Busy board - a developing toy for kids and freedom of knowledge
Busy board (literally from English busy board «occupied by board») became widely popular all over the world thanks to Maria Montessori, Italian teacher who proved the first positive influence of games with latches, switches and locks on development of fine motor skills in the child. The anxiety on that fingers of too active children casually have not appeared in the switch became motive for toy creation. For satisfaction of curiosity to the child offered the non-working model which studying caused in it genuine interest.
In Ashkhabad one of those who independently make these activity toys, is mum of two remarkable boys Jennet Gandymova. For quite some time now she has been engaged in this creative work with which samples it is possible to get acquainted on her webpage in social networks craftizone_tm .
Initially plans of Jennet included only creation of activity toys for children, but in due course she, having understood that it is not sufficient for her, has independently started to study laser cut. So she has become the owner of the laser machine tool which has helped to expand assortment of manufacturing of the products allowing children more to learn about the world around.
For the question of the correspondent of ORIENT: «Why she has chosen activity toys, instead of other kinds of activity? » Jennet answers that as mum it is very important for her versatile development of her children, and she dreamt to create by her own hands something that would fit her boys namely. So, young mum also had an idea of creation busy boards and placing of such fact-finding tasks on them which will be for her children not only interesting, but also useful.
According to jennet when she saw a huge delight from the first work, she was inspired to produce new toys for kids of her friends and relatives. Thus, each new work was, in the opinion of Gandymova, more perfect and contained more quantity of bright, and the main thing, safe details.
The main advantage of busy board jennet considers the fact that the toy can be made practically for any age, proceeding from preferences of the child, after all each parent as anybody another knows that is necessary for their kid.
One of the most interesting ideas realised in the creativity, Jennet names the busy board with the different locks fixed on them and keys to them. As she said, the similar entertainment saves a considerable quantity of time for parents and brings huge pleasure to the child occupied with selection of the necessary key. And any modern, interactive, musical toy will not replace household interest of kids to all "forbidden" locks, handles, switches, latches, sockets and other delights of each apartment.
Besides finger-type gymnastics as bases of development of speech busy board promotes formation of thinking and logic, memory, sensor, attention, imagination, gives skills of the account and trains in such household skills as a lacing, buttoning , switching on and off , opening/closing and etc.
It is for us that stickers and buttons on a jacket or a lid on a bottle do not present any interest, but it will evoke delight in any child. It underlies Montessori's technique - knowledge freedom.
