Games with buttons for children 2 3. Didactic games using buttons

Club of Passionate Mothers

Sometimes you need to keep your child occupied with something without spending money on new toys, but so that this activity is educational. Especially for enthusiastic mothers, the creative teacher of the Vni-Pa-Mysh-ka studio Nadezhda Moiseeva tells how, with only five buttons, you can create a whole gallery of useful and interesting games for a child. If you have more buttons, it will not be superfluous.

Button owner

Family members pick up buttons (choose buttons so that they are all different in color, shape, and texture). The child looks and remembers who has, how many and what buttons. Then everyone puts the buttons together in some container (box, vase, bottle), and the child then remembers and distributes the buttons to their owners. Memory and attention develop. If over time you increase the number of objects (this could be candy, figurines, beads, parts from, etc.), then in addition to this, voluntary attention and its volume will be strengthened.

Restoring a given order

Place the buttons on a flat surface and let your child remember the order and their relative positions. At the beginning, arrange the buttons in order, then make it more complicated: place the buttons in random order (just don’t forget your order!). It's good if there is hourglass: the child can, after 2–3 minutes, break the given order of objects and restore it all from memory. Praise and approve of your child, but do not abuse it!

Not only attention and memory develop, but also independence and self-control.

Predictor

Together with your child, make 6 - 7 paper caps or use opaque glasses or saucers of the same shape and color, turned upside down. In front of the child, place buttons under the glasses: 2, or 3, or one at a time (it is advisable to do this on the floor). In 3–4 minutes, the child must remember under which object there are how many buttons there are, and under which there are no buttons at all.

Then have the child spin around a few times eyes closed, after which he will have to, speaking out loud, “predict” which button lies under a particular cap and how many there are. This is quite difficult for a child, but at first there is no need to make it too difficult. The value of the exercise is not only that memory and attention develop, but also spatial thinking and imagination are formed.

Number composition

Arrange buttons on the table in piles: 1+4; 1+2+2; 2+1+1+1; 3+2. Or invite the child to arrange the buttons himself so that the arrangement shows the composition of the number up to five. It is very important to teach your child this before school so that he has a good understanding of the composition of numbers. Without this, it will be difficult for him to quickly perform computational operations in mathematics. Look for any opportunity where the child will train and exercise his eye in quickly determining the composition of a number.

Geometric made from buttons

Sew 5 - 10 buttons onto a piece of thick fabric in a certain order: at an equal distance from each other along the trajectory of the squares.

Stretch the fabric well onto thick cardboard, secure evenly with reverse side and give it an aesthetic appearance. This work will require some time, but it will give the child the opportunity to practice creating different geometric shapes using wire, string, and laces. If you use 2 - 3 colors at the same time, the child can create different labyrinths by twisting ropes or laces around buttons. The child creates a labyrinth, or, and you solve his plan. Then switch roles. This type of activity can keep a child occupied for a long time. There are similar fun things in stores, but what you do with your own hands, especially together with your child, will bring great benefit and interest to your baby.

Do you want to play with your child easily and with pleasure?

We determine the quantity by ear

The child hides in another room, and at this time you put buttons in opaque closed containers (jars, boxes), some 2, some 5. The child’s task is to rattle the buttons and determine by ear how many buttons there are in a particular container. If he correctly names where there is one button and where there are many, then this too good result for the first time. Hearing develops, the child learns to listen carefully.

Button commands

Children do not immediately learn to perform actions according to a verbal description (instruction) of an adult, so the next game - exercise will teach the child to listen to a person’s speech and perform appropriate actions. You tell your child: “Let’s play soldiers” (for girls, let it be models or a flash mob). As a result, the child arranges the buttons according to your verbal description: sometimes in order, sometimes through one, sometimes in the form of a square or triangle. The main thing is that the child first listens to the task and then completes it.

You can have your child perform the actions step by step based on your comments. How younger age, the less the volume of memorization of what was said and the less attention works. Therefore, it won’t hurt if you patiently repeat the task to your child. This game develops both imagination and correlation. verbal description with coordination of the child’s actions, and logical thinking.

Toy - button buzzer

Many people know a toy from childhood: a “buzzer” made from a large button. We take a thick thread folded in several layers, pass it through two opposite holes in the button, then connect the ends of the thread, and leave the button in the middle. Unwind the button, slightly pulling the thread evenly in opposite directions until the thread twists well on both sides of the button. Then we slightly pull the ends of the toy, and we hear the thread humming and buzzing, and the children rejoice. You can tie one end of the thread to the door handle and twist the opposite end. This method will be more convenient for the child.

This toy is not just fun, but the first invention, a “living” constructor made with your own hands. This is the wonderful transformation of ordinary things into extraordinary ones. Of course, operating such a seemingly simple device is quite difficult, since at first it is difficult for children to correctly synchronize the movements of their hands with the tension of the twisted thread with the button rotating on it.

We post the drawing

Next activity with buttons: on any plane (sand, earth, paper, slate...) draw (scribble) dots or circles in a free arrangement. Let your child repeat a similar geometric pattern using buttons, but on a smaller surface (on a book, for example, or on cardboard). Attentiveness and spatial imagination develop, as well as the first idea of ​​scale.

Trajectory of movement

Hang buttons on threads: for example, there are 2 buttons on one thread, and three on the second. Let the first sample describe circles in space in one direction, and let the second sample describe a different trajectory. Ask your child not only to repeat these movements, but also to describe them in words. For example: “The garland of buttons in the left hand rotated in left side, and in right hand the garland oscillated in the form of a pendulum.” This is the most difficult activity for a child, but it is still possible to develop him in this direction. In this case, speech, thinking, and attentiveness work very intensely, and the child is attracted to everything that is complex, but new and interesting.

Creating similar games– fun, we must remember that:

• it is play activity for children that is driving force for their development;
• DIY toys save money, time and do not require additional storage space: you play with them and throw them away, and then create a new toy;
• homemade toys accustom a child to work, develop creativity, teach economy, and most importantly, unite children and adults, creating an atmosphere of trust and mutual understanding;
• In addition to buttons, you can use any other objects and materials if your imagination works well. Otherwise, look on the Internet, there are all sorts of tips, examples and ideas;
• The main thing is not to be lazy, find time and the opportunity to work with children. After all, children grow up very quickly! Before you know it, your children have grown up, you will begin to teach and educate them, but the “train” has left, and you will have to sigh sadly and regret the time that cannot be returned back!

Various exercises for developing the motor system of the hand, strengthening it, and making the fingers more dexterous, mobile, and obedient are of great help in the development of fine motor skills.

Buttons are surprisingly multifaceted and entertaining material. There are actually a lot of games with buttons. And they are all diverse.

These games help develop fine motor skills hands, tactile perception, hand-eye coordination, precision of movements and attention. Also, playing with buttons develops children's perseverance, imagination, creativity, thinking, and everything develops. mental functions, anxiety is relieved and many other pedagogical problems are solved.

Buttons can also be used in classes on the formation of mathematical concepts, for the development of mathematical thinking (the child learns to classify, distinguish objects by size, count), for counting by touch, solving problems and examples. Games can be played in the form of competitions: “Who can sort it out faster,” “Who can count it faster,” “Beautiful beads,” etc.

I bought these beautiful buttons.

They can simply be examined, called what we see, the properties of the depicted character or object. Compare sizes, count, arrange from largest to smallest. Sort by groups: animals, birds, transport, fish, insects, vegetables, fruits. You can play the game “find a pair”, match them by color.

You can make a sensory box. Conduct searches in itall hidden buttons or a specific one, come up with role-playing games, transfer with a spoon, tongs, or just rummage through the cereal with the cute things.

1. “The buttons fell apart. Arrange them by color" Tasks:consolidate knowledge of color, develop fine motor skills.
Facilities:buttons different color, a container with cells, where at the bottom of the cells there are colored circles as guides. Invite the children to sort the buttons into cells by color.

2. “The buttons fell apart. Arrange them according to form" Tasks:consolidate knowledge of geometric shapes (circle, square), develop fine motor skills.
Facilities:buttons different shapes, a container with cells, where at the bottom of the cells there are geometric shapes-landmarks.
Invite children to arrange buttons into cells based on geometric shapes.

3. “Alternating buttons according to instructions” Tasks:develop attention, logical thinking, fine motor skills.
Facilities:buttons in two colors.
Build a chain of buttons of two colors and invite the child to continue the row, observing the sequence.

4. “Find the extra button” Tasks:develop children's logical thinking.
Facilities:5 buttons, 1 of which is different in color
Place 4 buttons of the same color in a row and among them place 1 button of a different color. Then invite the child to remove the extra button or replace it with the correct color.
You can arrange buttons of the same size (for example, large red ones) and among them one small red button. Offer to do the same task.

5. “Find pairs of identical buttons” Tasks:teach children to select pairs of buttons based on a similar sensory feature, develop fine motor skills of the fingers.
Facilities:collection of buttons. Invite the children to carefully examine the buttons. Then invite the children to choose pairs of identical buttons. You can ask the children what color, shape and size they are.

6. "Mosaic" Tasks:consolidate knowledge of color, develop fine motor skills and imagination.
Facilities:collection of buttons.
Invite children to make simple objects out of buttons, for example, a flower, a flag, a house. Then ask what color buttons were used. You can ask the children to lay out geometric figures: circle, square, triangle, rectangle.

7. “Wonderful bag” Tasks:develop tactile sensations.
Facilities:pouch or balloon, buttons of different sizes.
Invite the children to examine several buttons. Ask what size buttons. Then put them in a bag. And offer to determine by touch whether a large or small button came into your hands or what kind of object.

You can come up with a lot more games and options for using these buttons. It would be great if you could share your ideas for games with buttons.

Button games are a great opportunity to keep your child busy and useful at the same time!

Many children really enjoy playing with buttons. Don't deprive them of this pleasure, but turn the game with buttons into exciting games, during which you can set various didactic tasks. Games with buttons contribute to the development of fine motor skills, coordination of movements, eye, concentration, perseverance, classification skills, development of elementary mathematical concepts (reinforce knowledge of colors and sizes, teach counting, etc.).

INDEPENDENT OPENING

You will need: buttons different colors and sizes, plastic bottle.

Show your child how buttons can be pushed into the neck of a bottle. Let him do it on his own. Don’t suggest that a large button won’t fit into the bottle; let the child make this discovery himself. After several unsuccessful attempts The child will learn to correlate the diameter of the bottle opening and the size of the buttons, thereby developing his eye and matching skills.

BUTTON PIGGY BANK

You will need: a coffee or cocoa can with a soft plastic lid, buttons (they can be of different colors and sizes, depending on what tasks you set: whether it’s reinforcing the idea of ​​size, color, or learning to count).

Make a slit on the lid with a knife (similar to a piggy bank). Show your child how to push buttons through the slot. Once all the buttons are in the jar, ask your child to unscrew the lid and take out the buttons. You can start the game all over again!

SORTING AND MORE

Buttons are great for sorting tasks. Together with your child, select only the largest buttons or, on the contrary, tiny buttons, or buttons of a certain color, and when the child grows up and learns to count, select buttons with different numbers of holes on them, count them, etc.

BUTTON NECKLACE

Are you going with your child to the clinic, and you will have to wait your turn, or is your child scheduled for physical procedures, and you need something to occupy him for 10-15 minutes? Make a “Button Necklace” for him and put it in the bag you take to the clinic. In order for the necklace to be interesting to the child, do not give it to the child under other circumstances.

Take a thick, strong thread. It should be such a length that the diameter of the necklace is smaller than the child’s head (for safety reasons). Put a lot of buttons on it, varying in shape, size and color (put each button on the rope using a needle in only one hole). Tie the thread tightly. The necklace is ready. While the child is small, it is enough that, by fingering the buttons, he develops fine motor skills and tactile sensitivity. A little later, with the help of this necklace, you can conduct educational activities, for example, such as: “Learning colors”, “Learning to count”, “Big - small”, “Find identical buttons”, etc.

UNUSUAL STRINGING

You will need: flat buttons of different colors and sizes, plasticine, toothpicks.

Take a block of plasticine and stick a toothpick into it (you can cut off the sharp ends of the toothpicks first). Show your child how to string buttons on an unusual pin. Next time you play with your child, make the task more difficult by stringing buttons of a certain size or color. You can make several blanks: string buttons of the corresponding colors onto toothpicks inserted into plasticine of different colors. You can insert toothpicks of various lengths and ask the child to string buttons, finally drawing the child's attention to the relationship between the length of the toothpicks and the number of buttons strung on them. By the way, not all buttons can be strung on a toothpick, since the diameter of the holes on the buttons is not always appropriate. Therefore, either you pre-select suitable buttons for this game, or you give the child the opportunity to verify the discrepancy on own experience and draw your own conclusions. When playing with an older child, you can ask him to express his opinion in advance about whether a given button will fit on such a rod or not, thereby developing his eye.

PICTURES FROM BUTTONS

For development creativity and the child’s imaginative thinking, you can invite him to lay out flowers, paths, houses, all kinds of patterns from buttons, in a word, whatever your imagination and the child’s imagination suggest.

LOGICAL PUZZLES

If you have a lot of identical buttons (say, three or four types, ten of each), you can invite your child to lay out the buttons in a certain sequence. For example, large - small, large - small, etc., or red - blue, red - blue, etc., or red - blue - green, red - blue - green, or one red - two yellow, one red - two yellow, etc., depending on the age of the child and what buttons you have prepared for the game.

RUGS

You can puzzle older kids by laying out a pattern for the rug. You will need two identical pieces of fabric (they can be replaced with cardboard). Start laying out the pattern on your workpiece, and let the baby, following you, repeat it on his own. This game is suitable for practicing mathematical concepts such as: below, above, left, right, above, below, in the upper (lower) left (right) corner, in the center, etc. An even more difficult level is to lay out patterns on one piece of paper in a mirror image. At first, the child may place button after button after you, placing them mirror image on the opposite side blanks. Subsequently, you can complicate the task: after laying out half, ask the child to complete the work.

APPLICATION FROM PLASTICINE AND BUTTONS

You can invite your child to make applique from buttons. The simplest thing is to roll sausages out of plasticine, place them on a piece of cardboard, and then glue buttons into them. These can be funny caterpillars, and in this way you can decorate the frame of some craft by placing sausages around the perimeter, or give your family a homemade photo frame for the holiday. You can also roll up tiny balls of plasticine and glue buttons onto each of them. Kids can glue them randomly, simply distributing the material evenly over a piece of cardboard, and older children can come up with simple compositions and pictures.

I like games for children, as I call them, “out of nothing” - that is, with those objects that are always at hand. I always have a few buttons with me. In any situation, you can come up with a lot of games with them and entertain the suddenly bored Styopka and his friends.

From finger to finger

The first player places on forefinger button and turns to the second player. He must move this button to his index finger, while other fingers cannot be used.

Styopka, for example, came up with such a witty move - he slobbers on his finger and “glues” the button.

Button football

In this game for children we will need 7 buttons.

Choose a playing field, for example, a carpet. A gate is made on one side (buttons are placed at a distance of approximately 10 cm from each other). They also make gates on the other side of the carpet.

The remaining three buttons are balls. To make a shot, you need to click the button with your finger. Moreover, you can only hit the button that is located between the other two.

The players take turns shooting at the goal.

In loose

An odd number of buttons are laid out on the carpet or table. The more players, the more buttons. An even number of players take part in the competition.

At the leader’s signal, the players begin collecting buttons. You can collect one at a time without raking everything at once. You cannot push other players or block buttons from them.

The one who collects the most buttons wins.

The players stand at the boundary line, each with the same button in their hand. On the count of one-two-three, players try to place the button as far away from themselves as possible. You can lean forward and stretch your arms. But you can’t move from your spot and throw a button.

The one who falls to the floor is out of the game. And the one who puts the button farthest wins.

More less

For this game, the more buttons the better. The main thing is that they are all different sizes and among them one is the largest and the smallest.

The presenter says:

• We are looking for the largest button,” and he pours all the buttons from the box onto the table.

The players sit around the table and, without interfering with each other, look for a button. The one who finds it puts it next to him.

The presenter collects all the buttons in a box and gives the following task:

• looking for the smallest button

looking for a button with three holes

looking for a triangular button

looking for the biggest red button

The main thing is to collect all the buttons in a box after each round (so that none of the participants can spy in advance).

This game for children can go on endlessly until it gets boring. In the end, they see who collected the most winning buttons. He's the winner.

Pyramid

This game for children requires accuracy, because the players' task is to build a pyramid of buttons.

The first player places a large button in the center of the table, the second player places a smaller button on top of the first, and so on. The higher the pyramid, the more difficult it is to lay out the buttons. The pyramid begins to wobble and can collapse from any careless movement.

The player who destroys the pyramid loses.

Dodgers

All players line up on the same line. Each person is given one button. Players draw left leg forward and iron the sock so that you can put a button on it. At the leader’s command, all players begin to jump forward on their right foot. You need to ride to the finish line (the agreed line) without dropping the button.

Lacing

Each player is given a thread (about 40 cm) and five buttons with four holes each. The task of each player is to string all the buttons on a thread so that the thread passes through all the holes.

The host claps his hands and the game begins. The first one to complete the task wins.

We all know the role fine motor skills, imagination and the ability to accurately make movements play in a child’s development. That is why there are many techniques aimed at improving these skills. Most of them are based on games, so it is easier for children to understand the world around them. One of these games is presented on our website - a mosaic of buttons.

First, you will need to download templates from our website, there are seven in total. Each of them has different pictures drawn on it - a Christmas tree, a train, a pot of flowers, and other images.

Next, select multi-colored buttons of the appropriate size. By the way, they can be replaced with mosaic parts or circles cut out of colored paper. During the game, the child will need to place buttons on the templates according to color. Thus, the baby will not only develop fine motor skills, but also learn primary colors.

But don’t forget that your little one’s work with small parts must be done under adult supervision. It's no secret that children strive to taste everything, so before starting and at the end of the game, count all the small elements. And during classes, carefully monitor your child.

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