The use of massage mats and paths in physical education and health work with preschool children

Advantages

You shouldn’t neglect your baby’s health: even if everything is fine, such a mat is worth having at home as a preventative way to keep your health in excellent shape. After all, everyone knows that a person has several points on the foot, regularly influencing which can improve not only well-being, but even cure a number of diseases.

So, practicing with such a massage accessory provides a number of the following positive aspects:

• Correct formation of the child’s foot;
• Prevention and treatment of flat feet;
• Improved blood circulation;
• Normalization of metabolism in the body of a little person;
• Development of the vestibular apparatus;
• Increased immunity;
• Normalizes the child’s mental process;
• Relieving nervousness;
• Relaxation.

Since ancient times, people have run barefoot through mown grass and cereals - this strengthened not only their health, but also their immune system. Now an alternative to such gymnastics is foot massage using relief devices, in particular, such a massage mat.

There are many varieties of such massage mats. Let's highlight some of them.

Forms

In theory, the design of a massage accessory can be varied:

However, in most cases the design is square or rectangular. The accessory can be made large, which will cover a significant part of the playroom. This way, the guys will be able to run around it without any restrictions on the number of people.

Size

Of course, a small massage accessory is faster and much easier to do. However, do not forget that on such an “island” it will be inconvenient for the child to perform exercises. It is better to provide a medium-sized rug or several small ones.

Materials

• Durable, rough fabric, jeans would be fine:
• An unnecessary blanket or bedspread, an old rug;
• Rubber;
• Laminate.

Elements for sewing

• Small: buttons, beads.
• Medium: bottle caps, pencils, curlers.
• Large: washcloths, coasters with holes, napkins for cutlery.

Items that can be glued

• Wooden elements: pencils, bars.
• Shells: from walnuts or hazelnuts.
• Pebbles: pebbles or other equally beautiful specimens.
• Large grains.
• Chips for board games.

There are also homemade rugs with sewn-in elements. For example, massage models with sewn-in bags containing various fillings are especially popular: shells, grains, sand and other elements interesting for the baby.

Tactile models

This option is complemented by elements such as Velcro, zippers or pieces of fabric.

Developmental models

The difference between such products is that various digital or letter elements are sewn onto the base. You can often find geometric shapes as teaching material.

Summer recreational paths for children

Olga Zakharova sent new works of teachers from MBDOU 267 in Izhevsk. You can see previous summer health props for children here.

We had a summer inspection of the sites for the summer wellness period. We present to you our new products, made by the hands of kindergarten teachers and parents.

New health paths. Made by Marina Viktorovna Ivanova, group 1. Sewn objects stimulate active points on the child’s feet, develop coordination of movements, and also walking barefoot has an effect.

Teachers Gvozdeva Lyubov Vladimirovna and Antonova Nadezhda Vladimirovna made a target - a monkey for throwing balls at a target.

Paths of health, authors Oksana Vladimirovna Akhatova and Marina Viktorovna Ivanova.

Two clown baskets for throwing at a target were sewn by teacher Svetlana Borisovna Belova.

Group 5, teachers: Alexandrova Oksana Eduardovna, Kuzmina Lyudmila Petrovna.

Massage Slippers.

Dumbbells made from plastic bottles.

Mittens with sewn Velcro for catching the ball.

The weights are soft, textile.

A guide for throwing balls at a target.

Checkers. Teacher Marina Viktorovna Ivanova, group 1. The figures are made from cardboard egg packaging.

Steppers. Teacher Natalya Viktorovna Kravchenko, group 12.

Air hockey. Belova Svetlana Borisovna. You need to drive a “ball” made of crumpled paper into a gate made of plastic bottles, blowing it out with a straw.

A guide for developing fine motor skills. Ivanova Marina Viktorovna. The task is to insert multi-colored flexible wires into the holes of the colander.

Overflow. Educator Galina Vladimirovna Kochurova.

Aid for throwing at a target, made from 5-liter plastic bottles.

This is such useful fun for children.

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Discussion: 2 comments

1. Faith:
   June 15, 2021 at 03:43 pm

   Very interesting crafts, thank you, I’ll take note and make them for my grandchildren at the dacha!

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2. Sonya:

   June 15, 2021 at 08:25 pm

   Very cool, I want one of these too!

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How to do

Let's look at a few examples of how you can make a simple attribute for children with your own hands.

With buttons

• The materials that we will need to invent this product are buttons, thread and needle, and the fabric itself, which is our basis. You can use any fabric, but only thick one.

Prepare two pieces of material. Use one of them to sew on buttons. Alternate large buttons with small ones, smooth and with relief at some distance from each other. It is recommended to use strong threads so that the buttons do not fly off when washing.

After the first part of the material is prepared, sew the second part to it on the sides. The corners need to be processed; you can use edging made of a different material - it will be more beautiful. Now the mat can be used.

How to use

Doctors give recommendations that children should not be left alone with a massage instrument during the first lesson, since for young children who have just learned to walk, this is traumatic: they can get hurt by simply tripping, and older children will probably leave the uncomfortable and prickly place for walking as soon as the parents are out of sight. You need to work together with the guys, encouraging them and inventing various games.

Every day, twice a day, you need to work with your child on a massage mat. The lesson time should not exceed 10-15 minutes - this is quite enough.

The exercises should be as follows:

• Normal walking;
• Walking in place;
• Slow walking.

When carrying out such activities, the baby’s legs should not get tired. If such a condition is observed, then it is necessary to stop the activity and wait a while for the child’s legs to recover.

Reviews

Mommies recommend not buying massage mats, but making them yourself, because this:

• Saving money;
• Using only natural materials;
• The products are of high quality, unlike purchased options, where after a month or a month and a half you may be missing some element;
• You choose the material for crafts yourself: it should be easy to clean and pleasant to the touch;
• Easy to operate;
• Brings a healing and preventive effect.

So, thanks to the recommendations and reviews of parents, you can safely give this massage accessory an “excellent” rating.

You can see a master class on making massage mats below.

See Dr. Komarovsky’s opinion on the use of such mats below.

“Organization of “Paths of Health” in a Preschool Educational Institution”

Station "Health Path"

. This path, in accordance with the name, is intended for the health of children. Children walk on it barefoot, happily irritating their feet.

Division into "stations"

allows, if necessary, to individualize the process of development and improvement of certain abilities (several specialists can work simultaneously on the “Path of Health” with different groups of children, without interfering with each other at all).

On the walking areas of all age groups there are modules for the prevention of flat feet and posture correction, which are used by educators in the improvement of children’s health, both as part of morning exercises and during other scheduled moments of the children’s stay on the walking area.

Technology of work on the “Path of Health”

For the full and effective use of all the objects of the “Path of Health”, it is necessary to approve the mode of its functioning, a schedule of organized health-improving activities of educators and all specialists is drawn up, and the simplest work programs (sets of exercises, game techniques) at the “stations” are created.

The “Path of Health” makes the work of educators easier and includes:

— a list of exercises with a detailed description of the content;

- sets of exercises (for example, to form correct posture, or develop endurance, establish proper breathing, etc.) made up of the exercises mentioned above.

Inclusion in the “Paths of Health” route of stations where classes with children are also conducted by specialists from a preschool institution

In addition, fairy-tale characters (hare, bear, hedgehog, horse) and attributes (mushrooms, flowers) are installed on the trail. All this allows you to conduct classes with children in an interesting and playful way.

“The Path of Health” is a beautifully and positively designed area

As a rule, this is a territory that has a certain extent and is designed in such a way as to attract the child’s attention. Its design invites movement, sports, and must necessarily evoke positive emotions. On the “Path of Health” you can use various equipment: play equipment (house, flowers, various fairy-tale characters) and sports equipment (log, stumps, ribbed board, bridge, climbing tunnel, arcs). For games and exercises, you can use non-traditional attributes made by parents and teachers.

“The Path of Health” is a zone of hardening and healing

This path-path is equipped in such a way that children can walk barefoot on surfaces that feel different to the touch. Walking along different sections of the trail, children receive consistent exposure to biologically active zones located on the plantar part of the foot. These zones are associated with the body's immune system and help stimulate and strengthen the body's defenses, relieve stress and improve the overall psycho-emotional state. Children walk along the trail barefoot, doing breathing exercises. The “Health Path” runs mainly in shady areas and is at the same time well lit by the sun. In the shade of trees in summer, children can play in only swimming trunks, receiving light-air baths, which are a gentle hardening procedure.