Designer models for boys over 5 years old

In the very early childhood, the little ones still do not really understand what the difference between the two sexes is, therefore, developing toys for boys and girls do not differ almost anything. However, at the age of 3-4 years, children already completely identify themselves as a boy or a girl, and the former often also consider any passion that would suit a girl openly shameful.

At a minimum, this moment should be a worthy reason for parents to think about choosing a special designer for the boy, although another thing is important: the future man should understand the technique and design, and only special children's designers, designed exclusively for boys, can give such knowledge in the form interesting game.

At the age of 5 years, the child is still radically different from adults in all respects, but he already has nothing in common with the infant. At this stage, the boy no longer needs the qualities of a designer that were considered principled just a couple of years ago: the brightness of the parts and their rather large size. If earlier the designer was supposed to be extremely simple, now the kid will like more complex schemes that allow him to assemble a model similar to the original.

The motor skills of the hands are already developed sufficiently so as not to put forward any restrictions regarding the choice of one or another type of set. The intelligence at this stage is also quite high, which makes it possible to touch on the most unusual and original themes that enable the boy to better understand the world around him.

At the same time, the category “from 5 years” includes quite complex sets that a first-grader of 6-7 years cannot master, so parents should think: can their child already cope with the proposed task now?

In addition, each type of constructors deserves a separate mention, since it implies its own advantages, disadvantages, and peculiarities of use, depending on age.

For most modern people, the very word “constructor” is usually associated with its block variety, the most striking example of which is the famous Lego. Parts, usually made of plastic, are distinguished by the brightness and plausibility of the forms, and they are connected very easily through a system of spikes and grooves. They are divided into sets for boys and girls solely by what can be assembled - for example, a warship will probably be more interesting for a boy than for a girl.

If we talk about Lego itself, then its sets are recommended for children even from a younger age - from about 3 years old, but here you need to understand that no other sets differ in complexity as much as these. Since the assembly of such a designer has become a real mania all over the world and has madly fascinated not only children, but also adults, even theme parks have been created in different countries of the world, where literally everything is assembled from designer details. It is clear that such an odd job will be beyond the power of not only 5, but also 8-10 years old.

The variation in cost is also global, because a small and simple set can cost a hundred or two rubles, and a large-scale composite model will cost thousands and thousands of parents. Although the details of each set, as a rule, have a rather narrow purpose and cannot be used in any other way, if there are several different sets, they can still be combined.

If we talk about the manufacturers, Lego has already been mentioned, and from the Russian analogues attention should be paid to the “City of Masters”.

Some time ago, the modeling of various architectural structures from matches was a great success. Rather, they were admired by everyone who was in the know, but only adults were engaged in assembly, and that only a few. The problem was the complexity of such modeling, because the matches are not meant to be designed at all, they are very thin and inconvenient, but the finished crafts looked amazing, resembling a real wooden house.

Toy manufacturers at some point decided to help such folk craftsmen and began to produce a special wooden designer, in which all the parts already have the desired shape and even grooves for the connection, and the kit itself also contains detailed instructions on how to assemble a small masterpiece.

Experts say that such a designer can be used by girls, but boys will like it much more. Construction is generally a male topic, especially since even in the process of assembling toy crafts, a kid can learn the basic principles of erection of structures.

In addition, each set can easily consist of hundreds of parts, so you can not immediately throw a five-year-old baby alone with such a difficult task - you need to design together.

What else can scare the consumer, so it is quite a high price, because to find a wooden set at a price below a thousand rubles is almost impossible. On the other hand, the choice of architectural forms is amazing, because the release involved Russian manufacturers, such as "Lesovichok", "Territory of creativity" or "Tenth Kingdom". Of the imported brands you need to select the Czech brand Walachia.

For a simple Soviet boy, the ultimate dream was a metal constructor consisting of metal flat sticks and plates with perforations into which one could twist the bolts and thereby join the parts together. Now this solution may seem very primitive, because crafts, despite the presence of specific parts like completely natural wheels, still look too fresh and ugly (all the details are of a standard metallic color), but it’s difficult to make a more man-made designer feature.

Such a designer should like the boy for the fact that in the process of assembling he literally constructs a simple, but simple, mechanism. Soviet kits allowed to assemble several dozen different toys from one set of parts, which made such a gift a child’s dream.

Now, many manufacturers, chasing the appeal, refused to universality and began to produce color parts that would look ridiculous in any other order, but this solution, provided that the assembled model is plausible, many people like it.

Screw designer praise for the highest strength of crafts, as well as for the comprehensive development of the child, because in the process of assembling the imagination and perseverance, memory and attention are trained. In this case, the process of playing a child of 5 years should be controlled by an adult, because metal parts can easily get hurt. Since one box actually contains several completely different toys, even the cost of several thousand rubles should not frighten a potential consumer.

Of the domestic manufacturers praise the same "Tenth Kingdom" and "Wunderkind", from foreign companies can not miss the inventor of such a designer - Meccano.

This kind of designers can safely be considered a novelty of recent years, but now we can say that it has caused a real sensation. If you have never heard of such designers before, it is enough to characterize such a toy with one phrase: with its help even a five-year-old child will be able to independently assemble a functioning radio or power amplifier!

Many people are frightened away by such a toy due to the fact that it may not be a danger to the child. In fact the voltage of the electric current in the set is low, because all the assembled mechanisms operate on ordinary batteries. At the same time, more complex versions of such a set could open their eyes to many electrical phenomena even for adults, but the simplest models are understandable even for children 5 years old, at the same time introducing them to the fact that in the future you will still have to study the school curriculum. Joint assembly with dad gives the baby a sense of involvement in real male work, and a functioning device assembled with your own hands will be a cause for great pride.

Because of their simplicity, electronic designers for kids from 5 years old are relatively inexpensive - you can even pick up a set for a thousand rubles.

In fact, the diversity of designers is so great that it is simply unrealistic to describe each of them. However, several other varieties deserve to be mentioned at least superficially.

For example, a rather unusual solution is a designer, which is based on an ordinary velcro. Apparently, the developers were inspired by the example of the fruit of the burdock, which cling to clothing during walks through the overgrown grassland, however, small details of such a designer do not cling to anything else but themselves. Perhaps, This is the least traumatic type of the designer, because its details are small and soft, and the finished design is elastic and flexible.

For the same reason, such a constructor is considered “eternal”, since it is very hard to break it. A typical set contains hundreds of small multi-colored stickies, as well as design accessories such as eyes, limbs, hats. The cost at the same time can remain at the level from a thousand rubles to one and a half.

Another important innovation is the designers to create robotics. Externally, these designers usually resemble something like the same Lego (by the way, this brand itself already produces something similar), but the assembled model has a characteristic feature: it can be controlled using a remote control.

Naturally, it is quite difficult to use the details of such kits to create something completely new and unusual, since the programmed mechanism that makes the craft self-propelled is designed for a specific design.However, all the major manufacturers say that if desired, the remote control and the engine can be reprogrammed, so that over time the baby will be able to train his brain on a rather complex task, even from an adult’s point of view.

Each such designer predictably costs several thousand rubles, but to the delight of the newly-made owner, by all appearances, there will be no limit.

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