How and what to play with a child of 1.5-2 years old?

After one and a half years, a variety of story-shaped toys with more details are needed for games. For example, it is good if the doll has fingers and toes marked, a bow on the head, shoes. The doll should be mobile, the material from which it is made should resemble living flesh (the arms and legs should bend) - in a word, the doll should look like a person. Then playing with it will be more difficult, and therefore more educational. You can sit it down, walk on the floor, put it to bed, bathe it. It is desirable that such story-shaped toys as cars and building materials be folded together, but separately from a set of dishes or furniture. Then the child can choose what he will play with now. If the toys are dumped in a heap, then the beginning of the game will be delayed, since the child, having taken one toy and started playing with it, will see another, from another set, and will start playing with it, and then with another. You can say: "So what? Let him play with whatever he wants!" But we have already agreed with you that a game is a learning process. Its meaning should be complete. After all, if, when giving you a lecture on mathematics, they include excerpts from literature, biology and history, you are unlikely to understand anything. So, in a child's game (which, by the way, you should direct), there should be a beginning, a basis and an end: the child took a toy truck, hummed as if starting the engine, drove for cubes, loaded them into the back, brought them to an imaginary construction site, began to build a house or something else from them. And after he built it, he should put the toys back in place. To make it interesting for him to do this, you need to ask him to load the truck with cubes again and take them to where the kid got them from.

By the age of one and a half, children perform 3-4 simple play tasks with different toys (feed dolls and toy animals, put them to bed, ride them in a car or stroller). Adults should comment on the game or even guide the child. For example, you can ask the child to feed the doll: "Feed the doll" or "Take her to the zoo." The child can perform a single play action (bring a cup or spoon to the doll's face once, and then leave these toys). But if you offer the child another option for continuing this game, the child will gradually become carried away and will happily repeat the play actions. And not only with this doll, but also with other dolls or animals.

Adults can (and should) help the child in the game, especially with new toys. When you pick up a new toy, you first need to name it, then show the child what it can do, how to play with it, accompanying your actions with a story. Then you need to ask the child to say what kind of toy it is, so that he repeats its name. After that, ask him to do the same actions with the toy as you did. If the child not only repeats your actions, but also brings something new to the game, you must definitely praise him: "Oh, what a great idea you had!"

Playing with dolls is very useful. By caring for her, children (usually girls) not only develop the ability and skill to joyfully devote themselves to care and work for the sake of another, albeit imaginary, creature, but also acquire a number of useful work skills. For example, by lacing her shoes, children will later be able to lace their own shoes; by buttoning her dress, they will later be able to button their own.

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