of the figures - print a large circle, medium and small. The child must place the cut out circles on the drawn ones in accordance with the size.

— From the cut out figures, assemble a picture, for example, a house or a flower.

Letters and numbers. The main task when playing with these cards, of course, is to learn letters and numbers, then it’s more difficult to collect syllables, and then words.

Examples of tasks with “Letters and numbers” cards:

Just like with shapes, you can color, trace or connect the dots.

Print a sign. The top line is with simple objects that the child knows, for example, a doll, a ball, a dog. The bottom one is empty, in it the child must put the cut out letter on which the word begins.

Print a sign. The top line with a picture (for example, a ladybug, it has a different number of dots on its back in different pictures). The bottom one is empty - a card with a number is placed there, which is equal to the number of dots on the back ladybug. Instead of a sign, you can make separate cards - with pictures and numbers.

On this card you need to write different letters randomly, repeating several times. The task is to find (you can circle) a specific letter, for example: “Let's find all the letters “A”. The same can be done with numbers.

Animals and plants. Previous groups of cards can interact with these cards.

Examples of tasks with cards “Animals and Plants”:

— We study the names of animals and plants.

- What letter does the name of the animal begin with?

- Who says what?

— Number of paws, eyes, tails, etc.

- Who swims, who walks, who flies.

Paints and sensory packs for painting

There is probably no child who does not like to draw. Especially with your hands. Especially not where it's supposed to be. But today I would like to talk about what a child can use to paint, besides the paints that we buy in stores.

Home paints

You can and should experiment with paint recipes. Then your designer paints will be unique. What do you need to make homemade paints?

Sample recipe (proportions can be increased):

- flour (250 g)

- fine salt (2 tbsp.)

— vegetable oil(1 tbsp.)

- food colorings

Mix until the consistency of sour cream. Divide into as many parts as the number of colors you plan to make, add dye and mix. You can also involve children in coloring - it is very interesting for them.

Attention! Although the paints are homemade, they contain salt, which in large quantities is dangerous to human life. Keep an eye on the child. It’s not scary if your baby tries paints or a modeling mixture with salt, but it’s better to protect him from this and even more so from eating such mixtures!!!

Volumetric paints

- 1 tbsp. l. flour

- 1 tbsp. l. fine salt

- some water

- food colorings.

It is better to draw on thick paper or you can use cardboard. After creating masterpieces using these paints, you need to put the drawing in the microwave for 10-30 seconds (depending on the power), and it will gain volume.

Touch Drawing Pack

To create such a package we need:

— the actual package itself (zippered, zip-bag)

- hair gel

— dyes and glitter (you can do it without glitter, depending on who you like)

Everything is thoroughly mixed in the bag and closed.

Ready! On the sensory bag you can draw figures, letters, make prints of pens or objects.

Modeling mixtures

Modeling is an entertaining process, not only fun entertainment for the baby, but also contributes to the development of fine motor skills in the child, develops imagination and helps to study objects - you can teach with your baby geometric figures, animals, flowers and much more.

Homemade "plasticine"

This is soft play dough that can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks.

Ingredients:

— Flour 200 g

— Fine salt 100 g

— Water (about 200 ml, maybe less)

— Vegetable oil 2 tbsp. l.

- Citric acid (regular, sold in small bags in grocery stores) 2 tbsp. l.

— Food colorings(powdered ones can be added to the flour at the very beginning, and liquid ones can be added to the finished mixture)

Flour, salt, citric acid mix. Boil water, add vegetable oil to it. Pour water little by little into the flour mixture and mix gently. Not all of the water may be needed; you need to monitor the consistency. I think everyone knows what plasticine should be like. Divide the plasticine into parts, add dyes, and knead. All. You can sculpt.

Salty dough

Flour and fine salt in proportions 1:1 by weight (not by volume) and water. That is, for example, 300 g of flour, 300 g of salt, 200 ml of water. Mix everything well and you can sculpt. You can dry such a product at room temperature (but this takes quite a long time) or in the oven (the product is placed in a cold oven, turned on and dried at low heat, and cooled there, in the oven turned off). Then the sculpture can be painted.

Color mixtures for applications and games

Children love bright colors, so one of the most important factors in any educational activity for children is color. Bright colors are well remembered and evoke positive emotions in children. And if you combine rich colors and an interesting task in an educational game, the child will be happy to study - to your delight.

Multicolored rice

Ingredients:

— Raw rice

- Food colorings

- Vinegar or water

— Bowls or bags

Preparation:

We divide the rice into parts (in bowls or bags) - as many as we have flowers. We dilute food coloring in water or vinegar. Pour the diluted dyes into the rice, knead and then dry the rice.

Colored sand

You will need:

- Food colorings

— Blender

— Bowls

Preparation:

Pour the dye into a bowl and dilute it in a small amount of water, add semolina, mix. Pour the resulting mixture into a blender and grind. Do the same with the rest of the dyes. Store the sand in the refrigerator.

What can you do with colored rice and colored sand:

- “Iskalochki” A colored mixture (rice or “sand”) is poured into a large bowl, all kinds of objects (small toys, buttons, caps, etc.) are hidden there, and the child looks for objects. Fine motor skills develop.

— The second version of “seekers”: paired objects are hidden - you simply show one to the child, the second one the child finds exactly the same by touch in a bowl of rice or “sand”

- For older children, these mixtures can be used in crafts - for example, to make “bulk” applications - draw a picture on cardboard, smear its parts with glue and pour “sand” or rice on top.

— These mixtures are also suitable for studying colors; you can ask your child to pour red rice into a red bowl/mould, or green sand into a green jar (you can use a funnel and spatula).

Do-it-yourself development books

Books can be bought. Yes, like everything else. But it’s very interesting even for adults to create a book for a child with their own hands. On the Internet you can find all kinds of patterns and ideas for creating books.

One of the simplest, but most entertaining books is the felt book.

You don’t have to be a top-class seamstress to sew such a book for your child. The main thing is with soul. And sew small details tightly.

For the felt book you will need:

— Felt (comes in different thicknesses, and different types, choose to your taste)

— Multi-colored threads and needles

— Base fabric

— Thin foam rubber or very dense fabric (you can do without it, but a voluminous book is more interesting)

— Buttons, small figures, zippers, laces, ribbons, fabric appliqués, beads, etc.

And your imagination. Choose the size of the book, make pages (the foam insert is slightly smaller in size than the page size). You come up with what your book will be about, think about the pictures on the pages - and go ahead.

The most important thing in such books is that there are details and elements that will be interesting to the child and will help him develop and learn to do quite ordinary things in an unusual way. For example, a page with a flower stem on it and instead of the center of the flower there is a bright button, cut out the flower itself from felt and make a slot in the middle - the baby will learn to fasten the buttons.

On the pages you can use lacing, buttons, zippers - so that the child learns to cope with those situations that may arise in his life, and soon he will be able to fasten his clothes without any help.

You can also use felt books to study colors (pages with a rainbow or a bunch of colorful buttons), develop fine motor skills(pages with all kinds of doors, labyrinths, beads that can be rolled under the mesh) and much, much more.

Available materials

Unfortunately, it happens that there is no opportunity to buy or make development tools with your own hands - there is no time, effort, money. But! Everyone has all sorts of objects at home that at first glance have nothing to do with the development of the child, but this is not so.

- Clothespins. This includes studying colors (red clothespins in one bowl, yellow ones in another), and counting sticks (how many clothespins did you find in the bag?), and the ability to simply pin them on a thin wall of a bowl or bucket; in addition, you can grab and move them with a clothespin small objects from one place to another.

- Lids. Small and big, from plastic bottles and glass jars. We learn colors, sizes, transfer small and large lids to different jars, and simply learn to use the lids for their intended purpose - open and close jars and bottles.

- Bowls. Small to medium, medium to large. “Iskalochka” in a bowl – pour a lot small items and give the task to find a specific object.

- Strings and beads. We learn to string large and small beads, study colors, shapes, sizes. We make a “necklace” for mom - we select from the proposed beads only those that match the color of mom’s jacket.

The most important thing in all educational games for children is your attention to the child and patience with him. Not everything always turns out right, everything doesn’t always work out the first time. Some people learn quickly, others take time.

Your child is unique, don’t try to fit him in with your friend’s child prodigy if your child has a very hard time in some classes, and don’t get upset yourself. Work with your child every day, do not forget that he will need your help in some tasks, and do not get angry with your child if he lacks perseverance. Surround your child with care and understanding - and everything will work out for you!

Why make children's toys yourself, because there are so many bright and cheap toys in stores. Firstly, parents don’t always have the funds for new games. And secondly, let’s reveal a secret: the most favorite toy for a child is the one made by mom or made by dad with his own hands!

You can't buy love and care in a store! Therefore, we stock up on time and safe materials, and make educational toys with our own hands for children and with children. We will make toys for the little ones - up to one year old, 2, 3, 4, 5 years old and older.

Let's not forget that toys for a baby should, first of all, be safe. And, of course, they help the child develop in accordance with his age. Psychologists say that toys for children should be simple - this helps children show imagination and imagination.

You can make a children's toy with your own hands from available materials: cardboard, plastic bottles, felt, cotton, wood. Various will also come in handy

accessories: buttons, zippers, buckles, Velcro (small parts need to be secured and sewn well). We use candy wrappers, boxes of chips and candies, and so on.

In order to knit a developmental rattle for a baby up to one year old, we will need Iris or Violet threads, plastic packaging from Kinder Surprise, and a hook. We take cotton threads - the child can drool on such a rattle and hold it in his mouth - the rattle can be washed at any time without any problems.

To work you will need:

Cotton threads in two threads.
Hook 1 mm thick.
Button.
Kinder packaging (half).
Finishing threads and scissors.
Rattle filler: beads, peas, beads - the main thing is that the filler rustles.

Abbreviations: VP - air loop, p. - loop, r. - row, RLS - column. without a crochet, increase - 2 sc in the 1st p. of the previous row. Decrease (dec) - 2 sc, knit together.

We make a chain from VP (the size of the baby’s wrist), for example - 12.5 cm.

We knit 12 rows of sc. You will get a strip of 12.5/3 cm.

Then we begin to tie half of the kinder with threads of a different color.

1st row: knit 6 sc in one VP.
2nd row: 2 sc on each sc in a circle (total 12 sc).
3rd row: (RLS on next RLS, 2 RLS on next RLS) in a circle (total 18 RLS).
4th row: (2 sc, increase)*6 = 24 sc.
5th row: (3 sc, increase) * 6 = 30 sc.
6th row: (4 RLS, approx.) * 6 = 36 RLS.

You will get a circle the same size as a Kinder packaging.

From the 7th to the 17th row we knit 36 RLS. The package is completely covered.

Then you need to sew this packaging to the strip with a needle and thread to match the color. At the moment when you almost sew the rattle to the strip, pour beads, seed beads, or peas inside. Sew it tightly with small stitches so that the baby cannot accidentally tear off the packaging.

We knit the ears like this:

1st row: 5 VP.
2nd row: 5 RLS.
3rd row: dec, sc, dec. 3 sc left.
4th row: 2 kills. 2 sc left.
5th day: dec. Ost. 1 sc.
6th row: RLS.

Using the same principle, you can knit the following toys:

These toys are perfect for decorating a child's room. Crochet toys will decorate the walls and baby’s crib. The inside of the toys is filled with filler.

You can see how to knit a heart for this model in the master class below. Especially relevant for those who have not previously crocheted.

On the video - how to tie volumetric heart crochet tutorial for beginners:

It turns out that you can make a lot out of plastic bottles, corks, tape and rope. interesting toys! Such free toys will be especially useful for kindergarten, for the playground (you must agree - it wouldn’t be a pity if the child left such a toy in the garden or gave it to a friend at the playground).

We often throw away used plastic, but it can still be used.

Making such a toy together with your child is useful and interesting activity. Just remember to round the edges of the bottle so that the child does not cut himself. This can be done in two ways. The first way is to take and carefully singe the cut with a lighter flame, the second way is to round off the sharp edge using an iron and paper:

We cut off the edges of a plastic bottle, place a clean sheet of paper on top, heat the iron, and run the iron over the paper. It is necessary to ensure that the iron is not too hot - otherwise the plastic will be severely deformed.

Look what an interesting house with windows you can make from any shaped container: bottles from liquid soap, fabric softener, and so on.

These binoculars can be made in 10 minutes from two yogurt bottles and scotch tape. 2 identical drinking yogurt bottles will do. We cut off the bottom of the bottles and round off the sharp edges. We connect the 2 parts using regular tape (preferably colored). You can use double tape at the junctions of the bottles to prevent the bottles from moving. A small piece of braid or rope - and binoculars can be worn around your neck.

The photo shows that with the help of a canister, 11 lemonade caps, two pencils, an awl and thread, you can make a car - one of the toys for the playground with your own hands.

Which parent is not familiar with the situation - Lego parts, small toys, kinders, and so on - lie all over the room. Toy storage - eternal problem for parents. To somehow streamline this situation, together with your baby, make several of these transparent buckets for toys in the nursery. Small toys will be stored in them.

For this purpose it is better to take a large 5 or 6 liter bottle from under the water. We cut off the neck from it, rounding the sharp edge as we did with an iron. Take a strip of brighter fabric, braid or just colored tape. We secure the fabric around the perimeter with Moment glue. Then we make small holes with a knitting needle or an awl and thread bright laces or cord.

You can stick stickers, clippings, etc. on the bucket.

And such a toy in the shape of a boat can be made from two lemonade bottles. We make two holes with scissors, melt the sharp edge with a lighter, and secure with tape. You can ride dolls or baby dolls on a boat.

But these boats can be made from shampoo bottles. For the toy you will also need a simple elastic band, a piece of wood or cork, a stick and plastic or cardboard. You can make a whole flotilla and launch it in the bathtub or basin.

We make these funny little people and robots from plastic bottles and caps. For the robot's head we use half of a kinder. Make holes in the lids with a knitting needle or an awl, and pull threads or wire through the holes. You can make a whole army of robots.

This alphabet is easy to make from water caps, colored cardboard and a marker.

In the video - what can be made from what is at hand for a Barbie doll:

In order for the child preschool age finger motor skills, the ability to fasten and unfasten, and logic developed - many mothers try to sew educational toys.

Lacing, buttons, zippers, any fasteners (sewn tightly so that the child cannot tear off small parts). These are the finger exercisers made of fabric or felt.

And this fairytale house made of cardboard and fabric based on the fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” The house is folded into a book, it is an educational toy. How much work and imagination was put into the work!

Working with felt and fabric. Patterns for a book or for an applique from the fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Each moment of the pattern is signed for a specific gnome.

A wonderful page from a developing book: fabric, felt, Velcro, and zipper:

The video shows a toy searcher made from colored rice that develops motor skills:

Wooden Toys

Children's wooden toys are environmentally friendly and safe products. If the baby's dad has woodworking skills, then DIY wooden toys are an excellent opportunity to make unique things for the child. Wooden toys are, first of all, cubes. No special skill is required here, the main thing is to treat the surface well, cut off sharp corners and sand the wood. It is not at all advisable to paint the cubes, since the baby will definitely “taste” them.

Wooden toy “Blacksmiths” - master class and video

Even in the last century, it was customary to make mechanical toys from wood. Here, for example, is the Bogorodsk movable toy “Blacksmiths”. The slats are shifted, and the bear and the man take turns hitting the wooden anvil with hammers. Both main figures are cut out of plywood with a jigsaw.

To work you will need:

Three-layer plywood (½ A4 format).
2 strips of section 20/15, 24 cm long.
Small shoe nails.
PVA glue, paper, buttons.
Jigsaw, awl, pencil, sandpaper.

Print or draw a drawing on paper. Each cell is 1 cm.
Sand over the plywood. We attach the drawing to the plywood using buttons.
We take a jigsaw and cut out both figures.
We process the side surface with sandpaper. There should be no sharp corners or splinters.
We cut out the anvil. You don't have to draw lines on the anvil and figures.
We fix the anvil with PVA glue and 2 nails on the top bar.
Next, we place the planks as seen in the drawing, an offset of 30 mm.
Then you need to pierce holes for nails in the figures so that they fit freely into the slats and legs of the bear and the blacksmith. The holes must have a gap.
We fix the blacksmith figurine so that the hammer touches the anvil. We’re not hammering the nails in yet, we’re just figuring it out.
Next, we place the bear so that its hammer is raised up.
Using a ruler, we check the lines that visually pass through the heads of the nails - they are parallel.
That's all. Now, when moving the slats, the man and the bear will knock with hammers. The toy is ready.

In the video - a wooden toy Blacksmiths, made by a professional:

The game “Throw the Ring”, which develops dexterity and coordination of movements. We tie the end of a thread or rope 80-90 cm to the ring, and attach the other end of the thread to the nose. The player throws the ring up, and while it is flying, he catches it on the nose of the toy.

Royal castle made of cardboard - master class

You don't have to spend a lot of money on children's toys. See what a chic castle you can make from empty cardboard cereal boxes, chips, tape and acrylic paint. Suitable for children 4 years old and older.

To work you will need:

4 identical boxes or pieces of cardboard for large round towers.
6 round boxes of chips (for turrets and balconies).
1 medium sized box (for the main walls of the castle).
1 narrow high box for the central tower.
Scotch.
Acrylic paint, or spray paint.
Knife, scissors, brush, marker.
PVA glue
Rolls from paper towels or toilet paper.

Here's what we'll need to build the Royal Castle for the game.

Step one: make the corner towers of the castle. Use a sharp cutting blade to cut off the top and bottom of the cardboard canisters. If you don’t have such round canisters, just take a piece of cardboard, mark the height and glue the side parts of the cardboard sheet. Draw a design for the tower battlements, then carefully cut them out. We make vertical cuts with scissors and then horizontal cuts with a blade.

Step two: cut 2 arched holes in one of the boxes. Please note: the gate is not cut completely! We need them to open and close! We also cut out an “arch-window” in the round box. Use a round object for drawing. We make an incision on the round box (tower).

Using a marker, mark the cut location on the bottom box. We look at the photo - we cut out pieces of the wall. Once you've made the cutout, simply slide the tower onto that spot.

Step three. Take paper and cut out a circle equal to the diameter of the tower. Next, cut strips of paper and glue them to the circle. The last stage: we glue the top of the strips to the tower. This is necessary for the stability of the tower. Glue a balcony from ½ bottom of a chip box.

Step Four: Mark where the castle towers will join the castle walls. Mark both towers and the box you are using for the main walls of the castle. Make sure your balcony windows are facing the right direction when you make your marks! We fasten with tape or paper the parts of the lock.

Painting the finished part of the castle acrylic paint. Let's dry it. While it dries, we proceed to further work.

From a tall box we must make a central tower. Cut off the top and bottom of the box. We cut out arches: doors and windows. We attach the central tower with tape in the middle of the bottom box. We make 3 triangles out of cardboard, fasten them with tape, fix them with tape on top - this is the roof. We cut 4 towel sleeves and “put them” on the corners. Before this, you need to cut out “teeth” on top of the “turrets”. We tint unpainted parts.

That's all. Our stunning fairytale castle for princesses is ready. You can make “rooms” in the towers, and there is plenty of space around the castle for other children’s toys.

The toy will be useful for one girl, or for several children. If you make such a structure for a boy, you need to paint it dark.

In the video, how dad made a castle out of a large cardboard box, very cool.

In this article:

The main purpose of toys is to develop the baby's game form certain skills, abilities or acquisition of knowledge. Today educational toys are very popular. Well-known manufacturers offer many developmental options to suit every taste. But buying them is not always rational, because educational toys are not difficult to make with your own hands. Making them will not take much time and will not require any expenses.

What types of educational toys are there?

The topic of educational toys that you can make yourself is at the peak of popularity today. Therefore, there is plenty of information about them. If desired, you can easily make various children's rugs, special books, cubes that develop fine motor skills, animal figurines and much more.

Toys for developing skills and abilities are divided into those that the baby can play on his own, and those that require the presence of an adult. No help will be required as your child learns simple models for the development of fine motor skills. But it’s better to study letters, counting, sides, body parts, shapes with your mother.

Materials for production

To create educational toys at home you will need the most different materials, which, as a rule, are always at hand. These are scraps of fabric, ribbons, zippers, buttons different forms and sizes, furniture fittings, foil, bags, old unnecessary things.

Paper

You can make geometric shapes, lacing games, inserts for sorters, etc. from plain and colored paper. The remains of multi-colored corrugated paper will also come in handy.

Tree

Wood makes wonderful toys for child development, for example, sorters. With their help, a baby aged 1-2 years learns figures, shapes of objects, colors. Therefore, wooden blocks and boards will become indispensable assistants in making toys for your baby.

Cardboard

You can make a construction set from pieces of regular and colored cardboard. To do this, cut out different shapes from it and show the baby which pictures can be put together. To make an educational toy, you don’t have to buy cardboard. Available options are quite suitable - cardboard from boxes, onto which pages from bright magazines are pasted.

Threads

The remains of colored yarn will be the best helpers for mom in making educational beads, a rug, a ball or a soft cube. Not only different colors are welcome, but also different thicknesses and textures of yarn.

Socks

Old socks will get a second life in new toys for your baby. You can use them to make a soft caterpillar, with different fillings for each link, or a hand sock toy with a funny face.

Pompoms

For people with creative thinking, making a lot of toys from pompoms is a mere trifle. They make cute bunnies, frogs, piglets, chickens, snowmen. The list can be endless. The main thing is to allow yourself to fantasize.

Textile

Remnants of fabric that any needlewoman can find in stock will become an indispensable material for sewing educational toys. Suitable scraps of fleece, felt, knitwear, silk, calico. The combination of materials of different textures in such toys is welcome.

Toy options

Let's take a closer look at what can be made from all this wealth.

Rattle bracelet

It's not at all difficult to do it yourself. To sew this toy, you need to stock up on a strip of soft fabric measuring 20x6 cm, a piece of elastic, a small plastic container, some kind of rattling filler and colored scraps for decorating the toy.

First they make the base. To do this, sew a strip, turn it inside out and insert an elastic band into it. The base should not squeeze the baby's hand. Then any filler is poured into a plastic container so that the rattle makes a sound. After this, the tightly closed container is lined soft cloth and decorated with additional decorative elements. This part is attached to the base.

Beads

Special beads will be relevant for babies, with the help of which tactile skills are formed and unobtrusive learning of colors occurs.

To do this you will need beads of different sizes and nylon thread. The beads are tied with multi-colored yarn or trimmed with scraps of fabric of different colors and textures. After this, they are strung on a thread and the ends are tightly fastened. A child can look at them, study individual beads, and touch them with their hands.

Pillow with buttons

It’s not difficult to sew such a pillow yourself. It is useful for a baby from 3 months to 3 years. To make a tactile pillow you will need some fabric, buttons, lacing, Velcro and other elements. The main condition is that you must carefully attach all the elements to the surface of the pillow so that they do not come off if the baby pulls them into his mouth.

The easiest way is to sew a pillowcase on a finished pillow. You can sew fabric figures, buttons, zippers, ropes and other elements onto it.

Book

It can be made in different sizes and colors. This toy is very useful for the baby. It helps develop fine motor skills, study colors and shapes, and become familiar with different textures.

There are many ideas for a soft book. It all depends on the mother’s imagination. You can watch ready-made toys or master classes on the Internet. For example, the pages of a book can be made in different colors, the pictures in it can be connected with Velcro or buttons, and lacing and snakes can be added. The book can contain a soft puzzle, numbers, and animal figures.

Educational board or stand

Such a stand can free up some free time for the mother, while the baby will actively explore the world around him and improve his skills. You can buy a ready-made version. But it’s not at all difficult or expensive to do it yourself. At the same time, a homemade board will be of no less interest to the little one than one bought in a store.

At home, you need to attach a non-working socket, switch, handles, door chain, and telephone dial to a regular board. These can be any items that are interesting to the baby.

Rug

If you make educational rugs for children with your own hands, they will become real helpers for mothers. Such a rug will keep the baby busy for a while and free him up for his mother. It develops imagination, speech, hand motor skills and imagination of the baby.

It’s not difficult to sew a children’s educational rug with your own hands. To do this, you will need fabric for the base, material for the top layer and decoration, and additional accessories. Foam rubber, thick fabric, padding polyester are suitable as a base. Fabrics for the rug should be natural, bright, but not neon colors.

Educational cube

Helps develop fine motor skills and imagination of the child. This toy is suitable for little ones early age. You can make it from multi-colored scraps. It would be good if the fabric had different textures. For example, one side of a cube can be made of chintz, the second - from denim, on the third you can sew ribbons, ropes, buttons. The developmental cube needs to be filled with padding polyester or cotton wool.

Figures

Multi-colored figures made of fabric or felt will attract the attention of the little ones. To make the toy more interesting, it can be made as a noisemaker, rustler, or rattle. For example, it could be a butterfly figurine. It's quite simple to do. You need to draw a butterfly on paper, transfer the pattern to felt, and cut out the figure. You can sew two sides and stuff the butterfly with rustling ( plastic bags), rattling (salt or cereal) filler. You can attach a bell to the finished figure, then the toy will ring, or sew on buttons and ribbons.

What are they developing?

These toys are active:

develop the baby’s vision and hearing (for example, a rattle bracelet for the little ones), tactile sensations(sling beads or pillow with buttons);
introduce the child to color, size, shape (book);
help to study the world around us (animal figures);
develop speech and imagination of the baby (play mat).

Manufacturing Precautions

The main requirement for children's toys is safety. To do this, it is important to make sure that all materials are non-toxic and safe for children. The parts of the toy must be firmly attached to it. It is necessary to examine whether the toy contains sharp parts that can injure the baby, or objects that can injure him (a latch on the board, a zipper).

What skills can be developed in children of different ages with the help of toys?

The choice of educational toy depends on the age of the baby and his characteristics.

Up to a year

During this period, the baby develops grasping reflexes, coordination of movements, fine motor skills, speech and motor activity. Up to six months, bright rattles, beads, soft balls, cubes, and rugs are relevant. For babies over 6 months old, sorters, nesting dolls, soft books, and soft puzzles are suitable.

1-2 years

During this period of life, the baby can play independently. Of interest are toys that can be disassembled and assembled. For example, a pyramid or a sorter. They help develop logical thinking, motor skills, attentiveness. By the age of two, a child may also be interested in story-based games.

3-5 years

At this age, the child’s fine motor skills improve and movements become coordinated. Story games interested him more. During this game, the child’s speech, imagination, skills and knowledge are improved.

Finger figurines, numbers, letters, clocks, books, board games are relevant.

Master Class

Let's look at the simplest way to make a toy - a tactile caterpillar from a sock. The baby will definitely like it. To make it you need to prepare a long bright sock, a thick strong thread and various fillers (acorns, rice, buckwheat, salt, padding polyester, etc.), buttons for eyes.

First you need to pour one filler into the sock, tie the resulting ball with thread, then several times further in the same order. The end of the caterpillar must be tightly tied with thread. Sew button eyes to the head. The tactile caterpillar is ready in 5 minutes!

It is not difficult to make educational toys with your own hands. You can view ready-made samples in the store or at master classes on the Internet. To do this, you will need inexpensive materials at hand, basic skills, mother’s patience and love.

Useful video about educational toys made by yourself

Making children's toys from waste material it's always nice to do it yourself, but when this interesting job gives a second life to old things, it is also practical.

Every family has a few old gloves that their other halves have run away from. It would be a shame to throw it away, but maybe there will be a pair. But somehow everything is not found. Sew them into a kitten with your own hands.

Turn your middle finger inside the glove and sew the hole shut so it doesn't come back.
Sew and tighten the neck area. Place any filler inside the kitten.
Sew the cat's eyes and nose from old buttons. Sew the corners of the cuff, marking the ears.
Cut another single glove, sock or mitten and put the resulting sundress on the kitten.

Of all the available materials and things in our everyday life, the most present is the huge number and variety of packages. Let's try to use them as our dog's exterior.

We will need:

several old sweaters;
20-30 white plastic bags;
a piece of black leatherette;
plastic colored bottles or a couple of thick bags (a little for the eyes);
glue, thread, needle.

Work order

Sew a dog with your own hands using any pattern from old things.

Cut strips 7-9 cm wide from the bags and make a fringe on them 2/3 of the width of the strip.

Starting from the fingers, tips of the tail and ears, we sew strips from bags in a spiral.

Overlap strips of bags half the width.

Leave 1-2 cm of fabric on the muzzle.

Make a nose out of a piece of artificial leather with your own hands.

Cut out four pieces for each eye from colored plastic.

Sew or glue them. For the eyes, you can also use pieces of colored thick bags.

Glue on the nose and eyes, tie bows on the ears and you can go walk the spaniel from the bags.

In order to make toys with your own hands from natural material, it must first be assembled. Get extra pleasure by walking with your child in the park or in the forest, collecting cones, leaves and acorns.

Straw figures

At all times, parents made toys for their children from any available materials: wood, fabric, pine cones, clay. But the easiest and most accessible raw material was straw. The photo shows how easy it is to make a figurine of a man or a horse from a bunch of dry grass with your own hands. All you need to do is:

fold a bundle of straw in half, placing another bundle just below the fold;
tie a harsh thread (our ancestors used the same straw) around the neck, bandaging the arms, waist, hands and feet;
trim off the excess.

From acorns and nuts

Just three halves of a shell and three maple seeds will be enough to glue together a small bird.
From an acorn and its original cap you can make a Duck, Goose, or Deer with your own hands. The acorn is easily pierced with an awl. You can make the necks and legs of crafts with your own hands from sticks or matches.

From the cones

All toys made from natural materials are also good because they are made from environmentally friendly materials at hand. Look at the photo to see how many interesting things you can make with your own hands from ordinary old pine cones. It is difficult to make anything from young, still unopened cones; they are very resinous.

Hedgehog made of cones. The paws and muzzle are easy to make from polymer clay.
Bear. Glue a toy from old blossoming pine cones different sizes by gluing button eyes.
Cheerful skiers and a deer made from cones will be made using polymer clay.
You can make Christmas decorations from pine cones by simply painting them with different colors or smearing them with glue and sprinkling them with cut-up tinsel.
A Christmas tree made of cones looks very natural, especially if you paint it green.
The most natural thing you get is a goblin made from cones with eyes made from buttons.

Every family has accumulated a lot of buttons, from which you can also make original toys for the Christmas tree.

Not only do buttons make colorful plastic eyes that decorate stuffed animals, but they can also make fun crafts in their own right. All you need to do is assemble a chain of buttons, stringing them on a thread in a certain order. Entrust this work to your child. Assembling columns of buttons:

stimulates fine motor skills of his fingers;
develops imagination;
eliminates excess buttons;
increases his self-esteem, especially if, in addition to the figures shown, he comes up with something else assembled from buttons.

We purchase a lot of things, and as a result, a lot of packaging material appears in our lives, in particular, polystyrene foam. It's great that we can use it and make something useful or simply beautiful with our own hands.

Storks

If you see these beautiful birds from a distance, you will immediately believe that a pair of storks has flown into the garden. In fact, this is a craft made from old things that are common in our everyday life:

a piece of foam;
plastic bottles;
a piece of wire;
metal mesh;
corrugated hose;
two old cans.

Old canisters with the handles cut off are used to make bodies that are wrapped in mesh. They are attached to a rod or thick wire that imitates the legs of a bird. A hose is inserted into the neck. Feathers cut from plastic bottles are attached to the mesh and hose. The heads are cut out of foam plastic.

Airplane

Your son will definitely love this foam airplane that can fly. If you don't have thick foam on hand to cut out a solid airplane, glue it together from several thin parts.