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Gordius died in 738 BC. For more than 400 years the chariot stood in the temple, and the king’s knot remained tied. In 334, the troops of Alexander the Great entered the city of Gordion. When the inhabitants of the city told Alexander that, according to the oracle's prediction, Asia would be conquered by the one who untangled the tangled knot, he was overcome by a passionate desire to achieve the fulfillment of the prediction.

As the Roman historian Curtius Rufus testifies, a crowd of Phrygians and Macedonians gathered around the king: the former waited tensely, and the latter were afraid because of the king's reckless self-confidence. And indeed, the belt was so tightly knotted that it was impossible to either calculate or see where the plexus began and ended. The king's attempts to untie the knot instilled fear in the crowd, lest failure turn out to be a bad omen. Having fussed with these tangled knots for a long time and in vain, the king said that it did not matter how they would be untied, and having cut the knots with a sword, he either laughed at the oracle’s prediction or fulfilled it.

Thousands of years ago, when gambling was just beginning, people came up with different ways to tie knots. The skilled craftsmen of antiquity were also the first inventors of puzzle games with ropes. After sitting for an hour on such a puzzle (and not solving it), you will undoubtedly be imbued with respect for the mind of its inventor. There are several hundred known puzzles similar to the Gordian knot, in which you need to untangle ropes or separate connected parts. In ancient times, they were used not only as ingenious toys, but also as tasks to test the skills of ancient shipbuilders, mat and basket weavers, and home builders. We will introduce you to some of these puzzles. Let's start with the simpler ones both in production and in solution.

Riddle toys made of buttons and threads

Threads and old buttons can be found in any home. From these ordinary things it is easy to make entertaining puzzle games (Fig. 1)

Almost all puzzles require one thing: to separate interlocking parts. At first glance, this task may seem insoluble. Attempts to unfasten the loops often lead to the threads only becoming even more entangled with each other. Do not despair. In 1983, at a competition for puzzle inventors held by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, experienced jury members, trying to solve one cord puzzle, got the ropes so tangled that the author of the toy himself was unable to untangle them. In such cases, it is easier to cut the lace or, after untying the knot, take the puzzle apart and reassemble it correctly.

And yet, learning to solve such problems is not so difficult. Without giving here an exact description of the solution to each puzzle, we will tell you about a general rule that allows you to solve any puzzle of this type.

First of all, look carefully at the drawing and try to solve the puzzle in your mind. To do this, the loop in Fig. Stretch “D” along the thread to which it is hooked, and, without twisting it, insert it into all the holes encountered. When you reach the end of the thread, go around the small button at the end and pull the loop back through all the holes. As a result, the loop will be on the other side of the thread, that is, unhooked from it.

But you cannot blindly follow this rule either. For example, when solving the puzzle shown in Fig. “G”, the loop should not be pushed through the holes in the adjacent buttons, but the button should be passed through the loop.

pattern “A”: release the left button from the string

Figure "B": unhook the red button

pattern “B”: untangle the threads and release four buttons

pattern “D”: move the left button along the thread close to the right button

pattern “D”: release the loop with the small button from the remaining buttons

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It is best to take large buttons and thick threads. The holes in the buttons should be enlarged by boring them with a file or drilling them out. In the absence of tools, the holes in the buttons are widened using ordinary sharp scissors.

When assembling toys, you need to be extremely careful and precise. It is enough to connect the threads incorrectly in one place, and the puzzle will be impossible to solve or, conversely, the solution will be too simple.

If you have mastered the puzzles shown in the pictures well, try to come up with your own. At the same time, you can increase the number of buttons, linked loops, and change the path of threads.

Funny figures

You can make all sorts of entertaining puzzles from scraps of single-core wires in colored insulation. Some of these puzzles are shown in Fig. 2. To make them, it is necessary to strictly follow the proportions of the figures and the length of the ropes according to the drawing. For example, the “mice” should be larger than the “cat’s” paw. But the loop at the end of the lace should be larger than the “mouse”. The lace is selected such a thickness that it passes freely through the wire loops.

It is not necessary to repeat the figures shown in the figure. Come up with your own. If you manage to get a new, more clever weave of ropes, it will be a new original puzzle.

How to solve these puzzles? If you have mastered riddle toys made from buttons and threads well, it will not be difficult for you to solve puzzles with figures.

Let's start with the “ducklings” (Fig. “A” and “B”). Two “ducklings” can be released in one way. The loop that covers the lace is pulled along this lace, pushing it through any obstacles encountered, such as goose feet. Having reached the end of the lace, they insert a tied flower or fungus into the loop. After this, pulling the loop to its old place, release it from the “duckling’s” legs.

In the same way, the “little mice” who were caught by the “cat” (“G”), as well as the “duckling” Tim (“B”) are released.

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Three “ducklings” tied with one rope seem impossible to free (“D”). But that's not true. Stretch the loop that tightens the legs of any “duckling” along the parallel laces and pass the other two “ducklings” through this loop. Unexpectedly, you will discover that one “duckling” is free. The rest of the “ducklings” are released in the same way.

Having understood the secret of this toy, you yourself will be able to free the “bunnies” from the “fox” and the “duckling” with the “caterpillar” from the “hedgehog” (Fig. 3).

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It’s more difficult with the funny figures “Vanya” and “Masha” (Fig. 4). First you need to separate the loops coming from the hands of “Vanya” and “Masha”. To do this, one of the loops, for example the one that “Masha” is holding, is passed through “Vanya’s” sleeve, a fungus is threaded through it and the loop is pulled back. In order to separate the loops connecting the legs of “Vanya” and “Masha”, one of the loops, for example, coming from the legs of “Vanya” (let’s call it loop B), is passed from above into the loop tied around the right leg of “Masha”, the right one is threaded through its shoe through loop B, pull the loop back, thread loop B from above into the loop tied around “Masha’s” left leg, thread it through loop B into “Masha’s” left shoe, pull the loop back and pull loop B up, passing the entire figure through it “ Mashi." Puzzle solved

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Try to free the “dogs” (Fig. 5) yourself.

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Such different "eights"

Each of the three puzzles shown in Fig. 6, has a figure eight shape. The tasks of these puzzles are the same - to free the laces caught in the wire. But that's where their similarities end. Eights have different complexity and different ways of solving problems.

One of these puzzles had already been published and became famous. Which of the three is up to you to figure out for yourself. Several years ago it was invented by the American inventor Stafford Coffin, and since then it has been regularly written about in collections of puzzles published in different countries. Publications of Coffin's puzzle are accompanied by drawings that show the progress of the solution; the publications describe in detail how to move the string and under what circumstances the inventor came up with the toy. The textual explanation usually ends with the words that as a result of all the actions, the lace will either become free or not and that no one has yet been able to prove the impossibility of this. In this vague final phrase lies the secret of the puzzle: it turns out that it cannot be solved...

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You will find out which of the puzzles belongs to Coffin if you can unhook the laces from two of the three “eights” shown in the picture.

How to do it?

Since our school years, we have known that the easiest way to solve a problem is to look at the answer. But this is also the most uninteresting way. One independently solved puzzle gives more benefit and joy than a dozen problems with known answers. In this case, the solution to the “eights” is not at the end of the book, as is the case in school textbooks, but on the previous pages, on which we taught you to unravel the secrets of funny figures and puzzles made of buttons and threads.

The puzzles in question, or similar ones, are easy to make. Any wire or single-core wire with a diameter of 1 to 5 mm is suitable for this. The figure eights can be any size, the only important thing is that they are comfortable to hold in your hands and that the laces are easily threaded through the loops. The wire can be bent on a blank or template of a suitable diameter. The length of the lace for the loops should be approximately twice the height of the figure eight

"Stars" from a puzzle exhibition

In the spring of 1984, the first All-Union student exhibition-fair was held in Novocherkassk. Novocherkassk is a city of students; there are several thousand of them here. The huge hall with exhibits was filled with inquisitive, noisy, cheerful young people. Each stand had many visitors, regardless of whether it was showing a micromoped, an air-cushioned platform, fashionable clothing models or paintings by emerging artists. But one stand was still particularly popular with visitors of all ages and professions: it presented dozens of different mystery toys sent from all over the country. Those interested could try their hand at solving puzzles. Some of the games could even be taken home with you on one condition... if you managed to solve the puzzle. Here visitors were invited to make puzzles.

Some people think that games that are difficult to solve must necessarily be difficult to make. It's not like that at all. The fair featured ingenious toys made from scraps of ordinary wire and pieces of twine. The “Two Stars” puzzle aroused the greatest interest among everyone. You see it in Fig. 7. To solve this puzzle, you need to unhook the shuttle from the cord and stars.

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To make a toy, scraps of any wire with a thickness of 0.5 to 2 mm or a single-core wire, stripped of insulation, are suitable. In addition, you will need pieces of lace or thick thread. The tool is ordinary pliers with wire cutters and round nose pliers. The puzzle should be beautiful, then it will be pleasant to hold in your hands, you can even use it as a gift.

Transfer the star drawing from this article onto regular squared notebook paper. Make a toy template. To do this, place the star pattern on a piece of board and mark the holes for the pins with a pencil. Take nails 1-2 mm thick and shorten them by cutting off the ends. Drive the resulting pins, the length of which should not exceed 15-20 mm, into the centers of the holes marked on the board. The pins should rise above the board by no more than 5 mm. The nail heads should be on the back of the board. The general view of the template is shown in Fig. 8:

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Prepare pieces of wire 30 cm long. Carefully straighten the wire and sand it until shiny with sandpaper (you can also use various household powders and pastes for cleaning). Loop a piece of wire around the template pins.

At the same time, try to pull the wire as tightly as possible, then the rays of the star will be straight and beautiful. After removing the star from the pins, bend the rings at the ends of the wire and remove the excess ends of the wire with wire cutters. Final straighten the star with pliers and check the quality of your work by placing the star against the design on the checkered paper. It is better to bend the rings and the shuttle on blanks of suitable size with round and oval sections. The assembly and connection of individual parts of the toy are carried out according to the drawings, observing all specified dimensions as accurately as possible.

Now we need to solve the puzzle - unhook one element (the shuttle) from the other (the star). We will not give a detailed solution again. Here are just three rules, following which you can solve the problem.

Rule one: think first, then act. You can unhook one element from another only in those places where the puzzle pieces end, for example, where the rings of a star are bent. This is where you need to try to remove the shuttle.

Rule two: try in your mind (or on a model) to replace the rigid parts of the puzzle with flexible ones. For example, instead of wire, take a soft wire and make a star out of it. In the process of solving, straighten them, then the puzzle will be solved very simply. Think about why a flexible puzzle is easy to solve. How to get around this difficulty for a hard puzzle?

Rule three: if the problem cannot be solved, try changing it to the opposite. You need to separate the shuttle from the star. Take another shuttle and put it on the star. If you are attentive and patient, you will definitely solve the puzzle.

African puzzle

Look at fig. 9 and answer the question: how can a “puppy” get to the bone? This problem can be solved in different ways. For example, pull out one of the nails, untie any knot, or dismantle a fence. Finally, you can move the bowl closer to the “puppy”. But are such decisions always acceptable? After all, the fence and nails can be very strong, the knots can be strong, but the bowl cannot be moved.

How to be?

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This problem has a very original solution: the “puppy” reaches the bowl without breaking the connection between objects. Outwardly, everything looks as if the “dog” managed to crawl through the bracket in the middle of the fence and move to the right side of the rope. Although the bracket is too small for the “puppy” to fit through. The solution to the problem was found many years ago by the ancient inhabitants of Africa.

Various games and puzzles with strings have been popular among Africans since ancient times. In Gambia, for example, they like to solve the puzzle shown in Fig. 10. A string is tied to the bar at three points. There is a ring hanging on the cord, which must be moved along the entire rope without untying it from the bar. The situation the “puppy” found himself in is similar to this one.

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It is not difficult to make such toys. To make a toy with a “puppy”, you need to take a strip of hard cardboard, a lace, the length of which is about four times the length of the strip, and a ring or an unnecessary button. The toy can be any size. Mandatory condition: the ring must be larger than the central hole of the bar.

The more you look at the “puppy” puzzle, the more you become convinced that it is impossible to solve. But there is a solution. After solving the puzzle for the first time, you will be left with a feeling of misunderstanding: how does the ring jump through the hole? Yes, this is an amazing task! Its secret lies in the special properties of the knot with which the lace is tied behind the central hole of the strap. Slide the ring along the cord in the desired direction as long as possible. Then move the knot from one side of the hole to the other and push the ring through again. And so on until you move the ring to the right loop of the lace. Having entered the central hole, the lace returns back, that is, a loop of the lace enters the hole. We pull out the loop and slide the ring along the elongated part, and then return the loop to its place.

You can try tying the lace to the bar in different ways. Having tested several units shown in Fig. 11, you will see that the puzzle is not solved in all cases.

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If there is a solution, the lace, coming out of the hole, makes a loop and returns to it from the same side. If the lace passes through the hole and returns to it on the other side, a solution is impossible. It is also impossible to resolve the situation in which only one end of the lace passes through the hole.

In Fig. 12 shows two more puzzles. One of them, with balls, was invented by the Czech puzzle collector Stanislav Tvrdik, the other, with rings, was invented by engineer K. Lazarev from the Moscow region. At first glance, they are very difficult, but once you master the dog puzzle, you will be able to solve these puzzles as well.

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In Fig. Figure 13 shows the solution to the African puzzle (bar with a ring on a cord).

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Solution to the African puzzle [see rice. 10, 13]: move the ring to the right to the central hole; pull the two laces coming out of the hole towards you; pull out the knot in which the laces are intertwined; push the ring along the lace on which it hangs, through the entire knot; push the knot back inside the hole; move the ring to the right to the end of the bar.

glue not three strips, but more, for example six. According to the gluing method, they alternate and look like stitches.

When closing and opening the crusts of the toy, on one side or another, the strips will cover certain lines. You can take advantage of this and write alternating lines of different texts in different colors on a slipped strip.

We open the crusts of the toy on one side - there is one text on the strip. We open the crusts on the other side - there is different text on the same strip. Another experiment: place a strip, for example a red one, under two ribbons of a booklet, and a green one under one ribbon. Close the book and open it. What we see: the color stripes have swapped places. Under one ribbon there was a red one, and under two – a green one.

Button toy

Everyone knows this toy - a button rotating on a thread threaded through its holes. And it has been known, probably, for much more than a thousand years. However, it can also be improved

If you paint one side of it yellow and blue, as shown in Fig. 1, then when the button is rotated, the yellow and blue colors disappear somewhere, and instead of them, green appears from somewhere.

Other color combinations are possible.

Rice. 1. Pinwheel button

Rice. 2. Colors located opposite each other on the circle are complementary: when combined (provided the correct wavelength of each color is chosen), they give the color white. Any pair of colors that are not complementary produces the color specified between them: green and orange in a mixture will produce yellow, green and violet will produce blue, red and yellow will produce orange, and so on. A mixture of any neighboring colors will give a color intermediate between them: thus, blue and green together will give blue-green. The shade depends on the amount of each color mixed. Some combinations of three will produce white; There are many such combinations - they are called primary.

Their possible combinations are shown in Fig. 2.

The brightness of the resulting new color depends on the completeness of the match to the spectral color of the painted parts of the button.

Homemade toy ring_

Children, just like adults, have fashion. If one person has something, everyone else needs it too. This “something” may turn out to be

button

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To make a button on a string game, prepare:

a button, preferably more massive
thread, use strong thread

Button on a string game

The “button on a string” game is intended for one player; in extreme cases, you can make one copy for each participant. In fact, there are games for the whole company. By visiting an online board game store, you can choose a game for yourself and for your friends. Play games, games unite.

Take a thread about 60 cm long and pass it through a button that has two holes. Look at the photo.

Tie a knot at the end of the thread so that it forms a circle.

Place the button in the middle of the thread. Now put the thread on your index fingers and spread your arms so that the thread is taut.

Now comes the most interesting part. You need to get the hang of rotating and spreading your arms at the same time. Feel how the button is wound in one direction and unwinded in the other.

It may take a while to learn to get into the rhythm, but soon you will see the button spinning, similar to playing the harmonica. You may even hear a buzzing sound.

You can also make such a game from disks cut out of cardboard or thick paper. This will allow you to decorate the disc with colored patterns, writing or glued pieces of foil, etc. Use creativity to create discs of their size, color patterns and see how it works!

If you decide to use two large buttons, they will click against each other when rotated, as if clapping your hands. This will add more fun to the game.

Big, colorful buttons work better.

Use two plastic tubes to avoid cutting your fingers, this will make the game last longer.

Warnings

Don't pull too hard or the thread will break.

Do not place the rotating button near your hair. Otherwise, the hair will get wrapped around the toy, it will hurt and you will have to adjust your hairstyle.

Because scissors are sharp, be careful if there are small children around!

Button on a string game

Take a thread about 60 cm long and pass it through a button that has two holes. Look at the photo.

Warnings

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85 Buzzer button. How to understand the complex laws of physics. 100 simple and fun experiments for children and their parents

For the experiment we will need: a large button, a rope or a long lace.

This is an old-fashioned fun experiment that involves inertial forces, elastic forces and even aerodynamic forces - all together! And my grandfather showed it to me.

The experience itself is very simple. Take a large button - the bigger the better - and thread a rope through its holes, which is tied so as to make a rope ring. It is better to take a longer thread. It “buzzes” better this way.

The photo shows that ordinary string is inserted into the holes of the button. It is better to take a button with two holes.

Now, actually, how to make a buzzer out of this device? We insert our index fingers into the loops on the sides and twist the button so that the rope twists many, many turns. As in the photo.

In the photo I'm stretching and clenching my arms while the button buzzes and buzzes... until the thread breaks!

Now we begin to carefully pull the rope to the sides, smoothly, without much effort. The button will begin to spin, faster and faster. At the moment when the rope unwinds and begins to wrap in the other direction, we stop pulling and bring our hands together a little. Just not too much, so that the rope is slightly taut all the time (otherwise it will simply get tangled). When the button turns the string in the other direction and starts to stop, pull it again in different directions. The button will begin to unwind in the other direction. And so on ad infinitum. We little by little pull to the sides, then loosen the tension - and the button spins back and forth.

If the string is long enough, and the button is large and heavy, then when rotated it makes a pleasant buzzing sound, as if snorting a little! Now the buzzer is ready.

What's going on?

When we pull a twisted rope, we make it unwind, the rope transfers its energy to the button, and the whole system begins to rotate. It’s elastic forces that work – remember Hooke’s law, which we studied on a ball? When the rope unwinds, inertial forces come into play. The button continues to move and begins to work like a motor itself, twisting the rope in the other direction.

Well, the air flowing around the rotating button (these are aerodynamic forces) swirls in the holes, and waves and sound arise. We hear a dull buzzing sound!

By the way, this is how belts were made in ancient times. They hung a large, heavy stone on a leather loop and twisted it. The stone began to rotate under the influence of inertial forces back and forth, stretching and straining the skin. This warmed up the skin and became soft and suitable for making good belts!

And one of the terrible destructive machines of antiquity, the catapult, was built on a similar principle. Part of its device were twisted belts or ropes, which, unwinding, transferred their energy to the stone flying out of the catapult... This is how the same physical device can be used in different ways.

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Modern toys have long ceased to please today's children, but remember how we used to make toys only with thread and cork, and we could play with it until it broke.

We invite you to watch the homemade video:

For a chainsaw using improvised means you will need: - a cap from a plastic bottle; - 2 rings with spikes from a plastic bottle, the rings should be turned outwards; - a button, the size should easily fit inside the cork; - nylon thread, about 80 cm long, not very thin; - a small piece of plasticine; - an awl; - a lighter.

So, let's begin. In the cork we make two holes in the center. The holes in the cork should match the hole in the button. To avoid mistakes, simply place the button on the lid and, where there are holes in the button, punch them with an awl.

If the holes seem too narrow to you, you can widen them a little. To do this, heat the tip of the awl with fire. Under the influence of warm metal, plastic holes, without additional effort, will very quickly become the size you need.

Next, take a nylon thread. The thread should not be too thin; ideally, its diameter should resemble half the diameter of the lace. The thickness of the thread should be such that it does not break at the most inopportune moment.

We singe the ends of the thread so that it does not unravel.

After we have melted the ends of the thread, we thread one of the ends into the hole in the cork. Then we take a button and thread the same end of the thread into the hole of the button. It is important that the button is inside the lid.

Using the same end of the thread, but starting from the button, we again thread a hole. We should now have a button and a cork on a thread. On a button, the thread will go into both holes of the lid, and two identical pieces of rope should stick out from the lid.

Next, we take plasticine, we will need a small piece, which we will need to warm up a little in our hands so that it becomes soft and can take any shape we need. We first make a thin sausage out of it, and then turn it into a ring.

Our plasticine ring should be no larger in diameter than the lid. We stick it to the inside of the lid. You don’t have to use plasticine, but we need it so that the cork is heavier and the button doesn’t fall off.

Now we place the button on the plasticine and press it.

Then we get to work with the thread. On one side we should have two ends dangling, and the second end of the thread resembles an arc. On the side where the ends are just dangling, we tie them up.

After we have tied the ends, we should have a design that resembles a chain around the neck with a pendant. The chain is a silk thread, the pendant is a cork with a button.

Then comes the turn of the rings. Be sure to ensure that the spikes go in one direction. The rings need to be put on the side of the cork.

At the end we should have a menacing-looking toy that children played with about 15 years ago.

The cork should be in the middle, and we will hold on to the ends of the thread.

What can you do with a cork in this form? Not many modern children will understand this toy, but try to demonstrate it. You need to start unwinding the thread in both hands clockwise. When the thread is thoroughly twisted, do not let it go; start making movements with your hands, as if you were playing an accordion.

With this thing you can cut paper, cockroaches, beetles, and grass in a clearing.

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17 exciting games and crafts made from threads and ropes for children | Be parents

Threads and ropes are amazing materials with which you can come up with many interesting games. They will help develop the child and truly captivate him. Has your baby played with a ball of woolen thread yet? What about ropes?

Offer it to him - you will be surprised how captivating such games are for children!

Games with threads and ropes - Electrician

Look how cunning this little installer is. For now he only conducts light where there is no light

Do you remember this poem from childhood?

To play, you need a ball of woolen thread (preferably not very valuable) and a child’s imagination.

Allow your child to draw “wires” from threads throughout the room. Let him conduct electricity from one house (chair) to the house-sofa. At the same time, tell your little one about electricity. You will see how this game will captivate him. The only drawback is to twist the threads after playing. We usually manage to collect all the threads into the same ball, but a couple of times we had to cut the threads because we could not untangle the knots. Involve your child in twisting a ball of thread, this will help develop fine motor skills.

Games with threads and ropes - Laser maze

The game is designed for preschool children, but schoolchildren also enjoy playing it.

Take a ball of woolen threads, preferably bright ones, and stretch the threads in the room between all the elements: chairs, table, sofa, closet. You will end up with a type of laser alarm in the apartment or a laser labyrinth. The essence of the game: the child must go through the maze without touching the “laser beams”. The game can be constantly complicated so that the child jumps, crawls, and bends. The game helps develop coordination and dexterity.

You can also make exciting toys from threads.

Games with threads and ropes - “Thread Tamer”

This game can be offered to children from 3 to 6 years old.

However, you need to spend a little time making it.

Take a plastic ball, which is usually used to fill dry pools. Make a small hole in it; As a rule, the balls have a hole; it can only be slightly enlarged. And you will also need a clothesline with a diameter of 2 mm. and 2-3 meters long. The ends of the cord must be melted so that the rope does not unravel. Thread one end of the cord into the hole made in the ball. If the rope falls out, you should make a through hole and secure it with a knot.

The toy is ready, you can start playing. Give the child a ball with an unwound thread. The baby's task is to wrap the lace around the ball so that it does not come off. For one child, this is a puzzle toy. And if you make 2 toys, you can arrange competitions between children. This game helps develop fine motor skills of the fingers and develops coordination.

Games with threads and ropes - Roads

The game is interesting for almost any age. Suggest an idea - and the children will pick it up.

We take any colored threads so that it is clearly visible on the floor. And... We pave roads! For very young children the road will be smooth and short, but for older children the road may run through mountains and gorges (tables and chairs). Having laid out the rope-road, we begin to “ride”. There are many options - ride with a toy car, walk on a rope yourself without standing on the floor without a “road”, or a more complicated option - lay and ride at the same time. In general, give some thread and throw out an idea - and the children themselves will come up with a bunch of other variations with the “dear”.

Games with threads and ropes - Web

Invite your child to weave threads around a chair or table legs - just be prepared for literally EVERYTHING to be braided! around 🙂 Sports complexes and bunk beds are especially in demand. And then there’s the task of climbing through the web to somewhere higher. True, the game at this point becomes unsafe for children, but children over seven will be able to determine the strength of the structure themselves. Although falls are still not excluded.

The game is incredibly exciting for kids! By the way, you can take the skein with you to the waiting area. But it’s better to also grab some scissors - what if you have to “save someone’s furniture?”

Crafts with threads and ropes - Emotional people

You will need threads, sand, a ball.

Pour sand into the ball with a small spatula - you can entrust this important task to the baby. A little sand - as soon as you get a “head” - tie it with a thread. Make a hairstyle for the ball using threads. Glue the eyes and nose cut out from paper or just draw them. Make several little people with different hairstyles and facial expressions - the child will be happy to play or depict emotions.

Games with threads and ropes - Rope walls and traps

Learn knot weaving with your children - and then offer the task of weaving a net on the wall. Or create a rope trap - it's very interesting!

Crafts with threads and ropes - Bowl of threads

Together with your child you can make a wonderful interior bowl!

Cut some bright threads with your children and get to work!

How to make a bowl from threads with your own hands »

For the craft you will need the following:

base (any bowl made of any material)
thin film
PVA glue
threads

We cover the bowl with film. We spread glue onto the film and wrap it with threads in random order. We wait until it dries.

Carefully remove from the base bowl along with the film, separate the film.

Crafts with threads and ropes - Drawing with threads

Crafts with threads and ropes - Rope letters

The game helps to learn letters and at the same time captivates children. Develops fine motor skills. Age: from 3 years.

What you will need: pieces of various kinds of ropes (braid, thick threads for knitting)

How to play?

Tell your child that you will make unusual letters together. Ask what letter he would like to make, or suggest a letter yourself - a new one, or perhaps one that the child has not yet learned well.

Lay out different letters on the floor or table with bright threads. When the child already knows the letters, write words with threads.

Crafts with threads and ropes - Thread applications

Crafts with threads and ropes - Painting with threads

From the same series as the applications, but more complex and interesting. Accordingly, for older children.

It is possible with children of three years old - but then the mother will have to do most of the actions.

Open step-by-step photos and a description of the production of such a painting »

First, cut the threads to the required length and form the main elements.

Tree - fantasy-arranged pieces of thick brown threads to form a trunk and branches: “Leaves” - rings of thread wound 7-8 times on 2 fingers, slightly twisted when removed from the fingers, just like we twist a thread, tying a knot on it before sewing . This gives an interesting shape.

About the grass, let’s say, everything is clear :)

Sunshine. Flowers. Small ones are like leaves on a tree, big ones - I’ll tell you below. Dragonfly.

How to make a sun, flowers and a dragonfly:

The idea is that ordinary stationery pins are stuck into a cork stand, durable foam or several layers of packaging cardboard, according to the “clock” principle - something like this:

The central pin is removed, and threads begin to be wound on opposite pins to subsequently create petals and crosshairs in the center. We go in a circle, different colors of pin pairs help a lot with this. 3-4 layers are enough, you can experiment with threads of different colors, come up with combinations, etc.

When everything is wound and secured, we begin to form the middle: to do this, we thread the thread into the needle and begin to wrap it around the crosshairs of the threads for the petals, making sure that the thread enters and exits between identical pairs of pins (i.e., again, we monitor symmetry). We finish, fasten, take out the pins, straighten the flower. Voila!

The sun is made according to the same principle, only add a couple of passes around the middle, passing the thread alternately under and above the future “ray”. Naturally, we cut the petals, forming rays.

Dragonfly - one pair of pins (when measuring the size, make allowance for the “splendor” of the wings and petals, they will be a little shorter as a result), winding the middle, then formed two rings of “eyes” (to secure it, pierced the middle with a needle) and a body with a tail (turn intka around the axis to use the natural property of wool to curl and form a beautiful body).

So, everything is ready to go! Lay out the blanks on a sheet to make sure everything fits and looks nice, and also to mark where to glue.

Lubricate the sheet with PVA glue and place all the figures in their places. After drying slightly, cover the top tightly with glass or plywood for better gluing of the parts. And framed! 🙂

Games with threads and ropes - Christmas tree made of threads

Dad's involvement will be required! You can make different blanks. But believe me, children will “hang” near such a game for a long time :)

Crafts with threads and ropes - Fluffy toy

Children love to work with yarn, younger children begin to get acquainted with this material by creating various applications from cut yarn, middle-aged children make tassels, panels from ropes, braids, and older children learn to make voluminous toys from yarn - and do it with great interest and diligence. The finishing touches and the finished toy delight them - after all, they created this miracle with their own hands.

In addition, working on making pompoms perfectly develops hand motor skills, develops patience, and develops imagination in the final finishing of the toy.

See a description of how to make the simplest thread toy »

To make a pompom, you need to cut out two identical circles from cardboard. We put them together and wind the threads, the turns are tight and even - the children do this very well and they like this process.

Then we cut the threads along the “edge” of the wound circles - this is still difficult for preschool children to do, and their mother helps them with this.

We tie the workpiece, stretching the thread between the cardboard circles, cut off the excess threads and decorate the pom-poms with various details to complete the look. If the toy consists of several pompoms, we pull the thread through all the pompoms using a long needle. Ready-made toys can be hung on the Christmas tree, used in the interior and just played!

Crafts with threads and ropes - Panel or mandala

Type in the search engine - weaving a simple mandala - and look at the description - there are many types of them.

Games with threads and ropes - Button on a thread

The game of button on a string has been played since time immemorial. This simple but very interesting game lifts your spirits.

Play it with your children. The game develops attentiveness, dexterity and sensitivity. For children from five years old.

To make a button on a string game, prepare:

a button, preferably more massive
thread, use strong thread

See a description of the game's production and step-by-step photos »

Take a thread about 60 cm long and pass it through a button that has two holes.

Tie a knot at the end of the thread so that it forms a circle.

Place the button in the middle of the thread. Now put the thread on your index fingers and spread your arms so that the thread is taut.

Now comes the most interesting part. You need to get the hang of rotating and spreading your arms at the same time. Feel how the button is wound in one direction and unwinded in the other.

It may take a while to learn to get into the rhythm, but soon you will see the button spinning, similar to playing the harmonica. You may even hear a buzzing sound.

You can also make such a game from disks cut out of cardboard or thick paper. This will allow you to decorate the disc with colored patterns, writing or glued pieces of foil, etc. Use creativity to create discs of their size, color patterns and see how it works!
If you decide to use two large buttons, they will click against each other when rotated, as if clapping your hands. This will add more fun to the game.
Big, colorful buttons work better.
Use two plastic tubes to avoid cutting your fingers, this will make the game last longer.

Warnings

Don't pull too hard or the thread will break.
Do not place the rotating button near your hair. Otherwise, the hair will get wrapped around the toy, it will hurt and you will have to adjust your hairstyle.
Because scissors are sharp, be careful if there are small children around!

Games with threads and ropes - Finger braiding for one

Game for children aged 5-6 years and older. The smaller the child, the more you will have to explain and show. But after this game there will definitely be no problems with laces! 🙂

An older child can be challenged to perform completely independently - show him pictures and ask him an interesting problem - believe me, he will like it!

So, to learn how to make a braided thread on your fingers yourself, take a thin rope or woolen thread 1.3 m long. Tie the ends together with a knot.

See description of braiding and step-by-step photos »

*Red arrows in the figure indicate the sequence of actions in the first place, green arrows in the second.

Pass the little fingers and thumbs of both hands into the loop formed. Using the index fingers of both hands, pick up the string near the middle of the opposite palm.

Slip the loops off your thumbs and spread your arms out to the sides.

Use your thumbs to hook the rope that goes behind your little fingers from below.

Passing your thumbs over the part of the rope closest to them, use them to hook the next section. Then slip the loops off your little fingers.

Place your little fingers over the part of the rope closest to them and use them to hook the next section. Then slip the loops off your thumbs.

Run your thumbs from above over the two closest sections of the rope and use them to hook the third section from below.

With the index finger of your right hand, hook the loop on the index finger of your left hand, and put this loop on the thumb of your left hand. Do the same with the other hand.

Using the index finger of your right hand, remove the bottom loop from the thumb of your left hand. Do the same with the other hand.

Place your index fingers into the rope triangles formed between the thumb and index fingers of each hand. Drop the loops from your little fingers and quickly spread your arms to the sides, simultaneously turning them with your palms away from you and spreading your fingers.

The braid is ready.

Safety of games with threads.

However, it is worth remembering that you also need to worry about the safety of the child. Small children can play games with threads only under the supervision of adults, who must ensure that the kids do not get entangled in them.

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Button Mania - Summer Camp

1. "Pugovkobank". Each team must count the total number of buttons on their members' clothing. Which team has more buttons?

(As a token, the winning team is strung on a string with a large fake button or an ordinary one on a thread. At the end of the game, the number of tokens won is counted. Whoever has more is the winner. Instead of medals, the winners are awarded large buttons on a thread or sets of buttons “For all occasions” life.")

2. "Who's next?" A line is drawn on the floor with chalk. From this mark, one by one, everyone tries to place the button as far away from themselves as possible with one hand (you cannot throw it). Team members can help each other. The team whose button is farthest away wins.

3. "Invisible button." Each team has a thread tied at the ends, with a small button strung on it. All team members grab the thread with 2 hands, pulling it tight and forming a circle. While the members of the other team turn away, they pass the button to each other by moving it along the thread. The second team must guess at the signal: who currently has a button in their fist. If I guess right, they get a token. Then they change places.

4. "Button variety." Again, a funny score, but only the team whose members have the most buttons of different colors on their clothes wins.

5. "Button relay race." The baton, of course, is the button. This relay race can be made seated: a button located on the outside of the hand is passed in a circle while sitting at the table. You cannot help with your other hand. Who will pass it faster and not drop it?

6. "Where is the button?" One team member is blindfolded. He must select buttons by touch from a bunch of different objects that look like buttons (coins, caps, buttons, tokens, etc.) and put them aside. Which team's player will complete this task faster and more correctly?

7. "Hidden button." The presenter hides buttons on the players of one of the teams, first showing which buttons he hid. Players from the other team must find these buttons. Then the teams change places. Who will find it faster?

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