Creative tasks for children. Children's creative games

Olga Langueva
Card file of creative games and tasks for different types of children's activities

Langueva Olga Andreevna

MKDOU "Aurinko", Kostomuksha

Introduction

Creative the game most fully forms the personality of the child, therefore it is an important means of education. TO creative games include games in which the child shows his invention, initiative, independence. Creative manifestations of children in games are diverse: from inventing the plot and content of the game, finding ways to implement the idea to reincarnation in roles, given literary works. Depending on the nature creativity of children, from game material used in games, creative games share:

role-playing games,

theatrical,

Structural and construction,

Didactic.

Creative task- this is a form of information organization, where, along with given conditions and unknown data, contains an indication for independent creative activity aimed at realizing personal potential and obtaining the required educational product. Creative tasks are divided into:

Games - dramatizations,

Drafting creative retellings,

modeling method,

creative essay,

Mathematical creative task,

Laboratory and practical work

Activity can be defined as a specific type of human activity aimed at cognition and creative transformation of the surrounding world, including oneself and the conditions of one's existence.

GEF identifies 5 educational areas, which are implemented through the organization of various types of children's activities, but exactly:

gaming activity,

Cognitive research,

Communicative activity,

Motor activity,

Perception of fiction

Musical activity,

pictorial activity,

Self-service and elements of domestic work,

constructive activities

Compilation creative games and tasks for different activities of children

Everything creative games and activities different types activities intertwined with each other.

Now consider creative games and tasks for each activity.

Creative games and tasks for play activities

1. "Kindergarten"

Game progress: the teacher invites the children to play Kindergarten. Assigned at will children as educators, Babysitter, Musical director. Dolls and animals act as pupils. During the game, they monitor relationships with children, help them find a way out of difficult situations.

2. "Shop"

Game progress: the teacher offers the children to place a huge supermarket in a convenient place with departments such as vegetables, grocery, dairy, bakery and others where customers will go. Children independently distribute the roles of sellers, cashiers, sales workers in departments, sort goods into departments - products, fish, bakery products, meat, milk, household chemicals etc. They come to the supermarket for shopping with their friends, choose goods, consult with sellers, pay at the checkout. During the game, the teacher needs to pay attention to the relationship between sellers and buyers. The older the children, the more departments and goods can be in the supermarket.

3. "Restaurant"

Game progress An adult offers to choose among pictures images of those items of utensils, appliances and products that are needed for cooking, for example, soup or meatballs.

Each player puts cards and talk about the cooking process. given dishes in the correct order. The dishes offered to the child should be familiar to him.

4. "Birthday"

Game progress. The teacher appoints the child to the role of the birthday boy. He will receive guests on his birthday.

The guests take turns giving him imaginary gifts. (doll, ball, constructor, etc.). The teacher should pay attention to correct actions children with imaginary objects.

5. "Kingdom of Fairy Tales"

Game progress. An adult invites children to play an unusual game - "Kingdom of Fairy Tales". Everyone thinks of their favorite fairy-tale character. All heroes live in the same kingdom. Someone works as a cook, someone as a seller, etc. Next, a specific episode in the life of a fairy-tale kingdom is selected and played out. For example, one of the heroes has a birthday, everyone else comes to visit him; the inhabitants of the kingdom in the bazaar or hot-air balloon and etc.

Children must begin to interact in imaginary events and roles in this kingdom. However, in their actions, adhere to the character of a fairy-tale hero. That is, Pinocchio should be a naughty, Little Red Riding Hood - trusting, Cinderella - caring and kind.

Creative games and tasks for cognitive research activities

1. "Transformations".

Material. Picture with the image of an abstract element, with a subject and plot image in which this element is present; markers.

Game progress. The game is played in the form competitions: "Who will find more and faster "hidden element" in the proposed pictures. In order not to get confused, circle the already found elements with a felt-tip pen.

After doing tasks you can let the kids draw these images and invite other guys to find the hidden element.

2. "Let's make a flower pattern"

move tasks. The teacher tells the children that now they will make a pattern of flowers. The pattern can be made up of dandelions, tulips, daffodils and many other flowers. Next, the teacher shows how to cut out some (most difficult) flowers and notes that then they all need to be gathered together in a clearing in beautiful pattern(demonstrates "clearings" different shapes): flowers can differently be combined with each other and can grow in a round meadow, square, etc. To do this, they must be glued to it.

In the course of the application, the teacher assists the children in cutting complex flowers, praises them for their own ideas.

3. "Similarities and Differences"

Game progress. Children are invited to compare various objects and concepts with each other, summarizing all the available similar features and highlighting the differences. When doing this tasks teacher should pay attention children for the next mandatory condition: it is necessary to name first the similarity, and then the difference.

4. "Magic bag"

Game progress. The child is offered to touch (with closed eyes) identify one or another object, explaining at the same time on the basis of what signs the decision was made.

5. "What's rolling?"

Game progress. This game will introduce the child to the shape of objects. Organize a fun competition game - who will quickly roll their figure to the toy gates lined up on the table or on the floor. And the figures that need to be rolled, let them be a ball and. cube. Probably, at first the child will not care which figure to take. But after several trials, he will understand that only the one who has the ball wins, and he will try to choose it. Here, ask the baby why he prefers the ball, and try to do it with him output: "The ball rolls, but the cube does not". Pay attention to the sharp corners that prevent the cube from rolling, and the absence of such corners in the ball. Draw a ball and a cube. In the drawing, they will look simply like a circle and a square. Teach your kid how to draw them.

Creative games and tasks for communicative activities

1. "Nesmeyana"

Option 1. The players become around the driver (Unsmiled). Each of them takes turns trying to make the princess laugh with the help of facial expressions and gestures. (no speech). The one who succeeded, himself becomes Nesmeyana.

Option 2. The driver stands in the center between the players and tries to make one of them laugh. He is forbidden to touch anyone and talk.

Each driver drives no more than a minute. If he failed to make anyone laugh, another driver is given to help him, and together they try again.

If the child is successful, he changes places with the one who laughed.

2. "At the doctor's"

Game progress: the teacher offers to play, the Doctor and the Nurse are selected, the rest of the children pick up toy animals and dolls, come to the clinic for an appointment. Patients come to the doctor with various diseases: the bear's teeth hurt because he ate a lot of sweets, the Masha doll pinched her finger in the door, etc. We specify actions: The doctor examines the patient, prescribes treatment for him, and the Nurse follows his instructions. Some patients require inpatient treatment, they are admitted to the hospital. older children to school age can choose several different specialists - a therapist, an oculist, a surgeon and other doctors known to children. Getting to the reception, the toys tell why they went to the doctor, the teacher discusses with the children whether this could have been avoided, says that you need to take more care of your health. During the game, children watch how the doctor treats patients - makes dressings, measures the temperature. The teacher evaluates how the children communicate with each other.

3. "Shadow"

Target. Teach children coordinate with other children.

Children are divided into pairs. One child in a couple is a person, he "walking in the woods": collects mushrooms, berries, catches butterflies, etc. The other child is his shadow. Repeating the movements of a person, the shadow must act in the same rhythm and express the same well-being.

The teacher explains the meaning of the words to the children "pace" And "rhythm":! "The pace is speed: fast, slow, very slow. Rhythm is the uniform repetition of certain sounds: one-two, knock-knock.

Then the conditions of the game change. One child in a pair is a mouse, a frog, a bunny, a bear, a fox, a cockerel, a hedgehog (at the choice of the teacher, the other child is his shadow. During the game, the children change roles, and the teacher tells them, shows! the gait of animals.

4. "Your room"

Game progress. The adult asks the child to choose the cards, arrange them in their places in an empty room, then talk about your choice.

5. "Right Deeds"

Description. An adult asks to consider images, evaluate the actions of the heroes or put them into piles images with positive and negative actions, explaining their decision.

6. "Sweet word"

Game progress. The teacher collects children in a round dance with words:

In a round dance, in a round dance

The people have gathered here!

One, two, three, you start!

Following this, the teacher puts on a cap and affectionately turns to the child standing next to him.

For example:

Sasha, good morning!

The teacher specifies what kind and sweet words we can pronounce, referring to our friends (Hello, how glad I am (but) to see you; what a beautiful bow you have; by you Nice dress etc.).

After that, the children again go in a circle with a song. The teacher passes the cap to the next child, who, in turn, must affectionately turn to the baby standing next to him, etc.

Creative games and tasks for motor activity

1. "Pass the Pose"

Game progress. Children sit on chairs in a semicircle and on the floor in a Turkish fashion with their eyes closed. The leading child invents and fixes a pose, showing it to the first child. He remembers and shows the next. As a result, the pose is compared last child with the posture of the driver. children must be divided into performers and spectators.

2. "Funny Monkeys"

Game progress. Children are scattered - these are monkeys. Facing them is a child - a visitor to the zoo, who performs various movements and gestures. "Monkeys", mimicking a child exactly repeat everything after him.

3. Game "Hot potato»

Game progress. Children sit in a circle, the driver is in the center. He throws « potatoes» one of the players and immediately closes his eyes. The kids are tossing « potatoes» each other, wanting to get rid of her as soon as possible (like it's a real hot potatoes) . Suddenly leading pronounces: "Hot potato!»

The player who ended up in the hands "hot potatoes» , is out of the game. When one child remains in the circle, the game ends and that player is considered the winner.

4. "Ocean is shaking"

Game progress. Children walk in a circle and say words: “The sea worries - one, the sea worries - two, the sea worries - three, the marine figure freezes in place!” On the the last word children stop and "freeze" in the pose of a sea animal. The teacher or child tries to guess the name of these animals.

Creative games and tasks for the perception of fiction

1. "Think of a Sequel"

Game progress. An adult reads to the child the beginning of the story he invented and asks him to come up with what happened next and how this story ended. At first, an adult can direct the child's thoughts by starting a sentence, and the child will finish it.

For example: “Two friends, Sasha and Dima, argued about which of them runs faster. Think about how they resolved this dispute, how they competed, which of them won, how their friends behaved after the argument.

Or: “One summer, dad and his sons went camping. They walked mainly through the forest, and on the way one of the sons, Andreika, fell behind and got lost. Think about how and why this happened, how Andreika wandered alone through the forest, how he was later found and how this trip ended.

2. "Christmas balls"

Game progress. Adult attaches to the Christmas tree Christmas balls with syllables inside and invites the child to make words out of them.

3. "Staging"

Game progress. An adult chooses a scene that is accessible in terms of volume and speech material, then distributes roles between children and, in the form of questions and answers, discusses the content of the future "performance"(what sets and costumes will be, what character traits are inherent in each hero, how he should talk, walk, behave) and small rehearsals. During them, an adult shows the children how to pronounce the words (clearly, loudly, beautifully, tells them to look at the interlocutor when talking, try to stay natural, do not lower their heads.

On the initial stage small dialogues are played out, it is possible in verse, and each "actor" must know his words by heart. During this period, the child speaks with 1-2 remarks and communicates with only one partner. Gradually, as training progresses, the volume of words, cues and partners with which the child plays increases.

4. "Pantomime"

Game progress. Children of one team use pantomime to show an object (train, iron, telephone, mushroom, tree, flower, bee, beetle, hare, dog, TV, crane, butterfly, book). Children of the other team guess

Creative games and tasks for musical activities

1. "Let's hear the word"

Game progress. The adult invites the child to imagine the sound made by some subject: the buzzing of a bumblebee or a bee, the howl of a police siren, the ringing of a bell, the sound of a hammer, the horn of a car, the singing of a cuckoo and other familiar sounds heard many times.

2. Dance of the rose

Game progress. To a beautiful tune (recording, own chant) perform the dance of an amazingly beautiful flower - a rose. The child himself comes up with movements for him.

Suddenly the music stops. It's a gust of north wind "froze" beautiful rose. The child freezes in any position invented by him.

3. Who is on picture?

Game progress. Children take apart cards with the image of animals, birds, insects, etc. Then they are transferred one by one in plastic given image, the rest guess. On several cards images can match, which makes it possible to compare several versions of the same tasks and celebrate the best performance.

4. "Playing with a handkerchief"

Offer your child any of the handkerchiefs you have (if desired, it can be replaced with a scarf). Ask with a handkerchief, movements, facial expressions portray:

Butterfly

princess

Wizard

grandmother

Magician and others

Creative games and tasks for pictorial activities

1. "Magic blots"

Game progress. Before the game, they make several blot: a little ink or ink is poured into the middle of the sheet and the sheet is folded in half. Then the sheet is unfolded and now you can play. Participants take turns talking. What subject images do they see in a blot or its individual parts.

Whoever names the most items wins.

2. "Invent Animal"

The teacher invites children to create an unusual creature from the available details (figures, book clippings, etc. can be offered).

3. "Bring the drawing to life"

Game progress. In each cell draw an oval (or another figure: rectangle, square, triangle, which then needs to be turned into some picture.

4. "Funny Drawing"

Game progress. Attach a sheet of paper to the door, wall. The players line up. The leader blindfolds the first, brings him to "easel", gives a felt-tip pen into his hands and says that now everyone will draw one cow, an elephant, a hare, a princess, etc. Everyone takes turns blindfolded and finishes the missing details.

5. "Unknown Animal"

Game progress. Each player on his sheet draws the head of a person, animal, bird, etc. at the top, then, bending the sheet so that only a piece of the neck is visible, passes the sheet to a neighbor. He must continue the drawing with the upper body and, bending, again pass the sheet to the next player who draws the limbs. Thus, the sheets of all the players are drawn, without knowing whose head or torso was drawn by the partner. At the end of the game, you get a collection of unknown, funny animals.

6. "Three Colors".

The progress of the exercise. Children are invited to take three paints and paint the whole sheet with them, as they like. After that, the teacher asks each child: "What does the drawing look like?" If there are difficulties in naming, it is allowed to finish the drawing a little, if necessary. Then the teacher asks to come up with as many names for the picture as possible and say it out loud.

Creative games and tasks for self-service and domestic work

1. creative exercise"Cabinet Life"

Game progress. Children are encouraged to consider picture showing the closet (chair, bucket, spoon, etc.). Children get into groups and answer question: What can the wardrobe be made of? Can the closet change mood? Can the closet hurt? Is it possible to take closets as friends? What does a closet feel like when it's being cleaned or repaired? Which member of the family does the closet love the most? Remember the closet of the master who made it? Similar questions can ask about anything. Then the children come up with a fairy tale about things (how the wardrobe made friends with a new dress or how a cup (plate) quarreled with a spoon, etc.).

2. "Let's dress the dolls"

A small child successfully gets acquainted with the size of objects by comparing objects of the same type with each other. different sizes.

Give him two dolls (large and small) and two sets of clothes. The kid should not know which of the dolls these or those things belong to; let him decide task yourself. Explain that the dolls are cold and want to get dressed but have mixed up their clothes. Invite the child to help the dolls. If at first the child distributes things incorrectly, it does not matter. Point out to him that the clothes are too small for a big doll or too big for a small one, and let him think again. When each doll gets her things, praise the child and underline: « big dress- a big doll, a small one - a small one, big shoes - a big doll, small ones - a small one. To complicate the task, it is necessary to give three dolls.

3. "I start a sentence and you finish"

Game progress. The teacher starts the phrase, the children continue using their imagination,

fantasy and received knowledge: “If there were no teachers, then…”, “If there were no doctors, then…”, "If there were no janitors, then ...", “If there were no drivers, then…” etc.

4. "Guess what I'm doing?"

Game progress. The teacher and children hold hands and stand in a circle. A child comes to the center of the circle. Everyone goes around and around pronounce: "What are you doing - we do not know, Let's see and guess." The child imitates labor actions not only with movements, but also (if possible) transmitting sounds. For example, he cleans the floor with a vacuum cleaner, hammers a nail, saws, drives a car, washes, chop wood, rubs on a grater, etc. Children guess the actions.

Creative games and tasks for constructive activities

1. "Building a house"

Game progress. The teacher asks the children to guess riddle: “What kind of turret is standing, and the light is on in the window? We live in this tower, and is it called? (House)". The teacher offers the children to build a large, spacious house where toys could live. Children remember what construction professions are, what people do at a construction site. They look at pictures of builders and talk about their duties. Then the children agree on building a house. The roles are distributed among children: some are Builders, they are building a house; others are Drivers, they deliver building material to the construction site, one of children - crane operator. During construction, attention should be paid to the relationship between children. The house is ready, and new residents can move in. Children play on their own.

2. "Unusual paintings»

Equipment: tray, buttons, paper clips, bottle caps, vials, natural material: straws, cone scales, shells, small pebbles, dried flowers, leaves, plant seeds, leaf cardboard.

Game progress: Material is spread out on the tray. An adult offers to create unusual paintings, and to create them, you don’t need pencils and paints, but what lies on the tray. Imagine picture you want to receive. Sketch it out on a piece of paper. With the help of an adult, attach to cardboard.

3. "Magic Path"

Game progress. Children sit in a circle and each child has different design details. Children make a move in a circle. The first one lays any brick, and the subsequent ones lay a brick of the same color or the same shape.

4. "Who is higher"

Course progress. Everyone takes a plate, rolls a die, takes a part of the corresponding color. It is necessary to build a tower of the same color, higher than the opponent. That is, if they fall out all the time different colors , a high tower will not work.

Each child should be offered different types of creativity. Believe me, something will definitely interest you. Become loved.
Let's talk about what you can offer a little fidget 3-5 years old. And this:

* Unconventional drawing.
* Application.
* Making delicious toys.
* Fun workshop.

Let's take a closer look at each type of handicraft.
Non-traditional ways of this type of creativity:

Method number 1

"Magic wand"

A pencil or pen is wrapped with foam rubber from the blunt end, which is tied with a thread. It turns out a large brush without hairs. The stick is held strictly perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, without tilt. The trail left by her imitates animal hair, tree crowns, snow. A stick with foam rubber is dipped in paint (the main thing is that there is no a large number water), and the baby begins to cover the sheet with traces of it. Let him first simply understand that with the help of " magic wand» you can quickly and easily draw footprints. Then draw the branches of a tree or a bush with a black felt-tip pen, let the child finish the foliage with green, yellow, red or orange paint. Draw a simple outline of a bunny or a fox with a pencil, let the kid “stomp” it with his “magic tool” - the bunny and the fox will turn out fluffy, their fur will seem so disheveled that the baby will certainly want to touch it. It is extremely interesting to work in this technique with a stencil. Cut out an image in the middle of a thick sheet of cardboard, such as the head of a tiger cub or a bear. Attach the cardboard with the cut-out stencil to the album sheet and invite the child to “trample” that part of the album sheet that is visible through the stencil hole. After the child has done this, let the work dry, then paint the eyes, mouth, mustache, stripes with a brush.

Method number 2

"Figurine"

A very interesting way of drawing with a pencil, felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen according to pre-made stencils. Stencils can be of two types - some are cut inside the sheet, others are made from the sheet and separated from it. It is easier for small children to trace shapes embossed inside the sheet. Many squares and rulers have such patterns. Attaching them to the album sheet, you ask the baby to circle the shapes. Then you remove the stencil and together with it you come up with how you can finish drawing this or that shape. Children 4.5-5 years old will be able to circle single stencils cut out of cardboard. This is more difficult, because the hand does not hold well on the outside of the pattern and the baby draws extra lines. But you can interest children in the content of stencils: for boys - these are the silhouettes of cars and planes, for girls - animals, nesting dolls, bows and houses. Having circled the patterns, children can paint over their images with felt-tip pens and paints, hatch with various lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, with loops, wavy with sharp tops. Stencils can help when creating your own drawings, they will complement what the baby himself has created.
You can start a game: the child circles various objects, and you guess what it is. First, not all items can be circled. Finding them, the baby will understand what is the difference between voluminous and flat objects or things that have at least one even side, and those that do not. Secondly, it is not easy to circle this or that object on your own, without the help of an adult. And thirdly, in this game, the roles change: the baby confuses the parents, and the adults try to find the answer. All this pleases the child, providing him with a surge of creative forces.

Method number 3

"Mirror Copy"

Another method is based on the fact that a silhouette drawn with paints can be easily printed when a sheet of paper is applied to it. The sequence of work is as follows: the sheet is bent in half, unfolded, the surface is slightly wetted with water. On one half of the sheet, the silhouette of an object or part of a symmetrical image is drawn with paints, for example, half a Christmas tree, half a flower, half a house. The sheet is folded and strongly pressed by hand. Expanding the sheet, you will see a whole image or two objects (if you drew a whole object on one half). This method is to the liking of many kids, the appearance of the same image on the second half of the sheet seems like a miracle to children. When the work dries, the details can be finished with felt-tip pens, pencils or paints.

Method number 4 - "Whose trace"

Another way of drawing, or rather, printing, is based on the ability of many objects to leave colorful prints on paper. You take a potato, cut it in half and cut out a square, a triangle, a rhombus, a flower or something interesting from one half. Moreover, one side of the print should be flat for applying to the paper, and you will hold on to the other side with your hand. Then you or a child dip such a signet in paint (preferably gouache) and apply it to paper. As you can guess, it leaves an imprint. With the help of these prints, you can make beads, ornaments, patterns, mosaics.

Method number 5

"Salt Drawings and Tooth Paint"

But what if you paint with glue, and sprinkle salt on top of these areas? Then you get amazing snow pictures. They will look more impressive if they are performed on blue, blue, pink colored paper. Try it, it's very exciting!
Or let's create winter landscapes in another way - by painting with toothpaste. Beforehand, the kid needs to be explained that this is a creative search, and such use of toothpaste does not give him the right to squeeze it out on the floor, shelves and tables. Together with the baby, outline with a pencil the light contours of trees, houses, snowdrifts. Slowly squeezing out toothpaste, walk it along all the outlined contours. Such work must be dried and it is better not to put it in a folder along with other drawings. For creativity, it is best to use a domestic product - it dries faster.

Method number 6

"Egg Mosaic"

Another very fun way to create creative works- this is the execution of a mosaic of multi-colored eggshells. After leaving on your kitchen table eggshell don't throw it away. Separate from films, wash, dry and interpret. In several cups, dilute the paint and put the crushed shell there. After 15 minutes, the shell is caught with a fork and laid out to dry. Here is the material for the mosaic. Now you need to think over the drawing, mark it with a pencil outline and, having previously lubricated the surface with glue, fill it with a certain color of the shell.

Method number 7

"Like an artist to an artist"

And here is a very unusual way! You need to get a large sheet of paper. Huge paper sheets are sold in bookstores and cost 6 rubles. You ask the baby to lie on such a sheet and circle it. Of course, it is better that it fits all (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper) or, in extreme cases, to fit the torso and head. You circled the baby, and now his time has come - let him try to decorate the silhouette: draw eyes, mouth, hair, jewelry, clothes. If the child is small, then do this work together - the kid offers, and you, admiring his imagination, draw with him.

Method number 8

"Rainy Fantasies"

Another option non-traditional drawing is as follows: during rain or snowfall, you boldly open the window and expose a sheet of paper for less than a minute, holding it horizontally. You probably guessed that drops of rain or snow will remain on the leaf. And this is what we were striving for. Bad weather tracks can now be traced and turned into fabulous creatures. They can also be connected to each other, guessing what kind of image is obtained.

"Application"

Very often, when drawing, kids ask for scissors. The desire to hold such a dangerous adult object in the hands increases one's own importance in the eyes of the child. Children can quite easily cut their drawing or cut out part of it. And this is not because they do not feel sorry for the drawing. Just the interest in front of the "magic" separation from the sheet of its parts fascinates them much more than the desire to preserve what has already been created.

How can you get started with the application?

The simplest plots are a house with an opening door, primitive cars, mountains. It is better to perform these works from colored paper. Pay attention to the fact that one side of the paper is colored and the other is white. The cut line is drawn only on the white side. Draw a large square on the white side of the paper. Two of its sides will coincide with the edges of the sheet, the other two lines you have to draw yourself. Give the child scissors, hold the sheet yourself and guide it. After the cut out square, you can make a triangular roof. So the house is ready, it remains only to spread it with glue and press it firmly against the paper. Strange as it may seem, kids need to be taught this as well. It is better to spread on a special substrate made of linoleum or plastic. Pressing the part to the main background, remove the remaining glue with a cloth. When finished, invite the child to finish the details, for example, mark the windows, the door, the dormer window, the fence. Children love opening parts in houses or caves in the rocks. It is very easy to make these parts. At the bottom of the house you cut out the door. One side of her should hold her, as if on hinges. Of course, the door is not glued, but kept open. Now the child can close and open it himself. You can also make shutters on the windows, opening doors in cars, mysterious grottoes in the rocks.
Very young children can prepare various patterns in advance. It remains for the kid to get them out of the envelope or bag, examine them, smear them with glue and place them on the sheet as your heart desires. With a certain skill, the child can perform this lesson on his own. The patterns can be the following silhouettes: geometric shapes, flowers, berries, stars.
For applications, you can use not only paper. Pieces of cloth are also a wonderful material. They make wonderful costumes, various natural objects, for example, tree crowns, smooth water, animal hair. The fabric is selected depending on its texture and compliance with the image. Invite your child to examine the ironed shreds, figure out what they can be used for, and you will be surprised at his interest and enthusiasm.
Excellent material for applications - old magazines. Children who have already mastered the process of carving will enjoy looking for drawings and photographs on given topics. For example, today we are creating an application on the theme "Racing", and the kids are looking for images of different types of transport. Come up with topics and hand magazines to the crumbs!
It is curious to teach kids to use not only old editions for applications, but also junk paper - labels, wrappers, paper for wrapping gifts. You have to be a real dreamer to see in the photo of the forest the background for the appliqué of the seabed, and to cut out the flower round dance from the wrapper in the form soap bubbles. Transforming what you see into other, unusual images - this is real creativity! In this regard, the game with letters is very interesting. You cut out various letters from magazines, ask the kid to come up with something new from them. So, a bow, a cheerful muzzle and a shoe are attached to the letter "I" - and now the little man is ready. But what if "P" is supplemented with a roof and a pipe? "K" - tail, claws and head? Try it, it's fun for adults too.
Another application can be created from cereals and pasta. But with food, you have to be extremely careful. After all, food is meant to sustain our lives, not to play. And yet you can try, with the reservation that we will take just a little bit of rice, oatmeal, beans and pasta to create something interesting and exciting. A path made of rice, tree trunks made of pasta, a sea of oatmeal will look original and unusual.

So, there are ideas, there is not enough free time and energy. Let's carve out an hour, be patient and ... start creating together with the baby. Out of nowhere, strength will appear, a desire will come to invent and fantasize, and the baby will beg you to glue, sculpt, draw, play with him a little more. Agree, because from this “slightly” a thread will stretch to “forever”. And every mother dreams of becoming a friend, creative colleague and adviser of her child forever.
The materials of the following books were used in the preparation of the article:
Feldcher S., Lieberman S. "400 ways to keep a child 2 to 8 years old". St. Petersburg: "Peter", 1996.
Doronova T. N. "Nature, art and visual activity children." M: "Enlightenment", 2000.

Some application ideas

We create an aquarium: fish, algae, pearls.
We glue the city: houses, cars, trees, stylized (simplified) images of people.
We have a kitchen! On the paper plates we paste photos or silhouettes of various dishes, vegetables and fruits.
Let's invent a little man from paper cups, cubic yogurt boxes, gluing the background, facial features and hair.
A collage of pieces of serpentine, ropes, ribbons, twine. By arranging these materials in a certain sequence, twisting them in a spiral, intertwining with each other, you can create interesting decorative works.
Application in the way of breaking, when the paper is not cut, but torn, it looks especially good when creating sea waves, thick trees, monsters. If it is difficult for a child to cut off a large image, let him tear it apart, gluing them against each other against the main background.

delicious toys

We repeat once again that, while making delicious toys, the baby must understand that food is of great value. Treating food with respect should be a must when making food crafts.
Invite your child to decorate the salad. Let him have on hand tomato slices, olives, strips of pepper, carrots, parsley curls. Perhaps the kid will create a face of a little man or make an ornamental decoration?
It is very interesting to squeeze out the cream from a syringe or a bag according to a preconceived pattern. Not everyone can do this art, so let the baby try it on cookies first. Very often, children see in a piece of bread that they eat, either a bear cub or a squirrel. Let's try to ask the kid, carefully tearing off pieces of bread, to create different animals. They will become fun toasts for breakfast, and we will dry the remaining crumbs and put them in a separate jar. They come in handy for breading. Be sure to tell your child about this, let him know that not a crumb of bread was lost!
Along with these original hobbies, we advise you to involve fidgets in the kitchen more often. Bake cookies with mom, cook pasta, cut potatoes - what could be more interesting and important for a growing baby!

Jack of all trades

When you finish reading an article, you must be tired, right? It is impossible to remember so many ideas at once, to understand so many sentences. And therefore, in the last section, we placed only barely indicated thoughts about creating something new and interesting with our own hands. If something is curious, decorate these disparate thoughts for a taste!
Doing Jewelry: we string buttons, beads, rowan berries with a large needle on a thread. A whole necklace can be made by connecting paper clips together.
We tell rope stories: we made a circle out of the rope, we start a story about ... a bun, a sun, a plate, a wheel. Here our circle has grown a nose. What's this? Pinocchio, turnip? And so on - show and tell.
We make dolls from pillows tied with a rope, paper bags stuffed with newspaper and twisted in the middle. You can decorate paper dolls, stick hair, mustaches, beards on them.
Think about what else you can think of pillows? You find it difficult, but the kids will be happy to tell you that it can be a house, a car, or an airplane. Offer the crumbs to build such a building - he will be just happy.
Let's consolidate our creative ideas! Pour paper clips onto a sheet of clean paper. It turns out that you can create various silhouettes from them and circle them. Try it yourself, and then offer the little creator.
Have your child make lots of holes on the cardboard with a hole punch. When the work is completed, hand the lace to the baby. Having fixed it in one of the holes with a knot, ask to create patterns. It is similar to educational games called “lacing”, but the canvas is completely made by the child himself! And because the game will be perceived in a completely different way. You can create patterns in different ways, why not try to “draw” familiar and unfamiliar images with a lace.

In children of primary school age, the game remains the predominant activity. It is still easier and more interesting for them to explore the world, learn new knowledge, join culture and play sports in game form. Unlike teaching, creative tasks are based on improvisation and emotions. They do not obey ready-made rules, their essence lies in intellectual, psychological and artistic development through free self-expression.

Types of creative games for children 7 - 11 years old

Creative games for schoolchildren are divided into several groups:

Role-playing games. In them, the child tries to embody the surrounding reality, reproduce the scenario he has seen or come up with his own, live a certain role. These are all kinds of everyday scenes (family), situations from children's life (school), professional plots (doctor - patient), typical for the age of 7 - 9 years. At this time, paraphernalia is more important to children than plot authenticity.
theatrical performances. This option role-playing games for children aged 10 - 11 years and older, with a predominance of life situations, the manifestation of personal qualities. Heroic-romantic scenarios, scenes from books, films, TV show concepts are taken as the basis.
Intellectual creative games: speech, mathematical, logical, riddles, quizzes, charades, etc.
Technical creativity. First-graders are developing the foundations of technical thinking: design, modeling, mechanics, construction, research and discovery occupy them more than the usual activities like drawing and modeling. The peak of enthusiasm for designers is the age of 9-10 years, then interest decreases.
Creative development. Painting, modeling, carving, making crafts are still important for the mental and psychological maturation of the child. From this point of view, the priority is the application, which is part of the program of labor training and extracurricular activities.
Music games: singing, improvisation, playing instruments, rhythmic movements, composing melodies to the proposed plot connect the creative process with aesthetic and emotional experiences.

Creative kids games may take the form:

self-study (design, drawing);
pair games (joint creativity with a friend, with parents, brother or sister);
group activities (intellectual games, performances, puppet show etc.)

Creative games for younger students

Simple speech and development activities are universal creative games for children. They are suitable for all ages, with their help you can take a child at any time and in any place, organize intellectual entertainment even for the whole class. Can I find more Russian faces in the picture?

Creative game "Favorite letter"

For this game, you need leaflets with letters folded into an envelope. The first child pulls out a card and sounds the letter that he got. Now this is his "favorite" letter, and all the words he uttered should begin with it. The task of the rest of the children and adults is to ask questions to the participant, to which he will answer, choosing only “permitted” words.

An example for the letter "A":

What is your name? - Anya.
Where do you live? - in Africa.
What is your favorite food? - A pineapple.
What is your favorite book? - Aibolit.

The game must be played at a fast pace. A child who made a mistake or hesitated at the expense of "1 - 2 - 3" gives way to another player. The lesson develops intelligence, memory and a sense of humor.

Creative game "Draw"

This game involves creative thinking, intuition, wakes up fantasy, forms spatial imagination and strengthens memory. The necessary equipment is paper and a pen. Any number of participants can be involved in the game.

The host is required to draw a part of a geometric figure, a simple object, a toy; from the child - complete the drawing. For example, an adult drew 2 sides of a rectangle, 2 faces of a cube, children need to finish drawing to the end. It should be remembered that developing creative games should be appropriate for the age of the participants: complex tasks such as parallelepipeds can be given to children who are already familiar with geometry.

Creative game "Melofon"

A musical game for a group of several children develops hearing and observation. For classes, you need several glasses filled with water at different levels:

empty;
for a quarter;
half;
three quarters;
full.

The facilitator knocks on the glasses with a spoon, allowing the children to hear and remember how each of them sounds. The player turns away, at this time the other hits one of the glasses. The task is to guess which one. The winner is the participant whose hearing failed the least number of times.

Creative games in the development of children

Creative games for children contribute to the comprehensive and harmonious development of younger students:

from a psychological point of view - the child shows emotions and freely expresses himself;
from the intellectual side - thinking, perception, speech, imagination, memory are formed;
applied value of games - there are new skills, experience with different materials;
educational aspect - discipline, a habit of work, the ability to act in a team are developed;
in the artistic field - the identification of abilities, interests, motivation for creativity.

The desire to play always and everywhere is not a hindrance to learning and education. The task of adults is not to let games take their course: to organize, lead and give them a creative direction, and any activity will serve the development of children.

Development creative thinking in children. Development creativity in children. Educational games. Educational games for children's holidays. Exercises for the development of creative thinking.

In modern psychology, the tasks to which this section is devoted are usually called divergent, and the thinking that they activate is divergent thinking.

The specificity of divergent tasks is that one question posed may have not one, but several or even many correct answers. Naturally, it is the divergent type of thinking that usually qualifies as creative. This kind of thinking is closely related to imagination.

Divergent-type assignments are rarely used in traditional schooling. Orthodox education usually does not aim to develop the skills of non-standard thinking in a person, in connection with which divergent tasks acquire a special value: creative activity in any field requires, first of all, divergent thinking.

Consider, as an example, some types of tasks commonly used in the practice of working with children.

Take plastic, wooden (or make your own cardboard) multi-colored geometric shapes and invite the child to make as many different stylized images as possible (Fig. 1).

Rice. 1. Examples of images that can be folded from simple geometric shapes

The next task is in many ways similar to the previous one: use paper cones, cylinders and other elements to try to glue as many figures of people and animals as possible. Examples of this task are shown in fig. 2.

Rice. 2. Design and create paper figures of people and animals

Stock up on old illustrated magazines and bright pieces of fabric. Together with your child, cut out shapes from the illustrations and pieces of fabric contained in the magazines. different forms. Now we paste the resulting figures on a sheet of cardboard and get a collage. Examples are shown in fig. 3. All this is creative work, but the main task is: "Find as many analogies with real objects as possible." The collage can be rotated as you like.

Rice. 3. Examples of collages from different materials

A very interesting, and therefore very popular task was proposed by the psychologist J. Gilford: to find as many different, original applications as possible for a well-known subject. As such an object, you can use brick, chalk, newspaper and much more.

This task usually takes five to six minutes to complete. In the course of the analysis of the results, all answers are taken into account, except for those that do not correspond to the task, are repeated or may be considered ridiculous. This task can be offered to both older preschoolers and adults.

Estimated at this case productivity and originality of thinking. How more ideas, the more unusual among them, the more points the participant receives.

Another task: pick up adjectives and nouns that contain the concepts of light and darkness (heat and cold, spring and winter, morning and evening, etc.). Let's give examples of answers.

Light - bright, gentle, lively;
Sun - ...
morning - ...
lamp - ...
bonfire - ...
candle - ...

Darkness - closed, night;
night - ...
evening - ...
cave - ...

Find as many common features as possible for dissimilar items.

Well - parquet;
log - box;
cloud - door;
doll - snow.

Divergent tasks include tasks to find the causes of events. Here are a few situations that you need to determine the causes of their occurrence:

1. In the morning Dima woke up earlier than usual.
2. The sun has not yet gone beyond the horizon, but it has already become dark.
3. The dog sitting at the feet of the owner growled menacingly at the little kitten.

Another version of the task described above: think up and tell what happened to each of the characters.

The child must understand the emotional state of each of the boys and tell what happened to them.

The third option for the task: think about what could happen if ...

"... it will rain without ceasing."
"... people will learn to fly like birds."
"...dogs will start talking with a human voice."
"... all fairy-tale heroes will come to life."
"... orange juice will come out of the faucet."

It is good if the child was able to come up with an interesting answer to each of the proposed phrases.

Another type of task for the development of creative thinking in children: inventing stories, stories or fairy tales using a given set of words, for example:

Traffic light, boy, sled.

The second option for this type of task: look at the pictures and come up with a fairy tale in which all these characters would participate.

The next type of tasks: "Mystery Clouds". The child needs to determine what the clouds depicted in the drawings (ink spots) look like. It's good if he can see at least one character in each cloud.

Another option for this task: try to draw something interesting using these shapes.

Another exercise: draw and color the sorceresses so that one becomes good and the other evil.

Divergent, creative tasks can be developed on any material. A good task of this type can be the creation of various figures from the details of a building designer. Indeed, not only palaces, bridges and other architectural structures can be built from the details of a building designer. Let's try to look at the construction designer from the other side. Its parts are suitable, for example, for the manufacture of technical models of a steamship, steam locomotive, car, aircraft. From them you can make schematic images of animals and people, and even voluminous plot compositions. Let us give examples of possible solutions (Fig. 4).

Let's talk about what you can offer a little fidget 3-5 years old. And this:

Unconventional drawing.
Application.
Making delicious toys.
Fun workshop.

Let's take a closer look at each type of handicraft.
Non-traditional ways of this type of creativity:

Method number 1
"Magic wand"
a pencil or pen is wrapped with foam rubber from the blunt end, which is tied with a thread. It turns out a large brush without hairs. The stick is held strictly perpendicular to the surface of the sheet, without tilt. The trail left by her imitates animal hair, tree crowns, snow. A stick with foam rubber is dipped in paint (the main thing is that there is not a lot of water), and the baby begins to cover the sheet with traces of it. Let him first just understand that with the help of the "magic wand" you can quickly and easily draw footprints. Then draw the branches of a tree or a bush with a black felt-tip pen, let the child finish the foliage with green, yellow, red or orange paint. Draw a simple outline of a bunny or a fox with a pencil, let the kid “stomp” it with his “magic tool” - the bunny and the fox will turn out fluffy, their fur will seem so disheveled that the baby will certainly want to touch it. It is extremely interesting to work in this technique with a stencil. Cut out an image in the middle of a thick sheet of cardboard, such as the head of a tiger cub or a bear. Attach the cardboard with the cut-out stencil to the album sheet and invite the child to “trample” that part of the album sheet that is visible through the stencil hole. After the child has done this, let the work dry, then paint the eyes, mouth, mustache, stripes with a brush.

Method number 2
"Figurine"
A very interesting way of drawing with a pencil, felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen according to pre-made stencils. Stencils can be of two types - some are cut inside the sheet, others are made from the sheet and separated from it. It is easier for small children to trace shapes embossed inside the sheet. Many squares and rulers have such patterns. Attaching them to the album sheet, you ask the baby to circle the shapes. Then you remove the stencil and together with it you come up with how you can finish drawing this or that shape. Children 4.5-5 years old will be able to circle single stencils cut out of cardboard. This is more difficult, because the hand does not hold well on the outside of the pattern and the baby draws extra lines. But you can interest children in the content of stencils: for boys - these are the silhouettes of cars and planes, for girls - animals, nesting dolls, bows and houses. Having circled the patterns, children can paint over their images with felt-tip pens and paints, hatch with various lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, with loops, wavy with sharp tops. Stencils can help when creating your own drawings, they will complement what the baby himself has created.
You can start a game: the child circles various objects, and you guess what it is. First, not all items can be circled. Finding them, the baby will understand what is the difference between voluminous and flat objects or things that have at least one even side, and those that do not. Secondly, it is not easy to circle this or that object on your own, without the help of an adult. And thirdly, in this game, the roles change: the baby confuses the parents, and the adults try to find the answer. All this pleases the child, providing him with a surge of creative forces.

Method number 3
"Mirror Copy"
Another method is based on the fact that a silhouette drawn with paints can be easily printed when a sheet of paper is applied to it. The sequence of work is as follows: the sheet is bent in half, unfolded, the surface is slightly wetted with water. On one half of the sheet, the silhouette of an object or part of a symmetrical image is drawn with paints, for example, half a Christmas tree, half a flower, half a house. The sheet is folded and strongly pressed by hand. Expanding the sheet, you will see a whole image or two objects (if you drew a whole object on one half). This method is to the liking of many kids, the appearance of the same image on the second half of the sheet seems like a miracle to children. When the work dries, the details can be finished with felt-tip pens, pencils or paints.
method number 4 - "Whose trace"
Another way of drawing, or rather, printing, is based on the ability of many objects to leave colorful prints on paper. You take a potato, cut it in half and cut out a square, a triangle, a rhombus, a flower or something interesting from one half. Moreover, one side of the print should be flat for applying to the paper, and you will hold on to the other side with your hand. Then you or a child dip such a signet in paint (preferably gouache) and apply it to paper. As you can guess, it leaves an imprint. With the help of these prints, you can make beads, ornaments, patterns, mosaics.

Method number 5
"Salt Drawings and Tooth Paint"
But what if you paint with glue, and sprinkle salt on top of these areas? Then you get amazing snow pictures. They will look more impressive if they are performed on blue, blue, pink colored paper. Try it, it's very exciting!
Or let's create winter landscapes in another way - by painting with toothpaste. Beforehand, the kid needs to be explained that this is a creative search, and such use of toothpaste does not give him the right to squeeze it out on the floor, shelves and tables. Together with the baby, outline with a pencil the light contours of trees, houses, snowdrifts. Slowly squeezing out the toothpaste, walk it along all the outlined contours. Such work must be dried and it is better not to put it in a folder along with other drawings. For creativity, it is best to use a domestic product - it dries faster.

Method number 6
"Egg Mosaic"
Another very fun way to create creative work is to make mosaics from multi-colored eggshells. Once an eggshell is left on your kitchen counter, don't throw it away. Separate from films, wash, dry and interpret. In several cups, dilute the paint and put the crushed shell there. After 15 minutes, the shell is caught with a fork and laid out to dry. Here is the material for the mosaic. Now you need to think over the drawing, mark it with a pencil outline and, having previously lubricated the surface with glue, fill it with a certain color of the shell.

Method number 7
"Like an artist to an artist"
And here is a very unusual way! You need to get a large sheet of paper. Huge paper sheets are sold in bookstores and cost 6 rubles. You ask the baby to lie on such a sheet and circle it. Of course, it is better that it fits all (this can be achieved by gluing two or three sheets of whatman paper) or, in extreme cases, to fit the torso and head. You circled the baby, and now his time has come - let him try to decorate the silhouette: draw eyes, mouth, hair, jewelry, clothes. If the child is small, then do this work together - the kid offers, and you, admiring his imagination, draw with him.

Method number 8
"Rainy Fantasies"
Another option for non-traditional drawing is as follows: during rain or snowfall, you boldly open the window and expose a sheet of paper for less than a minute, holding it horizontally. You probably guessed that drops of rain or snow will remain on the leaf. And this is what we were striving for. Bad weather tracks can now be traced and turned into fabulous creatures. They can also be connected to each other, guessing what kind of image is obtained.

"Application"
Very often, when drawing, kids ask for scissors. The desire to hold such a dangerous adult object in the hands increases one's own importance in the eyes of the child. Children can quite easily cut their drawing or cut out part of it. And this is not because they do not feel sorry for the drawing. Just the interest in front of the "magic" separation from the sheet of its parts fascinates them much more than the desire to preserve what has already been created.
How can you get started with the application?
The simplest plots are a house with an opening door, primitive cars, mountains. Better to do these things. Pay attention to the fact that one side of the paper is colored and the other is white. The cut line is drawn only on the white side. Draw a large square on the white side of the paper. Two of its sides will coincide with the edges of the sheet, the other two lines you have to draw yourself. Give the child scissors, hold the sheet yourself and guide it. After the cut out square, you can make a triangular roof. So the house is ready, it remains only to spread it with glue and press it firmly against the paper. Strange as it may seem, kids need to be taught this as well. It is better to spread on a special substrate made of linoleum or plastic. Pressing the part to the main background, remove the remaining glue with a cloth. When finished, invite the child to finish the details, for example, mark the windows, the door, the dormer window, the fence. Children love opening parts in houses or caves in the rocks. It is very easy to make these parts. At the bottom of the house you cut out the door. One side of her should hold her, as if on hinges. Of course, the door is not glued, but kept open. Now the child can close and open it himself. You can also make shutters on the windows, opening doors in cars, mysterious grottoes in the rocks.
Very young children can prepare various patterns in advance. It remains for the kid to get them out of the envelope or bag, examine them, smear them with glue and place them on the sheet as your heart desires. With a certain skill, the child can perform this lesson on his own. The patterns can be the following silhouettes: geometric shapes, flowers, berries, stars.
For applications, you can use not only paper. Pieces of cloth are also a wonderful material. They make wonderful costumes, various natural objects, for example, tree crowns, smooth water, animal hair. The fabric is selected depending on its texture and compliance with the image. Invite your child to examine the ironed shreds, figure out what they can be used for, and you will be surprised at his interest and enthusiasm.
Excellent material for applications - old magazines. Children who have already mastered the process of carving will enjoy looking for drawings and photographs on given topics. For example, today we are creating an application on the theme "Racing", and the kids are looking for images of different types of transport. Come up with topics and hand magazines to the crumbs!
It is curious to teach kids to use not only old editions for applications, but also junk paper - labels, wrappers, paper for wrapping gifts. You have to be a real dreamer to see in the photo of the forest the background for the application of the seabed, and to cut out the flower round dance from the wrapper in the form of soap bubbles. Transforming what you see into other, unusual images - this is real creativity! In this regard, the game with letters is very interesting. You cut out various letters from magazines, ask the kid to come up with something new from them. So, a bow, a cheerful muzzle and a shoe are attached to the letter "I" - and now the little man is ready. But what if "P" is supplemented with a roof and a pipe? "K" - tail, claws and head? Try it, it's fun for adults too.
Another application can be created from cereals and pasta. But with food, you have to be extremely careful. After all, food is meant to sustain our lives, not to play. And yet you can try, with the reservation that we will take just a little bit of rice, oatmeal, beans and pasta to create something interesting and exciting. A path made of rice, tree trunks made of pasta, a sea of oatmeal will look original and unusual.

Some application ideas
We create an aquarium: fish, algae, pearls.
We glue the city: houses, cars, trees, stylized (simplified) images of people.
We have a kitchen! We paste photographs or silhouettes of various dishes, vegetables and fruits on paper plates.
Let's invent a little man from paper cups, cubic yogurt boxes, gluing the background, facial features and hair.
A collage of pieces of serpentine, ropes, ribbons, twine. By arranging these materials in a certain sequence, twisting them in a spiral, intertwining with each other, you can create interesting decorative works.
Application in the way of breaking, when the paper is not cut, but torn, it looks especially good when creating sea waves, thick trees, monsters. If it is difficult for a child to cut off a large image, let him tear it apart, gluing them against each other against the main background.

delicious toys
We repeat once again that, while making delicious toys, the baby must understand that food is of great value. Treating food with respect should be a must when making food crafts.
Invite your child to decorate the salad. Let him have on hand tomato slices, olives, strips of pepper, carrots, parsley curls. Perhaps the kid will create a face of a little man or make an ornamental decoration?
It is very interesting to squeeze out the cream from a syringe or a bag according to a preconceived pattern. Not everyone can do this art, so let the baby try it on cookies first. Very often, children see in a piece of bread that they eat, either a bear cub or a squirrel. Let's try to ask the kid, carefully tearing off pieces of bread, to create different animals. They will become fun toasts for breakfast, and we will dry the remaining crumbs and put them in a separate jar. They come in handy for breading. Be sure to tell your child about this, let him know that not a crumb of bread was lost!
Along with these original hobbies, we advise you to involve fidgets in the kitchen more often. Bake cookies with mom, cook pasta, cut potatoes
ku - yes, what could be more interesting and important for the growing crumbs!

Jack of all trades
When you finish reading an article, you must be tired, right? It is impossible to remember so many ideas at once, to understand so many sentences. And therefore, in the last section, we placed only barely indicated thoughts about creating something new and interesting with our own hands. If something is curious, decorate these disparate thoughts for a taste!
We make jewelry: we string buttons, beads, rowan berries with a large needle on a thread. A whole necklace can be made by connecting paper clips together.
We tell rope stories: we made a circle out of the rope, we start a story about ... a gingerbread man, a sun, a plate, a wheel. Here our circle has grown a nose. What's this? Pinocchio, turnip? And so on - show and tell.
We make dolls from pillows tied with a rope, paper bags stuffed with newspaper and twisted in the middle. You can decorate paper dolls, stick hair, mustaches, beards on them.
Think about what else you can think of pillows? You find it difficult, but the kids will be happy to tell you that it can be a house, a car, or an airplane. Offer the crumbs to build such a building - he will be just happy.
Let's consolidate our creative ideas! Pour paper clips onto a sheet of clean paper. It turns out that you can create various silhouettes from them and circle them. Try it yourself, and then offer the little creator.
Have your child make lots of holes on the cardboard with a hole punch. When the work is completed, hand the lace to the baby. Having fixed it in one of the holes with a knot, ask to create patterns. It is similar to educational games called “lacing”, but the canvas is completely made by the child himself! And because the game will be perceived in a completely different way. You can create patterns in different ways, why not try to “draw” familiar and unfamiliar images with a lace.