There are 1,000 ways to play with magnets, it’s so fun that you'll scream.
For babies, playing is a very important thing, so how to play? How can parents play with their babies?
Toys are of course indispensable. Today I will share with you the various ways to play with open toys: magnetic sheets.
Magnetic pieces have more shapes than Lego, such as squares, rectangles, triangles, trapezoids, etc., and the operation is simpler. There is no need to insert them. They can be attracted together by just leaning on them. Babies over one year old can start playing with them.
Baby playing with magnetic tablets can exercise the fine movements of the hands, cultivate and improve the baby's cognitive ability, spatial imagination and creativity, and can be played for a long time.
Although this issue of Fat Totoro only lists the top ten types of gameplay, there are countless ways to play from each type of gameplay, so there are actually far more than a thousand ways to play.
Play type 1: Cognition of basic shapes/colors/numbers, 1 year old+
This is the most basic way to play with magnetic tablets. Babies over 1 year old have just begun to recognize shapes/colors/numbers, so magnetic tablets are a very good tool.
For example, to recognize shapes, you can tell the baby while playing: This is a square, this is a triangle, and let the baby feel the different corners with his hands. This is more lively and interesting than using picture books to teach.
You can also trace different shapes on white paper or a drawing board, and then let your baby put the corresponding shapes in.
You can also put together different shapes, such as two triangles to make a square or rectangle, four squares to make a larger square, etc.
Another example is color recognition. The colors of color magnetic sheets are very rich. You can recognize a single color, classify colors, or recognize the colors of other objects together.
As well as recognizing numbers, you can put different numbers of magnetic pieces of the same shape together to teach your baby to recognize numbers.
There are also sizes, how many cognitions, etc.
Type 2 : Magnetic sheet building, 2 years old +
This kind of building is slightly more difficult than basic shapes, and you can build different shapes, such as a heart, a flower, a tree, a butterfly, various numbers, letters, etc.
You can build it directly on the place, of course, you can also play on the refrigerator or magnetic whiteboard wall.
Parents can build a shape next to them, and then let the baby follow suit.
Game type 3: three-dimensional building
If the baby's parents set it up and then let the baby push it down, the baby will be very enthusiastic and push it down.
For babies that are slightly older, such as those over 2 years old, you can teach them to build simpler three-dimensional shapes, such as a box, a three-dimensional triangle, etc.
For older babies, you can teach them to build various buildings, animals, etc., which can cultivate the baby's spatial thinking and imagination. In fact, it is not necessary to build them exactly according to the drawings. You can let the baby use his imagination to build various shape.
Game type 4: 2D to 3D
First set up the shape on a flat surface, and then lift it online to turn it into a three-dimensional shape. For example, the cube, triangular prism, football, etc. in the picture below.
Play type 5: Colorful shadow, 1 year old+
This method of playing uses the light transmittance of the magnetic sheet. The light source can be natural sunlight or the light of a flashlight.
Game Type 6: Dominoes, 1.5 years old+
Use magnetic pieces to make dominoes and let your baby enjoy the thrill of knocking them over.
Play type 7: Magnetic track, 1 year old +
Parents use magnetic sheets to build a track, then let the baby put the ball in and watch the whole process of the ball rolling down the track.
Game type 8: Magnetic film maze, 1.5 years old+
Use magnetic pieces to build a maze and let your baby walk through the maze holding a car or a little person.
Game type 9: Jigsaw puzzle, 1 year old+
You can draw graphics or put stickers on the magnetic sheet, and then let your baby do jigsaw puzzles
Type 10 of gameplay: combination of magnetic films and paintings, 2 years old +
For example, use magnetic pieces as the wings of a bat, and then draw the bat's body on the blackboard, or use magnetic pieces as the eyes of a small frog, and then draw other parts of the frog. Of course, parents can also draw it and let the baby choose the magnetic pieces for decoration.