All children need toys. Among adults, there is not one who would not remember which toy was most loved in his childhood. Such an unforgettable thing for your child can be cubes that you make yourself with it. Soft, bright, comfortable for playing - they will become both your favorite fun and a great decoration for the nursery.
What are the development cubes for?
Adults understand that a toy should help a child to develop, encouraging his imagination, accustoming to patience and attentiveness. At the same time, it should be suitable for age, otherwise it will be difficult for a baby to understand it, and an older child can quickly get bored.
Educational cubes that we will learn to sew are suitable for children from six months to 5 years. They will help the baby not only develop coordination of movements, but also teach him to determine colors, recognize animals, distinguish letters or numbers. It all depends on how exactly and what you will make them from.
Positive qualities of cubes
Some parents buy a bunch of toys for kids, some a small amount, but they all agree on one thing: handmade toys will remain a wonderful memory for many years.
For your child to have a rich inner world, you must have toys in the house. With their help, your baby will be able to know the space around, to show their imagination and feelings. Toys create an atmosphere of warmth and comfort in the children's room. They help the child not only to know the world, but also develop his communication skills. After all, the game is a simulator of the ability to communicate, negotiate and find compromise solutions.
Children love to experience new sensations and learn the unknown, so you can always create educational cubes with your own hands with your child. Choose the color of crafts and decorations for its sides, cut out some details - which may be more interesting for the baby!
Each fidget will appreciate your efforts if you do the crafts together. To make him happy, you just need to allow the baby to dream up and choose what he wants. Many needlewomen can make educational cubes for children with their own hands, even without a special pattern. After all, cut out squares of suitable size from the fabric, and then even novice masters can sew them together.
Such toys are made depending on which fantasy format you have and what your child likes. In order to make a developmental cube for a baby with your own hands without a pattern, you need to have:
- filler;
- scissors;
- pen;
- the cloth;
- threads
- a needle.
Step-by-step instruction
As we have already said, making DIY cubes with your own hands will not be difficult. To do this, adhere to the following action plan:
- Cut 4 equal squares from the fabric.
- Sew them together upside down.
- Leave a small hole.
- Turn the product to the front side.
- Push the filler with the handle into the un sewn hole until the cube becomes elastic (try not to make the ball become a ball).
- Sew a hole.
That's all! You made a developmental cube with your own hands. The master class is the simplest and most straightforward - even a child can use it.
In addition to simple crafts, you can use a more complex manufacturing scheme. We offer a pattern for it in the article. The sides of such a cube cannot be made colorful, but the craft will have a few seams, which will make it more durable.
Another cube option
For a more complex cube, you will need:
- sheet A4;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- eye pins;
- a piece of chalk;
- the cloth;
- sewing machine;
- threads
- filler;
- a pen;
- ruler.
If you have brightly colored fabric with an interesting print that keeps its appearance for a long time, then try using it. In any case, when the child sees how easy it is to cooperate with parents, the process will deliver both him and you a positive charge for the whole day.
Make a cube
Keep in mind, making DIY cubes yourself, that they can have different sizes. That is, they can be large, like poufs, and small, comfortably lying in the palm of your baby.
- Using a pencil and a ruler, draw patterns on paper, making the dimensions of the sides as you wish.
- Cut her out.
- Use pins to pin the pattern to the fabric. Outlining future developmental cubes with your own hands or with the help of the baby with chalk, do not forget to leave allowances for the seams.
- According to the outline of the pattern, cut out the silhouette of the fabric.
- Smooth the future faces of the cube.
- Fold in the front with pieces of fabric.
- Using a sewing machine, sew the pieces together, leaving a small gap to turn the crafts on the front side.
- Turn the future cube.
- Using the handle, fill the figure with filler.
- Sew a hole on a typewriter.
You will have to complete this process several times. Until you get the required number of dice.
Now you have learned how to sew a developmental cube with your own hands.
Sometimes, having a small fraction of imagination and desire, you can build crafts of unprecedented beauty and importance. Each thing that you make for your own child is individual. Educational cubes for children, made with their own hands, the right thing.
Felt cube
We will share with you another way how to make a developmental cube with your own hands. You will not need patterns here:
- felt of different colors;
- scissors;
- dummy cubes;
- pencil;
- glue for the fabric.
You will make a developing felt cube with your own hands according to the instructions below. It is pleasant to the touch and durable. This material holds its shape well, durable and will serve your baby as a toy for a long time.
Instructions for doing crafts
Getting started:
- Measure the side of the cube.
- Transfer measurements to felt.
- Scissors cut out the squares for the future sides of the cube.
- Use glue to attach felt squares to the base of the craft.
Use a fabric of different colors to make a developmental cube with your own hands. You can come up with ideas for making it yourself. And to teach your child to navigate colors, use their palette more extensively. This will be a useful activity and an exciting game for the child.
The need for cubes in the house
At a young age, children cannot have friends who are constantly with them. But toys can become a good companion for a baby, especially when he loves them and sets them apart from others.
With the help of developing cubes, each child is able to build a tower, learn to distinguish between colors and images on them. Cubes can be the initial step in learning the alphabet. And if you show imagination in the manufacture of crafts, you will please your child with the originality of the toy. For example, sew on it ribbons of different colors, buttons of different sizes, images, badges, large beads, funny applications - all this can be combined in one cube. A child will surely appreciate such beauty and quickly find what interests him in this toy.
To make a developmental cube for a child of 6 months and older, you need to have:
- cube pattern;
- fabric - several shreds of different colors;
- accessories - buttons, fasteners, rings, etc.;
- a needle;
- pins with ears;
- a piece of chalk;
- a thread;
- scissors;
- filler.
It is advisable to have a sewing machine, but this is not a prerequisite for work. Just with its help, you can quickly do the job.
How to make a cube for a baby
Now start creating:
- Attach a pattern to the fabric. Pin with pins. Outline with chalk on the contour of the pattern.
- Remove the paper pattern, cut out the resulting silhouette with scissors.
- Fold the fabric with the front side inside the product.
- Stitch the sides of the cube together, leaving one free.
- Turn the product to the front side.
- Complement with accessories. Sew with the help of a thread with a needle buttons, fasteners, zippers, laces, shreds.
- Fill with filler.
- Sew the rest of the side.
Your cube is ready. It is ideal for the development of fine motor skills of the hands and fingers of a child. The kid will be happy to learn the toy and possibly even bite.
If among the accessories with which you decorate the cube there will be all kinds of simulators for scratching gums during teething, this will be a great help for a child.
When there are older children in the house, you can ask them to help in making the blocks. And the joint creation of a toy for the youngest member of the family will surely bring the older child closer to the crumbs he has taken care of.
Toys you need
Undoubtedly, toys should correspond to the age of the child, they should help the baby in development. Each child should have a set of toys that really develop the necessary qualities.
If the baby does not first play with the cubes or does not pay attention to them, do not be upset. Just get him interested, it's easier than it sounds. To get started, put the toy in the most prominent place. If the baby doesn’t care, then try playing it yourself. Such a temptation is beyond the power of even the most persistent child. In any case, he will want to touch the developmental cube with his own hands. The ideas of the game come to the baby in the process of its implementation, so you can not worry about his imagination.
Educational cubes for different ages
If your child is barely six months old, then a soft cube is suitable for him - a developmental one, made with his own hands, from materials that are pleasant to the touch, he will be most welcome. Because in this period of life, the child explores the world by touch and by tooth. And if your baby’s teeth are cut, then various large accessories in the form of wooden and plastic rings attached to this toy will be very useful.
At the age of one, the baby is able to move the developing cubes from place to place. You can already teach him to distinguish colors using these toys. Everything is simple here - you make cubes of different colors and play with the child.
After a year and a half, your child already knows how to build pyramids from cubes, if you used them in the game before. Two to three tower constructions are enough for the child to be interested in this action. He will be happy to try a new activity for himself. And when he succeeds in building, it is likely that with even greater excitement he will begin to destroy the pyramids.
Two-year-olds already imagine how animals look. Therefore, having made educational cubes for them with your own hands with images of animals, birds and fish, you can ask the baby to show where someone is depicted. It may not be easy for him at first, but you must convey the right information to the child before this request.
One of the useful functions of the cubes is the conversion of complex, at first glance, information for the child into the desired form. For example, cubes with the image of letters are perfect in learning the alphabet. As a rule, on two sides of such a cube there are letters, on the remaining ones there are images that correspond to these symbols.
Let your toys become the most beloved for your baby!