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12 Parent-Child Games with Bottle Caps

Bottle caps come in various types, bright colors, and different shapes. They are readily available, easy for toddlers to operate,不受 time and space limitations. You can use materials from anywhere and create games on the spot. There are many ways to play with bottle caps. During activities, babies are not restricted in their game methods and are encouraged to create their own ways of playing.

1. Rolling Bottle Caps

Stand up the small bottle cap, press it with your index finger, and gently push it forward to see which one rolls the farthest.

2. Playing Slides

First, build a sloping surface, place the small bottle cap on it, and push it with your hand to see which one slides the farthest.

3. Spinning Circles

Make a hole in the center of the bottle cap, insert a small toothpick, and twist it with two fingers. Compare which one spins the prettiest and longest.

4. Building Houses

Use your fingers as pillars and the bottle caps as roofs. Alternate using ten fingers to see who builds the most houses and whose house is the sturdiest.

5. Bottle Cap Basketball

Place a small basin as the basket and use the small bottle cap as the basketball to see who shoots the most accurately.

6. Stacking Layers

Place large bottle caps at the bottom and small ones at the top to see who stacks them the highest.

7. Classification

Allow children to classify bottle caps through observation, comparison, and classification methods according to the color, pattern, base area size, and height of the given bottle caps. In this process, they will initially form a cognitive understanding of concepts such as size, color, and height.

By touching the bottle caps with their hands and feeling their texture, children can classify bottle caps with different textures and appearances into rough, relatively rough, smooth; hard, soft, cool, etc. This process greatly exercises their tactile sensitivity.

8. Bold Imagination

Prepare bottle caps of different sizes, colors, and shapes for children and let them choose one they like. Look at what the bottle cap resembles and encourage children to express themselves through observation. Children's imagination is quite rich, and they will give us many answers: "It looks like the sun," "It looks like an apple," "It looks like a strawberry," "It looks like a balloon," "It looks like a flying saucer"... Each time you ask, they can give different answers.

9. Drawing Game

Use bottle caps to randomly print circles and add images. Encourage children to boldly add drawings and let them spread their wings of imagination, creating colorful and diverse pictures.

10. Puzzle Game

Use bottle caps to arrange various shapes, such as elephants and flowers, and combine them with toothpicks to create suns and hedgehogs.

11. Making Whistles

Flatten beer bottle caps, punch two small holes, and thread a string through. Then you can play with it. By swinging the bottle cap, the two strands of rope twist together, and when you pull, the iron plate rotates and emits a buzzing sound.

12. Playing Chess

You can use plastic bottle caps to play Gomoku, Three Men's Morris, International Chess, etc.

The above 12 parent-child games with bottle caps cultivate hand-eye coordination and flexibility of small muscles in babies by rolling, sliding, spinning, stacking, and layering operations with bottle caps. The balance of the baby's brain also gets developed.