To lure the baby with some interesting game for a long time is the dream of many parents.
I can offer you just such.
And in addition to this, the child will learn information that will be useful to him in life.
And this game is also interesting for an adult, and he will gladly join it.
In addition, it is very inexpensive.
Are you intrigued?
This game is a home autodrome, an imitation of city streets with a whole set of houses, roads, shops, intersections, traffic lights, crossings, made by you on any surface and a set of all the toy vehicles you have in your possession, as well as those attracted as pedestrians dolls, bobbleheads, ninja turtles and smeshariki.
Necessary
- A piece of black, blue or dark gray fabric (preferably satin, calico, wool) the size of a playground in a child's room (at least 2 square meters). The optimal size is 1.5 * 2.5 m, and more is possible (then the fabric canvases will have to be stitched).
- The fabric can be replaced with a large piece of cardboard, which is less convenient for cleaning and storage.
- Acrylic paints (sold in stationery).
- Brushes.
- Chalk (or a bar of soap).
- Colored paper.
- Toy cars, cars, trucks, special purpose vehicles, buses, motorcycles. Preferably small (for ease of placement on the roads of your drawn city).
- People (dolls, also small).
Instructions
Step 1
We take a Whatman paper (a piece of wallpaper) and make a sketch on it. Draw a part of a city with roads (one and two lanes), sidewalks, intersections, shops, a school, a kindergarten, etc. At intersections, "zebras" and traffic lights, crossings should be in other places of the road. Your task is to teach the kid how to cross the road in different places, how cars can behave and how he should react to their movements. Imagine, draw sharp turns, exits from courtyards, everything that can be encountered in a real city. At the same time, the "city" should also be just an autodrome for playing cars. Don't clutter it up with complicated circuits.
For naturalism, use the traffic rules book and draw from there schemes of intersections, transitions and signs.
The sketch can be smaller than the real plan, or you can make a 1: 1 scale by gluing the wallpaper, so it is easier to plan the scheme. Then on the paper plan, cut holes at the junctions of the streets and use it as a stencil.
Step 2
When you understand that the scheme on the sketch is optimal, transfer it to the fabric, taking into account the scale.
Mark the diagram with chalk (a small remnant does a great job with this role).
Continue with acrylic.
It is easy to work with acrylic paints, they are non-toxic and dry quickly, do not wash off during washing and do not dye clothes (if necessary, they are washed off with acetone, kerosene).
Use bright, rich colors for buildings, trees, flower beds.
Draw or cut out yellow-red-green circles (several sets) from colored paper for traffic lights.
Draw some basic road signs, stick them on thick cardboard.
Once the city map is ready, vehicles and pedestrians are selected, you can start the tutorial game.
Step 3
If there are few or no cars at all, it doesn't matter. Draw them and the pedestrians on a piece of cardboard, cut out, paint. Believe me, the child's imagination is limitless, he will draw in his imagination both moving wheels and a real driver behind the wheel!
Step 4
You can make a "garage" out of cardboard by marking the parking numbers on the "floor" and on the car. So you will teach the child to communicate with numbers and to primitive counting, if you show the numbers and ask them to name them. For example:
"Mercedes car number 6, please step into your parking space."
You can make bridges, fences, houses from cardboard in your "city".
Make a police baton out of cardboard, and if the child is old enough, show the actions of the traffic controller at the intersection and the response of cars and pedestrians.
