5 Ways to Use Russian Nesting Dolls As an Educational Toy Or Interactive Activity

What better way than to use a toy and disguise it as an educational learning activity. Russian Nesting Dolls are the perfect toy to do this so your child is having fun but learning at the same time.

* Since nesting dolls fit easily inside each other, these are the perfect tools to teach your child about the concepts of size and shapes. Engage them in playing with the toys and show them how the bigger doll is home for the smaller dolls. You may have to put the dolls together for them showing them how they fit together to create a certain size doll. After a few times they will realize they can create and put together the parts to create a whole family of dolls. Remember, some of these nesting dolls can be quite small so an adult must supervise if you think your child may try and put the small objects in their mouth.

* Use the opening and closing of the dolls as an interactive activity. These dolls usually separate fairly easily, but let you child practice their fine motor skills trying to unscrew the dolls apart, and then snapping them back together. This can be a little challenging for them at first, but with a little practice they will soon be able to take these little dolls apart and put them back together with ease.

* You can also use these little dolls as matching toys. Show the child that the 2 halves of the dolls have to be the same size to put them back together. In order to make a complete doll, show them how to match up the top and the bottoms that are the same size and then snap them back together. 

* All of the Russian Nesting Dolls are usually very colorful and have many different color patterns. Once all of the dolls are taken apart, have your child match the dolls outfits by color in order to help them decide which top and bottom pieces go together. Sometimes instead of clothes, the stacking dolls may be animals. Help them to match the correct animal head to the correct animal bottom.

* You can also use the Russian nesting dolls as sorting toys. Have your child sort all of the pieces from largest to smallest, or sort them according to their colors. You can mix and match all of the nesting dolls that you have in your collection and have them sort them by doll, animal, house, nursery rhyme, or whatever pieces you have in your collection.

As you can see, there are many different educational and interactive activities that you can have you child perform with these Russian Nesting Dolls. Of course, some of the more expensive Nesting Dolls you would not want your child playing with, but there is quite a variety in the price range so you could find some that are more appropriate for the kids to play with. Let your child have fun with these precious Nesting Dolls. They will love to play with these for hours, and they will not even know they are learning some valuable skills at the same time.