With the advent of the Lego designer, homemade products are no longer perceived as archaic and touching, made with children's hands of cones, acorns, knots, as well as wires, pieces of plastic and scraps of leather, purchased on occasion at the Young Technician store. A million options in a company box - a gift from a well-known company to children. In the Lego world, home-made products are fantasy designs created by the imagination of a child in addition to colorful schemes for connecting parts that are attached to the next thematic set.
The game of soldiers of the XXI century
The development of logic and foresight, the comprehension of the foundations of military tactics in the old days, nurtured great commanders from playing boys' soldiers . With this, Suvorov himself once began his victorious ascent to the heights of military glory. In the modern world, the successes of civilian creation and the outcome of military conflicts are largely decided by well-thought-out technology. The makings of not only strategists, but also thoughtful designers, it is important to encourage the future defenders of the Fatherland.
With what "sight" are lego-home-made products created, war or peace prevail in children's games, in many respects determines the subject of acquired sets. In either case, you can give the child a positive constructive direction. It is important that the game does not blindly copy the chaotic action of screen prototypes - films and especially computer games created on their basis. Let the plastic master Yoda replace the colorful tin Ulan Colonel, resistant to mechanical shocks, this replacement does not cancel the art of military strategy .
New forms with classic content
Offering the militaristic homemade Lego, Star Wars, and similar storylines by no means prohibit getting acquainted with the history of the great battles of the past, with the tactics of moving troops, the meaning of their initial deployment on the battlefield, and the selection of strategically advantageous positions. At the same time, master Yoda, accustomed to always and everywhere spectacularly swinging his luminous sword, may well lead an ambush regiment, replacing the Old Russian prince in one of the historical reconstructions. The heroes inhabiting the homemade Lego heroes do not have to live their on-screen life in the game. It is worth giving them the freedom to spend time with someone else for the sake of serious involvement in a real, not fictitious, story.
We develop a fantasy
The commissioned equipment, on the contrary, may well bear the features of an unknown future, be endowed with properties that are not characteristic of modern armaments. But, again, Star Wars homemade products, if not fundamentally constructive, then in substantiating their potential capabilities should be different from their on-screen prototypes. The game should not consist in simple consumer copying of hackneyed stories, its vocation is to develop imagination, technical ingenuity, and push the boundaries of the possible.
An interesting component is the possible creation of words. It is necessary not only to invent a technical novelty, but also to call it by a name that would not be found in science fiction, and at the same time reflect all the essential properties of the newly created object. Such activities can serve as an additional incentive to study the native and foreign languages.
Unknown Worlds
Lego-homemade products allow you to simulate not only technical, but also natural objects, change at your discretion the look of the plant world that accompanies man-made structures. That is why the game is useful not only for the future commander, but also for the novice researcher biologist. If you take into account all sorts of large-scale lego home-made products - Minecraft, for example, there is a case here for a young architect, engineer, builder, and for a landscape designer, project manager, and town governor.
Whatever the child creates, whatever handmade improvises he brings to our attention for a joint discussion, it is important to leave the vicious circle created by the external directors of the timelessness of film fiction. The main thing is that all these aspirations should never be ephemeral, but with a careful study of the past experience of mankind should be directed to a no less real future.
The emotional and moral component of the game
Studies by child psychologists clearly prove the destructive effect on the psyche of so-called necrophilic toys - skeletons, Monster High characters and the like. Models of weapons and military equipment do not so directly emotionally oppress, bring close to the topic of death, but are on the thin line of the permissible. The danger is leveled where the meaning of the toy can be transformed by the child himself according to the principle of "swords to scream ." From the elements for creating a tank or military jeep, it is quite possible to build a house or a pier for a pleasure yacht. The designer himself, by virtue of his philosophical idea, carries a constructive, positive beginning.
Still, it is worth paying attention to what plots mix with the painstaking construction of new bizarre objects from the basic elements of the miniature world. Minecraft homemade legos should not have common ground with Mine Campf so close to hearing. Unfortunately, plots drawn from the media, the Internet, and some adult films can even sow tears of hostility, neglect, and arrogance in a children's game.
Good game is the basis and sign of a bright character
When buying a child one or more Lego sets, do not consider what you have done enough to consider you a sensitive, caring parent. The real attention to the child does not begin with an abundance of toys in the children's corner, but with complicity in inventing a plot, designing, developing an action played out for fun. In the child’s play activity - in his remarks put into the mouth of the characters, meditations behind the scenes, explanations for adults, we often recognize ourselves, not only obvious advantages, but also significant shortcomings that we have not noticed. It is worth looking into this mirror, and not pass by, when the child plays in the Lego set we donated, creating his own home-made products.