Playing with sand develops the child's creative abilities.

Sand often acts like a magnet in children. His own hands, unconsciously, begin to pour and sift sand, build tunnels, mountains, dig holes. And if you add to this a variety of toys, then the baby has its own world, where it invents and fantasizes, and at the same time, learns to work and achieve goals.

SourceBy touching the grains of sand, the baby develops the fine motor skills of the hands and the eye meter determines the amount of sand that must be poured into the molds. The sand develops the child's creative abilities.

In one way or another, observations and experience show that playing in the sand has a positive effect on the emotional well-being of children and adults, which makes it an excellent means to "take care of the soul", which is the way in which the term "psychotherapy" is translated.

For sand games there are special plastic kits. You can buy them and, if necessary, make them yourself: from plastic bottles, from jars of creams, candies and other plastic containers, cutting the bottom.

SourceThe child is interested when the molds are different: transparent and opaque, large and small. The bottle caps can serve as funnels for sand and water, or owls and funnels at the same time, if the cut is made inclined. Show your child how to play with a funnel, pour sand. Let him experiment!

To tamp sand, place shovels, ordinary sticks and boards. The toys will not remain inactive: the puppets can "watch over" children's buildings, "bake cakes", live in built castles. Useful cars and for children, dishes, toy animals.

We play together

SourceA child from one to three years old likes to touch the sand with his hands, to dig in it with a shovel, a shovel. He likes to insert sticks, twigs, leaves, pebbles into it. And the child loves to stomp and spread.

Show the child how much sand is dry and which is wet. Explain that the cake is "baked" in the wet sand and crumbles in the dry sand. Teach your child to pour sand into buckets, molds, tamp it with a spatula or palm, transfer it and pour it from one container to another. Show how to dig holes and fill the piles.

Playing with sand is a modern approach to the development of preschool children, since it is a form of activity accessible to each child. Such games are one of the favorite pastimes of preschool children, one of the forms of the child's natural activity. Sand is a natural material and, therefore, very pleasant, malleable, capable of adopting various forms.

The games with sand give a great educational effect.

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• First, sand games have a certain functional meaning: we build, study and arrange the geometric shape, color and size.
• Secondly, the sand games have a physiological meaning for the child, the fine motor skills of the hands are developed, the agility and the coordination of the movements.
• Third, games with sand develop arbitrary attention, arbitrary behavior skills. In sand games, there are certain rules that form the ability to work as a team, according to the instructions offered in the plan.
• Fourth, these games affect the mental development of the child. Speech, memory, imagination, attention, thought develop, the emotional state is regulated.
• Fifth, communication skills are acquired. The properties of the sand carry some mystery and are able to fascinate a person. Playing with the sand calms impulsive, over-active children and frees those who are anxious. Playing with sand is a theater, a sphere of creative activity of a child. Playing with sand, the child is liberated, since he is passionate about action and play, and the sand has a relaxing effect.

Reference:

1.https://www.guiainfantil.com/articulos/educacion/juegos/beneficios-de-jugar-con-la-arena-para-los-ninos/ 2.https://spain.minilandeducational.com/family/jugar-arena-agua-estimula-creatividad-ninos

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