Course 12: Activity 5: Creating Toy Area - Share Your Ideas
Think how you will create a TOY AREA in your classroom /school? What are some essential materials and manipulatives that you will keep for helping children to create D-I-Y toys?
Course 3 Activity 3: Share Your Thoughts
Do you believe that every child is unique and their learning style is different? If yes, how will you cater to the different needs of your students in your classroom? Share your thoughts. Steps to be followed:
Manipulative sets, pegboards, puzzles, lacing beads, and...
ReplyDeleteToys are important Pedagogy tools as they bring overall development by fostering creativity, critical thinking, problem solving as well enhances socio emotional skills. They develop cognitive, affective and motor skills
DeleteThe materials for toy area will be old notebooks cardboard, empty tissue paper rolls,aluminium foil roll ,cold drinks cap,color pencils,old cds,bangles,paper, etc
ReplyDeleteThe material which can be used for making DIY toy are :
ReplyDeletePaper plates - we can make animal , birds , characters , puppets etc
Paper cups , newspaper, bottle, bottle caps , broken toys , ice cream stick etc which are environment friendly and low / no cost material.
Choose toys that are “open-ended” in the sense that your child can play many different games with them. For example, wooden blocks or chunky plastic interlocking blocks can be used to make a road, a zoo, a bridge, or a spaceship. Toys like this spark your child’s imagination and help him develop problem-solving and logical thinking skills. Dress-up clothing, blocks, toy food and plastic plates, action figures, stuffed animals and dolls, trains and trucks, toddler-friendly dollhouses, toy tools
ReplyDeleteToys help children to solve-problem, learn spatial relations (how things fit together), and develop fine motor skills (use of the small muscles in the hands and fingers).
ReplyDeleteExamples: Plastic dishes and food, toy keys, toy phone, dress-up clothes, musical instruments, child-size brooms, mops, brushes and dustpans
Toy Area should have hand body coordination toys like blocks, alphabets and number boards or word cards /blocks with pictures.
DeleteAdditionally wild, domestic, farm animals that fit into a board to make the child use their imagination to fit each animal in the right space. , shapes, abacus,sound box to make the children understand different kinds of sounds and it's relevance and tasting bottles to make them understand the difference tastes.
Apart from these, colours and slate or white board for drawing in case they wish to express their thoughts through creativity
Paper plates - we can make animal , birds , characters , puppets etc
ReplyDeletePaper cups , newspaper, bottle, bottle caps , broken toys , ice cream stick etc which are environment friendly and low / no cost material.
1. Colgate box, sticks and beads can be used to make abacus for kids.
ReplyDelete2. Clay or atta can be used to make several fruits or vegetables, model of animals to which can be used to narrate the characters of a story in joyful manner.
Toilet rolls, old chart papers / newspapers / magazines for making animals / birds, potter's clay, egg trays can be used to create 'My Toy Area' in a classroom.
ReplyDeleteToys help children to solve-problem, learn spatial relations (how things fit together), and develop fine motor skills (use of the small muscles in the hands and fingers).
ReplyDeleteI will ask students to bring some waste materials from their own which they think can be used for 'My Toy Area' in the classroom. One open shelve will be labelled as 'My Toy Area' and students will keep their things in it like waste cloth, paper, greeting/invitation cards, used pens, fused bulbs, etc. Later these things can be used to create few puppets/toys.
ReplyDeleteToys are important Pedagogy tools as they bring overall development by fostering creativity, critical thinking, problem solving as well enhances socio emotional skills. They develop cognitive, affective and motor skills.
ReplyDeleteWhen creating 'Toy area' I will keep in mind that the area is colorful, attractive, well planned and easily accessible to my learners. And to give a new look to the area everyday will keep changing the infrastructure so to keep the interest of learners alive.
Following things can be kept by me and the children can also be asked to bring some waste material from their home too.
Empty bottles, baskets and boxes.
Bottle caps,paper cups and glasses.
Pebbles,beads,ice- cream sticks, lollypop sticks, colorful papers, glue, fevicol ,ruler, scissors (plastic)etc.
In the toy area will be some of these materials can be placed old notebooks cardboard, empty tissue paper rolls,aluminium foil roll ,cold drinks cap,color pencils,old cds,bangles,paper, etc
ReplyDeleteFor this purpose ,we can use all the waste materials available at home . Materials like metals,glass items, plastic wares ,old button, caps many more are used for this purpose
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