Today I want to offer you to make toys from improvised means. To make them, you will need: elastic balloons of various sizes, preferably made of dense latex, thin markers, a funnel, flour, pencil and various types of decorations.
Such fun can be made from starch and then your craft, in addition to its pretty appearance, will also “crunch”. You can experiment and replace flour and starch with beans or rice. The weight of this toy varies from 70 grams and above. It all depends on the size of the ball itself.
These crafts have many names, such as “Kinder Smiles”, “Koloboks”, “Fun from childhood”, “Kapitoshki”, “Hypocrites”, “Masseurs”, “Woman with emotions” and the like. Its meaning lies in the latex ball, which is densely packed with flour or starch and at the same time it can easily change its shape.
So, let's get to work:
1. Using a marker on the balls we draw emotional faces.
Frankly, this is not entirely practical, since the pattern is quickly erased, so it would be more rational to buy balloons with the image of funny faces.
2. Pour a little flour into the funnel and ram it with a regular pencil.
Thus, we do it until the very end, until the ball is completely filled with flour. It must be filled tightly enough so that there is absolutely no empty space left. Instead of a funnel, you can use paper folded into a cone shape or a funnel made from the neck of a bottle, and a pencil can be replaced with a thin brush.
3. Remove the filled ball from the funnel and tie the tail to a strong knot. If desired, the gum can be cut with scissors.
4. From a thin and long ball, in the same way, I made a snake.
Here's what I got: These balls perfectly take on the various shapes that you give them.
5. Now we proceed to decorate the capitals. There are a lot of options for their jewelry, for example, using glue, you can glue running eyes, a scarf, a bridal veil, bows to the ball or make hair from threads and New Year's rain and tie them to a toy knot. The main thing in this business is your imagination.
Make this toy with your baby, believe me, the child will do it with great pleasure and excitement.
This fun for adults can serve as a toy to relieve stress (as it is pleasantly wrinkled by hands and has a calming effect), and in children, the ball, in addition to provoking positive emotions, perfectly develops fine motor skills of the pens. However, in addition to the positive aspects, this toy has one big minus. If suddenly a child accidentally bites or tears it, then the whole inside can crumble or the baby can get into her mouth and lungs. After this, your child can cough for a long time and intermittently. Therefore, to protect yourself from such problems, control the child’s games or make such toys from the most dense latex.
