Self made preschool age toy.?

Question

I need to mke a toy for my early child hood class and i waas wonder if anyone had some good idea's or a web site.

Answer 1

GET some sturdy straws or some pencils.

GET long strips of paper and roll it up. IT can be used as a CHINESE YOYO.

YOu can have the child(s) color and paint the paper. LET dry  before rolling

SUPPLIES::

tape

pencils or straws

long receipt paper or long strips of paper

(crayons/markers for writing)

Answer 2

How about a felt board, Puppets or play dough.

Answer 3

You can make a "feely" box from a tissue box or shoe box (ensure there is an opening just big enough for one little hand). Place an object inside the box and let the prescholler describe the object inside. The objective is to guess the object.

Make your own Ten pin bowling by having ten similar bottles (filled 1/3 with sand, rice or something else to add a little weight) and a small semi-soft ball.

Tins, cans and bottles make very good musical instruments. Bottles can be filled (at different levels) with rice, pebbles, beads, etc. and become rattles. Empty tins and cans with the top cut off are excellent drums when the top is covered by stretching plastic (balloons are usually very effective). You cut the mouthpiece off the balloon and this will allow you to stretch the material around your can or tin make sure you secure the plastic well by either using elastics or fasten a piece of thick, strong thread tightly. A wooden spoon can replicate the beater.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

There are lots of simple, hommade toys you can make for children!  You can make puzzles by laminating pictures (or for something thicker - the front of a cereal box) and cutting them into pieces.  The size, shape, and number of the pieces determines the difficulty of the puzzle!  You might only want to do 2 or 3 pieces for very young children and more for the older ones!  Also you can make a memory game out of paper and stickers (be sure to laminate for durability).  For my memory game I put the stickers inside the lids of baby food jars!  Speaking of lids, toddlers and twos love to play with various size and color lids.  They stack them, trace them throw them, hide them, some will sort them, etc.  Lids are awesome for small children!  You can also create any number of sorting, counting, or patterning games/toys by using small (be sure it's not so small the children might choke) colored items (like milk lids or buttons - whatever you can find).  You can also use empty water bottles with the labels removed to make discovery bottles.  Fill partially with rice or oatmeal, secure lids, and then hide small objects in them - the children will have to find all the objects by turning the bottles around and looking for them.  You can have a piece of paper with a picture of each object and the children can circle the picture as they find the object.  Or you can put some of that plastic easter grass inside a bottle and objects that are both magnetic and non-magnetic.  Once the lid is secured the children can use a magnet wand to see what objects they can pull around the bottle and which ones they can't.  Various size boxes and containers can be stuffed and covered with paper and turned into jumbo blocks.  Almost any container can also be turned into a musical instrument - children love those!  You can also use empty containers to make stacking and nesting toys - younger children love these!  Socks can be made into puppets.  A ball and some partially filled plastic bottles can be a bowling game.  The ideas are endless!  You can create a toy out of almost any recyclable materials you can find if you just use your imagination!

Answer 6

Cup stacking is huge.  My son was so excited when he came home from school as the cup stacking champion.  You could do it with a twist so that there are more than one winner.  The cups he used were just regular plastic cups, but they have to stack them faster than anyone else, etc.

When my kids were preschool age, I had made up things to help them learn to tie their shoes, like a paperplate with yarn wrapped around it.