Family Tips

For the kid everything that he touches and sees is a game material. There is no special need at all to buy toys, and do not insist that he necessarily play how it “is supposed”.

The modeling, cutting of patterns from a paper and making paper figures develops creative abilities of the child.
Look around – and you will be surprise to see many simple toys which were used by centuries. It is clay, paper for cutting, color paper for making figures.

These materials have one general characteristic - they have not a certain form or assignment. In other words, they can give any form. For this reason they are the ideal toys for the child of early age when the intelligence develops very fast. He can do everything he wants with these materials. Let’s give clay and paper to the kid under one year. He $will touch them without any purpose, not intending to make something from them, but only studying them. But touching them, he already changes their form, and with surprise observes these changes. And it is already very valuable experience.

At this age the child will simply touch clay and paper more and more again, taking pleasure from this process. Subconsciously he starts to understand cause-and-effect relations between the action and its result.

Gradually he starts trying to put into shape clay and paper. These toys are easy for transforming into both simple and very complex things, depending on a stage of child’s development.

The child, who has started modeling at early age, essentially outstrips his colleagues in development of various skills. And the thing is not in early modeling, but modeling has early woken his intellectual and creative abilities. Sleight of hand and self-expression are the first, but not the only abilities got by the child due to modeling.