Activities for Early Childhood Education at the Toy Library

Toy library is a special place within the Children's Education school. A space that must be built and rebuilt at all times with the help and intervention of the little ones. Ideally, a toy library is full of interactive, playful and fun information, ideally it should be something very colorful, with cuts, games, numbers, letters, etc. The toy library is a place full of spatial arrangements, where playing becomes significant, and therefore directly affects the child's development.

In today's post, we have separated some activities for early childhood education in the toy library for you to practice and exercise your students' knowledge. We hope you enjoy:

Pedagogical Activities in the Toy Library

Objectives of activities in general:

• Make the best use of the school space;
• Check the various pedagogical possibilities in the toy library;
• Work with different age groups and skills in a single space.
• Age range: diverse.

1 – To see the band pass
Objective:
* Develop attention through musical rhythm.
Age range: 3 to 5 years.

• Introduce musical instruments and let the little ones recognize the object.
• Show how sounds can come out of instruments.
• Choose short songs with strong rhythms and ask them to keep pace with you.
• Examples of songs: Lollipop that Bate, Bate; I threw the stick in the cat, lost my ring in the sea

2 – How do you do it?
Goals:
* Explore different movements with the body based on the functioning of means of transport.
Age range: 1 year and a half to 2 years.

• Hide some toys in a box or bag.
• Suggested toys: cart, plane, motorcycle, bicycle.
• With the class in a circle, choose the child who will respond to the challenge.
• After a thriller, present a toy that represents a known mode of transport for the child.
• Ask her: how does the car do? How does the train do?

3 – Puzzle with works of art
Goals:
* Assemble and identify works of art.
Age range: 4 to 5 years.

• Present artwork that is easy for children to understand.
• Organize puzzles with artwork known to little ones.
• Keep track of the organization of the pieces in small groups.
• After they assemble the puzzles, students will lecture with their picture.

4 – Crazy House
Goals:
* Appreciate coexistence and experience exchanges of social roles.
Age range: 4 to 5 years.

• Let the children freely explore the objects of the “Daily Living Corner” (dolls, pots, cars, clothes…).
• Challenge the little ones to create little scenes: who will be the daddy? Mom is doing what? What's for food today?
• Then switch roles. Today dad will be at home taking care of the baby. What can he do? Mom is driving. Where does she go?

5 – Let's go for a walk?
Goals:
* Work spatial orientation.
Age range: 2 to 3 years old.

• With the class in a circle, place a chair in the middle of the wheel.
• Ask the children to pick up dolls and teddy bears from the shelf.
• Create a sequence of moves that challenge the child to comply. Example: once upon a time there was a boy who ran through the pasture and climbed the mountain. Suddenly, a bear appeared and the boy led down the mountain and hid in the cave.
• Challenges should lead to the exploration of concepts: above, below, inside, outside, on one side, behind, among others.

6 – Tell me a story?
Goals:
* Provide moments of reading images and listening to colleagues.
Age range: 4 to 5 years.

• Starting from the reading corner, present scenes from the same story that are not in sequence. (Seek to work with stories already known to students).
• Present the challenge: tell the story to colleagues.
• As the little ones tell the story, they will organize the sequence on the floor or on the story line

7 – Mirror, My Mirror
Goals:
*Identify parts of the body, using the mirror as a reference.
Age range: 1 to 2 years.

• Take the little ones to the corner of the mirror.
• With children facing the mirror, sing songs that talk about body parts. Example: “Head, shoulder, knee and foot.”; “the snake has no foot”, among others.
• Then ask: where is the head? Where's the foot? Where's the belly?
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Source: Children's Education Magazine