Making a baby book with your child
Sometimes children even get bored with cute felt bunnies and rattles, but they love to create and come up with new ideas themselves. Choose a theme for a baby book together, draw, collect interesting facts, use pictures and stickers!
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You will need:
Paper, glue, paints and pencils, old magazines and printouts, stickers, needle and thread.
How to do:
Instead of making fabric pages or printing out backgrounds, design them yourself! For example, to make a book about animals, first draw their habitats. To do this, fold sheets of A4 paper in half and hand them to your child along with the pictures - let the child choose the animals he wants to live there, while you find something interesting about them.
Older children can fill out the text in the baby book themselves - at the same time this will be a short training in their writing skills. All that remains is to stick all the animals onto your pages and sew the book in the middle with regular thick thread.
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Soft Book Ideas
Layout ideas:
- Color spectrum. Children are introduced to flowers from an early age. Memorizing colors in a playful way is much easier. This idea can be implemented in a book. For example, create a rainbow from strips secured with Velcro. Choose a color analogue from geometric shapes for each strip.
- Study of simple geometric shapes. You can create a panel on which the child will add the missing geometric figures, securing them with Velcro, attaching them to a button or to a button. At the same time, fine motor skills are developed. And the child will quickly remember the shape of objects in a playful way. The book can be complicated by taking objects of the same shape, but of different sizes. The baby will show
- Memorizing vegetables and fruits. To do this, you can make mock-ups of fruits from fabric or use ready-made dummies. You can create an impromptu garden - collect apples from a tree in a basket or hang cherries on a tree, arrange bunches of grapes on a vine, harvest cucumbers or tomatoes. To secure the elements, you can use the above methods or make special slot pockets.
- Study of animals and birds. An interesting option would be to create houses for animals. For each animal, you can offer to select a baby and name it. For example, a fox is a fox cub, a cow is a calf.
- Introduction to the basics of counting. In this case, there can be a huge number of options for presenting the material. These are abacus with knuckles of different shapes, flower petals with numbers. In the photo of a handmade book, you can see a variety of ways to design pages.
- Learning letters. To study the alphabet, you can make pockets with images of objects starting with the corresponding letter. An interesting option is one letter, one page. Pictures with the names of objects starting with that letter are placed in the pocket with the corresponding letter. With the help of soft figures you can make words or sentences.
- Books-plots. For example, a book based on a fairy tale or cartoon. Fairy-tale characters perform certain actions. Figures can have movable elements. For example, a soft folding book based on the fairy tale “Turnip” is suitable for children. The fairy tale characters are covered with Velcro covers. The child tells a fairy tale and reveals the corresponding hero. You can play out any plot in the same way.
- Junior schoolchildren from kindergarten know how to make a children's book with their own hands. Therefore, they are interested in combined options - a combination of cardboard, ready-made albums and textile filling. At this age, the topics of books change. For example, you can create an album about animals, fish or birds, climate zones or plants.
Pictures and drawing templates can be found on thematic websites, in coloring books, or translated using tracing paper from books.
Children value the creative process and collaboration with their parents. Whatever the topic is chosen, the main thing is to make the book bright, colorful, interesting and useful.
How to use the “Red Book” lapbook when working with preschoolers
The “Red Book of Russia” laptop is a ready-made, rich material for conducting classes on this topic. However, preschoolers will be happy to spend their free time with this unique hand-made book, looking at it again and again. Options for interesting tasks for individual work may be as follows:
- “Predators and herbivores” The child is offered cards with images of animals (can be taken from envelopes of different colors). His task is to sort them into predators and herbivores.
- Puzzles, collecting cut-out pictures (in older preschool age there will already be quite a lot of elements).
In their free time, many children enjoy putting together puzzles - Creative tasks for depicting an animal. For example, make a fur coat from cotton wool for a polar bear or a bison from buckwheat (non-traditional applique), draw a track for a Przewalski horse or the sea for a bottlenose dolphin (a type of dolphin), build a beaver’s hut from matches.
The Red Book is a great way to remind children that living nature requires careful treatment. A laptop as a form of work is a practical method of learning, when a child is not just offered ready-made knowledge, but he quietly discovers it himself in the process of an exciting game.
