Baby soon to school, and he has not yet learned to tie shoelaces? No problem! There are many ways to help your child learn this skill.
When to start? Psychologists believe that the right age to teach a child to tie his shoes - 4-6 years. By this time the baby is, as a rule, know what kind of shoes to wear some leg and can put on one's shoes on their own.
But to develop the fine motor skills necessary to begin much earlier. Its development will not only learn the easy self-service skills, but also stimulates the part of the brain responsible for speech. Accordingly, if the baby deft fingers, he and his words will not climb.
Games with laces to improve fine motor skills
1. Exercise "Circle". Child wraps the rope, making of it a neat circle. Thus it is possible to impose amusing poems: "Lace is spinning, a game in a circle of string curls. The result was a beauty - all the rope is curled. " Exercise should be done by different fingers. And if you leave a small tip, you get a little snail. The more snails - the merrier!
2. "Repeat pattern."Parents perform simple shapes with lace. The kid is trying to put his string exactly the same figure.
3. Beads.One lanyard child is doing a lot of knots. They turn an ordinary string into beautiful beads. This exercise helps the baby to regulate the assembly force. If the child gets bored, you can join and knit race nodes.
4. Add a picture.Of shoelaces can be made various additions to images. For example: to wring clubs and make the car wheels. Or a ball for a kitten, a snail on a leaf, and more. Use imagination together with the crumbs.
Getting to learn. Sit next to your baby and show how to tie the laces on his example. Here are a few tips on how to make the learning process easier and faster.
1. praise your childEven if not everything and bow left curve.
2. At the time of study sit down on the side of the baby. If you sit in front of the crumb will be confused, doing all the mirror.
3. Lefties should be shownHow to tie shoelaces, making the main left hand.
4. Show more options shnurovok, that the child chose which seems to him the easiest.
5. Start training when both you and the baby are in good Mood and do not rush. Do not insist if he got bored this occupation.
6. Ideally, the shoes should be on the leg of the child. Then he will be able to do this action "by itself" and quickly learned to put on one's shoes without your help.
7. Showing, in detail and comment every action.
Be patient, because what us adults, it seems simple and natural for the crumbs - a science. You will succeed!
And be sure to take a look, as the five-year kid taught thousands of children to tie shoelaces.
