Raisa Balandina

Touch / tactile cards

Now it is no longer a secret for most parents that the development tactile sensations of the child is directly related to the development of speech and intelligence. Baby gets some tactile sensations in the process of knowing the world. However, you can help your child achieve more high level development of the senses, expand and organize his experience. This baby will help the game with tactile materials. I created at home didactic benefits: touch/ tactile cards are cards for children with tactile elements.

Develop baby's sensory perception tactile memory, fine motor skills of the fingers, and as a result, they have a beneficial effect on the mental potential of the baby.

Playing with them, the baby gets acquainted with the features of the world around him, expands his ideas about the properties of objects and increases his vocabulary.

Touch (or tactile) cards can be used in games and activities with children different ages- starting from about 8 months, when they are already sitting confidently on their own, and up to 7-8 years.

What are touchscreens for? cards?

Not just an interesting game; they develop motor skills, visual perception, attention, memory, perseverance, intuition, help the baby get acquainted with the properties of different objects and surfaces.

For the smallest children sensory cards are a great educational tool. The impact of various textures on the baby's fingers is in itself useful for his sensory, and in addition, thanks to the explanations of the mother, the baby learns that this smooth surface- silk, soft and fluffy - cotton wool, and rough is called sandpaper.

Older children thanks tactile cards expand your active vocabulary with a variety of new adjectives: soft, hard, smooth, silky, convex, rough.

Basis for tactile cards I have is cardboard. You can use old, unnecessary carton boxes or buy cardboard specially.

What to stick on cardboard? Materials for creating your "author's" tactile cards may be the most varied: any fabrics; yarn, satin ribbon, braid; cotton wool, synthetic winterizer; velvet paper; sandpaper; corrugated cardboard; foil ordinary; feathers; shells, pebbles, toothpicks; paperclips; buttons; pasta, peas, beans, ... To keep the details firmly, I used a glue gun.

How to play with cards? Can be viewed together with the baby cards while pronouncing your sensations from touching them - smooth, large, small, shiny, rough, soft, etc.

The next game is suitable for those children who are already comfortable with blindfolding. Lay out a row cards, offer to feel and remember them. Then blindfold the baby, replace one of cards and ask to guess that has changed.

Keep cards can be in a colorfully decorated shoe box.

Safety. Remember that many objects can be potentially dangerous, especially for children who put everything in their mouths. Never leave your baby alone with cards! Be extremely careful and cautious!

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SENSOR CARDS

Our kids learn the world around them with all the senses, and one of the important areas 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 do you need touch cards?

Tactile cards are not just an interesting game; they develop motor skills, visual perception, attention, memory, perseverance, intuition, help the baby get acquainted with the properties of different objects and surfaces.

For the youngest children, touch cards are an excellent educational tool. The impact of various textures on the baby's fingers is in itself useful for his sensory, and in addition, thanks to the explanations of his mother, the baby learns that this smooth surface is silk, soft and fluffy is cotton wool, and the rough one is called sandpaper. small cards it is convenient to hold for small hands, and all kids, without exception, like getting, laying out and sorting out these "allowances".

Older children, thanks to tactile cards, 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, discarded cardboard boxes, or you can buy special cardboard from an office supply store. In addition, felt can also become the basis of the 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.
Tactile cards

What to stick on cardboard? 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 basis for touch cards. In this case, make two sets of felt of different colors);
yarn, satin ribbon, braid;
cotton wool, synthetic winterizer;
velvet paper;
sandpaper;
corrugated cardboard;
Velcro, or Velcro tape;
foil ordinary and from thermal insulation;
shreds from rubber and household gloves;
feathers;
quartz sand (aquarium or colored from sets for children's creativity"Fresco"), shells, pebbles;
paraffin (you just need to carefully drip it from a burning candle);
matches, toothpicks;
wire, wires;
paperclips;
buttons (sewn to the card);
pasta, peas, beans, rice, 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;
baby food jar lids, bottle cork pieces, tin can openers.

To keep the parts firmly, use superglue (for example, SuperMoment). Reliable adhesion of materials to cardboard is a prerequisite for the manufacture of tactile cards. This is especially important for kids who love to try everything by mouth. Getting into the mouth of small things such as pasta or beads is a real danger if they are not glued firmly enough. Sand can be poured over ordinary PVA glue, fabrics and fur - fixed with a stapler.

To make the cards look more fun, you can make them multi-colored. This will come in handy, for example, when conducting “color weeks” with a child.
Tape the edges of tactile cards with tape or masking tape so that they wear out less over time.
The form of applying 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.

Tactile card games

From 8 months

The main purpose of tactile card games for the little ones is to create different sensory experiences, and not just 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 crumbs.

From a year and a half

1.5-2 years - the age of an avalanche-like growth of active vocabulary. With the help of tactile cards, you can learn with your child the names of colors, glued materials, the names of the characteristics of surfaces and the sensations of touching them. You can learn the names of colors and textures, for example, by offering your child to find a pair for a card by color.
Starting from a year and a half, you can try to play the game "The Third Extra" with your baby. Put three cards in front of him, two of which will be the same, and one will be different in color or touch. Everything is clear with the background color, and an example of different textures can be velvet or glossy paper, fabric and beads of the same color. As the child grows older, 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 attribute. If the child already speaks well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the offered card under the covers.
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 caught, 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 the age of three

1) With children 3 years and older, you can lay out the cards from the softest to the hardest, from the smoothest to the roughest in feel.
2) You can also play with the baby with the help of tactile cards in the connecting game. Lay them out in two columns (start with 3 cards each) and offer 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 kids will love it. Everyone knows the rules of this game.
4) Invite the 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 on one basis - color or texture. If he picked up matching 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 series of cards, offer to feel and remember them. Then blindfold the baby, 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 the child, you can offer him to guess the letter or number found with his eyes closed or under the covers.
7) With children who are already good at expressing their thoughts with words, you can use touch cards while listening to music. Ask the child to describe with the help of a card how the melody seemed to him to the touch. Such tasks will develop his imagination and associative thinking.+

8) Several people can take part in the next game. Choose one, the initial card, and divide the rest equally among the players. Now they have to compete - lay out the longest path 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 suggested ideas for making and playing with tactile cards will help you make your child's leisure time brighter. We wish you an interesting and boring time spent with the kids!

Games with tactile cards.

Our kids learn the world around them with all the senses, and one of the important areas of child development is getting to know various tactile sensations. Tactile cards can be made independently and used in games and activities with children of different ages (both early and preschool).

Tactile cards are an interesting game that develops fine motor skills of hands, visual perception, attention, memory, perseverance, intuition, helps the baby to get acquainted with the properties of different objects and surfaces. This is a great learning tool.

The impact of various textures on the fingers of children is in itself useful for its sensory, and thanks to the explanations of an adult, he learns that the surface can be different (smooth, rough, slippery, etc.). It is convenient to hold small cards for small hands, and all children, without exception, like getting, laying out and sorting out these “allowances”.

Older children, thanks to tactile cards, 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.

The game "We study the texture"- smooth, prickly, rough, hard
Target: develop tactile memory, enrich vocabulary, develop fine motor skills, memory, fantasy, imagination.

Game "What does it look like"

The child feels the card, and then calls what it reminds him of or what it looks like.

Target: develops tactile memory and imagination.

Game "Find a Pair"This is a classic game - connecting, 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 “texture” up, lay out the same in a row. You can play from 2-2.5 years.

Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, the ability to compare and combine cards according to 1 or 2 features.

Game "Guess by touch"With a two-year-old, you can group the sensory cards by color or something else. If the child already speaks well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the offered card under the covers. Further complicate the game by increasing the number of cards and the number of signs by which they can be combined.

Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, the ability to compare and combine cards according to 1 or 2 signs, speech development.

Game "Memory" Shuffle the cards and arrange them face down. Open pairs of cards in turn - if the same cards are found, they are removed from the field, and the player can make one more move. If the cards are different, the right to move passes to another player. In addition to enriching tactile sensations, the game contributes to the development of visual perception and memory, voluntary attention, and trains perseverance. You can play from 2-2.5 years.

Target: development of tactile sensations, attention, memory.

The game "Find the extra"You can start playing a simplified version of this game from the age of 1.5. Use only 3 cards, two of which should be the same, and the third should differ from them in one essential way. Further complicate the game by increasing the number of cards and the number of signs by which they can be combined.

Target: development of thinking, visual attention, to develop the ability to classify objects according to their essential feature, to generalize.

"Sequences"Have the children arrange the cards in order from the hardest and roughest to the smoothest and softest. If the child already speaks well, invite him to guess the material when he feels the offered card.

Target:

"Lay out a row according to the model". Invite the child to lay out the next row so that the cards match only on one basis (color or texture). Pay attention to him that 2 completely different rows turned out in appearance, but they are identical to the touch. Ask the baby to close his eyes and verify this with his fingers. By the way, if the kid can already easily play blindfold games, 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" Competitive game. Shuffle the cards and distribute them all, except for one card, equally to all participants. The task of the participants is to lay out the longest track from the cards they have, starting from the first card (a 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 with it.

Target: The game contributes to the development of analytical thinking and the ability to predict the consequences of their actions.

Game "Animals at your fingertips"

Invite the children to take turns feeling the cards that resemble an animal in texture, and the children name the animal they stroked. The answers may not be clear, so the child can explain why he decided so.

Target: development of tactile sensations, fine motor skills and logical thinking, consolidates knowledge about animals and the texture of their coat and body.

I like to introduce my baby to the world around us in a multifaceted way: if I tell him about fruits, then we roll them on the table, and do a fruit massage on small hands (after all, a different perception, for example, of an orange or kiwi), and inhale their smell, feeling the magical aroma, and, of course, tasting it! And only then I show a card with the image of the hero of the day to correlate the image, accompanying it all with poems or songs about the fruit being studied. An example of a versatile lesson on getting to know autumn can be found in the article “

But what about the animal world? After all, not everyone has the opportunity to keep animals at home, especially large ones. I'm not talking about animals from other continents.

Recently, reviewing the materials of their student years, stumbled upon my own, as it seemed to me then, "invention" - tactile cards with inserts imitating animal fur and feathers. Yes Yes! Now you won’t surprise anyone with a tactile book, but in those days ....

Despite this, the prices for tactile books, to put it mildly, "bite" and not every family can afford such a gift to their baby. But tactile material can be made independently, from old pieces of fabric and fur.

How to make tactile cards with your own hands?

To create such cards, I printed images of animals on a printer, cutting out those elements where I would like to place the “fur”.

Here, for example, for pandas I cut out the places where the ears and paw. I glued three small pieces of fur onto the cardboard, and already put a drawing on top (on glue), gently straightening the fur over the holes.

Hen. With her, in fact, the whole idea began. Everything is elementary here - I pasted a couple of feathers from an old pillow onto the image of a chicken. I think many people have such an arsenal.

Sheep. On this picture, I pasted something like a padding polyester. Agree, it's not a luxury either. Of course, it cannot be compared with natural sheepskin, but the softness and fluffiness of the wool of this animal will definitely convey!

Cat. The old shattered purse, with which I played as a child, was used, from pieces faux fur. The fur turned out to be just in time: a long pile, the color of my picture.

Leopard. Here I used an old rag hair tie that I used back in school years when such a coloring was considered mega-fashionable! The fabric is soft and thin. It's so nice to touch her!

Cow. For this picture, I needed an old scarf. Its material resembles velvet, but a little tougher.

Pig. It's just a piece of pink fabric for me. Ideally, of course - leather (or a substitute).

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in making tactile cards with your own hands! All you need is color pictures, pieces of materials and a good mood!

And how much tactile games you can do with them! For example, with closed eyes, identify an animal, or treat animals with treats, for example, small cookies. The last game is great for development. Cards can be complicated with other tactile elements: stick grain in front of the chicken (any cereal will do), lay out a fence of ice cream sticks, hang a bell around the cow's neck, etc. I am sure that such material will not leave your baby indifferent!

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