Our kids learn about the world around them with all their senses, and one of the important areas is child development is familiarity with various tactile sensations. Sensory (or tactile) cards can be used in games and activities with children of different ages- starting from about 8 months, when they are already confidently sitting on their own, and up to 7-8 years.
What are touch cards used for?
Tactile cards- not just an interesting game; They develop motor skills, visual perception, attention, memory, perseverance, intuition, and help the baby become familiar with the properties of different objects and surfaces.
For the youngest children, sensory cards are an excellent educational tool. The effect of various textures on the baby’s fingers is in itself beneficial for his sensory, and in addition, thanks to the mother’s explanations, the baby learns that this smooth surface- silk, soft and fluffy - cotton wool, and rough is called sandpaper. Small cards It is convenient for small hands to hold, and all children, without exception, like to take out, lay out and sort through these “benefits”.
Thanks to tactile cards, older children replenish their active vocabulary with many new adjectives: soft, hard, smooth, silky, convex, rough. For players 4-7 years old, with cards you can come up with many interesting games that develop memory and attention.
The basis for tactile cards is usually cardboard. You can use old, unnecessary carton boxes or buy cardboard specially at an office supply store. In addition, felt can also serve as the basis for cards. The size of the cards is approximately 5x8 or 5x9 cm. Usually two identical sets are made for different games, for example, searching for cards that feel the same.
What to stick on cardboard? The materials for creating your “author’s” tactile cards can be very diverse:
- any fabrics (silk, linen, velvet, raincoat fabric, fleece, knitwear, wool, batting, fabric with sequins, burlap and others);
- leather, natural and artificial fur;
- felt (you can stick it on cardboard or even use it as a base for sensory cards. In this case, make two sets of felt in different colors);
- yarn, satin ribbon, braid;
- cotton wool, synthetic winterizer;
- velvet paper;
- sandpaper;
- corrugated cardboard;
- Velcro or Velcro tape;
- regular and thermal insulation foil;
- scraps from rubber and household gloves;
- feathers;
- quartz sand (aquarium or colored from kits for children's creativity"Fresco"), shells, pebbles;
- paraffin (you just need to carefully drip it from a burning candle);
- matches, toothpicks;
- wire, wires;
- paper clips;
- buttons (sewn to the card);
- pasta, peas, beans, rice, pearl barley, buckwheat, semolina, millet;
- sponges for washing dishes (divide the sponge into a hard and soft part and stick each on a separate card);
- beads, beads, rhinestones;
- walnut shells;
- lids from baby food jars, pieces of bottle cap, can openers.
To keep the parts firmly in place, use superglue (for example, SuperMoment). Reliable adhesion of materials to cardboard is a prerequisite for the production of tactile cards. This is especially important for kids who love to try everything by tooth. Getting small things like pasta or beads into your mouth is a real danger if they are not glued firmly enough. Sand can be poured on top of regular PVA glue, fabric and fur can be secured with a stapler.
To make the cards look more fun, you can make them multi-colored. This will come in handy, for example, when spending “color weeks” with your child.
It is better to cover the edges of tactile cards with tape or masking tape so that they wear out less over time.
The form of application of the tactile elements of the card can be any to your taste. You can stick them in the form of letters and numbers. If desired, you can even make a whole alphabet or a complete set of numbers from 0 to 9.
Games with tactile cards
From 8 months
The main goal of games with tactile cards for little ones is to create different sensory sensations, and not only for the baby's hands. Neuropsychologists also advise applying tactile cards to the cervical and lumbar region, to the cheeks, feet and heels of the baby.
From one and a half years
1.5-2 years is the age of avalanche-like growth of active vocabulary. With the help of tactile cards, you can learn with your child the names of colors, pasted materials, the names of the characteristics of surfaces and the sensations of touching them. You can teach the names of colors and textures, for example, by asking your child to find a pair for a card based on color.
Starting from the age of one and a half years, you can try playing the game “Third Wheel” with your baby. Place three cards in front of him, two of which will be the same, and one will be different in color or feel. Everything is clear with the background color, but examples of different textures can be velvet or glossy paper, fabric and beads of the same color. As the child grows up, the number of cards used in the game and their characteristics increases.
From two to two and a half years
WITH two year old you can group touch cards by color or other characteristics. If the child already speaks well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the offered card under the blanket.
Children over 2-2.5 years old are already conscious enough to play Memory with them. Tactile cards make this simple but beloved game even more interesting. Its rules are simple. Players take turns opening a pair of cards. If the same ones are found, they are removed, and the player has the right to one more move. If the cards are different, they are turned face down again, and the next player gets the right to move.
From three years old
1) With children 3 years old and older, you can arrange the cards from softest to hardest, from smoothest to roughest in feel.
2) You can also play a connecting game with your baby using tactile cards. Lay them out in two columns (start with 3 cards in each) and ask them to find pairs by color or material.
3) By making special tactile cards with two fields, you will add to your home board games great domino. Surely the children will really like it. And everyone knows the rules of this game.
4) Invite your child to lay out the same row as you did. Thanks to such games, the baby learns to act according to the model and develops attention. You can complicate the task: let the cards in the rows match only one attribute - color or texture. If he has selected suitable cards with the same materials, but different colors, ask him to close his eyes and make sure that the cards in the rows are identical by touch.
5) The next game is suitable for those children who are already comfortable with blindfolding. Lay out a row of cards, ask them to touch and remember them. Then blindfold your child, replace one of the cards and ask him to guess what has changed.
6) If you have made a set of cards with letters or numbers, to teach your child, you can ask him to guess the letter or number he felt with his eyes closed or under a blanket.
7) With children who are already good at expressing their thoughts through words, you can use sensory cards while listening to music. Ask your child to use a card to describe how the melody felt to him. Such tasks will develop his imagination and associative thinking.
8) Several people can take part in the next game. Choose one starting card, and divide the rest equally between the players. Now they have to compete - to lay out the longest track possible, with the condition that all adjacent cards must be connected to each other, i.e. have the same color or materials.
We hope that the proposed ideas for making and playing with tactile cards will help you make your child’s leisure time more colorful. We wish you an interesting and enjoyable time spent with your kids!
After choosing for a long time between tactile boards and tactile covers for the child, I decided to go with the second option.
And as it turns out, you can come up with a huge number of educational games with such covers...
Why did it take me so long to choose between boards and lids?
The advantage of planks is that the tactile surface can be made quite large. These boards can be used to make tactile mats and walk on them barefoot or apply them to various parts of the body to enrich the child’s tactile experience.
The large size of the boards for some, like me, may also be a disadvantage: they need to be stored somewhere, which means tactile options will certainly be less.
To create my manual, I decided to use metal lids from Frutonyanya baby food.
What made me choose them:
- availability: the required number of covers can be quickly assembled, because baby food"Frutonyanya" is given out at the dairy kitchen;
- ready to use: the lids only need to be washed, no need to measure, draw, cut, etc.;
- aesthetics: all the lids are smooth, the same size, with rounded edges, pleasant to the touch, which is difficult to achieve when making boards yourself;
- relatively small size(the largest lids available): small enough for compact storage and large enough for tactile perception.
It can be:
Various types of paper, cardboard, cellophane, sponge, foam plastic, etc.,
Buttons, shells, beads, beads, matches, sticks, stones, figurines made of glass and other materials,
Seeds, nuts, sunflower seeds, cereals, pasta...
And the manufacturing process itself tactile covers very fast!
From cardboard I cut a circle of sufficient diameter to exactly fit the inside size of the lid. Then I used it as a stencil for cutting out circles from various materials.
The eldest son himself made several tactile covers as a gift for the youngest for his second birthday: for him it is an opportunity to express himself, to feel his importance and involvement, and also to practice his motor skills, for me it is an opportunity to photograph the process.
The glue in the gun heats up in a matter of minutes. However, it is not very hot: the temperature of the adhesive composition is 110 degrees. After squeezing out, the glue quickly cools and hardens, so it cannot get burned if it gets on the skin (neither my son nor I succeeded ;-)).
We lubricated the part to be glued with glue and quickly pressed it to the lid. Within 1-2 minutes the glue will harden and you can play with the lids!
The youngest son literally “took” them out of my hands.
When we first met, he kept some for himself, and put some aside - he didn’t like them!
Then my two-year-old son came up with a game, which was then repeated over and over again when I gave my son the lids:
the son turned over all the covers one by one with the tactile surface down, and then up again.
He always feels each lid with his fingers.
Examines the tactile surface.
And can be applied to lips, cheeks...
The six-year-old son could not stay away from new toy brother, took some of the lids for himself and arranged them, guided by his own principles.
Small quantities of tactile lids can be conveniently stored in chip jars. If desired, for younger children you can make a rectangular slot in the lid, then the children will lower the lids into the jar as if into a piggy bank.
When I had enough lids for three full jars, I decided to put them in a box, which turned out to be very convenient.
The entire top row with pairs of identical covers. Medium - with pairs of similar lids based on some characteristic. Bottom row with covers in one copy.
OPTIONS FOR NOT ONLY TACTILE GAMES WITH TACTILE COVERS:
1. Find the exact pair of caps (with eyes open or closed).
2. Find a logical pair of caps.
3. Feel the lid and describe your sensations in words. Selecting the right word (rounded, ribbed, soft, etc.) expands your vocabulary.
4. For one lid, try to select as many corresponding adjectives as possible that describe tactile sensations, or nouns that may be similar to the touch (author Natalia Sukhoruchenkova, based on the books by I.Yu. Matyugin).
5. Feel the lid and find a pair of available pictures or objects for it (author Natalia Sukhoruchenkova, based on the books by I.Yu. Matyugin).
Then the selected objects/pictures can be removed and the child can be invited to remember the pairs by feeling the covers.
I took the items for this version of the game from another of my "Miracle Boxes".
6. Find a couple of lids that can be described with synonymous words.
7. Find a couple of lids that can be described with antonym words.
Game option: “big-small” concepts.
8. Make a sequence of lids from the most pleasant to the touch to the most unpleasant and explain your choice (author Natalia Sukhoruchenkova, based on the books by I.Yu. Matyugin).
8. Tactile memory(with eyes open or closed).
Option: tactile geometric memory.
9. Making patterns, mandalas.
10. Compiling a sequence in which each subsequent lid is similar to/different from the previous one in one or more ways (with eyes open or closed).
11. Visual memory according to Shichida: a quick display of one lid, which then needs to be found among two or more similar ones.
TOUCH CARDS
Our kids explore the world around them with all their senses, and one of the important areas of child development is familiarity with various tactile sensations. Sensory (or tactile) cards can be used in games and activities with children of all ages - starting from about 8 months, when they are already confidently sitting on their own, and up to 7-8 years.
What are touch cards used for?
Tactile cards are not just an interesting game; They develop motor skills, visual perception, attention, memory, perseverance, intuition, and help the baby become familiar with the properties of different objects and surfaces.
For the youngest children, sensory cards are an excellent educational tool. The effect of various textures on the baby’s fingers in itself is useful for his sensory, and in addition, thanks to the mother’s explanations, the baby learns that this smooth surface is silk, soft and fluffy is cotton wool, and the rough one is called sandpaper. Small cards are convenient for little hands to hold, and all kids, without exception, like to take out, lay out and sort through these “manuals.”
Thanks to tactile cards, older children replenish their active vocabulary with many new adjectives: soft, hard, smooth, silky, convex, rough. For players 4-7 years old, with cards you can come up with many interesting games that develop memory and attention.
DIY tactile cards
The basis for tactile cards is usually cardboard. You can use old, unwanted cardboard boxes or buy cardboard specifically from an office supply store. In addition, felt can also serve as the basis for cards. The size of the cards is approximately 5x8 or 5x9 cm. Usually two identical sets are made for different games, for example, searching for cards with the same feel.
Tactile cards
What to stick on cardboard? The materials for creating your “author’s” tactile cards can be very diverse:
Any fabrics (silk, linen, velvet, raincoat fabric, fleece, knitwear, wool, batting, fabric with sequins, burlap and others);
leather, natural and artificial fur;
felt (you can stick it on cardboard or even use it as a base for sensory cards. In this case, make two sets of felt in different colors);
yarn, satin ribbon, braid;
cotton wool, synthetic winterizer;
velvet paper;
sandpaper;
corrugated cardboard;
Velcro or Velcro tape;
regular and thermal insulation foil;
scraps from rubber and household gloves;
feathers;
quartz sand (aquarium sand or colored sand from the “Fresco” kits for children’s creativity), shells, pebbles;
paraffin (you just need to carefully drip it from a burning candle);
matches, toothpicks;
wire, wires;
paper clips;
buttons (sewn to the card);
pasta, peas, beans, rice, pearl barley, buckwheat, semolina, millet;
sponges for washing dishes (divide the sponge into a hard and soft part and stick each on a separate card);
beads, beads, rhinestones;
walnut shells;
lids from baby food jars, pieces of bottle cap, can openers.
To keep the parts firmly in place, use superglue (for example, SuperMoment). Reliable adhesion of materials to cardboard is a prerequisite for the production of tactile cards. This is especially important for kids who love to try everything by tooth. Getting small things like pasta or beads into your mouth is a real danger if they are not glued firmly enough. Sand can be poured on top of regular PVA glue, fabric and fur can be secured with a stapler.
To make the cards look more fun, you can make them multi-colored. This will come in handy, for example, when spending “color weeks” with your child.
It is better to cover the edges of tactile cards with tape or masking tape so that they wear out less over time.
The form of application of the tactile elements of the card can be any to your taste. You can stick them in the form of letters and numbers. If desired, you can even make a whole alphabet or a complete set of numbers from 0 to 9.
Games with tactile cards
From 8 months
The main goal of games with tactile cards for little ones is to create different sensory sensations, and not only for the baby's hands. Neuropsychologists also advise applying tactile cards to the cervical and lumbar region, to the cheeks, feet and heels of the baby.
From one and a half years
1.5-2 years is the age of avalanche-like growth of active vocabulary. With the help of tactile cards, you can learn with your child the names of colors, pasted materials, the names of the characteristics of surfaces and the sensations of touching them. You can teach the names of colors and textures, for example, by asking your child to find a pair for a card based on color.
Starting from the age of one and a half years, you can try playing the game “Third Wheel” with your baby. Place three cards in front of him, two of which will be the same, and one will be different in color or feel. Everything is clear with the background color, but examples of different textures can be velvet or glossy paper, fabric and beads of the same color. As the child grows up, the number of cards used in the game and their characteristics increases.
From two to two and a half years
With a 2-year-old, you can group sensory cards by color or other feature. If the child already speaks well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the offered card under the blanket.
Children over 2-2.5 years old are already conscious enough to play Memory with them. Tactile cards make this simple but beloved game even more interesting. Its rules are simple. Players take turns opening a pair of cards. If the same ones are found, they are removed, and the player has the right to one more move. If the cards are different, they are turned face down again, and the next player gets the right to move.
From three years old
1) With children 3 years old and older, you can arrange the cards from softest to hardest, from smoothest to roughest in feel.
2) You can also play a connecting game with your baby using tactile cards. Lay them out in two columns (start with 3 cards in each) and ask them to find pairs by color or material.
3) By making special tactile cards with two fields, you will add a great domino to your home board games. Surely the children will really like it. And everyone knows the rules of this game.
4) Invite your child to lay out the same row as you did. Thanks to such games, the baby learns to act according to the model and develops attention. You can complicate the task: let the cards in the rows match only one attribute - color or texture. If he has selected suitable cards with the same materials, but different colors, ask him to close his eyes and make sure that the cards in the rows are identical by touch.
5) The next game is suitable for those children who are already comfortable with blindfolding. Lay out a row of cards, ask them to touch and remember them. Then blindfold your child, replace one of the cards and ask him to guess what has changed.
6) If you have made a set of cards with letters or numbers, to teach your child, you can ask him to guess the letter or number he felt with his eyes closed or under a blanket.
7) With children who are already good at expressing their thoughts through words, you can use sensory cards while listening to music. Ask your child to use a card to describe how the melody felt to him. Such tasks will develop his imagination and associative thinking.+
8) Several people can take part in the next game. Choose one starting card, and divide the rest equally between the players. Now they have to compete - to lay out the longest track possible, with the condition that all adjacent cards must be connected to each other, i.e. have the same color or materials.
We hope that the proposed ideas for making and playing with tactile cards will help you make your child’s leisure time more colorful. We wish you an interesting and enjoyable time spent with your kids!
Games with tactile cards.
Our kids explore the world around them with all their senses, and one of the important areas of child development is familiarity with various tactile sensations. You can make tactile cards yourself and use them in games and activities with children of different ages (both early and preschool).
Tactile cards are an interesting game that develops fine motor skills hands, visual perception, attention, memory, perseverance, intuition, help the baby get acquainted with the properties of different objects and surfaces. This is an excellent developmental guide.
The impact of various textures on children’s fingers is in itself beneficial for their sensory senses, and thanks to the adult’s explanations, they learn that the surface can be different (smooth, rough, slippery, etc.). Small cards are convenient for little hands to hold, and all children, without exception, like to take out, lay out and sort through these “manuals.”
Thanks to tactile cards, older children replenish their active vocabulary with many new adjectives: soft, hard, smooth, silky, convex, rough. For players 4-7 years old, with cards you can come up with many interesting games that develop memory and attention.
I bring to your attention several games with tactile cards.
Game “Studying texture”- smooth, prickly, rough, hard
Target: develop tactile memory, enrich vocabulary, develop fine motor skills, memory, imagination, imagination.
Game "What does it look like"
The child feels the card, and then says what it reminds him of or what it is similar to.
Target: develops tactile memory and imagination.
Game "Find a Pair"This is a classic connecting game that allows you to learn to find and name cards that are the same not only in color, but also in texture. Shuffle the cards and lay them out with the “texture” side up, placing the same ones in a row. You can play from 2-2.5 years old.
Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, ability to compare and combine cards according to 1 or 2 characteristics.
Game "Guess by touch"With a 2-year-old, you can group sensory cards by color or other feature. If the child already speaks well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the offered card under the blanket. In the future, complicate the game by increasing the number of cards and the number of characteristics by which they can be combined.
Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, ability to compare and combine cards according to 1 or 2 characteristics, development of speech.
Game "Memory" Shuffle the cards and place them face down. Take turns opening pairs of cards - if the same ones are found, they are removed from the field, and the player can make another move. If the cards are different, the right to move passes to another player. In addition to enriching tactile sensations, the game promotes the development of visual perception and memory, voluntary attention, and trains perseverance. You can play from 2-2.5 years old.
Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, memory.
Game "Find the odd one"You can start playing a simplified version of this game as early as 1.5 years old. Use only 3 cards, two of which should be the same, and the third should differ from them in one significant way. In the future, complicate the game by increasing the number of cards and the number of characteristics by which they can be combined.
Target: development of thinking, visual attention, develop the ability to classify objects according to essential characteristics, generalize.
"Sequences"Invite the children to arrange the cards in order from the hardest and roughest to the smoothest and softest. If the child is already speaking well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the card offered.
Target:
“Lay out the row according to the pattern”. Invite your child to lay out the next row so that the cards match only one attribute (color or texture). Please note that there are 2 completely different rows in appearance, but they are identical to the touch. Ask your baby to close his eyes and check this with his fingers. By the way, if the baby can already calmly play games blindfolded, you can replace 1-2 cards in a row and ask him to guess what has changed.
Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, logical thinking.
"Tracks" A competitive game. Shuffle the cards and distribute them all, except one card, equally to all participants. The participants’ task is to lay out the longest track from the cards they have, starting from the first card (the white card is common for two rows), while each next element of the track must be connected with the previous one, that is, have the same color or texture.
Target: The game promotes the development of analytical thinking and the ability to predict the consequences of one’s actions.
Game "Animals at your fingertips"
Invite the children to take turns touching the cards, which resemble an animal in texture, and the children name the animal they stroked. The answers may not be unambiguous, so the child can explain why he decided this way.
Target: the development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills and logical thinking, consolidates knowledge about animals and the texture of their fur and body.
Elena Kebikova
Our kids learn about the world around them with all their senses, and one of the most important areas of child development is getting to know different tactile sensations develop the child's sensory perception, tactile memory, fine motor skills of the fingers, and as a result have a beneficial effect on the baby’s mental potential. By playing with them, the baby gets acquainted with the features of the world around him, his ideas about the properties of various objects expand, and his vocabulary increases.
For the youngest children tactile cards are an excellent educational tool. The effect of various textures on the baby’s fingers is in itself beneficial for his sensory, and in addition, thanks to the explanations of adults, the baby learns that this soft and fluffy surface is cotton wool, and the rough one is called sandpaper.
Thanks to such cards older children develop tactile sensations and study the properties of objects, attention and memory, imaginative thinking and motor skills, replenish their active vocabulary with the help of a variety of adjectives: soft, hard, smooth, prickly, convex, rough, magnetic. Playing with such sensory cards Children can receive sensations not only through their fingers; they apply them with great interest to their cheeks, neck and other parts of the body.
Basis for cards are usually cardboard. Materials for creating your own "author's" cards can be very diverse. So that the parts have a strong adhesion to cardboard-- use super strong glue (I used a glue gun). Application form tactile elements of the card can be any. You can stick them in the form of letters and numbers, geometric shapes etc.
Here's what I got the cards.
WITH reverse side short description cards.
Nursery group.
Middle group.
Preparatory group.
Some cards can be used for drawing.
For storage cards You can use a shoe box.
Thank you for your attention!
Publications on the topic:
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