Make a baby toy?

Question

I am taking Early Childhood in school, and the project is to make a baby toy. I am fresh out of ideas and the project is due this Monday. It has to have something educational and up to 5 years in age. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Well ,take pieces of cloth, and sew  kinds of animals or dolls out of them ; for instance make arms ,legs and heads then , sew them with one another.You may  get toys of different colours.You can also draw stick figures  of animals and peole on cards , cut them,  then attach them with thread .You'll get toys that look mobile .Funny for the kids.Good luck.

Answer 2

get an old coke bottle or several and you can make maraacas using different items coloured sand, marbles, glitter, little figurines.... or fill it halfway with water and cut shapes out of different coloured sponges and put them in kids love colour and noiseand you can ask them to identify the shapes or what the noises are similar to.... you could even add numbers and letters inside which helps them begin to recognise them. just make sure to superglue the top on the bottle to make it kidsafe you might be marked on that too. hope it helps

Answer 3

Make a quick sensory board.  Either use a piece of wood, corkboard, or even a thick cloth and attach different types of materials to it that feel interesting.  Try sandpaper, smooth metal, soft fur, bumpy fabric, or another texture.

You could also make it a fine-motor development board and attach different things like a zipper, a button and button-hole, snaps, a belt buckle, a clasp, or any other type of fastening device.  The children should be able to "do and undo" each fastener.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Here's a site with instruction for making homemade baby toys:

http://www.stretcher.com/stories/02/02ap...

Answer 5

If it doesn't have to be an original or new idea, then I think you could easily make a shape sorter from a box.  Put different colored paper on each surface, cut out shapes on each face of the box, then make matching shapes from play dough (maybe from cookie cutters or free hand, let them dry and harden).  Make sure the child can retrieve the shapes from within the box.  You could even inscribed numeral on the shapes before they dry.

Musical instuments can be made from household items.

Plastic stackable and/or nestling cups; building blocks; use bean bags for some kind of game; sock puppets.  Any of these could be made from simple materials and used in an educational way.  Building blocks might span a wider age range

Answer 6

Make a rolling book.  Totally easy but very educational.

You'll need an empty round oatmeal container.  Cover it with white paper.  Then cut out pictures from magazines that will interest a young child - babies, animals, nature, pets, families, etc. - and glue them to the cylinder.  If you want, you can cover this with clear contact paper.  

To use it, you or the child rolls it around.  When it stops, talk with the child about some of the pictures showing on top.  You can describe the way the picture looks, make up a story about it, give the name of it (vocabulary!) - whatever's developmentally appropriate for the age of the child using it.  I've used it with babies to toddlers to preschoolers.  It promotes a lot of early literacy skills!