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In a kindergarten or school, an exhibition of crafts on the theme of winter was announced? Or do you just want to keep your little one busy with creativity on these cold days? In one article, we have collected for you 6 ideas for winter crafts from natural and improvised materials with step-by-step master classes, a selection of 60 photos and videos.

Idea 1. Tabletop diorama with a winter scene

The desktop diorama will allow you and your baby to show all their talents - from modeling to designing. Moreover, using a variety of materials and objects: branches, cones, toys (for example, from Kinder Surprise eggs), plasticine, salt dough, cardboard, cotton wool and much more.

The first step is to come up with the plot of your diorama and plan the composition. You can recreate any of your fantasies or be inspired by our selection of topics with photos and little tips for making crafts.

Topic 1. "Winter in the forest"

The craft is made of polystyrene and plasticine. The bear can also be molded from polymer clay or salt dough.

If in a kindergarten or school you were given the task of making winter crafts from natural materials, then you can use cones. They make excellent Christmas trees, owls, deer, squirrels and hedgehogs for the winter forest. By the way, we just have a few master classes for their manufacture.

Want to make a simple craft more effective? Just light it up with an LED garland! To embed light bulbs in cardboard, you need to make cross-shaped cuts in it.

This winter forest is completely made of felt. Animal figurines can be put on fingers

Topic 2. "Winter House"

A favorite topic at winter craft exhibitions. The house can be surrounded by a forest or a courtyard with paths, a gate, mountain ash, a skating rink and a snowman. And the hut itself can be beautiful not only outside, but also inside.

This video tutorial shows a simple and quick way to make winter crafts from natural materials, namely from twigs and cones.

Topic 3. "Christmas in the village / town"

If you build a couple of houses and connect them with beautiful streets, you will get a whole village or town.

The easiest way to make houses is from paper, more precisely from printed templates that you only need to cut, color and glue. The following video provides a step-by-step master class for making such crafts.

Topic 4. "North Pole and its inhabitants"

Want to make something more original? We offer to make a diorama on the theme of the North Pole.

To make such a craft, download and print the templates (click on the picture to download), transfer them to cardboard, then cut, connect and paint the details

Topic 5. "Winter fun"

Crafts on the theme of winter fun illustrates all the joys of winter. For example, sledding, building snowmen or playing snowballs. To recreate winter scenes, Lego men (pictured below), Kinder Surprise egg figures and any small toys are well suited. You can also make little men with your own hands from plasticine or polymer clay.

Topic 6. Winter sports

Another very original craft idea is a diorama on the theme of skiing, figure skating, hockey, bobsleigh, snowboarding. By the way, the Sochi Olympics can serve as inspiration and a model for modeling.

To make such figures of skiers, download, print, color and cut out the templates (click on the picture to download the templates), then glue a toothpick to the hands of the little men, and a popsicle stick to the legs.

Topic 7. Scenes from fairy tales

Choose your favorite fairy tale and recreate one of its episodes. For example, it can be a fairy tale "12 months", "The Snow Queen", "Frost", "The Nutcracker", "At the command of the pike".

Everything in this craft on the theme of the fairy tale "By the Pike's Command" is molded from plasticine and only the windmill is assembled from matches

To make such a craft, you need to cut several holes in a piece of plywood and insert tree branches into them.

This composition is dedicated to the theme of the ballet "The Nutcracker". The figures in it are made of ... clothespins. Unfortunately, clothespins with a round top are not sold in Russia, but you can order them on the Aliexpress website or use regular ones.

From this video you will learn how to make a winter craft with your own hands based on the fairy tale "By the command of the pike".

Idea 2. Skating rink with a controlled figure

The originality of this winter craft is that the skater can be smoothly “rolled on the ice” by moving the magnet along the back of the box.

What you need:

• A shallow tin for cookies, tea, etc.
• Paper;
• Paints and brushes, pencils or felt-tip pens;
• Paperclip or coin;
• Glue;
• Magnet.

How to do it:

Step 1. Decorate the tin box so that it resembles a skating rink: paint the bottom with white and blue paint and cover with clear varnish (glitter nail polish works well), you can put garlands and flags on top of the box, and snow-covered trees on the sides.

Step 2. Draw a figure of a girl or a boy skating on thick paper or cardboard, then cut it out and glue it to a coin or paperclip.

Step 3 Attach a magnet to the back of the box. Voila, the rink is ready!

Idea 3. A picture painted with prints

Drawing pictures with fingerprints, palms and even feet is a lot of fun, especially for preschoolers. All you need is fantasy, gouache and a sheet of paper! In the next selection of photos you can see examples of such drawings.

Idea 4. Paper mini tree

Another winter craft idea for the little ones is paper Christmas trees. They are made very easily and quickly, and you can use them as you like: as a decoration for the same diorama, appliqué for a New Year's card or panel, to decorate a garland or a Christmas tree.

What you need:

• A sheet of green paper and some brown paper for the trunk;
• Glue stick;
• Scissors;
• Sequins, rhinestones, beads and other decorations for the Christmas tree.

Step 1. From a sheet of green paper, make a square by folding one corner of the sheet, as shown in the photo, and cutting out the excess.

Step 2. Cut one of the short sides of the triangle into equal narrow strips, not reaching the fold of about 1 cm (see photo above).

Step 3. Now straighten your workpiece and begin to alternately glue the ends of the strips to the center fold line, moving from bottom to top.

Step 4. When you fix all the stripes, bend and glue the bottom corner of the Christmas tree up. Further in the same place, but on the reverse side, glue a small rectangle (tree trunk) cut out of brown paper.

Step 5. Decorate the Christmas tree with colorful beads, sequins, buttons and other decorations. If you wish, you can make several of these Christmas trees, glue loops to them, so that you can then assemble a garland or decorate a real Christmas tree with crafts.

Idea 5. Snow globe ... or rather a bank

Now we offer to make a real souvenir with your own hands - a variation of a snow globe. True, it will be made from an ordinary glass jar. A child will be able to present a craft to a loved one, present it at a winter crafts competition, or simply leave it on a shelf for beauty.

What you need:

• Glass jar with a lid;
• A piece of foam;
• Glue (hot or "Moment");
• Acrylic paint to decorate the lid (optional)
• Artificial snow or just sea salt, sugar, grated white soap or polyethylene foam;
• Figurines that will be placed in a jar;
• Styrofoam balls or any white beads;
• Fishing line;
• Needle.

How to do it:

Step 1. Repaint the cover in the desired color and leave to dry. In this project, spray paint was used to remake the lid.

Step 2. While the paint dries, we will make a “snowfall”. To do this, you need to string several foam balls onto a fishing line threaded into a needle. To attach the "snowflakes" to the jar, use adhesive tape.

Step 3. Circle the bottom of the jar directly on the foam, then use a knife to cut out the resulting circle from it. This circle will become the base for the figurines.

Step 4. Glue your figures to the foam circle, then glue the resulting composition to the bottom of the jar.

Step 5. Fill the jar with artificial or homemade snow, close it with a lid with snowflakes and enjoy the view of a winter fairy tale.

Idea 6. New Year's card

New Year's cards are never enough, so we suggest making a few with your child.

What you need:

• Sheet of white paper;
• A sheet of colored paper;
• Scissors;
• Glue stick;
• Markers.

How to do it:

Step 1. Fold a sheet of white accordion paper three times so that each top layer of the accordion is smaller in width than the previous one.

Step 2. Straighten your harmonica, cut the sheet diagonally and slightly in waves as shown in the photo above, then reassemble the harmonica. You have a slope of a snow-capped mountain.

Step 3. Now take a sheet of colored paper, glue the blank on it and cut off the excess. Hooray! The postcard is almost ready.

Step 4. Decorate the mountain with Christmas trees, draw snowmen and skiers, and finally sign the card.

By the same principle, but using larger paper, you can make a winter craft for kindergarten.

DIY crafts are the best way to develop a child's creativity, imagination and fantasy. Therefore, if you have free time and want to spend it with your child, get creative. Probably, every child has a favorite fairy-tale hero and for him this will be the best hand-made craft.

Crafts from plasticine on the theme "Fairy-tale heroes"

Plasticine is the most convenient and lightest material to work with. Therefore, making a craft of your favorite fairy-tale hero out of it will not be difficult. We offer you to make the hero of many fairy tales - the Serpent Gorynych:

Crafts on the theme "Heroes of fairy tales" - do-it-yourself gingerbread man

For work we need:

• Balloon;
• stationery glue;
• PVA glue;
• threads;
• colored paper;
• scissors.

Progress:

Crafts on the theme "Cartoon Heroes" - corrugated cardboard cheburashka

To create a cheburashka, we need yellow and brown corrugated cardboard, hot glue and PVA glue.

Both the body and the head consist of two parts - front and back. We twist the two front parts first from yellow cardboard and on top of several rows of brown. The two backs are completely made of brown cardboard. Details need to be squeezed out a little and glued on the back with hot glue.

Glue two parts of the head and two parts of the body together, gluing a strip of paper in the middle.

We twist the legs from brown cardboard, shaped as in the photo. In the same way we make handles. Each part must be squeezed out and glued.

We twist the ears in the same way as the head and torso. Squeeze a little and glue on the convex side.

“From him we have always expected cheerful sorcery. If with him, then it’s so enticing - you won’t tear yourself away. ”
Lydia Chukovskaya (about her father Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich)

If you didn’t go anywhere in the summer and stayed in Moscow, then it’s time to go with your children on a wonderful excursion to the Chukovsky house-museum, reread your favorite fairy tales written by Korney Ivanovich with your child, or read new ones that your child doesn’t know yet.

The name of Korney Ivanovich is known not only in Russia, but far beyond its borders. Many of his books have been translated into various languages ​​of the world. There is a very interesting fact in the biography of the writer: in 1962, the Oxford University awarded the writer an academic degree, the title of Doctor of Literature. Another no less interesting fact: the real name and surname of the writer is Korneichukov Nikolai Vasilyevich. Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich is a writer's pseudonym. And it is by this name that all children know him.

Excursion to the House-Museum of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

The Museum of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky is located not far from Moscow, in the town of writers, in Peredelkino near Moscow. You can get there by public transport or by car. In a picturesque town, surrounded by pines and birches, there is a house-museum of the beloved children's writer.

Before entering the museum, take a look at the brickwork-fence with the children, which is located opposite the museum gate, across the road. There are plot pictures based on the fairy tales of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. True, everything shows that they were drawn a long time ago and, apparently, also have not been updated for a long time: the paint is cracked, faded and peeled off in some places. But it is quite possible to consider episodes from fairy tales. This is some preparation for the tour. Because, even without entering the museum, already here, at the gate, you can plunge into the work of the writer and play the game with the children: “Guess what the artist painted?”. Children vying with each other will begin to tell you by heart verses from the works of Korney Ivanovich. Ask what word Aibolit repeated when he hurried to Africa. Who put out the sea in the fairy tale "Confusion"? What is the favorite delicacy of crocodiles from the fairy tale "Telephone"? What did the Fly-Tsokotuha treat the butterfly to? Wonderful! Everyone is ready for the tour!

Let's go! Immediately, there is a large tree in the yard, on which "shoes, sandals and boots" have already grown. Do not forget to tell the children before the tour that Korney Ivanovich has a wonderful, funny, very positive poem "Wonder Tree". You can read the lines from the poem at the improvised miracle tree, which is located in the courtyard of the museum house:

Like ours at the gate
The miracle tree is growing.
Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle
Wonderful!
Not leaves on it
Not flowers on it
And stockings and shoes,
Like apples!

A miracle tree is a “magic tree” on which, instead of fruits, sandals and shoes, boots and boots grow, which can be seen right near the writer’s house!

The poem was written by Chukovsky in 1926 for his daughter Murochka.

And if you are lucky, and Uncle Volodya will conduct your tour, then the children will certainly remember it for many years. The tour guide is just amazing!

Before the tour, you read fairy tales, got acquainted with the new works of Chukovsky, but what to do after the tour?
Of course, enjoy the memories, make interesting crafts, memorize excerpts from your favorite works and, of course, follow them based on the works of a children's writer.

Crafts based on the works of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

Craft "Wonder Tree"

An original craft is obtained from an ordinary paper bag.

What do you need?

• Paper bag,
• scissors,
• thread,
• paper,
• pencils.

How to do?

Cut the paper bag from the top into strips to the middle. Then you need to twist it in such a way as if you are squeezing out the laundry.

Branches are obtained from straightened and twisted strips. The tree is ready! It is very stable.

Now you need to print pictures of shoes on a printer or draw boots, boots, sandals, shoes yourself. Color and hang on a thread on the branches. The miracle tree is ready! It can serve as a decoration for a child's room!

The second version of the "Wonder Tree" - from paper cylinders

What do you need?

• One paper cylinder (you can make it yourself from thick paper or take it ready from toilet paper),
• colored paper,
• shoes drawn or printed on a printer,
• scissors,
• glue.

How to do?

From colored paper, make a crown of a tree and glue shoes to it (or better to draw and color). Glue the crown to the cylinder. The miracle tree is ready in 5-10 minutes!

Everything is very simple, fast and beautiful! After a beautiful craft is made, you can play!

Play the game Fairytale Names. Who is it?". Prepare pictures depicting Aibolit, Fyodor, shark, Barmaley and other characters from the works of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky.

You ask the question: “Who is Aibolit?” The child is looking for a card with the image of Aibolit, points to it and says: "Doctor."

"Barmaley?" - "Robber".
"Fedora?" - "Grandmother".
"Tsokotukha?" - "Fly".

Craft-toy "Crocodile, Crocodile, Krokodilovich"

In what fairy tales of Chukovsky is the crocodile the hero? "Crocodile", "Cockroach", "Stolen Sun", "Confusion", "Barmaley", "Moydodyr", "Telephone".

They say that before becoming a children's writer, Chukovsky did a lot of translations, wrote articles, and was a literary critic. One day his little son fell ill. At this time they were traveling by train. The boy was naughty and crying. Then Korney Ivanovich began to tell him a fairy tale. "Once upon a time there was a crocodile, he walked the streets." The boy calmed down, and the next day he asked his father to tell him the same tale again ....

This is how the fairy tale "Crocodile" appeared, with its main character - Krokodilovich!

There lived a Crocodile.
He walked the streets
Turkish spoke -
Crocodile, Crocodile, Crocodile!

Let's make Krokodilovich, who was defeated by Vanya Vasilchikov?

What do you need?

• A picture or drawing depicting a crocodile,
• scissors,
• glue,
• 2 wooden skewers or juice tubes

How to do?

Draw or print a picture of a crocodile. Color with your child in bright colors.

Let your Krokodilovich be cheerful, kind and perky! Cut it out along the outline. Cut the picture into 2 parts. Next, a colored sheet of paper needs to be bent with an accordion and two wooden sticks (skewers or tubes for juice) glued onto it. It turned out to be an accordion.

For an accordion, you need to take thick paper so that it retains its shape well and stretches easily. Now you need to glue the accordion to the halves of the crocodile picture. What a fun toy!

Now I want to run and have fun!

Play the outdoor game Crocodile and Turtles. A crocodile is selected - the driver. The rest are turtles. Turtles slowly walk around the crocodile's house and say to the teaser:

- The Nile flowed among the sands,
Crocodile buried in mud.
We are not afraid of the crocodile:
He is very cute today!

Hearing the words "very nice", the crocodile runs out of his house and tries to catch up and taunt the fleeing turtles. Whom the crocodile caught, he becomes a crocodile and the game is repeated again.

To play catch-up, you can learn a counting rhyme.

- Somehow a little crocodile
He swam away from his parents.
He went for a walk, he got lost
And I lost myself in fear!
We will help, so be it,
Come out - you lead!

Craft "Washbasin chief and washcloths commander!"

Many, many decades ago, washbasins were in almost every family. If not in the house, then in the country. In our time, the word washbasin, in general, has gone out of use, it is practically not used in speech. And our children can learn about the washbasin from the tale of Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich "Moydodyr".

After reading the fairy tale, make a very light, unusual and beautiful craft from the fairy tale. Your baby will be happy!

What do you need?

• 2 cardboard boxes,
• colored paper with adhesive backing,
• scissors,
• glue and a little imagination.

How to do?

Finding two cardboard boxes at home is not at all difficult. For crafts, you need to glue the boxes with colored paper or simply paint them with gouache. This will be the wash basin.

Glue two toilet paper cylinders to the body. Decorate to your taste. Glue or draw eyes on the washbasin, make a faucet from a juice tube, make a sink from a yogurt cup.

Add details: hair, hat. Hands - a towel from a strip of paper.

We got a wonderful head of washbasins! And, of course, your baby will now know why we say so often: "... always and everywhere the eternal glory of water!".

You worked, glued, cut, painted. To relax your fingers, play the massage-finger game "Shower":

More blue cloud (clench and unclench fists)
Water the hands with water, (rub the hands)
Shoulders and elbows, (rub shoulders and elbows)
Fingers and nails, (rub fingers and nails)
And the back of the head, and temples, (rub the back of the head and temples)
Chin and cheeks, (rub chin and cheeks)
Three washcloths knees, (rub your knees)
Brush three well, (rub your knees)
Let's rub the girl / boy well, (name). (rub the whole body)

Poems and fairy tales of Korney Ivanovich bring a lot of joy to children. Today, we simply cannot imagine childhood without his fairy tales: without “Aibolit” and “Fly-Tsokotukha”, “Confusion” and “Phone”, “Moydodyr” and “Fedorin's grief”. Although, today Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich is considered a controversial children's writer. The attitude of adults to his work is ambiguous. Children like his characters, his poems, and adults see cruelty in his works ("I'll chop like beef now. I, a glutton, have nothing to pity you"), then violence ("And he cuts off his head at all his gallop"). And the kids just laugh. Because they perceive "adult cruelty and violence" as the victory of good over evil - something that all fairy tales teach children.

I remember when I first read the fairy tale “Barmaley” to my little son, she made a huge impression on him. He asked to read it every day, and we read it, sometimes 2 times a day. He liked her very, very much. When he grew up, he knew it by heart!

Our mothers and grandmothers constantly make crafts for children of garden age. With what these crafts are just not connected: with calendar holidays, and with the anniversaries of the organization, and with the events of the year. You can't list everything.

Fairy-tale heroes

One of the favorite topics is "Fairy-tale heroes with their own hands." Why is it relevant? Easy peasy. Russian folk tales are constantly read to preschool children. Reading occurs not only because it is understandable and close to children, but also because it is easier to educate through a fairy tale than to mumble instructively what is possible, what is good, how to do it right. Through a fairy tale, you can unobtrusively and easily make it so that the baby does not notice that he is being called to something, taught something. He easily joins the process and gladly participates in it.

Now imagine that the fairy tale is also accompanied by real heroes. It's just fantastic: a preschool child develops in figurative thinking. It is important for him to see the hero, the action, the image. He has not developed logical, especially abstract thinking. But if, along with telling a fairy tale, to offer a hero from this work, then the matter will advance to an unattainable height, and you will simply become the idol of the child.

Fairy-tale characters help to enter the proposed events easier. And fairy-tale characters created by one's own hands become even more familiar, understandable, and, most importantly, more valuable (after all, “one's own shirt is closer to the body”).

Let's try to make our heroes

Crafts of fairy-tale characters with their own hands can be found in the literature, peep from friends. The main thing is not to "drown" in the variety of forms, techniques, ideas of this direction. Here's what you can use:

• Paper. Available material, cheap, anyone can handle the cutting technology.
• Dough, clay. Don't think this is kindergarten age material. There is where people and older people can roam.
• Threads, knitting. What just do not come up with the masters of this type of art! You will simply be surprised at what can be knitted from threads.
• Wood. How much can be made from this beautiful material! Do not think that only Pinocchio is the only wooden character.
• Textile. Why not sew from this very versatile material! People, animals, even just objects, furniture, natural resources - easy.
• Plastic.

Yes, what is there to list. You can take any material that is closer to you, clearer, easier to process and more affordable.

How to make a hero out of paper

Making a fairy tale character with your own hands out of paper is easy. You perfectly understand what you will use in your work, especially since you can always choose the simplest, cheapest materials. First of all, we choose a character: Baba Yaga, princess, bunny - anyone. We take scissors, a template (if it’s tight with imagination), cut out a figure according to the template. The hero-character is ready for staging a fairy tale.

It can be more difficult. The modular origami technique will require a lot of time and money. Here you will need to add several tens or hundreds of triangles-modules for a three-dimensional figure. But nothing, dashing trouble is the beginning. The main thing is the ability to connect the modules in a circle, and then, where necessary, reduce or add elements in a row. So you can make figures of a hare, a fox, a wolf, even an old man and an old woman.

The quilling technique will require more virtuosity from you. It is very laborious: curls, droplets, "eyes", plant elements will require you to create beauty for a long time. But the work will turn out to be very gentle, elegant, noble.

Most often, parents find it difficult to find time to work with their child. Then, to make a fairy-tale toy with your own hands in kindergarten (for example), you can fold the paper in half and create a princess, a bunny, a tree with a symmetrical cut. The baby will have a lot of delights, and you will spend a minimum of resources. Moreover, the creation of the figures will take several minutes, which corresponds to the age of the preschooler for the concentration of attention and his interest in the process. A fairy-tale hero made by his own hands for kindergarten is interesting, simple and useful.

Let's try to make heroes from dough, shall we?

Try it, this process is also very addictive. After all, anything can be sculpted from salt dough. Do not think that you can only blind some trinket. In fact, even masterpiece heroes and compositions with very small details and exclusivity of patterns are possible from the test. Again, fairy-tale characters can be very original and unique. Using one pattern, different craftswomen will recreate completely different things. The same needlewoman is not repeated in her works. We think you should not be convinced of this. The main thing is to start.

Fairy tale in metal

Think it's impossible? Are there not enough fine blacksmiths in Russia? What about fleas? An almost certain fact, how Lefty shod a flea. True, it's hard work. There are no small details here. Scope is needed. For a child of kindergarten age, this is not suitable. But it’s worth trying to create a New Year’s fairy-tale hero with your own hands. By the way, right there the sculpture can be embodied as ice material. Yes, you yourself saw fairy-tale heroes on the squares (especially Santa Claus with the Snow Maiden, a trio of horses with a sleigh).

Here, of course, nail scissors are difficult to do, you need a saw, tools for working with ice. But that doesn't matter either. It is very important your desire to create, to create in front of the child, noticing his interest, surprise, desire to help you. And when the result is already in reality, there is also an assessment of the help of the child in work. This is truly worth it.

And the fabric?

Is it possible to create fairy-tale characters with your own hands from fabric? There is no limit to human perfection. Fairy-tale heroes can be embodied through the pattern of any living and inanimate object. By the way, how many New Year's costumes of fairy-tale characters can be sewn from fabric with your own hands! One has only to move forward, not stopping there.

Can threads work too?

Oddly enough, but yes. After all, even messages-texts with important data were written from threads (earlier it could have been nodular weaving). Why not now connect Piglet with Winnie the Pooh, Sonya the dog?

What heroes can be made?

Absolutely any. The only limit is fantasy. Here are some characters you can make with your own hands:

1. Kolobok. The simplest and one of the first characters. This hero can be made from paper (flat, origami, modules), and from threads (knit, stuffed with padding polyester; or you can wind the threads around the ball to get an openwork Kolobok). You can fashion a hero from dough, decorating it with some kind of panama hat.
2. Princess Frog. An easy way to mold a plasticine frog. A very profitable option, because imagination can not only tell us that we need to add an arrow and a crown, but additionally fashion beads. And it will be even more expressive if you dress this “lady” in a royal dress.
3. Goby - resin barrel. Rarely found in the house homemade toys made of wood. But such a character is easy to make, even just taking a sip from a tree. We glue the head, legs to the body, fluff the tail from the threads.
4. Baba Yaga. A very common fairy tale character. This image can be sewn from various old flaps. But over the face will have to work. It is worth doing it in the technique of hosiery. To do this, you need a fabric that is very similar to nylon tights, although you can take the tights themselves. When you fill the “face” of the hero with synthetic winterizer, the eyes can be sewn on from large beads or buttons. Embroider the mouth with red threads, and wind the nose (you need to separate a small part from the middle of the face) with threads in the color of the fabric.

In a word, the choice of a hero, material and technique is entirely up to you.

Finally

It is simply necessary to play with a child, because this is the only way for a little man to know the world and himself in it. Socialization occurs from early childhood, and the first with whom a child associates himself are, among other things, fairy-tale characters. By their example, the baby learns how to act well and how to act badly, receives the first knowledge about nature, rules of behavior, phenomena and objects. What will help better than do-it-yourself toys, fairy-tale characters? Moreover, this has a double benefit. You will spend time with your child while you make a Snow Maiden or a bunny from a fairy tale, and he will develop creativity, fine motor skills, and perseverance.