A lot has been said about the benefits of educational games. It is not a problem to buy such games now, but, unfortunately, the prices for them are sometimes unpleasantly surprising. In addition, the buyer may not always be sure that the toys are really made from safe materials. But if you want to please your little ones, you can make some educational board games yourself.
Earbuds for the little ones
For young children, all kinds of inserts are of great benefit. This board game looks simple enough. This is a board in which holes are cut out - silhouettes of animals and plants, geometric shapes, etc. The board comes with the actual inserts, which must be placed in the holes. The child learns to measure the shape and size of objects. Find suitable pictures, transfer them to plywood and cut them out with a jigsaw. Sand the surfaces and cuts with sandpaper. The game is ready. If you wish, you can paint the details - the board in one color, the inserts in another. Large inserts can be given even to children of the second year of life.
It is best to use the most common oil paint, which, in terms of its technical properties, is suitable for painting children's furniture.
Mosaic - room for imagination
The geometric mosaic will also take your baby for a long time. He can fold patterns on a table or a special board. You can make such an educational game from plywood or multi-colored PVC tiles. The more details there are, the better. Cut squares, circles, triangles of all sorts and types. It is useful if they are multi-colored, then the baby will be able to recognize the names of not only shapes, but also colors. If the child is too young to make patterns as intended, draw pictures for him. It can be a car consisting of a rectangle, a square and two circles, a house, figures of people and animals. By the way, no one forbids downloading such pictures, turning them into black and white, and then leaving only the outlines. This game is also good for the summer. You can take it with you to the sandpit or to the beach.
Pick up your eyes and ears
An educational board game can even be made of paper. Cut out the faces of different animals from colored cardboard. They must be without ears, eyes and noses. Draw small details on paper and cut out. Invite the children to match the eyes or noses of the animals.
What are the constellations called?
An older preschooler may like the game in the form of a map of the starry sky. You can make it, for example, from black or dark blue velvet paper glued to cardboard. Make stars from paper-backed foil. Print or draw a star map. This child's play can also keep an adult busy.
The child can lay out both individual constellations and the entire map as a whole.
Geography is a science for true travelers
Children of senior preschool and primary school age are happy to study geography. Board games can help. An educational game can be, for example, in the form of a hemisphere map made of blue paper. The silhouettes of the continents are superimposed on this map. If the guys already have a good grasp of the location of the continents, you can complicate the task. Preschool children can be, for example, continents from individual countries. You don't have to be able to draw to make a game like this. You can take a printed card and cut whatever you want out of it.
