The health of children should always come first. And everyone knows that nothing strengthens it more than physical education. Therefore, love for it must be instilled from a very young age. In order to somehow get children to move more and, most importantly, usefully, they need to be interested. Non-traditional physical education equipment will just help them look at sports from a different perspective and turn exercise into a fun game. This will significantly diversify a child’s life. In addition, you can make non-traditional physical education equipment with your own hands.
What it is
Various exercises are very important for children to help develop fine motor skills. This, above all, has a positive effect on their psyche and reduces the incidence of illness. Non-traditional do-it-yourself physical education equipment, a photo of which you can see in our article, puts the emphasis on such exercises.
The big plus is that with the help of such equipment you can play games of various types:
- training;
- entertaining;
- adversarial.
In principle, if you use your imagination, you can even prepare a special performance with interactive inserts (for example, how to defeat Koshchei using physical education classes).
How to make non-traditional physical education equipment with your own hands in kindergarten and at home
This equipment is very easy to make. Do-it-yourself non-traditional physical education equipment is made from available materials: bottles, caps, ropes, Kinder surprise packaging and other things that can be found in every home.
It doesn't take much time to make. You can also involve children to help. They will be very interested. When creating products, you should try to use your imagination and come up with something of your own. There are no restrictions here. But, of course, you can take advantage of already known developments in this area.
Bilbock
Everyone knows the game where a ball tied to a stick needs to be thrown into a special bowl. This is bilboke. Making such non-traditional physical education equipment with your own hands from available materials is as easy as shelling pears. For this you will need:
- plastic bottle with cap;
- wool thread;
- packaging from Kinder Surprise;
- decorations.
First you need to cut off the bottom of the plastic container. It is advisable to do this so that there are no pointed ends left. Using an awl, a hole is made in the yellow Kinder egg through which the thread is threaded. To prevent it from jumping out, a knot is tied at its end. The second end of the rope is threaded through the neck and screwed together with the lid. In order to make the bilboke more colorful and attractive, it should be covered with bright tape. You can use printed pictures, glitter and beads.
Games with bilboke help develop reaction and coordination of movements.
Creating a ball for the game
For the craft you will need:
- Balloon;
- White threads;
- Paints;
- Stationery glue or PVA glue;
Completing of the work:
- First, the balloon should be inflated.
- Then it is carefully wrapped with thread and coated with glue.
- After waiting for the glue to dry, the ball is pierced and deflated, and the thread frame retains its shape.
- The ball is carefully painted with paints, depending on which sport the ball will belong to.
The ball is originally white because white threads were used. You can paint individual elements with black paint to create a soccer ball.
By painting it orange, children will make the ball look like a basketball, yellow and blue - like a volleyball, etc. This proposal can hardly be addressed to preschool children; it is more suitable for children of early school age.
Pouch
It would seem, how to use it? But it can be found in many applications. For example, bags can be placed on the head so that children maintain their posture at all times. Since problems with spinal curvature are becoming more common, such exercises will be very useful. You can sew a bag from ordinary thick fabric. The filler will be salt or sand.
Origami
Origami is a type of craft made from folded paper. This type of activity appeals to children of all ages, as well as adults. On such an interesting topic as sports, there are a lot of ideas, instructions, video lessons for such an interesting craft technique. For such art you need to stock up on patience, concentration, paper and of course time. This activity takes a lot of effort and time, but the result is worth it.
Origami with a sports theme is one of the new popular types of crafts. Here both children and adults can show their skills and talent. The most popular ideas on the topic of sports are origami balls (soccer, basketball, volleyball), figure skating skates, boxing gloves.
Magic bottle
A very simple product. To create it you will need a transparent plastic bottle, a cocktail straw, confetti or foil.
You need to make a hole in the lid. A tube will be inserted there. Small confetti, cut foil or large glitter are placed in the bottle itself.
The child should inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth into a tube. This way he masters the correct breathing technique and watches the cheerful “fireworks” inside the bottle.
Simple crafts from plasticine
Plasticine is a favorite material for both small and older children to work with. Children's hands can easily handle soft, flexible plasticine. The simplest idea for a sports-themed craft is a soccer ball. To create it, you don’t need any special skills or abilities; you just need to roll a ball.
You can use several colors of plasticine to create a soccer ball with inserts. It will be more difficult to sculpt the figures of athletes and their attributes. For example, you can create participants of the Olympic Games in Sochi on skis, a boxer with gloves in the ring, a gymnast with a hoop in her hand...
Air football
A very interesting and simple game. You don’t need a lot of materials to create such non-traditional physical education equipment with your own hands. All you need is a large box lid (or just cardboard), a plastic cup, colored paper, glue, straws and a small ball.
It is also easy to do. The lid of the box (if it doesn’t exist, you can simply make the sides out of cardboard) is covered with green paper on the inside. This will create something like a field. The gate can be made from halves of a plastic cup. They score goals on such a field using straws. You need to use a stream of air to drive the ball into the makeshift gate.
Applications
Perhaps this is also one of the simple and quite easy ideas for crafts. Using your imagination, you can create a variety of applications on the theme of sports. To create an applique, you can use: colored paper, paper napkins, foil... This type of crafts is quite popular in kindergartens and first grades, because even a preschooler can make them. One of the simple, uncomplicated options is to create an applique for the sport of swimming.
For this you will need:
- set of colored paper;
- scissors;
- glue;
- white cardboard;
- colored pencils or markers.
Cardboard will be the base - all the parts are glued to it. First you need to take blue paper, tear or cut it into long uneven strips (this will be the water in the pool). Then cut out the swimmers: a white circle (face), white stripes (arms), small rectangles of any color (athletes’ torsos). Cover a little more than half of the cardboard with blue stripes, leaving space at the top for drawing by spectators and judges. On top of the blue stripes, carefully glue the assembled swimmers. On a blank piece of cardboard you can draw fans, a referee... Such a simple composition will use several performance techniques in the child at once. Quite a simple and interesting idea for children's hands.
Beast racing
Using regular tape, a beautiful stick and a soft toy, you can make an exciting game that will help develop fine motor skills in your child’s hands. A soft toy is tied at one end, and the other end is tied to a handle. It is important that the ribbons are all the same size. The task is simple: you need to twist the handle, winding the rope around it. This way the toy animal will slowly move towards the baby. You can organize whole competitions.
Robin Hood
With the help of non-traditional physical education equipment, you can organize an entire throwing tournament with your own hands. You don't need a bow and arrow to become a real Robin Hood. Just a tray of eggs, paints and Kinder packaging is enough. We decorate the tray so that it looks like the target. That is, in the center there should be a small square painted red. This will be an apple. Next is a slightly larger yellow circle, and then a green one. Instead of throwing arrows, you will need to throw Kinder packaging. This interesting game helps develop coordination, accuracy and dexterity.
