Bizibord - a developing board with locks and buttons for kids with their own hands

Parental supervision of young children tires both sides. The child is trying to learn the world, and it is protected, prohibited or distracted from an interesting outlet and a cabinet with medicines. On the contrary, with mom, everything falls out of her hands as soon as she sees something connected with the risk of injury or damage in the field of vision of her son or daughter. Each adult is visited by thoughts about the age at which his baby should be acquainted with dangerous objects. On the one hand, you won’t follow a child’s footprint all your life, but on the other hand, the risk of being in a hospital bed with a young tomboy is too great.

Montessori Technique

Especially in order to solve this dilemma, the Italian teacher and scientist Maria Montessori suggested teaching children through the knowledge of the essence of things as part of her methodology. After all, it is not necessary to bring the crumbs to a real door so that he understands the principle of the heck. You can simply put this item in the hands of the baby and he will figure it out with its functionality. The distinction between the actions of a child and the danger that threatens him has brought the theory of preschool education to a new level.

A well-known methodologist suggested moving improvised household appliances to a stand for study. Thus, children will be able to study the functionality of each small detail, and parents will no longer be afraid for their lives. Moving door chains, rings from a cornice or a zipper, the child will develop fine motor skills of fingers and examine the things that interest him. Neural signals from small fingers are transmitted to the brain and enrich the memory of the baby with impressions. Such stimulation favorably affects the intellectual and physical development of crumbs.

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Development board with locks, clasps, toggle switches and buttons

What is this stand with visual material?

You can make a development board with your own hands or buy a finished one. In fact, this is an ordinary board, with those very dangerous things fixed, from which parents were trembling. For example, it can be a broken socket with a plug, a switch, handles from cabinet doors or a hook on a door, a lacing, a bell button and even a circular dial from an old telephone, i.e. it can be anything you can touch, move, study without any threat to life. In the meantime, the child is busy with such a serious matter, mom can also give herself 10-15 minutes of free time 🙂

This development board has its own name - busyboard. Verbatim Business board can be translated as "board to keep the baby busy." Indeed, various small items and bright design can captivate a son or daughter for a long time.

The developing board of the business board ensures the comprehensive development of the child and helps parents to protect it from traumatic situations at the stage of development of the surrounding world.

Every year, new types of development boards are released. Manufacturers are not limited to a standard set of small parts. Pursuing the goal of developing children's fine motor skills, materials of various textures are applied to the board body. Small fingers will feel rubber balls, plastic wheels, felt, a piece of wool knitting and strung beads. Each of these items will give the baby new sensations and diversify his idea of ​​the world around him.

DIY development board creation

In stores, factory copies of developing boards come across. Taking them as an example, it is quite possible to create a business board yourself. The craft that got out of the hands of parents will be appreciated by the child more than faceless stamping.

So, you decided to create a development board yourself and now think about how best to do it. First you need to choose the basis. As a rule, for this they take a small piece of plywood, plastic or laminated particleboard. An ordinary board will be too heavy, and an unlaminated board can bring a bunch of splashes instead of good for your son or daughter. As additional inserts use small planks, the same plywood or pieces of laminate. Sometimes, a thick corrugated cardboard is used as a basis for a lifeboard. It will be convenient if you decide to introduce your child to the world of fabrics and sewing accessories.

The next step will be the analysis of your mezzanines and old drawers for the availability of spare parts for furniture and other trifles that were once a pity to throw out. If you are an advocate of cleanliness and you cannot find such details in your home, you can always buy them in a hardware or hardware store. Moreover, you still have to go there for self-tapping screws for fasteners.

After you fished out all future fragments of the development board, try to compose them and decorate the board. Often, to emulate the entrance doors, small boards are placed on the board on small hinges, which the baby will be able to lock himself on various types of locks and locks. For such a kind of door you can place a niche. Then the child will be able to arrange caches there, hiding his beloved baby doll or a gift of candy. It doesn’t matter if something does not fit on the first version of your bodyboard - in the future you can always supplement these boards with these copies if something goes wrong.

And finally, the last step is to securely screw all the fragments with screws or nail them with studs. Carefully inspect the opposite side of the board. The protruding sharp ends of the screws can injure the child, so it will be necessary to treat them with an emery or file.

Material to use

Best of all, if the elements from various materials will be attached to the board - fabric, metal, plastic, rubber. This diversifies the range of sensations and does not have time to get tired of the baby. The most used parts are:

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• Door latches, locks, latches, latch, hinges, handles, borders and everything that is called door accessories. Something may just serve as a frame for a bodyboard.
• Furniture castors.
• Rollers are construction, massage. Even a tight toilet paper sleeve will do.
• Lacing. On the basis of the usually draw the image of the shoe, rivets are attached to it and tuck the laces in accordance with all the rules. It’s better if you pick vibrant colors for this element.
• Fasteners, zippers, Velcro, buttons, hooks with loops. All this can be found in the sewing store and sew on durable shreds of fabric, which will then be fixed on the base.
• Bells or similar parts that make a sound. An old doorbell or xylophone parts will do.
• Bills, large rings on a piece of an old cornice or just beads strung on a thread. Moving them in different directions, the baby will be able to learn the score.
• Old telephone disk or keypad from a mobile device.
• Zippers. For simplicity, they usually use “tractor” zippers, you can attach them with a good glue or a stapler, and design them again with a picture: for example, it can be a jacket or a crocodile, which has lightning instead of teeth!
• Toggle switches, switches, ringer button or other similar elements.
• Mirrors with a protective edge.
• Pieces of various fabrics.
• Flashlights and lights. Naturally, the simplest and most understandable for the child.
• Mail locks with keys.
• Buttons, animal eyes and other sewing accessories.
• A panel with buttons from an unnecessary appliance and much more ...

This list is just an example of what you can use. If you find at home something else that will be useful for the development of your offspring, add this to your development board. The main thing is that the new fragment is safe and cannot injure the child in your absence.

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Video instructions: how to make a do-it-yourself board