Do you like to play?

The importance and irreplaceability of play in our life has long been proven by many psychologists, scientists and life itself. We have been playing since childhood, learning to communicate in the process of playing, to build relationships.
Gathering with the whole family or with friends, chatting about different things, treating everyone with something tasty, playing a few exciting games in a board game - all this is what gives our life a special flavor.

Today the hobby for board games is taking on a total character. After all, modern board games are not only "adventure games", but also strategic, economic, detective, and logic games.

There are already up to 10 thousand in the world board games different topics. Of course, you can't keep up with all the innovations, and some games are too expensive. But you can make a game with your own hands.

Tangram

When solving the puzzle, two rules are required: first, you must use all seven tangram figures, and second, the figures must not overlap. Having adopted the mathematical science - combinatorics, more than 5000 possible options folded figures.

Assembly examples:

"PYTHAGORAS"

Puzzle Pythagorasvery similar to the good old Tangram.Puzzlehas the shape of a square, cut into 7 parts, by combining which, you can create a huge number of geometric shapes, silhouettes of animals, people, various objects, etc. All details different sizes, this is the difficulty, so it is quite difficult to fold a figure out of them.

In the instructions for puzzle15 different tasks are offered.Puzzle Pythagorascan be used in math classes, at home or at school, because it is great for the development of imagination, logic, attention, spatial thinking, math and creativity. You can make from cardboard or cut from plasticPythagoras puzzleand your family is guaranteed positive emotions and good disorder.

MAGIC SQUARE

Geometric puzzle Magic Square belongs to the second level of difficulty and is suitable for children from the age of 4 years. Studying the puzzle, the child will get acquainted with simple geometric shapes: a triangle, a trapezoid, a square.

Puzzle "Mongolian game"

A kind of geometric puzzle, like "Tangram" or "Pythagoras Square".

The puzzle is a square cut into 11 parts: 2 squares, one large rectangle, 4 small rectangles, 4 triangles. It is best to make this puzzle out of double-sided cardboard or plastic.

The essence of the game- collect figures from these elements according to the mosaic principle.

How can you play:

Create geometric shapes according to the pattern. On the Internet, you can find ready-made tasks with answers, or you can come up with tasks for your child and yourself.
In order to draw the shapes you need a checkered sheet. You can take a regular sheet of school paper. The elements that make up the "Mongolian Game" are very simple, and it will not be difficult for you to compose compositions from them.

Here, for example, are a few shapes made up of puzzle pieces.

If the child is small, then you can compose figures by example, that is, figures divided into component parts. For older children, only contours can be left in the figure.

Toddlers can also join the puzzle. For them, you can come up with very simple tasks. For example, to add two triangles or two rectangles - squares, from triangles - a large triangle or parallelogram. This method can be used to study basic geometric shapes.

Sphinx puzzle

Games - puzzles develop spatial imagination, combinatorial abilities, ingenuity, ingenuity, resourcefulness. Easy to understand, but quite difficult to solve, puzzles are on a fine line between fun and intellectual development.

Puzzles from Alexey Shamshin

Archimedes' puzzle STOMACHION

The proposed Archimedes puzzle game is a unique geometric constructor, which was played in ancient times. Its other name is "Stomachion".

The elements of the game are obtained by arbitrarily dividing a rectangle into 14 parts. From the resulting details, various object silhouettes are constructed on a plane, for example, a sitting dog, a running man, various flowers, birds. Multi-figure compositions can also be folded. It is necessary to introduce the child to the game gradually.

Practice distinguishing geometric shapes with your toddler. You can invite the child to count the sides, angles, group the shapes by shape, size, name them. Then try constructing the simplest images. To facilitate the puzzle of the Archimedean game, it is proposed to first lay out the figures according to the attached diagrams.

Puzzle "LEAF"

Geometric puzzle-mosaic Leaf is designed for children aged 4 years and older.igura resembling a lilac leaf. This lilac leaf is made of other shapes: triangles, squares, trapezoids.

Working with the puzzle develops the child's eye, perception of form, hand-eye coordination, spatial thinking and imagination.Promotes the development of arbitrariness (the ability to play by the rules and follow instructions), cognitive activity, fine motor skills, imagination, the formation of sensory standards of color, size and shape, combinatorial abilities,abstract thinking.

"Magic circle"

The circle is cut into 10 pieces. The rules of the game are the same as in other similar games: use all 10 parts to compose the silhouette, without superimposing one over the other. The cut circle should be colored the same on both sides.

The "Vietnam Game" includes a circle divided into seven parts and a frame into which the elements fit. All puzzle pieces are streamlined, some of them are the same size. Invite your child to construct a silhouette of an animal or bird from intricate details. At first, you can use not all elements, then gradually complicate the tasks.

You can design according to schemes, or you can invent your own plot compositions.

By constructing simple figurative figures, children learn the perception of form, the ability to select a figure from the background, and the selection of the main features of an object. The puzzle develops the eye, analytical and synthetic functions, imagination (reproductive and creative), hand-eye coordination, the ability to work according to the rules. The game is intended for children from 4 years old

There is a story - perhaps a fictional one. Discoverer of America Columbus was invited to the almighty Cardinal Mendoza. At the table, at the request of the guests, he began to tell how exactly the New World was discovered by him (which, however, he considered India). Someone present, a limited but self-confident person, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Is everything so simple?"

Columbus looked at him and handed him the egg: "Make it stand on its toe." Of course, attempts to set the egg were unsuccessful. "This is inconceivable ..." - said the discouraged interlocutor of Columbus. "It's very simple!" - the navigator answered with a grin and, having smashed the toe of an egg on the table, easily made him stand.

The expression "Columbian egg" - has become the embodiment of a witty and unexpected way out of difficulties, synonymous with simple resolution of difficult issues.

Let's get acquainted with the fascinating puzzle Columbus egg, which will perfectly brighten up the time on the road, waiting at the clinic and, of course, will develop the logic and thinking of the child. The principle of the game is simple. Cut the egg figurine into small parts along the lines. The child's task is to assemble the figurine according to the model. But sometimes you can dream up and come up with your own options, see a familiar image in the figure.

Here are the figures with tasks

Pentomino

The famous logic puzzle game. It was this game that inspired Alexey Pazhitnov to create the popular computer game Tetris.

Pentamino is a very popular logic game and puzzle at the same time. The elements in the game are flat figures, each of which consists of five identical squares. There are 12 pentomino elements in total, denoted with Latin letters whose shape they resemble

It is possible to make pentomino from cubes, but then you will need to glue and paste over 60 cubes with colored foil - it is difficult. We offer to make elements of their thick cardboard.

• We draw each element on hard cardboard, cut it out, check that the element fits into the “U” element. We cut, if necessary, excess. We drew details from 2.5x2.5 cm squares.

• We circle the finished cardboard element on colored paper folded in half and cut out two colored parts at once. It is better to make colored parts smaller than cardboard ones, and they stick better, and the corners will be more even.

• We glue colored paper on both sides of the cardboard with glue stick.

• We find a box for storing parts, where we will later add schemes and tasks for the game.

A total of 119 sheets.

The puzzle game "Leaf" schematically resembles the shape of a lilac leaf, consists of 9 geometric shapes. The game allows you to build a variety of silhouette figures from geometric elements. Images of real objects are used as samples.

First of all, the game develops logical thinking, fantasy, mindfulness and makes you think and reflect.

The “Unusual Leaf” set is intended for the initial acquaintance of a child with a puzzle and is suitable for children from 1.8 years old.

In the set, all drawings-schemes have drawn borders for superimposing the figures of the "Leaf" in full size. Schemes of one object are presented in three options: color, contour and contour with incompletely drawn borders.

What's in the box.

34 layouts for overlay, where all the shapes are different colors. The simplicity of the color version lies in the fact that the child, when superimposing figures, uses 2 signs - color and shape.

34 layouts for overlay, where all the boundaries of the shapes are drawn. In this version, the baby needs to correlate only one sign - the shape, which is a little more difficult.

34 layouts for overlaying, where not all the boundaries of the shapes are drawn. The number of borders drawn is represented by different difficulty levels. This option is even more difficult, since the child needs to think about which shapes to put into the outline.

Each page has a drawing that you and your baby can color in, which makes the puzzle more fun. The drawings are selected in such a way that they correspond as much as possible to the schemes depicted, which helps the child to clearly understand the object he has made from the figures.

34 cards with diagrams for assembly according to the sample. These cards are presented in 2 options: multi-colored and solid green.

34 picture cards with images of real objects corresponding to the diagrams.

These cards can be used in many ways. Some options:

• When the child has assembled the scheme for overlaying, you can ask to find among these cards an object that is similar to the one that he collected from "Leaf".
• When the child has assembled the diagram according to the model, you can ask to find the picture among the pictures that is more suitable for the assembled diagram.
• Select a picture, and then ask the child to find a diagram similar to this picture and assemble it.

The kit contains 3 types of "Leaf" double-sided for self-production: multicolored, all details are green and colorless.

The last option is for you and your child to create your own multi-colored or one-color “Leaf” by coloring. Self-production options can be used the same as in the manufacture of tangrams, in detail about this

The diagrams included will also fit any puzzle "Leaf", the size of which is 13cm * 13cm.

For the best reproduction of all colors, it is preferable to use photo paper for printing.

Features of the paper version

68 cards with diagrams and pictures, printed on matte photo paper with a density of 170 gsm. and laminated.

107 A4 overlay cards printed on premium 80gsm paper.

1 head "Leaf", double-sided, printed on matte photographic paper with a density of 100 g / m2 and glued to decorative foam.

Play, develop in a fun and exciting way!

A large set for a little head "Leaflet: 34 layouts for overlaying in three versions (different degrees of complexity), schemes for assembling according to a sample, cards-pictures of real objects to correlate with the scheme and templates" Leaflets "for self-production.

A total of 119 sheets.

Electronic version - 119 sheets for printing on A4 format.

Paper version - 68 cards with diagrams and pictures + 107 cards from diagrams for imposition in A4 format + 1 head "Leaf"

On magnets, which I made a couple of days ago, that Ostap carried me further! Well, and what - the magnet is idle! Now I know how long a roll of 100 * 100 cm is enough - for 5 magnetic musical instruments, the size of an album sheet, and also for a huge Pentamino, a huge Tangram, and no less huge Pythagoras, Leaf, Mongolian and Vietnamese games, Kolubov's egg and letter T.

And after that, a piece a little larger than A4 format still remained. I would also have done the Stomachion and the Magic Circle, but suddenly it turned out that this magnet does not magnetize to the surfaces from the reverse side. This is a minus, of course. As a result, asymmetrical puzzle pieces are difficult to use, as they can all be turned over according to the rules. Collect as many as you like on the table, but as magnets it is already difficult. By the way, we'll have to add the same Pentamino to duplicates of asymmetric figures in a mirror image, there are exactly half of them from the set.

But on the other hand, thanks to this property of the magnet, I learned that Sanya can very well collect figures in a mirror image, without any problems. He collected a duck from the "Leaf" puzzle according to the scheme. And there you need to use an asymmetrical quadrangle, and we have it turned in the wrong direction, which is on the diagram. I suggested that Sanya put the figure in the opposite direction, and he immediately took it and put everything in a mirror, without even thinking. I myself would not have thought of such a move, but it turned out well and useful. True, the parallelogram also turned out to be in the wrong direction, but we took it from another puzzle, so it is of a different color. It turned out like this:

The duck on the diagram is the initial version, and with a blue neck he assembled himself. In general, he assembled all the figures that I photographed himself, and very quickly, without "drafts", so to speak. This is another point that I never taught him, but which he always knew how to assemble according to schemes.

Here is the "Leaf" itself - the shape is like a lilac leaf:

Sanya was collecting, serious like this:

This is a figure from the same puzzle.

Crab, it seems to me. The parallelogram also had to be taken from another set:

For some reason, Sanya liked the "Mongolian game" the most, although her figures are the simplest:

Here are the diagrams for it:

Collects:

What a big giraffe!

And also according to the schemes:

Tangram. Classics of the genre. I made it in color. And similar to him - Pythagoras, cut a little differently and we have one-color:

Schemes for Tangram:

In assembly:

Columbus egg:

Schemes for him:

Eyes and noses were added because they are on the diagrams. By the way, other magnets to this from the reverse side are very much even magnetized. The Columbus egg has several non-symmetrical parts that cannot be replaced with parts from another set, so I will duplicate them. I have already decided that I will not duplicate the entire puzzle, I will make only asymmetric details in a mirror image, and according to the rules, it will be possible to use only one such detail, they are multi-colored, so I think it will be quite convenient. Well, or, as we did with the duck, mirroring the figures is also an option, but something is well duplicated with details from other sets.

And this is the Vietnam game:

Here it is almost all asymmetrical, except for two small details, so it has an almost complete double:

But I did it in a double version, because there are few details, but such as Stomachion, where almost all the details are asymmetrical, and there are not 5 of them - I will not do it on a magnet.
Schemes for the Vietnam game:

Parrot:

And this is the most unusual puzzle I've ever seen - the letter T:

Only 4 details, but how many possibilities! Its other name is 100 figures, and there are even tasks according to which these figures can be collected. These are not schemes - therefore it is not so easy to do it, Sanya is definitely difficult. Yes, even for us, adults, it is difficult!

This game in general turned out to be not as simple as it seems at first glance - from its long history and ending with proportions. It turned out that it had to be cut very wisely so that everything worked out as it should. But I'll probably make a separate post about this puzzle sometime.

These are the games we now have in addition to our already rather big arsenal)))