Is it raining outside? We have a solution!

If your child is also bored while it’s raining outside and you have no idea how to distract him – we have the solution! Encourage him to create, play board games, read quiet books and more and more.

1. Creating

Play with plasticine involves kneading, shaping, touching and creating, which has an important impact on the development of finger coordination. The more you encourage your child to play with plasticine and, as a result, develop fine motor skills and finger coordination, the more opportunities you give him to work with his fingers and hands. Kneading and shaping plasticine plays an important role in developing the muscle groups in the hands and has an important effect on reducing stress. When children play with plasticine, they are also significantly strengthening their cognitive processes – learning about the material, touching it, shaping it and letting their imagination run free.

Playing with sand, both regular and kinetic sand, is crucial for a child’s fine motor development. Children play to strengthen their arm muscles, strengthen their finomotor skills, eye-hand coordination, develop and strengthen their creativity and imagination, acquire sensory skills, learn creative and holistic problem solving, and develop their communication and language skills.

Sewing is a creative activity that brings a lot of good to a child. Children learn to be patient, sharpen their fine motor skills and enhance their creativity. Even a young child of 4 or 5 years old can be introduced to the basics of hand sewing. It is important to express interest in this activity, as this is the key to success. It probably won’t be perfect at first, the stitches won’t be the same length and even distance from the edge of the fabric, and maybe he’ll give up halfway through because it won’t go as fast as he imagined. No big deal, don’t force him, maybe he’ll try again the next day or in a few months. But he will certainly be excited and proud of what he can do with each new product he manages to sew.

2. Social games for the whole family

Social games have a positive effect on children’s social development, as during play children are confronted with opportunities to take the point of view of a peer, which develops good empathy and favourable pro-social behaviour. In this way, the child learns the skills of patience, expressing emotions when winning or losing, accepting and following the rules of board games, and more and more.

Social games help develop different skills:

-the ability to plan quickly,

-the ability to choose a strategy well

– and have an incredible impact on good memory training.

Social games help people to solve problems, process information and cope with difficult situations more effectively, and improve their learning ability and IQ.

The main benefits of playing board games

• They are anti-stress and relaxing, releasing endorphins in the body and making us feel more positive.
• They reduce the risk of mental illness by strengthening cognitive processes and inhibiting the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and the tendency to dementia.
• They lower blood pressure and boost the immune system’s resistance by releasing endorphins.
• They encourage the development of a high degree of patience, deliberation and decision-making.
• They have a positive impact on children’s brain development, communication skills and logical thinking.
• They attract children’s attention and keep them away from entertainment electronics sources, at least for a while.

3. Reading and getting to know the Silent Book

Silent books are the ideal tool for learning and playing, a great substitute for all harmful electronic devices. Their content encourages children to play independently, full of fun and new discoveries. It’s also a great tool for preschoolers, as they can tell stories about the characters they find in them and develop a story independently. They are a great toy that enhances children’s creativity and imagination and takes them into a world of magic and the unknown.

The Piqipi interactive didactic silent book is the result of meticulous handiwork.

It contains objects of different shapes, made of different materials, which help to identify shapes and have a positive influence on the development of type, thinking, imagination and fine motor skills, the promotion of which is essential for the child’s positive development, especially in the pre-school period. It is made entirely of fabric and offers a new didactic activity on each page to stimulate development and strengthen the child’s fine motor skills and stimulate even better brain development. It is a learning tool, while at the same time it calms and encourages the child to learn different skills in a fun way. It is unique, handmade and thoughtfully created. Creativity is very important for children, so don’t hesitate to choose the right one for your child. Available in a variety of themes, which can be found at Unikashop.si!