Sensory boxes in preschool educational institutions. Why, how, with what and why? methodological development (junior, middle, senior, preparatory group) on the topic. Sensory boxes

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MBDOU No. 10 “Zvezdochka” Methodological development Topic: “Sensory boxes in preschool educational institutions. Why, how, with what and why? Educator: Timoshkina Tatyana Grigorievna

Sensory tub is a universal educational toy for children. Essentially, it’s just a container with some kind of filler, the main purpose of which is to give children the opportunity to touch, pour, pour, explore, study what’s inside. The sensory box develops fine motor skills, tactile sensations, creative and spatial thinking, concentration, perseverance, coordination of movements, curiosity, imagination, fantasy and creativity.

Goal: 1. Develop sensory perception of the surrounding world. 2. Give your child as much as possible tactile sensations. Objectives: 1. Child development: development of sensory analyzers; development fine motor skills; development of thinking; development of the child’s creative abilities and creativity. 2. Providing for children preschool age cognitive environment: familiarization with the color palette; with flora and fauna; with other various necessary topics (transport, garden, village, house, etc.). 3. Cultivate interest in knowledge, desire to engage: cultivate children's independence and initiative; instill in children a sense of joy for their successes and the results of their friends.

What to make a sensory box from? Almost any container for filling is suitable, the main thing is that it is convenient, safe and spacious. It can be: cardboard or wooden box, plastic container, bowl, inflatable pool, basin, tray with sides.

What to fill the box with? All kinds of cereals: buckwheat, rice (plain and colored), millet, pearl barley, semolina, oatmeal. Legumes: beans, peas, lentils. Pasta, flour, sugar, salt, starch. Ground and bean coffee, tea. Natural materials: sand, earth, clay, fresh grass and hay, leaves, shavings and sawdust, stones, feathers. Water filler: plain and carbonated water, ice, snow, milk, soap solution, oil. Paper: pieces of paper and foil, confetti, streamers. Textiles and sewing accessories: ribbons, lace, ropes, pieces of fabric, beads, buttons. Cotton wool, cotton pads, pieces of foam rubber and sponges.

Items with which you can play: small figures of animals and people, cubes, rings, balls, rags, small boxes, pebbles, toy fruits, artificial and real plants, wooden letters and numbers, spatulas, spoons, rakes, bowls, cups, tongs, water bulb, sieve, funnel, etc.

Safety precautions when practicing with sensory boxes 1. The lesson (game) is carried out in groups of 2-3 children, or individually. 2. You cannot leave your child alone while playing with sensory boxes. 3. The contents of the box depend on the age of the children. When working with children under 3 years of age, it should not contain small parts that a child could swallow. 4. Before creating sensory boxes, make sure your child is not allergic to any component.

What ages are sensory boxes suitable for? Sensory boxes universal in that they can be used in all age groups. For children 1.5-2 years old, sensory boxes with fillings that vary in tactile sensations are used. The goal is to give the child as many different tactile sensations as possible, to develop fingers and hands in general. Children 2-3 need to add toys and objects to sensory boxes and show how to play with them (what to do with them). The goal of the game is to develop coordination and fine motor skills. Along the way, the child learns to distinguish objects by size, color, and properties. For children 3-5 years old, sensory boxes serve as the basis for organizing role-playing games. When a child begins to imagine and invent something, he can be captivated by role-playing games, the actions of which will take place in a sensory box. The child himself will be happy to fill the box with whatever fillers he likes best. For children 5-7 years old, sensory boxes become not only a tool for the development of all senses, but also a space for fantasy, logical and educational games.

Sensory boxes can be used to teach a variety of topics. For example: color, shape and sorting of seams

Seasonal boxes

sensory box "Vegetable garden"

sensory box “Construction”

Sensory box “Forest”

Sensory box “Space”

Sensory box “Sea”

Sensory box “North”

Sensory box “Summer meadow”

Activities with young children The game “Hide our hands” - relieve psycho-emotional stress. Consolidation of concepts: deep, hide, move, prick, bury, find. Finger Pool - This allows children to become familiar with cereals.

Game “Pour the cereal” - pay attention to the fact that the sound from each cereal is different, unique: from peas - ringing, from rice - muffled, from semolina - an almost silent rustling.

"Guess what it is?" - Invite your child to put his hands one by one into sensory boxes with different cereals. Be sure to name the cereal and compare the sensations. After some time, invite him to identify them at random with his eyes closed.

“Through a Sieve” - the game introduces the purpose of objects and the properties of matter.

We study the tactile properties of objects. We reinforce the concepts: prickly, fluffy, etc.

1st junior group“Sorting cereals” - development of fine motor skills.

“Sorting objects” - developing the ability to distinguish objects, finding what they have in common, what unites them, and what distinguishes them, teaches the child to think independently.

Game "Guess what it is?" - teach children to feel objects and determine their weight. The game “Find by touch” is to develop the tactile sensitivity of the hands.

“Round and square” - learn to feel objects “Find a specific figure” - develop attentiveness, learn to find objects of a given shape.

“Study of the tactile properties of objects” - develop fine motor skills and touch.

Sensory boxes are interesting, useful and exciting!

Thank you for your attention!

Svetlana Alekseeva

Finger motor skills and tactile sensations must develop from the first years of life. Conventional toys are not enough for children, because over time they get used to a soft bunny or a hard, cold robot. In order for the child to develop versatile sensations and evoke not only mental, but also tactile associations when a particular word is mentioned, sensory boxes were invented and developed.

What is it?

From the distant States a new and very simple toy– sensory box. This is what all children dream about. So I decided to give my kids a bowl of happiness! So is the sensory bin a basin? There may be a basin, a bowl, a saucepan, a plastic container or a wooden box. The filler is poured (poured, crumbled) into this container, and various objects and tools are placed.

I took an ordinary pool.

What's inside?

The sensory box can contain any filler: wheat, buckwheat, oatmeal, millet, semolina, rice (plain and colored with food dyes, peas, beans, lentils, salt (large and small), pasta (shells, spirals, tubes, flowers, bows, alphabet, stars and others, seeds, flour or corn starch, corn flakes, nuts, dough (salted and regular, snow, ice, pine cones, acorns, threads (long and cut into small pieces, paper napkins(torn into pieces, whole or crumpled into small balls, sand (dry and wet, scraps of fabric, boiled spaghetti, grass, leaves and other natural materials, pebbles and all sorts of small stones, soil, aqua soil, pieces of foam rubber, cotton balls, chopped paper , straw, soap solution, water, shaving foam, buttons, wood shavings. The main thing is that it is not dangerous for children.

I filled my sensory box with rice.

In addition to the filler, other items are placed in the sensory box that you can play with. Perfect for small figurines of animals and people, cubes, rings, balls, rags, small boxes, pebbles, toy fruits, artificial and real plants, wooden letters and numbers, spatulas, spoons, rakes, bowls, cups, tongs, water pears, sieve, funnel. It is important that there are few items. It is better to change the contents of the sensory box several times than to give out all the items at once. After all, the child needs a place to freely pour the filler, trample the paths with figures, in general, a place for free play.

I filled it with toys and items related to the New Year and winter(after all, the guys are so looking forward to this holiday).

I tried to pick up such toys. which symbolized New Year: this is a Christmas tree, Christmas balls, Santa Claus, snowmen, snowflakes. fairies. I prepared buckets and a jug for pouring, transfusion, and burying. watering cans, spoons.

The sensory box develops tactile sensations, imagination, attention, perseverance, fine motor skills, and coordination of movements. Most modern techniques pay a lot of attention to small objects, palpating, sorting through bulk substances, etc. tactile games. And not for nothing: the property of a child’s psyche is such that he receives most of the information empirically, that is, through his own sensations. And one more thing: the part of the brain that is responsible for speech is closely connected with the palms and fingers. This means that by playing with cereals and small objects, the child not only learns about the world, but also develops speech.

Overflows.

Pours.

Buries.

Build a plot.

Playing with the sensory box is a huge delight for my kids.

They get carried away.

There is a place for everyone and an exciting game here.

I hope that my experience will inspire you colleagues to create your own sensory boxes.

I started offering sensory boxes to Alice the moment she learned to sit. She could independently, using both hands at the same time, take out, move and play with the contents of the box.

You can find out more about what sensory boxes are and what they are needed for.

Sensory box “Pyramid”

Sensory box "Multi-colored chain".

The filling of this box was logic game Matvey "Snake". We separated all the parts from it and filled the container with them. While playing with this box, I pronounced the names of the shapes, colors and showed how the parts were connected.

Sensory box "Rubber toys".

Everything here is very simple and infinitely loved...

Sensory box “Textile and rubber toys”

Here we get a contrast of sensations - smooth, even, rubbery and soft, warm, textile.

Touch box "Bolts"

The bolts that fill our box from this game

Sensory box “Bolts and nuts”

Using this box, we have already tried to put the nut on the bolt, and it was possible to turn it a little. Now. Of course, we use it in almost all games.

Sensory box "Patchwork"

Pieces of fabric of the same size, but different in quality, filled our box. This is simply a wonderful development of tactile sensations. It requires a minimum of cost and preparation, but a lot of benefits will come from playing with this box.

Sensory box "Mixed feelings".

In the soft, light and rough patches we find smooth wooden fruit. Isn't this magical? This sensory box gave us very bright contrasting sensations.

Sensory box "Fruits"

Filling for this box:

Sensory box “Feathers”

Closer to the year, we were already experimenting with filling for boxes. Here is one of them. Filling: bright, soft, light, airy feathers. Delicate feathers pleasantly tickle small palms.

And the fruit

As you may have already understood. In sensory boxes for children up to one year old, you can put everything you have at hand - from toys to a piece of fabric. These are just some of the boxes we used in our games. This is the kind of assortment we had.

The main condition is that to fill the boxes you need to use only that material and those objects that cannot cause injury or damage to your child!

Everything else depends on your desire and imagination!

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Beautiful, captivating for a long time, developing imagination and fine motor skills, and besides, inexpensive toy... A dream, you say? But no - we're talking about about a sensory box that any parent can make with their own hands for a child. This simple invention is probably familiar to all of us. Many of today's adults, as children, loved to sort through grandmother's baskets with buttons, rummage through a jar with their father's nuts and screws, and especially exciting games in the sandbox, it’s not worth mentioning - all children loved them and still love them. The sensory box combines all these “delights” - it is a container with loose or liquid filler and game elements of your choice.

How to play with the sensory box?

Even without much prompting from adults, kids usually quickly find something to do with this toy. Most sensory boxes are filled with something loose, and you can play in them the same way as in a sandbox: pour the filler from container to container, bury and dig up objects. By touching objects of different textures, the child enriches his tactile experience. And the game plots applicable to the sensory box can be very diverse. Thus, this toy can be called universal and necessary in any home where there are children.

At what age are sensory boxes relevant?

A sensory box can be offered to a baby who has already learned to sit on his own.

Sensory box for children up to one year (from 6-8 months)

A sensory box for such babies should not contain small parts, since children under one year old strive to try everything by their teeth. What to fill the box with? You can choose objects according to some principle (only wooden, or only round, or the same color). Or you can do the opposite - offer your child a full box of a variety of “interesting things”: balls, scraps, rattles, soft animals, cubes. The main thing is that there are no objects in it that the baby could swallow or get hurt. The sensory box itself should not be very large - for kids a wicker basket, plastic bowl or shallow basin is quite enough.

The sensory box will certainly arouse the baby’s interest: the combination of various objects that can be picked up with your fingers, moved, touched, and some that can also make sounds - rustle, ring, or at least knock - will not leave the child indifferent. He doesn’t need spoons and scoops yet; his fingers are enough, which he will train while playing with the box.

Another option is to make several sensory boxes in those corners of your home where your baby often crawls. The presence of such a “treasure” in the kitchen will occupy the child for some time and will allow the mother to do cooking or washing dishes.

1-2 years

For children 1-2 years old who no longer put everything in their mouths, you can make a sensory box with smaller (though preferably still edible) filling: cereals, pasta, dough.

Of course, the mother should be nearby during the game and control what is happening. Now “tools” will be useful for the game: a large spoon, a slotted spoon, a scoop, a rake and even tongs.

How to play? Children love finding objects hidden in the sensory box filling. Hide 10-12 toys and ask your child to find them. Invite your child to sort toys by color (red and yellow), size (large-small), texture (wooden-fabric) or shape (balls and cubes) into two containers (buckets, plates, jars). Is your child already good at doing this with his hands? Let him try it again using a spoon or slotted spoon! The most dexterous ones can be offered tongs, which perfectly train fine motor skills. Together with your baby, thanks to the sensory box, you can explore colors, shapes, and other properties of objects. The sensory box perfectly develops coordination and dexterity - for example, you can use a net to catch fish or other toys from a container filled with water. Closer to 2 years, children can already play the simplest games: drive a car along a path laid out in cereals, cook “food” and feed the animal inhabitants of the “farm,” plant toy plants.

From 2.5-3 years

With children over 2.5-3 years old, you can already organize real themed games in a sensory box. You can come up with game stories together with your child, based on his preferences and his own imagination. Does your son love cars and everything connected with them? Make a mini car service center or a high-speed track out of a sensory box. Is your daughter crazy about fairies? Then your option is a fairy meadow. Manufacturing principles and examples of finished sensory boxes are given below.

How to make a sensory box?

Sensory boxes consist of four elements: the container itself, filler, toys and “tools”.

Let's talk separately about colored cereals. Your son will surely love the green rice football field:

Another interesting filler for a sensory box is multi-colored oatmeal:

To color rice or oatmeal in this way, you need to add 1.5 tablespoons of water with 8-10 drops of food coloring of the selected color to 1 cup of cereal. Then mix everything well and lay it out to dry on a sheet of paper.

Despite the wide range of possible fillings for your home sandbox, you should not put too many things in there. The abundance of game elements can simply cause a child to become confused. It's better to make several sensory boxes or change the contents periodically (about once every two weeks) to ensure that the play is always fun. In addition, the child needs to leave space in the box for free play - so that he himself can pour the filler, trample paths for toy characters, build houses and fences.

It will be more convenient to store the sensory box if it has a lid. Some particularly advanced mothers have several sensory boxes in their arsenal, waiting in the wings on shelves in closed containers.

And some people only store different fillers of the sensory box:

Ideas for making your own sensory boxes

We hope they will help you create such small masterpieces for your children.

Treasure Hunt Sensory Box

Sand, shovels and hidden jewelry (beads, chains, brooches, boxes) are a real paradise for a young treasure hunter!

Sensory box “Winter”

The main element of a winter sensory box is snow. In winter you can take a real one, but at other times you can depict it, and in different ways.

For example, mix salt with glitter:

Or freeze shaving foam in the freezer:

Snow made from a mixture of salt and PVA glue (1 to 1) looks extremely realistic. Soft, pleasant to the touch, but it’s difficult to mold something out of it:

Sensory box “Autumn”

Fill the container autumn leaves, pine cones, grass and others natural materials. The picture will be complemented by figurines of animals, a farmer, rakes, toy fruits and vegetables.

Sensory box “Sea, beach”

This sensory box contains all the beach and sea details: sand (real or flour, semolina), small pebbles, shells, starfish, plain or blue-tinted water, fish.

Sensory box “Vegetable garden”

Earth, gardening tools and gloves, seedlings in pots, decorative figures, flowers and butterflies... how can you not feel like a summer resident at any time of the year?

Sensory box "Farm"

You can set up a farm in a regular pot for indoor flowers. Plant lawn grass in it and release toy inhabitants into the meadow - let them graze!

Sensory box "Excavators and trucks"

This box includes earth, stones and machines that dig and transport it all. You can add figures of workers, a scoop, a rake.

Fairy World sensory box

In the world of fairies, there must be flower petals, beautiful stones and the beautiful fairies themselves. You can use colored cereal or plain cereal as a filler. white rice. Artificial flowers will help complement the box.

Sensory box "Dinosaurs"

Dinosaur lovers will appreciate this box. For a return to prehistoric times, fill the container with pearl barley, black eye beans, stones, and pebbles. You can build a mountain from a mixture of flour and vegetable oil (2 to 1) with the addition of natural dye and ground coffee. A few artificial plants and your dinosaur habitat is ready!

Sensory boxes – great fun for a child. Perhaps you will also enjoy playing with your baby in the new home sandbox. Enjoy your leisure time!

IN early age promotes the full development of the baby. A sensory box for children is ideal for stimulating tactile sensations. Kids enjoy looking at various objects, touching them with their hands, and putting them in their mouths. This feature can be skillfully used by offering them sensory boxes for children to play with. With your own hands, you can make many different options that will be interesting to kids and give room for parents’ imagination to fly.

Where did sensory boxes come from?

This toy originated in the USA. There, their various analogues have been used for a long time, but they came to us relatively recently. World-famous teacher and method developer early development Maria Montessori recommends that parents make such educational toys themselves, taking into account the age, level of development and interests of the child. What is a sensory box for children? At its core, this is a home sandbox filled with a variety of available materials.

Invaluable benefits

Such a simple device contributes to the full and comprehensive development of the child, starting from 6 months. There is no upper age limit, because exciting activity for people different ages. Kids transfer objects from one hand to another, which develops motor skills and trains their fingers. With the help of this toy, they master the shapes, colors, density and other properties of objects. Sorting through objects in a box teaches the baby patience, develops perseverance and attention, and improves coordination.

If the baby does not just rummage around in a box with different objects, but at the same time parents or older children pronounce their names, color, shape and other qualities, then the baby’s vocabulary improves, memory is trained, it is important to pronounce the properties of each object, give it a description : hard, cold, loose, etc.

DIY sensory boxes for children are easy to make. In addition, they help not only the baby’s development, but also contribute creative development moms. After all, new ideas for boxes come constantly.

At what age should I start?

There is no age limit for fun with sensory boxes. You can let your baby play with them as soon as he begins to sit up on his own. The only condition is that sensory boxes for children from 6 months to 2 years must contain items appropriate to the baby’s age. All contents must be absolutely safe for the child so that he cannot accidentally swallow, choke or break the item. At an older age, you can safely add small details. When your child is in school, you can build a mini-laboratory in a box to conduct various experiments.

How to make your own sensory box?

The basis of the sensory box is any container that is suitable in size. This could be a plastic container, a basin, or a large cup. In the yard you can make a sandbox or use an inflatable pool.

The fillings for the sensory box can be different: cereals, beans, sand, pasta, plasticine, pebbles, shaving foam, grass, cones, dough, jelly, water. You can put beads of different sizes and colors, small toys, buttons, lids from jars and bottles.

To make it more interesting to play, you can use various instruments: rakes, scoops, spoons, strainers. Items from a set of children's dishes are suitable for this.

Knowing how to make a sensory box for a child, you can turn on your imagination and start creating an exciting fairy tale for your baby. Each child is unique, and parents, knowing the characteristics of their child, can make educational toys that can cause special delight in the baby. There can be no bad ideas for equipping sensory boxes.

First boxes for babies

Having learned to sit, the little one looks at the objects around him with interest, puts everything into his mouth, trying to taste the world around us per tooth From now on you can give him the first boxes. At this age, it is especially important to pay attention to the contents so that all items are safe. An ordinary plastic cup or small basket can be filled with pyramid rings, balls of different sizes, and cubes. The main thing is that the objects differ in shape, color and composition. By sorting through them, the baby develops. Mommy or older children can at this time pronounce the names of objects, their shape, or give a description of the object chosen by the baby. Do not fill the container to the brim. The baby will quickly get tired and lose interest in the toy. It is better to constantly change the contents of the box.

Then you can put containers with different fillers in different places. When the baby finds them, he will study the contents, giving mom time to do household chores. You can put round objects in one, and in the other soft toys, in the third rattle.

Boxes for children from one year old

At one year old, the child no longer actively puts everything that comes into his hands into his mouth. But he’s ready to shift, pour, scatter and pour until he’s delighted. During this period, you can add cereal or sand fillers to the boxes. You can “hide” larger objects in them, and by looking for them, your baby will massage his fingers and get new sensations. He can even stomp his feet on the loose filler, which will have a beneficial effect on his health.

Such sensory boxes for 1-year-old children promote the development of fine motor skills, coordination, and grasping movements. The accuracy of each movement is worked out. You can ask the baby to arrange objects in containers by color or divide them by shape, and teach the baby to actively use tools for playing. You can bury or dig out with a spatula. If the filler is sand, then you can make Easter cakes.

Features of sensory boxes for children aged 2 years and older

A child who has reached the age of 2 years can already speak some words. Themed boxes will really appeal to your child. For example, you can make a farm. To do this, place figurines of pets and containers for “food” and “water” in the box. This way the child will study domestic animals, and at the same time feed and water them. And what delight will a boy have with a sensory box in which there is a track for cars. You can mark roads, hills and obstacles.

A child at any age loves to play with water; you can arrange a home car wash for all the cars or other toys in the house. Add bathing foam to the warm water poured into the basin, and the game will be filled with vivid impressions. Mommy needs to lay out a waterproof oilcloth in advance so as not to flood the neighbors below, and put a towel nearby, which will be used to wipe off both the toys and the child’s hands. While playing with water, the baby also learns that some objects sink and others float. They can be caught from the water with a slotted spoon. For games, you can buy a set of fish and a magnetic fishing rod, boats and other water toys in the store.

In winter, you can fill the basin with clean snow. The baby will need to wear warm clothes and gloves so that he does not catch a cold. You can sculpt from snow using shovels and Easter cake molds. You can pour dyes on the snow and watch them spread, coloring the snowdrift.

In pet supply stores you can buy sawdust or small wood shavings, which will become an environmentally friendly base for a sensory box. In departments that sell flowers and fertilizers, you can buy hydrogel. This jelly-like mass will give your baby an incomparable sensation. It is pleasant to the touch and at the same time safe for health. With this filler you can create a swamp, river or beach, forming a variety of themed sensory boxes.

How are such activities useful for children? Kids play enthusiastically, without demanding attention. At the same time, they experience new sensations and discover a new world.

Time for joint creativity

When your baby gets older, he can also participate in creating a sensory box. He will be interested in recreating a small world from his favorite fairy tale. For example, before the New Year, you can make a box with a Christmas tree, tinsel, gifts and pine cones hidden in the depths of the box. For Easter, you can line the bottom with soft grass and put eggs in it, which were also painted with the children (for kids it is better to take kinder packaging or wooden egg blanks).

Cartoon lovers can recreate the plot by building the house of SpongeBob and his friends. Figures of the characters themselves can be bought in toy stores. Fans of the popular game about angry birds can make a clearing for fighting by constructing obstacles and barricades for pigs from blocks, and launch the birds. You can build a zoo, and your child can help make enclosures and decorate the area. A sensory box for children is the result of joint creativity, brings the family closer together and stimulates imagination. During production, various items are used: matches, twigs, cotton wool, egg cartons, plastic bottles and food containers, as well as everything that can be found in the house and brought from the street.

Sensory boxes for older adults

After 4-5 years, a child can already fantasize, he already knows a lot and shows interest in studying planets, dinosaurs and other objects, and also masters counting skills. Sensory boxes for different ages can stimulate a child’s interest in certain topics. You can recreate the prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaurs by building an ancient landscape on loose filler, planting trees, and laying a river bed. Dinosaurs can walk along the slope of a volcano, which can be easily made from available materials. It is enough to disguise a small container under a layer of plasticine or salt dough, pour diluted dye into it and add baking soda. Before the “eruption”, pour in a small amount of vinegar and enjoy the process.

Fillers for sensory boxes can be painted in different colors. To do this, soak in food coloring for 30 minutes selected After the specified time, drain the water and dry the filler on a newspaper. Multi-colored rice or sand will add variety and additional interest to the game.

You can use sand plasticine for the game, which is easy to make yourself or buy in a store. For production you need sifted clean sand. For a glass of sand you should take 1 tbsp. flour, ¼ tbsp. salt, ground in a coffee grinder, a spoonful of sunflower oil and citric acid. Pour ¾ cups of boiling water over this entire mass and knead thoroughly. This sand does not stick to your hands and is at the same time flexible and pleasant to the touch.

You can mix shaving foam with baking soda and you will get a mass of amazing texture. It’s difficult to say the exact recipe, but the mass should roll well into balls and not get your hands dirty. Even after drying, this mass is suitable for use, but only as a filler.

If you mix sand with starch in a ratio of 4:2 and add 1 part water, you will get a wonderful product that is ideal for Easter cakes and construction. It can be colored using dyes diluted in water.

The touch screen can be created for one game, or can be used multiple times. You can cover it with a lid and put it on the shelf until next time. Fillers and others interesting details for boxes can be stored in jars so that when creating a new masterpiece everything is at hand.

A sensory box for children is an opportunity to captivate a child and allow mommy to show imagination and love. You can create new versions of the game that you will never get tired of.