Sensory development is the most important aspect, especially between birth and 3 years, when the child develops the most basic and useful skills and abilities. One development option is various touch boxes that are easy to make with your own hands.
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What is a touch box
The multifunctional touch box is a small box filled with small objects (croups, liquids, toys, fabrics, plants) and other materials of different textures, colors and shapes).By feeling the contents of such a box and relaying, as it suits him, the child develops fine motor skills, attention, memory and even logic at an early age. Older children can act out different subjects, training their imagination, memory and self-care skills.
What types of touch boxes are there
Such development boxes can be divided into two groups: plot and content.
In the first case, a plot is chosen before the box is created, after which suitable materials are used. The plots can be as follows:
Seas and oceans
Space
Insects
North Pole
Sand workshop
Zoo
Home and comfort
Flora and fauna
Starry sky
Desert inhabitants
Forest and Field Inhabitants
Among other things, you need to take into account that for classes with young children it is better to use large components so that the child cannot harm himself and the game is interesting and useful. With children from one year of age and older, in the presence of adults, you can already use smaller materials that perfectly train fine motor skills. And you can also read about interesting and developmental experiments with water.
What the contents of the touch boxes might be:
- dry leaves
- cereals (millet, rice, peas, buckwheat, oatmeal, etc)
- pasta
- coffee beans
- pebbles
- sand
- cones
- nuts
- shells
- jelly
- vata
- yarn
- any textured fabric
- rustling textured materials (foil, sponges, colored paper, cardboard, etc.)
Additional filling:
- small toys
- children's cubes
- constructor
- balls
- cardboard cut letters and numbers
What devices to choose for games with a touch box:
- scapulae
- spoons
- funnels
- rakes
- glasses
- small plates
- bowls
- pots
Example of creating a touch box “Adventures at the North Pole”
To create such a touch box, you will need a comfortable box made of cardboard or plastic. Plastic will be preferable when playing with older children, as in this case it will be filled with jelly, but will not get wet as in the case of a cardboard box. Consider both options.
The bottom of the cardboard box needs to be laid out with white paper and complemented with cotton wool and rice grains. So we get snow, and to reproduce the effect of the icy sea, you will need a small mirror and blue cardboard, from which you can even cut out “lde”. As residents, you will need figurines of polar bears, walruses, seals, killer whales and reindeer. In toy stores you can find entire sets with similar themes. From the raffinade pieces you can build a needle in which northern hunters and families will live.
In a more complex version, when using a plastic box as the sea, you can prepare jelly using blue and blue dyes. This way, killer whales and other marine life can swim a lot of “” in improvised conditions.
As ice, you can use real ice cubes created with water with blue dye and ice cube molds. For greater effect, the jelly base can be poured with cool water and the child can be asked to organize a rescue expedition in which he will move animals from one bank to another, on a small piece of ice. Rice grains can be used as snow, which will not lose shape when in contact with water.
Touchbox “Zoo”
Walking around the zoo and getting to know its inhabitants is possible with a touch box on the subject, filling the box with oatmeal or wheat flakes, simulating paths with sand, with the help of twigs or a construction set, we will create animal pens and add materials to each respective habitat area.
For hippos and polar bears, these can be blue-painted pebbles, for deer and horses, dry leaves or a green-colored construction set, yellow sand or buckwheat is suitable for a camel Once you're done, you can take a tour of the zoo for little people, telling them where each animal's native habitat is, what it prefers to eat and how it winters.
Touch box on the theme “Space”
For toddlers who love fantasy cartoons and imagine themselves as astronauts, you can make a whole space station or box with imitation Martian soil and its inhabitants. In this case, sand or any grains of a yellowish-red shade will come in handy. As well as beans or peas that are suitable in shape for Martian stones or rocks.
In addition, small toys on the theme of space need to be prepared: flying saucers, planets, stars, astronauts, funny alien figurines and space rockets. Some can be made yourself from kinetic sand or modeling dough. Invite your child to start his space odyssey by landing on the planet and studying the surface and inhabitants. You can even make notes in the “board log and sketch new objects and phenomena.
