How to implement self-made teaching toys in kindergartens during the teaching process

Children’s nature is to play. For them, anything around them can be taken over and played with, and it is a toy they can play with. Due to the characteristics of children's physical and mental development, children need to actively learn through actual activities, through interactions with adults and partners, through fiddling, operation, observation, experiments, and using their hands and brains. The process of making and using toy teaching aids is the material condition for children's communication and cooperative learning, and helps to achieve the training goals of learning to learn, learning to live, learning to cooperate, and lifelong development. Self-made toy teaching aids have advantages that commercial toy teaching aids cannot match. Practical and scientific toy teaching aids can well assist teachers in teaching and cultivate children's awareness of conservation and hands-on ability. It is of great significance for teachers and children to carry out self-made teaching aid activities in kindergartens. 1. The importance of self-made teaching toys in kindergartens. Self-made teaching toys in kindergartens are a kind of teaching or auxiliary teaching supplies. They are teachers’ use of various natural resources and materials based on educational needs and children’s development needs

, collected, classified, processed, transformed, combined, and re-designed with toy educational factors. It is a creative activity due to the unrestricted shapes and uses of materials and the unrestricted ways of playing with teaching aids. This is more inspiring, has a larger range of associations, and wider room for exploration, and can easily arouse children's curiosity and exploratory behavior. Entertainment and education are the basic characteristics of educational toys, which carry adults’ expectations for children, educational intentions, values, and social and cultural customs. First of all, it must be conducive to children's learning and development. The participation of teachers and students in the activities of making self-made teaching toys, from the process to the results, has positive significance for the physical and mental health and all-round development of teachers and students. The process of children making toys by hand is a process for children to discover and solve problems, which can stimulate their interest in exploration. Secondly, it can promote teachers’ professional growth. Since toys are "textbooks" for young children, preschool teachers should study teaching toys as they study written textbooks and give full play to the teaching potential of teaching toys. In the process of children playing with toys, the aesthetic taste and values ??conveyed by toys subtly influence children. 2. The role of self-made teaching aids (1) From the perspective of young children First, the characteristics of young children's physical and mental development determine that they cannot learn by sitting quietly for a long time and listening to lectures, or by watching adult demonstrations. Therefore, children's divergent thinking can be cultivated in the activities of operating self-made teaching aids, and their problem-solving abilities will also be improved. Second, when children encounter difficulties and need to be solved in the process of using toy teaching aids, they must repeatedly solve the problem through different experiments. This process of deciding the problem exercises the basic ability of children in small-scale production activities. Repeated operations can also cultivate children's good personality, increase their thirst for knowledge and enhance their self-confidence

. It has a good development and important role in the physical and mental development of young children. Third, in the process of guiding children to make their own toys, teachers guide children to collect materials, which can enable children to identify, classify, prepare and understand the recycling value of waste materials. In this way, children can develop a low-carbon and frugal life awareness from an early age. Fourth, the process of making homemade play teaching aids can cultivate children's cooperative ability. Children's production of toy teaching aids is completed with the cooperation of teachers and parents, and teachers or parents become children's partners. In this way, children will learn humility, understanding, friendliness, solidarity and mutual assistance through communication and cooperation. This can help children communicate and cooperate better with their partners in other activities. (2) From the perspective of teachers 1. Improve the professional level of teachers. Homemade toy teaching aids can exercise and cultivate children's abilities in all aspects. Teachers should do a variety of preparatory activities before letting children make toy teaching aids. This requires teachers to understand various toys and research toys, etc., constantly enrich themselves after class, update their knowledge system, and then according to the needs of the children in the class they lead. The production process of teaching toys suitable for teachers' development level is the process of teachers improving their professional level. 2. Enhance the relationship between teachers and students. Making homemade play teaching aids is a process for teachers to understand the current development status of children in all aspects. In the process of making toy teaching aids, teachers teach production methods, experience and joint production, and become children's guides and partners, which facilitates better communication with children, allows children to know more about teachers, and enhances teachers' understanding of teachers. The feelings between students