Fun "mosaic"
Didactic game. "Fun Mosaic"
Board game for children from 3 to 5 years old.
Purpose of the game:
develop fine motor skills, develop imagination and memory,
the ability to put together various pictures using prepared parts of different colors, repeat the names of colors and their shades, teach children to work independently, choosing pebbles of the required color for this.
Number of players:
2-3 children.
Equipment:
a mosaic set of colored glass, flat pebbles, a playing field, samples of execution or cards.
Material:
a candy box, white plastic bottle caps, PVA glue, multi-colored glass flat stones.
Description of work:
To make the playing field, glue the white caps to the bottom of the box in even rows, close together. The result is a playing field with cells.
Rule of the game:
You can start playing mosaic at 2-3 years old. During the game, be sure to ensure that a small child does not put a flat pebble in his mouth, as this is dangerous. The rules of the game are similar to playing a ready-made mosaic. First, introduce the children to the playing field and the chips - pebbles. Start laying out pebbles in cells with simple ornaments, and then the game begins to take on a creative character in children of middle and senior preschool age.
Tasks:
learn to lay out simple schematic images of objects; strengthen the ability to count within 20; assign names of colors and shades; develop imagination and creativity, spatial arrangement; cultivate patience and perseverance.
Progress of the game:
The teacher invites the children to use a mosaic to make a sun, which is shown in the sample. Next you will need one flat yellow pebble, which should be placed just above the center of the board. This will be the beginning of our sun edge, then we make a circle and fill it with yellow pebbles, then we make rays for the sun.
Options for placing balls in cells:
Laying out simple ornaments.
Laying out according to ready-made diagrams.
Playing homemade mosaics is fun and interesting. As if in between, fine motor skills and speech develop. Children learn perseverance and try to bring the work they start to its logical conclusion.
At the end of the lesson, it is necessary to sum up the results, praising each child for the work done, especially noting those details that were completed on their own initiative.
In the future, you can offer children a game of mosaic with the execution of an arbitrary plot, for example, a house under construction, trees with apples,
Games with mosaics: developing perseverance and motor skills
The reader of this article has probably been familiar with a wonderful creative game since childhood - mosaic. And although “in our time” the grass was certainly greener and the sky bluer, the toys were generally more primitive than modern ones. We had to be content with simple wooden or plastic sets of figures, from which even children with extraordinary imagination could put together no more than a dozen pictures. Today's children have much more choice, and adults, accordingly, have more opportunities to spend money on another gift for an occasion or just because.Let's play and develop
Teachers and psychologists unanimously classify mosaics as useful educational toys. Even if the child does not want to exercise his imagination, but only creates pictures that can be found as examples in the instructions for any play set, he still spends his time usefully. Fine motor skills, the subject of heated debate among advanced mothers, develop precisely through manipulation of objects that the child is able to hold with his still awkward fingers. Thus, the game goes well with arm training. Usually the box with the mosaic set indicates the age for which the game is intended. In this case, not only the complexity of the pattern is taken into account, but also the size of the individual parts. For the youngest players, sets with brighter and larger figures are produced, so that the little ones learn to distinguish and name colors correctly, and the game parts are more convenient to hold in their hands and, no less important, are more difficult to swallow.
Another useful property of playing with mosaics is the development of perseverance, to the delight of mothers and grandmothers who do not have the energy for active fun. Creative entertainment can really captivate a hyperactive child for a long time. Such activities will be especially useful during the period of preparation for school, because in class you will have to sit at a desk, and for fidgets this is real torture! Mosaic allows the future student to literally playfully become more attentive and concentrate on one lesson for a long time. Joint creative games are the best way to promote the rapid social adaptation of a “homemade” child who has never been to kindergarten for a day. To begin with, the company can be formed by one of the compliant parents, over time you can invite unfamiliar children to the game - in collective creativity it is easier to learn cooperation and interaction. The guys, without tears or resentment, begin to share mosaic figures, agree on who collects which color, etc.
The professional experience of teachers and psychologists is wonderful, but capricious children have a different opinion: even the most interesting, colorfully designed and expensive (unfortunately for parents) game eventually becomes boring. In the case of creative entertainment, nothing like this will happen, since these play sets are relatively inexpensive, so you can buy several sets at once from wood, plastic and soft materials and alternate themes. In addition, the opportunity to show off your results to your grandparents will also stimulate creative activity. Many modern mosaics allow you to fix the resulting picture on an adhesive or magnetic base and decorate a wall in the nursery with such a masterpiece.
So, the variety of assortments from toy manufacturers is impressive. Let's try to roughly classify the types of mosaics.
Wooden mosaic - classic toy
Volumetric and flat geometric figures made of sanded or painted wood in different colors - this is what a typical mosaic looked like at a time when the current older generation was interested in toys. Analogues of such rarities are still very popular today - they are primarily preferred by parents who lead a healthy lifestyle and buy goods made from environmentally friendly materials. In addition, children also like such toys, since the surface of the figures with smooth and rough edges opens up a whole new world of unusual tactile sensations.
Wooden mosaic with flat figures
Typically, such sets allow you to create angular and very abstract pictures that very vaguely resemble real flowers, vehicles or animals. But parents should not be embarrassed by this - this is the best way to develop children's imagination. Any kid can easily borrow his mother’s saucepan and immediately imagine it as a spaceship, because “let’s pretend it’s as if...” is a favorite childhood pastime.
Serious schoolchildren should not bother with baby figures, but they can be interested in... cubes! Nowadays, construction-style play sets with randomly colored wooden cubes that allow you to create abstract patterns or mandalas are very popular.
Wooden mosaic for older children
Plastic mosaic - cheap and varied
At one time, wooden mosaics were replaced by plastic ones. Many adults remember the typical Soviet play sets with multi-colored hexagonal pieces that were mounted on a round base with numerous holes. Modern manufacturers have adopted this simple, and most importantly, cheap technology and simply developed the idea. Some just vary the shape of the chips and the base, offer letters and numbers as mosaic details (as didactic material for preschoolers), but the principle remains the same.
Plastic mosaic with base and chips
Mosaic with chips and a fixing base is great fun, but it is not for everyone. Some kids just don't have the patience to insert the pegs of the figures into the corresponding cells. Such impatient people in a hurry will like magnetic sets, which are pieces of metal in a plastic shell. The game comes with a magnetic base that will hold the pieces attached to it even if you tilt or flip it. Some unscrupulous manufacturers glue metal to plastic figures poorly; it falls off at the very beginning of the game, and the child, naturally, gets upset. To avoid unnecessary tears, it is better to choose sets with figures that have magnets sealed inside the body. The ideal option is to play with flexible magnets, but wooden mosaics on magnets, which are more preferable from a hygienic point of view, rarely have a long service life, since the metal always tries to peel off from the wood.
Plastic magnetic mosaic
Another type of plastic mosaic is almost a complete analogue of the wooden mosaic discussed above - the same brightly colored geometric figures that can be laid out in patterns on a plane or built into turrets. Plastic sets are cheaper than wooden sets, and they are lighter, so little players who quarrel and start a fight will not hurt each other with the figures. If your baby brother joins in the peaceful fun, he will be able to contribute as much as he can and gnaw on a piece of the mosaic: plastic is a more suitable material for massaging gums than wood.
It’s certainly more convenient to play with chips at the table, but the large plastic mosaic just begs to be placed on the floor. To prevent grandmothers from clutching their hearts when they see a child playing on the bare floor, you can buy your baby a special floor mosaic made of soft flexible plastic. This toy consists of very large elements; when assembled, it looks like a colorful patchwork rug. On the side parts of the parts there are special notches and notches, characteristic of a relative of the mosaic - the puzzle. You can compose the pattern in any order, since usually each individual part has its own solid picture. If desired, a flat mosaic can be turned into a three-dimensional one: rectangular composite pieces can easily be converted into a giant cube. Playing with such cube mats is very educational: the baby learns letters, numbers, different types of animals and plants.
Floor mosaic mat made of soft plastic
Sets for children's art creativity
All of the types of mosaics listed above can be conditionally classified as utilitarian: the child makes a pattern, and when he gets tired of this activity, he puts the figures back in the box and puts them in his closet until next time. However, there are arts and crafts kits that focus on the outcome rather than the process. With the help of such fun, children learn to complete a task, and the effort is worth it, because the result is a beautiful craft created with their own hands, even according to the designer’s sketch. This way, the baby can decorate his own room with funny trinkets or give a gift to loved ones in the form of a small cute postcard or a large wall panel.
The so-called button mosaic is a subtype of game with a base and chips, but the listed components are connected to each other reliably, once and for all. The kit includes one or several blanks with a drawn conditional sketch; the child’s task is to fill in the lines or areas on the sketch with buttons of the corresponding color or shape. It turns out something like a coloring book or applique. Such mosaics for the little ones are, of course, very simple, but older children are offered reproductions of famous artistic paintings as a basis for filling with colored buttons.
Button mosaic with a pattern of medium complexity
If push-button mosaic allows you to make only pictures, then sticker mosaic is used even for decorating simple children’s jewelry, photo frames, boxes, handbags, decorative interior elements and Christmas tree decorations. Obviously, the kits for children's creativity do not include the usual office stickers; here we are talking about small cardboard figures on an adhesive base and coated with glitter. Typically, patterns are drawn schematically on the blanks to which colored sparkles are glued, and different shades are indicated by corresponding numbers. Of course, no one will forbid a child to show his imagination and experiment with colors, but in cases where the number of stickers exactly matches the ornament, it is better to follow the pattern so as not to spoil the whole work. This bright and cheerful type of mosaic with stickers will delight little girls, but will leave boys who are skeptical about sparkling stars and hearts indifferent.
Box-blank for sticker mosaic and complete stickers
Another interesting type of children's decorative art is thermomosaic. Such play sets consist of a base with pegs on which a pattern of beads is typed. When the work is completely ready, the mother, under the strict guidance of the baby, irons the drawing with an iron, and all the elements are glued together into a solid figure. A large picture can be hung on the wall, and a small one can be decorated as a magnet on the refrigerator.
Thermomosaic manufacturing process
01/30/2015 Pakhomova Irina
Didactic games for children of the 2nd junior group
Didactic games and exercises for children of the younger group to develop cognitive abilities.
The game brings joy and pleasure to the child.
However, the game is also a source of mental and speech development. With its help, you can develop qualities and processes that are important for the formation of ideas and the child’s acquisition of knowledge necessary for studying at school and later life. Games for the development of motor skills of the hands and fingers, they are important for the development of attention, orienting children to the properties of objects and toys. “Mosaics” Purpose: Development of fine motor skills of the fingers, learning orientation on a plane. “Who will roll the tape sooner?” Goal: development of motor skills of fingers and hands. Speed and accuracy of movements. "Laces." Goal: development of fine motor skills of the fingers. "Catch a fish." Goal: Development of hand movements, formation of precision of movements, development of visual attention.
The purpose of games and exercises for the development of perception is for children to master ideas about color, shape, size, and spatial relationships of objects. Games for color perception.
The purpose of games for the development of perception is for children to master ideas about color.
Shape, size, spatial relationships of objects. “Sort it out by color.” Goal: To teach children to distinguish colors, to distribute pictures into appropriate groups, based on color characteristics. “Gnomes” Goal: Development of visual perception, color, memory. attention, fine motor skills of the fingers. "Pyramids". Learn to choose colors and improve children's attention.
Perception of form.
"Frames and inserts." Goal: Improve the ability to identify shapes, correlate frames and inserts, develop attention, memory, and fine motor skills of the fingers.” "Three piglets". Goal: To teach children to identify different shapes, correlate colors, and develop attention. "Shape and Color". Goal: To consolidate knowledge about geometric figures and shapes of objects.
The game is also aimed at developing attention, thinking, memory, and imagination. Perception of size.
"Three Bears". Goal: Learn to identify the size of objects. Match objects by size. "House for rabbits." Goal: To teach children to focus on size in the game. "Flags". Form visual orientation based on magnitude without taking into account other properties of the object, as well as taking into account all the properties of the object.
Development of tactile motor perception.
"What's in the bag?" Goal: To teach to identify objects by touch. Fix the name of the items. shapes, sizes. "Big and small balls." Goal: Learn to find large and small balls by touch using verbal instructions. "Handkerchief for a doll." Goal: To teach to recognize familiar objects by touch, relying on one sign - the texture of the material.
Games for attention and memory.
Attention games develop the ability to focus on certain aspects of objects and phenomena.
Promoting the transition from involuntary attention to voluntary. "What changed". Goal: Development, learning to name a toy that is missing. “Find out by the contour.” Goal: To teach children to recognize objects by outline images. "Find your soul mate." Goal: To teach children to recognize objects from one of the images, to remember the object.
Games to develop thinking and imagination.
When using games to develop thinking and imagination, it is important to teach children to analyze objects and phenomena of the world around them, find similarities and differences, distribute them into groups and call them with a general word.
“Fold the pattern.” Goal: Teach children to make patterns. "Fold a square." Goal: Learn to compose a whole from different geometric shapes. “Plant a vegetable garden.” Goal: To teach children to use given substitute objects and arrange them in accordance with the location of the substitutes.
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