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Exchanging ideas - child education
n. 54
Toys and play
"At truth I tell you that if you don't do as the
children, you won't go to heaven" (Matthew 18,3).
At our change of ideas on the Toys and Play Project,
we talked to you at the last two number on the importance
of playing for the development of the child. We saw
that the child plays because she/he needs it and it
is not only for fun as most adults think. And we saw
that is also necessary to search and create the spaces
and moments of playing at the communities.
At this number, we want to explain well which is the
type of play that we are talking. It is the playing
that gives opportunity to the child to freely choose:
- how he/she wants to play: if it is to make believe,
to cross jump, in a circle with other children; if
he/she wants to hear a story or draw; or play of any
other thing that he/she invents;
- if he/she wants to play alone or with other children;
- If he/she wants to enter at the playing or if he/she
prefers to watch the playing of other children, if
she doesn't bother this playing.
We are valuing the playing at that who commands the
activity is the child. He/she plays because he/she wants
to play and not to satisfy a desire, order or a goal
of an adult. The role of the toy maker or adult that
is with the children it is to be watching to give the
necessary limits to the security of them and also to
participate, propose playing, but not imposing like,
with who and when the children will play.
So it is necessary to permit the free choose by the
child that is stimulated and defended at the Toys and
Play Project, because it is an activity that promotes
the child development.
And how is the playing at your community? Are the children
finding spaces to play? Have you already promoted some
type of playing at the Life Celebration Day? Are there
already toy makers?
To animate the playing we are going to give some suggestions:
TOYS AND PLAYING
Follow the path
Material: chalk, stick of wood, or a piece of brick.
How to Play: draw at the ground several types of paths:
straight lines, curves, making circles, forming squares,
circles. The toy maker invites the children to walk
on the drawing slowly, fast; with the hands on the head,
in the waist; at the tip toes, putting one foot in front
of the other and at other ways that you and the children
will invent.
String of toys for babies
Material: wood, hammer, and nails, string. Small and
colorful things that make noise and not are dangerous
like: small shells, cloth, and plastic tops;
How to do: make with the wood a trapezoid that stays
up and a little bit away from the baby (almost 60-cm
from the baby). Tie the things on the top part with
a string. The part to tie can be longer for several
babies to play.
How to play: put the top part in a cushion or soft
fabric and the babies with the belly up in a way so
that they can hi the toys with the hands and feet.
Ball
Material: newspaper, paper or plastic bags to put at
the sock, old sock, needle, line or string.
How to do: crush the paper or plastic making a ball
making a ball. Fill the point of the sock with this
ball. Hold the other part roll the ball once or twice
and tie up well the ball with a string or a thick line.
Turn the sock in a way that it covers the ball. Do it
several times until the sock is very well covering the
ball. Stitch it.
Maria Lúcia Thiessen and Márcia Mamede
Pastoral da Criança Technical Advisors
More information with Clóvis Boufleur, Annalice
Del Vechio de Lina, Lilian Cátia de Jesus
telephone: (+55041) 336-0250 or
E-mail: clovis@pastoraldacrianca.org.br,
annalice@pastoraldacrianca.org.br
e lilian@pastoraldacrianca.org.br
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