The benefits of doing more crafts with your child

Some people summarize the parents and children do handicrafts together, there are the following benefits:

One is to enhance feelings and improve parent-child relationship.

"Every time I do handicrafts, and I am particularly good, and take the initiative to move a chair for me to sit, but also say what worry about mom's back pain and so on, it seems to be particularly understanding." This shows that the child really enjoys doing it.

The second is to improve IQ.

More arrangements for some of the different nature of the limbs, the body, the size of the muscles, not only can promote the child hand-eye coordination, agile, and can stimulate the corresponding part of the brain linkage response, and thus enhance the development of whole brain intelligence.

Thirdly, it enhances the child's self-confidence.

Because of the usual focus on this practice, the child from the handmade a lot of benefits, hands-on ability, attention, comprehension, learning and other aspects have been improved. Often praised by family and friends and teachers, children will also be very happy, very sense of achievement and self-confidence, and this confidence will play a positive role in the child's progress.

Fourth, add fun. Nowadays, many families are only child, the child has few playmates, will inevitably be very lonely and lonely, home toys are also a lot, but not long to play, the child will lose interest. Whenever your child has nothing to do, you may want to say, "Come on, let's do some crafts." In order to stimulate the child's interest, you can also give the child to collect some related knowledge, learn more simple and interesting handmade method.

Fifth, develop your child's creativity. In many cases of children making crafts, it is the parents who first provide some things or shapes, and then guide the child to think out of the box to think, and then mobilize the child's enthusiasm for the production of the child to give full play to their own imagination, to create their own mind things. This kind of production handmade not only exercise the child's hands-on ability, but also on the child's creative ability has a good cultivation.

Parents may wish to cultivate their children's ability to do handicrafts from an early age. When the child does not yet have the experience of doing handmade works, do handmade with the child, the experience and method of doing handmade at the same time to teach the child, so that the child in the production of fun, to improve all aspects of the ability.?

Based on the child's age group to guide separately

3-4 years old:

Children at this age in a state of curiosity and mobility, interest in the handmade tools and materials occur, most of which is based on imitation, and can be operated according to a certain sequence of methods to complete. At this time, parents should be the tone of the game, with the child while playing. Such as playing zoo games, the little keeper with clay pinch a bear as a guest, etc.; Grandma's birthday, with a pen drawing longevity noodles, but also can tear the paper into long strips, with the mud rolled into noodles, scissors, etc., said that the longevity of the noodles to the grandmother. In this way, while playing and doing at the same time also initially exercise the child's thinking, the development of small hand muscle flexibility and coordination.

4-5 years old:

This age group of children began to put the life of the direct perception of things, by hand out. Such as paper-cutting, this period can cut out the shape of the object more neatly, folded pieces of paper to cut patterns, open the paper can appear pattern shapes, such as three-petal or multi-petal flowers, a variety of shapes of trees, cars, houses, etc.; with the mud pinches, dough, rub some fruit, small animals, characters, etc.; in the process of playing mud will also use some auxiliary materials, do some further processing, and can also use some of the waste to do some of their favorite toys, such as cardboard boxes, Cars, small furniture, with newspapers, calendar paper cut doll clothes, do some masks, headdresses, with waste medicine bottles to do idols and so on. At this time, parents should prepare for the child sufficient handmade materials, allowing children to produce according to their own imagination, do not interfere.

5-6 years old:

This age group of children in the life of the rich than before, the brain function continues to tend to mature, the hand of the small muscle groups to further development, so they can be more complete performance of the main parts of the object. The children's skills of cutting, folding and sticking are also gradually improving, and they like to take handicrafts as their beloved activities, and like to fold some more complicated and difficult toys, such as airplanes, dragon boats, flower baskets, headdresses, gyroscopes, shuttlecocks, parachutes, kites and other toys. When playing with mud, they tend to add more auxiliary materials to do some plot shaping. Generally speaking, this stage of the children's handmade activities should be completed independently, really can not solve the problem, parents should give guidance.

Providing children with materials to do handicrafts

Parents should prepare different levels of manipulative materials for children to develop their hands-on coordination. For example, provide children with colorful crumpled paper, paper strips, corn, paint, playdough, flower petals, scissors, glue, watercolor pencils, so that they can choose their favorite materials to operate, such as using paint to point the plum blossom, corn to spell plum blossom, playdough to roll the plum blossom, paper strips wrapped in plum blossom, crumpled paper to fold the plum blossom, and directly pasting the cut petals and so on.

And children with the collection of handmade raw materials

Help children with the collection of toothpaste boxes to make a variety of cars, buildings; with the mooncake box to make lanterns; with the wangzai cans to make firecrackers; with the Sprite bottle bottle bottle dolls; with disposable plates to make a beautiful snail; with the wahaha bottles of milk to make a variety of airplanes and rockets; with the playdough to make clay sculpture. You can also use leaves to make leaf stickers in the fall, bottles to make ice lanterns of different shapes in the winter, and wrapping paper to cut window flowers according to the seasons. Instruct children to use cardboard, cardboard cut out a variety of geometric shapes of small pieces, let the child do jigsaw puzzles, such as semi-circular, triangular spelled out chickens, birds, round, semi-circular, oval spelled out panda, etc., with the insertion of plastic splicing and so on.

To this end, parents should collect more waste toys and cut and paste, puzzle cards, buy intellectual magic cube, etc., to create good conditions for children's hands-on operation.

In nature to promote children's manual ability

Children naturally like to play with sand, play with water, play soil, water and sand have no shape, can let the child according to their own free imagination to manipulate, to create, due to endless changes and have fun, it can be said that this is to play the child's imagination, creativity, the most ideal "toy! It can be said that this is the most ideal "toy" to utilize children's imagination and creativity. Such as playing with sand, children can build houses in the sand, parks, buildings, digging tunnels and trains. Children playing in the sand, can make the thinking more keen, and at the same time cultivate children's observation, imagination and creativity. Parents should create conditions to encourage children to play these games, not because of the "dirty" or dangerous and stop children.

In addition, parents should lead their children to do some planting activities as much as possible, or open up the nature corner. For example, plant some crops (such as beans, corn, peanuts, greens, onions and garlic, etc.) in the quaffing bottle, and let the children take care of it, observe it, and record it. In spring, teach children to tie kites and fly kites in the field; in summer, teach children to play water fight games; in fall, pick up leaves together and make leaf paste, topography, etc.; in winter, let children observe the changes of trees, flowers and grasses, and go on a hiking excursion. To make full use of; nature to cultivate young children's hands-on skills.