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Introduction below we introduce some toys and games designed and made using disposable cups that are common at home. Some of the following games will use water and paint, so parents are best to dress their babies in "work clothes" beforehand!
Game 1: Making a phone call
Materials: two paper cups, 1 longer cotton thread, two small sticks (2cm long is enough).
Tools: Scissors, 1 thick needle
I did this kind of craft when I was in elementary school - cut a small hole at the bottom of the paper cup, and cut the two ends of the cotton thread from Thread the bottom of the cup into the cup, and then tie a small wooden stick at the end so that the cotton thread cannot escape from the cup. In this way, two simple "telephone calls" are made!
The mother and the baby each take a "phone" and walk as far away as possible. Then one talks into the cup with his mouth and the other puts the cup to his ear to listen. Are you very excited when you hear your mother's voice coming from the cup?
Game 2: Handmade Dolls
Materials: One paper cup, one table tennis ball, some wool
Tools: Markers (black, red), colored pens and glue , scissors
First of all, we need to process the table tennis ball, which is the "head" of the doll. On the unpatterned side of the ping pong ball, use a marker to draw the doll's eyes, nose and mouth; after the ink dries, cut some yarn and attach it to the hair.
The paper cup is turned upside down to serve as the body of the doll. You can use colored pens to draw your favorite clothes on the cup body and color it. Finally, glue the prepared “head” to the bottom of the cup and you’re done!
If you are ingenious, you can also design different hairstyles (different colors, bangs, pigtails...), expressions and clothes for the dolls, and make a set. How fun it would be!
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The number of cups can be determined according to the child's ability and proficiency in the game. Take 3 cups as an example, place the 3 cups upside down on the table side by side; show the baby the peanut in your hand, put it on the table, and use any of the cups to hold it; move the 3 cups randomly. Cups, change their positions, and then let your baby guess: "Where did the peanut hide?"
This is a game for training eyesight and cultivating perceptual constancy. Babies under 2 years old may need further inspiration from you. You can point to the cups one by one and ask them: "Is it in this cup?" However, babies over 2 years old can basically make independent judgments.
Game 4: Stack high
Materials: a dozen colored paper cups
Due to the unique shape of the cups, they are particularly suitable for nesting, stacking and buckling. For babies about 1 year old, you can teach them to put the cups in the same direction; for babies over 2 years old, you can try to stack the cups mouth to mouth and bottom to bottom.
In order to make it easier for the baby to recognize the special shape of the cup, you can play a Jenga game with ordinary building blocks or paper boxes for comparison. When two blocks are stacked, the height immediately increases a lot, but when a cup is placed on another cup, it will fall down and the height will not change much.
Game 5: Draw a circle
Materials: Several paper cups of different sizes, construction paper, colored pens
Drawing often requires the use of tools. I still remember that when we were children, we first used How to draw a circle? Anyway, I remember that I often find a round bottle cap or something to make a mold, draw a circle along its edge, and that’s it! So paper cups are just right for this purpose.
First, let the baby learn to use the mouth and bottom of the cup to draw circles.
Then draw a picture of a child blowing bubbles on the white paper, and let the baby add bubbles to the picture by drawing circles.
For transparent plastic cups, we can use the transparency feature to create many games.
Game 6: Color Changing 1
Materials: some transparent plastic cups, some watercolor paints, a stirring stick, water
First pour it into the cup Pour an appropriate amount of water into the cup. At this time, the cup is transparent, and then start to drip paint into the cup, allowing the baby to observe the diffusion process of the paint in the water. After stirring with a stick to make the color uniform, drop another color and mix the two colors. Finally, it turned into another color. This is the magical power of paint!
Such changes can greatly stimulate children's imagination and curiosity. Maybe your baby will fall in love with paint and become a diligent "little painter"!
Game 7: Color Changing 2
Materials: Several transparent plastic cups, some colored paper (preferably the kind that is colored on both sides)
Press the cup Cut the colored paper into strips of corresponding width, and then put the colored paper of different colors into the cup respectively, so that the colored paper sticks to the cup wall. In this way, doesn't the originally transparent cup become colorful?
The "color changing" game allows the baby to understand the meaning of "transparent" vividly, and at the same time, it is visually stimulated by different colors, which helps him to understand various colors.
Game 8: Which one is heavier?
Materials: Two identical transparent plastic cups, a paint, colored paper of the same color as the paint (you can use the paint to dye the paper)
Two identical transparent cups Cups, give them to the baby to weigh first, holding one in each hand, they should feel that the weights are the same. Then stuff colored paper (such as green) into one cup, pour water mixed with the same color paint into another cup, and then let the baby weigh it. At this time, the weight of the two quilts will be obviously different—— The cup stuffed with colored paper is still "light", but the cup filled with paint is "heavy".
This game allows children to learn to feel weight and tells them that different substances of the same volume have different weights.