Each mother makes sure that her baby grows healthy, so she devotes a lot of time to hardening and massage. But the child went to kindergarten and so that the massage sessions are not interrupted, the parents bring some specialized device for practicing the procedures, often done by themselves. The kid independently or with the help of the teacher performs the procedure, most often with all the children in the group. Next, a master class on making the device with your own hands will be presented in detail.
Mats for wellness and training
Which types of devices are distinguished
Massagers for children differ in different types, and all of them can be done independently using simple materials. The most popular options are:
- For legs - these devices are designed for foot massage for the prevention of flat feet. Perform better on a bare foot. They are divided into types in the form of a rug, a tube with a rough surface, and tracks.
Floor mats
- For hands - used to develop speed, agility and motor skills. The massager options are represented by a tube with a rough surface, a "pigtail", an "octopus", a ball.
Self made device for arms and legs
- For the neck and shoulders - this device is necessary to strengthen the muscles of the back, shoulder girdle, neck and legs. They all look like a chain with various details strung on a strong rope, on both sides of which there are handles.
DIY massager for neck and shoulders
- For the back and spine. It is required for the formation of proper posture and strengthen the muscles of the back. In appearance, they are similar to massagers for the neck and back.
Massagers for the back
Massage paths are very popular in kindergarten. Immediately after sleep, the children walk along it, finally wake up, because the embossed surface of the track stimulates the sole of the legs and invigorates.
What to make a device for kindergarten
To begin with, you should consider how to make a massager for a child and what materials will be required if this is a simplified device. It is better to use natural materials for the manufacture of products for children. These include:
- chestnuts;
- acorns;
- different cereals;
- smooth sea pebbles;
- much more.
Natural materials for massager
From artificial often apply:
- corks from plastic bottles;
- the bottles themselves;
- plastic bags;
- buttons
- caps from felt-tip pens;
- various small items from children's toys and other suitable items.
Ready-made massage paths used to make massagers
For example, to make a rug for legs, you can use fabric bags filled with cereal or other massage filling.
A rather unusual and effective action is considered to be a combined rug. In one place, you can realize various ideas: a river with a bridge, green grass, a maze, a snake. To recreate the plot will require a lot of natural materials: sand, pebbles, grass and the like. You can make not just a rug, but a massager in the form of a track.
To make a simple massager for arms and legs, as well as the back, the following materials will be required:
- bottle caps;
- plastic containers from kinder surprises;
- caps from felt-tip pens and the like.
It takes from half an hour to an hour and a half to manufacture. If you are planning to make a rug or track, then these types of time require much more.It takes several days to make a track out of different squares.
Models of massagers for kindergarten
Popular massagers for use in kindergarten are simple and affordable to manufacture. Material costs are very small:
- For arms and legs. You need to prepare a cardboard tube, you can take a sleeve from toilet paper or paper towels. You will also need a lot of plastic rings from the covers. String tightly twisted rings onto the tube so that the surface becomes embossed. Such a simulator for feet and hands is used in physical education classes, so children are invited to do it themselves. Usually they like to do leg massage. This simulator is used to strengthen the muscles of the lower extremities and prevent flat feet. It is better to perform foot massage on the bare foot.
- For the back and spine. Take a strong thread and string on it caps from pens or felt-tip pens and containers from kinder surprises. On both sides of the thread, attach handles from large plastic bottles, handles from a jump rope, cylinders from felt-tip pens and the like. It is convenient to take and do these pens back massage and shoulders. It is used to strengthen the muscles of the back, shoulder girdle, the formation of proper posture in the child. You can massage the chest, neck, legs and even the head.
Felt-tip massager
- Mat for the feet. On dense fabric sew elements from geometric figures, fruits, vegetables, ladybugs, butterflies, the sun, made of dense fabric or knitted from yarn. It’s nice to run on such a mat after sleep in order to stimulate the foot points to increase immunity, prevent flat feet, general development, including speech, and it also relaxes and relieves stress.
Foot massager
- Massager for the back of plastic bottles. You need to take 10 small bottles. Cut off their bottom to a height of 5-6 cm. Connect them in a pair of slices to each other and secure with tape. In each detail on the side, make two holes and stretch a ribbon through them so that the materials used are in a row. Fasten the ends of the tapes with a stapler, having previously passed a piece of plastic tube from both sides - these will be the massager's handles.
Do-it-yourself invention from plastic bottles
All models can be made almost free of those materials that are often thrown away.
Workshop on manufacturing a foot massage mat
For a small child, it’s nice to make a massager with your own hands and take it to kindergarten. The following is a master class for making a simple version. This is a large green leaf on which ladybugs filled with cereals sit. You can walk on the rug, massaging the soles of your feet and preventing flat feet. If you lie on your back and spin, you will get a back massage. It’s easy to understand the techniques of performing parts by watching a master class.
Mat in the form of a glade with ladybirds
First, we are preparing to create a rug, we select suitable pieces of fabric, then the work itself goes:
- From a green piece of cloth cut a large sheet.
- Prepare parts for ladybugs.
- Distribute them on a sheet and sew them carefully.
- Sew thick fabric to the back of the mat.
- Pour groats (rice, peas, buckwheat, beans) into each element of the insect and carefully sew in the holes.
- Sew beads or buttons instead of eyes. If the baby is still small and can tear off a small object and put it in his mouth or nose, then this is best not to do.
The manufacture of this model of a rug does not take much time and does not require large expenses, but for a child it will be indispensable. It is safe and effective to stimulate the soles of the feet of the baby. Walking or wallowing on it is better without socks or T-shirts. The main thing is that the child likes to walk or lie on it.
Making any massager for a child is quite simple. It is only required to show a little imagination and pick up materials, and these are usually the details that go into the bin or cost a penny.For example, to make a rug from sponges for washing dishes, they will have to be purchased specifically. But for a massager in the form of a string with strung elements, parts collected for ejection are also suitable - ended felt-tip pens, extra cases from chocolate eggs, and more. Choosing the right material so that it has a textured surface, you can safely make a simulator for the health of the child.
