Homemade Toys

Today, children's stores offer a huge selection of toys, but not always they are affordable at their cost. But young children need new subjects every day to study. In this case, self-made toys made from improvised materials can help. For my mother this will be a kind of creativity, and the child will play with joy and pleasure.

This article will tell you ways how to make homemade toys in a short period of time.

1. Cheerful sock.

Materials: socks or booties, a box of kinder-surprise or rattles, rice, peas or beads, a flap of colored fabric, a needle and a thread.

In a box put beads or peas and close, cover it with a colored cloth and sew to a baby's socks.

Such homemade toys are suitable for young children who have only learned to walk. It will be interesting for them to take steps, as with each step an interesting and unusual sound will be issued for them.

2. The Magic Box.

Materials: a large box of shoes or household appliances, colored paper, scissors, glue.

The box is pasted with paper, a lid is attached from above, in which a small hole is previously cut out (so that the child's hand and those objects that can fit there fit in). Then, various objects, interesting toddler, drop into it.

It should be noted that such a toy should be hidden until it becomes necessary, periodically changing the contents of the box. The child will be interested to take out of it various trifles. In addition, such toys develop imagination, attention and will.

3. If you decide to make homemade soft toys for lessons with a baby, try making a caterpillar.

Materials: kapron stocking, ribbons from satin, sintepon, cereals, a box of kinder-surprise with two peas, cellophane package, beads, as well as a tangle of threads, a button, threads and a needle.

In the stocking put a ball of sintepon and bandage with tape (the first link of the future caterpillar). Then pour large size groats and also bandage with tape. In the third department fall asleep a small rump and tie. Then put a tangle of thread, and then a box from the kinder, then cellophane and sew up the hole.

In the first link make the face of the caterpillar: sew a button to the place of the mouth, make beads out of the beads.

It should be said that you can also make homemade toys for cats, rabbits and other pets. So, you can take a large cardboard box, glue it on the lid and cut from both sides of the hole, so that the animal can freely climb inside. Such an object will not only cause interest, but will also serve as a kind of house for the animal.

For scratching, cardboard rolls from paper towels or toilet paper, which can easily be replaced in case of their rapid deterioration, are suitable.

An interesting toy is a plastic bottle. It should be put a small amount of peas or beans. Cats love to take a bottle with their teeth and roll on the floor, and the noise emitted by legumes will additionally attract their attention.

In any case, you need to make sure that all homemade toys are clean and not very small (so that the animal does not swallow them).

Thus, toys made by themselves have many advantages. First of all, they are inexpensive, and often completely free. In addition, made with love, they will certainly bring joy to both young children and pets. They can be produced from improvised means. Often used for this natural materials: cones, acorns and stuff. And if you connect children to the process of creating a toy, it will cause them not only delight and joy, but also develop small motor skills of the hands, creativity, attentiveness, will, correct perception of space.