Children's buildings made of sand in kindergarten. Sandbox in the garden - creative solutions. Materials and equipment
Sandbox games
Children's sandbox toys:
Baby bucket. Now the store sells many different sand buckets - large, small, round, shaped like a large mold, buckets with attachments (sieve, watering can, mill).
Spatulas, scoops, toy rakes.
Molds for playing with sand in the form of various figures - towers, animals, vehicles, etc.
Crockery. Yes, yes, the dishes can be successfully used in the sandbox - the baby will love to “cook” food from the sand. And, by the way, not only girls, but also boys enjoy cooking! While preparing “food” in the sandbox, you can add various ingredients to the soup, which is cooked in a children’s saucepan - pebbles, grass, dandelions, leaves... the flight of imagination is not limited to anything!
Plastic cars. My son, when we are going for a walk, immediately takes a set of cars - several trucks, an excavator and a tractor. For games in the sandbox, it is better not to take expensive inertial cars, as they can be broken when playing in the sand.
Ships, boats. If your games with sand are combined with games with water, then you can take water transport for a walk.
Dolls and animals rubber and plastic toys from Kinder surprises - they will be happy to ride on toy cars, eat “soup” carefully prepared by the baby and sleep on a sandy bed.
Spray bottle filled with water can add variety to sandbox games.
Decorations– leaves, pebbles, cones, shells, sticks, etc. will be used during games in the sandbox.
Games with sand in the summer for preschoolers: 
Draw with a stick in the sand.
We draw pictures - by leveling the sand so that there is a flat surface and using a stick we draw the sun, trees, houses on the sand.
Let's draw and develop. Using a stick, we draw numbers and letters on the sand, so combine business with pleasure - the baby will enjoy the game, and at the same time learn letters and numbers while playing.
Guessing game. You draw a picture in the sand with a stick, for example, a car, a sun, a house, and the baby guesses what you drew. Then we change - the child draws, and the mother guesses what the baby drew in the sand.
We hide toys.
We bury the toys in the sand and look for them.
You can complicate the game and invite the child to dig out the toy with his eyes closed, and when the toy is in his hand without looking, determine what kind of toy it is.
Getting ready to eat. In children's dishes you can prepare “food” for dolls and toy animals. The ingredients for soup can be very different - sand, pebbles, grass, dandelions, leaves...
Mountain. We build a mountain out of sand, and then decorate it with beautiful pebbles, which we find right here in the sandbox.
We make Easter cakes.
It is difficult for younger kids to build Easter cakes, but they happily break the Easter cakes that their mother carefully put together. Give your little one some fun. And later he himself will learn to sculpt Easter cakes from sand.
An older child can make Easter cakes and pies on his own and sell them to you. During role-play, you can learn to count and study sizes (more or less) - tell your child that you want to buy two large Easter cakes and one small one.
We build bridges. You can dig a hole in the sandbox and place small planks or twigs on top. Tell your child that you and he built a bridge on which toys can walk.
We collect sand in a bucket. Children enjoy scooping sand into a bucket with a shovel. Then you can turn the bucket over and create the first tower, next to it a second one of the same kind, a third one...
Footprints in the sand.
Hold hands with your baby and walk along the sand, leaving footprints on it. At the same time, you can say “top-top-top, we’re walking happily along the sand with (child’s name)”
With an older child, we complicate the rules of the game: we leave prints in the sand with various toys and objects, and the child must guess whose print it is.
Role-playing games with animal toys. Build houses for toys and act out scenes of them visiting each other, walking, and communicating.
We sculpt figures from sand. Again, you can direct sand play into a developmental direction and sculpt various shapes, numbers, and letters from sand.
Pebbles.
We invite the child to look for pebbles in the sandbox and arrange them in ascending order.
We remember the counting by inviting the baby to count the pebbles that were found in the sand.
From pebbles we lay out numbers, letters, figures, simple drawings (sun, house)
Cars. If you take a truck, tractor, or excavator with you for a walk, then this is a great opportunity to arrange an interesting game. Load the truck with sand and let your child drive it to the designated location. You can draw a road in the sand along which the car will drive.
Games with sand at home: 
In winter, as well as on rainy summer days, when there is no opportunity to play in an outdoor sandbox, you can create one at home. To do this, you will need a small plastic box, which we fill with kinetic sand - you can buy it Here, or make it yourself (I wrote earlier about how to make kinetic sand yourself in this article).
Using the simple methods listed above, you can add variety to games with sand in the summer, turning them into interesting, exciting and educational games that will bring pleasure to the child and you. Time spent in the sandbox will fly by.
Interesting and fun games for you and your children! See you again!
Best regards, Olya
Favorite children's summer activity - sand construction. The main condition for organizing this work is preparing the sand for work. It should be clean (sifted if necessary) and moist. Children of junior kindergarten groups It is not advisable to allocate large sandboxes, since kids do not create large plot buildings, uniting them with a common content, their actions are often procedural in nature, the buildings are still imperfect and simple. Therefore, small portable sandboxes on legs (1.2 m x 1.1 m, height 50-60 cm) are considered convenient. It is advisable that there are two or three such sandboxes on the site. They can have any shape and design, voluminous umbrellas. It is advisable to make the bottom of the sandbox from sheet iron, since wood quickly rots from constant moisture. The sand is periodically washed out with a hose (the water flows freely). If necessary, such sandboxes can be covered with plastic film.
For middle group children They also use similar portable sandboxes on the site. It is advisable to have four of them. Experience shows that it is better to move them two at a time: this way it is easier for children to unite their buildings with a common content. For example, several guys are building a room in one sandbox, and others are building a street or a kindergarten in the next sandbox.
Significant areas are needed to organize construction activities (3 m x 4 m), they are already creating large, collective buildings, characterized by structural complexity. The guys themselves monitor the cleanliness of the sand, its readiness for work, they work carefully, without getting their clothes or shoes dirty (in warm weather you can play barefoot), and if necessary, wash their hands without being reminded. Therefore, to organize the activities of children of senior preschool age, you can build various sandy courtyards directly on the ground. They are usually placed under trees to protect those playing from overheating in the sun, and the sand from constantly drying out. If there are no trees, shade umbrellas are recommended. Do not arrange sandy courtyards in constant shade; in cool weather it will be damp, cold, and uncomfortable. Patios made from stumps, lying logs, and boards have proven themselves well.
Teach the children to treat the material with care and not to spread sand around the site. If there is no building left in the sandy yard, remind the children to rake it into a pile when leaving the area.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO WORK WITH SAND?
For working with sand children of primary preschool age You can offer plastic buckets, scoops, spatulas and molds, small toys that are durable and easy to clean, various additional materials: boards, plywood stencils depicting people, animals familiar to children, vehicles.
To organize sand construction in middle group the same materials are used, with an increase in the number of various additional means: plywood plates of different sizes and shapes, pieces of multi-colored plexiglass, plastic (the edges are cleaned), natural material (twigs, roots, pebbles, shells, etc.).
Children of senior preschool age offer smaller toys, increase the amount of varied additional material. These can be scraps of plastic hoses and pipes of different diameters, pieces of foam plastic, foam rubber, twine, braid, colored wire (sheathed), various plastic and metal boxes, cans of different shapes and sizes (for molding), etc. Containers used for construction are which are filled with water, polyethylene film, which lines the bottom of the structures. The guys build swimming pools, ponds, lakes, rivers.
When organizing the work, get involved in the construction yourself, explain, show how to work with the material, and help the children develop the plot of the game. Conducting excursions, reading works of art, looking at illustrations, talking about what they saw, watching filmstrips and slides make it possible to introduce children to various types of architecture, the features of buildings, and enrich their knowledge. The development of interest in construction is facilitated by involving children in the making of various crafts, which they use to play with buildings.
SAND PLAY AND TRAINING
As you work, ask the children questions that will help develop their ingenuity and desire for creative exploration: “How to make a bridge out of a slide?” “How can I use a hose to install a water supply and pour water into this pool?”, “What needs to be done to strengthen these parts of the buildings?” (insert rod sticks between them).
While playing, develop children's communication skills. In preschool age groups, continue to teach how to express your thoughts and desires: “Invite me to play! Thank you for your help! Treat the dolls to “gingerbread” and “cakes” made from sand.
The role-playing game “Confectionery Shop” contributes to the formation of stable motives for active joint activities in children.
The main task in working with children of middle preschool age is the formation of independence and self-government skills in the process of joint activities with sand (small subgroups of 3-4 people). Teach children to set a goal, find a constructive solution based on existing experience, plan work independently or with the help of an adult, build together, uniting their buildings with a common plot, and achieve the final goal.
Constantly encourage joint construction: “How together you work! What a beautiful city you have built! It would be nice to save the building and continue work this evening, make a pond, a beach, plant a park.” Such proposals serve as a program for creation and teach people to take care of the results of their work.
Children of senior preschool age are united in large subgroups; their buildings are diverse and interesting in content. An effective technique in organizing joint construction is to invite children to take turns choosing foremen who learn to direct common activities towards a common goal. An important educational task in the construction process at senior preschool age is to give each child the opportunity to establish that he can become a leader.
It is unacceptable for children to dig aimlessly in the sand. Bored, they begin to throw sand at each other, roll around, etc. Try to organize the children’s activities so that the children’s active life, interesting and meaningful, is in full swing in the sand.
The theme of sand buildings echoes the theme of classes on designing from building materials and constructors. This makes it possible to teach children how to build structures, making them from different materials.
Children are taught to rake sand into small piles using scoops and shovels, compact them, dig holes in the sand, put sand in small low molds and make pies, gingerbread cookies, cakes and other treats for dolls. You can teach them how to build a dog house. The adult rakes the sand into a pile, compacts it and makes a hole in it with a scoop at its base, and invites the child to place the dog in it.
You can teach children to make a path in the sand by pushing a plank lying flat and lightly pressing it into the sand. After this, together with the kids, the teacher makes bumps and holes on the path, and the construction is played out. You can use a folk nursery rhyme. An adult moves a toy along the path, saying: “Over the bumps, over the bumps, along the level path into the hole - bang!”
Kids are taught the technique of molding, shown how to take a full shape, compact sand in it, tip it over, where it is necessary to knock on it, how to lift it without damaging the Easter cake. This is how children shape cakes, towers, and houses.
You can teach the kids how to build slides. To do this, a pile of sand is poured, compacted, and with the help of a plank, slopes are laid near the slide (similar to the construction of a path). After this, you can build a bench, a gate, a table, a chair, a bridge (a plate is placed on one or two Easter cakes standing next to each other).
To build fences, you need to rake sand from both sides with your hands, compacting it, gradually building the structure in length towards you.
In the middle group, children are taught the ability to shape various parts, construct simple buildings, unite them with a common content, and decorate structures. You can teach children to build a tall tower from three shapes of different volumes: at the base there is the largest part, a smaller part is placed on it, and the construction is completed by the smallest one, which is decorated with a flag.
The children continue to independently build different slides (high, low, wide, narrow), fences, fences, corrals, etc. Easter cakes are installed at the same distance, and sticks are inserted between them, either several in a row, or one at a time horizontally, one end is inserted into the side part of the Easter cake, the other - in the adjacent one.
Using cubic shapes, children shape houses and decorate them with colorful windows by pressing pieces of plexiglass into the sand. To make the window hold better, the upper part of it is pressed deeper.
The guys love to dig tunnels in the sand. More often they do this together on both sides until their hands join together inside the heap.
Children in the older group build more complex and larger buildings from sand. The teacher shows how to cut houses, ships, cars, trains, pieces of furniture, etc. from a compacted pile using a spatula or planks.
The guys adapt a variety of materials for molding. Large forms are constructed using wooden frames, hollow cubes, cans without bottoms, and sections of large-diameter plastic pipes (in this case, the form is not turned over, but removed and raised up).
Children build high-rise buildings, palaces, towers, theaters, rocket launch sites, lay railways, construct swimming pools, stadiums, kindergartens, villages. At the same time, buildings are generously decorated with various materials and details: cylindrical high-rise buildings are made with loggias, inserting pieces of plexiglass or plywood in a row from top to bottom at equal distances, television antennas made of colored wire are installed on buildings, wires are laid between the masts of street lamps.
You can also build on the themes of familiar fairy tales and act out fairy-tale scenes (“The Frog Princess,” “The Hare’s Hut,” “The Snow Queen,” “The Scarlet Flower,” etc.).
Teach the kids a new technique for working with sand. Sand is poured into a bucket, mixed with water, then children are asked to scoop the resulting “porridge-malasha” into their palms and release it in a stream, while the sand forms patterns. Thanks to this technique, it is possible to build tall palaces, castles, towers and other cone-shaped structures, gradually increasing the building in height and width (Fig. 2).
To play with sand, children make their own toys from materials that do not deteriorate from moisture (reels, foam rubber, polystyrene foam, colored oilcloth, wire, etc.). To set up a room for dolls, you can make furniture from milk cartons. Preschoolers make flags and flagpoles, trees, road signs from oilcloth, sticks, reels, etc.
TOYS MADE BY CHILDREN FOR PLAYING WITH SAND
Master class “Sand Fantasy”
The master class is designed for children 6-7 years old.
There is always something for skillful hands to do,
If you take a good look around.
We can create a miracle ourselves
With these skillful hands.
Goals: Comprehensive intellectual and aesthetic development of children in the process of mastering new techniques, making crafts from sand, coloring it.
Tasks:
Get children interested in making sand sculptures.
Develop fine motor skills of the hands and eye.
Develop artistic taste and creative abilities.
Materials and equipment:
1. Crushed colored crayons.
3. water in the watering can.
4. sprayer for spraying.
Execution sequence:
1. Water the sand in advance.
2. Mix the sand thoroughly so that it is evenly moistened.
3.Then we begin to form the head of the lizard.
5. Add a slightly curved tail to the body, then form sharp scales in the middle.
7. When the lizard figurine is ready, remove all excess sand to the side, for a more expressive picture, the lizard is ready.
8. Thoroughly moisten the craft, spraying the entire surface, for better adhesion.
9. Then, sprinkle with crushed chalk, decorate and revive the lizard (if the sand around it becomes colored, it can be removed later).
MUNICIPAL government PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
"Novousmansky kindergarten No. 1 OV"
I APPROVED
And about. Heads of MKDOU
"Novousmansky DS No. 1OV"
____________/I.N. Filatova
Order No.__________
From "___"________2017
PROVISION
about the review - competition for the best sand building
"Sand Fantasy"
1. General Provisions:
1.1 . Review -The competition for the best sand building “Sand Fantasy” is held in accordance with the Summer Recreation Work Plan of the MKDOU"Novousmansky kindergarten No. 1 OV"in order to implement the task of developing the artistic and creative abilities of preschoolers in productive activities.
1.2. These Regulations determine the procedure for holding the review-competition “Sand Fantasies” (hereinafter referred to as the Competition) in the municipal government preschool educational institution “Novousmansky Kindergarten No. 1 OV” (hereinafter referred to as MKDOU).
1.3. The validity period of this Regulation is July 2017
2. Goals and objectives of the Competition:
Goal: development of creativity of children and teachers.
Tasks:
creating favorable conditions for children to develop social communication and interaction skills through joint activities in the summer;
development of constructive skills, consolidation of skills in working with sand;
development of creative abilities of preschool children;
nurturing an active life position in children: the ability to occupy their free time with interesting activities, have a positive attitude not only towards their own work results, but also towards the results of the work of other children and adults, and instill in children a sense of pride in the work done;
increasing the competence of teachers in managing children’s games and
the level of their creative activity in working with children.
3. Participants of the Competition:
take part in the competitionall age groups (teachers and children)
4. Procedure and timing of the Competition
5. Conditions and basic requirements:
5.1. The building should not exceed the size of the sandbox
5.2. You can use waste material in construction
5.3 Construction can be carried out by individual participants or a group of participants independently or under the guidance of teachers
5.4. One work per group is evaluated
6. Competition evaluation criteria:
When assessing work, the following is taken into account:
originality of the idea;
disclosure of the selected topic;
quality of construction, presence of additional elements;
aesthetic impression;
taking into account age capabilities
7. Conditions for organizing and conducting the Competition:
7.1. Composition and rules of work of the jury:
The jury is formed from among teachers and parents of MKDOU.
Chairman of the jury: and about.Head I.N. Filatova
Jury members:
deputy head according to VMR V.B. Zakharova
teacher L.N. Chernyshova
teacher O.P. Bogdanov
representative of the parent community O.V. Pabolina
7.2. In its work, the jury is guided by these Regulations.
8. Awarding the winners of the Competition
7.1. The winners and runners-up of the competition are determined by the jury. The jury draws up a protocol based on the results of the competition.
7.2. The winners are determined from two age groups: junior and middle preschool age, senior age (senior groups).
7.3. The winners of the competition (1st, 2nd, 3rd place) are awarded Winner Diplomas. Participants of the competition receive a certificate of participation in the Competition.
Summer is the most fun time in kindergarten. At this time we play a lot with the children in the sandbox. Sand fascinates children; constructing buildings from it is one of the most exciting activities for children in the summer.
Sand buildings are the most accessible activity for children, but at the same time they are exciting and can fulfill a wide range of children’s desires and support their interests. Children's imaginations are very rich, the main thing is that they learn, through joint activities with each other, to find their own space and coordinate it with the opinions and respect of their peers.
By organizing games with sand and water, the teacher not only introduces children to the properties of various objects and materials, but also reinforces basic ideas about the shape, size, color of objects, and develops the child’s fine motor skills. Children love these games very much. Sand is possible
You can pour sand from palm to palm, from a scoop into a mold, you can hide all sorts of small toys in the sand, build buildings, and then destroy them and build them again.
On the eve of “Builder's Day” on August 10, 2018, a competition “Building a city from sand” was held in our kindergarten. To begin with, all the preschool children gathered on the playground, where lively music was playing. The guys learned that to build our kindergarten, it was necessary to put in the work of many people from different professions and that each construction profession has its own name.
The presenter called out different words, and the children, hearing the names of construction professions, clapped their hands together.
The kids from the “Kapelka” group delighted the audience with a poem:
It’s common for a builder
Build a new brick house.
Excavator Stepan
I dug a pit in the field.
He drove large piles into the ground,
And now the concrete is in the way.
Lays bricks exactly -
The wind won't find the crack.
Bricks from the ground to Stepan
Easy to lift with a crane.
The new house is ready,
It's time to let the cats out!
Preschoolers solved riddles, took part in interesting games and relay races: the kids “cleared” a construction site; older guys delivered building materials and erected a high-rise building from multi-colored cubes.
Then three teams, led by foremen and educators, dispersed their teams to sites and began construction. There was a lot of material for crafts.
