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By making toys at home, moms can both save a significant amount of money and create adorable toys for their 1-year-old to play with, allowing the child to explore freely.
These are not flawless masterpieces, but rather simple and easy-to-make toys for 1-year-olds that bring immense value and joy to the child. They are meaningful gifts and cute decorations crafted from creativity and simplicity.
DIY Playdough for 1-Year-Olds
Ingredients:
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/2 cup water
- Food coloring
How to make:
- Step 1: Mix the flour and salt together first.
- Step 2: Knead with water thoroughly until the dough is no longer sticky. Then add food coloring.
- Step 3: Roll out the dough thinly and use a mold to cut into desired shapes.
- Step 4: Bake the products at 100°C for about 30 minutes or let them dry in the sun.
- Completion.
DIY Spinner Toy for Kids
- Clothespin
- Shoebox
- Wooden peg
- Paper cutter
- Wrapping paper
- Glue gun
- Spray paint
- Table tennis ball
- Ruler
How to make:
Each clothespin corresponds to a player. First, determine the positions of the goal and goalkeeper on both ends of the shoebox and punch large holes on both ends as shown in the picture. Thread the round wooden sticks securely through the holes on both sides of the length of the box as shown in the picture and fix them in place with a glue gun. Clip the clothespins onto the wooden bar. The final step is to wrap and decorate the box, and then you're ready to play!
Glowing Shadow Puppets
[Creative Game] Shadow play/puppetry at home. I've tried this at home and my kids absolutely love it, no need for phones or computers anymore.
Equipment:
- Empty cereal box
- A4 paper
- Tape
- Black construction paper
- Small wooden sticks
How to make:
- First, pry open the top and bottom flaps of the cereal box and flatten them out.
- Next, cut out two large rectangles on each side of the cereal box. The rectangles should measure 19 x 28 cm.
- Make a hole on one side and tape a white A4 paper to create a screen.
- Reassemble the box, cutting off any excess flaps.
- Cut out shadow puppet shapes from black A4 paper and attach them to the wooden sticks.
- Finally, decorate and place a light behind for shadow projection.
Or you can easily make it by cutting from an old cardboard box to create a rectangular frame, the screen is a thin white paper for light to pass through. Behind, you can use a flashlight to project different shapes onto the screen. Mom tells stories to the child according to the puppet's movements. The child can also shadow play and tell stories. The game enhances storytelling skills and confidence for the child.
Note: Shapes can be made using ready-made toys or cut from cardboard.
DIY Drum
This petite drum is very easy to make, but it can be quite noisy when played by children.
Equipment:
- Glue gun
- Colored tape
- Assorted wooden beads
- Empty round box
- Wooden sticks
- Yarn
How to make:
- Drill one hole into the empty box and thread the stick through, securing it in the middle with glue from the gun.
- Drill two holes on the back of the box and thread beads onto the string to secure both sides.
- Use decorative tape to decorate both sides of the drum and the drumsticks.
Cute Elastic Balloons
These adorable balloons with various expressions can be toys for both kids and adults. Stretching, squeezing, or contorting them into funny faces will be very entertaining.
Equipment:
- Permanent marker
- Helium balloon
- Flour
- Water
How to make:
- Combine flour with filtered water to create a moldable, dough-like mixture
- Mold the dough into small round balls and insert them into the balloons
- Tie off the balloons
- Let the child decorate the balloons with various expressions
Ball Maze
Equipment:
- Wooden tray
- Wooden pegs
- Paint
- Pencil
- Glue gun
- Wooden stick
- Multi-colored marbles
How to make:
- Cut the wooden sticks into equal lengths.
- Secure them to the ends of the wooden tray as shown.
- Paint the wooden sticks before attaching them to the tray.
- Drop marbles in and start playing.
Fly-Catching Frog
- Colored cardboard (or discarded toilet paper rolls).
- Assorted yarn.
- Various colored papers.
- Paint or coloring pens.
- Needle, thread
How to make:
- Cut out the shapes of a fly, eyes, and frog limbs
- Roll toilet paper rolls or roll cardboard as shown, thread yarn inside, and secure one end as the frog's hindquarters with thread, finally sew as shown.
- Attach eyes, limbs, and fly to the frog
- Attach the fly to the other end of the yarn
Expressive Face Mask
Equipment:
- Sandpaper
- Assorted colored papers
- Scissors
- Bendable paper clips
How to make:
- Cut the sandpaper into facial features like eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks... as shown. These are all basic shapes so they're quite easy to cut. Parents can cut them for the child to observe and learn.
- Glue colored paper onto different parts of the face.
- Secure with paper clips.
These paper clips can easily rotate, so you can turn the eyes, eyebrows, nose... to create different expressions that will make children laugh.
Mini Construction Site
- Toy trucks
- Large plastic box
- Sand and pebbles
Making: Extremely simple, just pour all the sand into the box. Then sprinkle pebbles on top, add the toy trucks. That's it, you've got a very fun game for kids!
Here are some instructions on how to make toys for 1-year-olds. Wishing all mothers successful application. If you need to buy toys for your baby, don't forget to check out the smart toys for 1-year-olds, intellectual development at Mytour, there are many advantages waiting for you.
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