How to keep a little child busy: 15 interesting educational games

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

These games for children 3-6 years old will help develop fine motor skills, imagination, memory and just have a great time.

Features of the development of children 3-6 years old

The child develops at an incredible speed, and every year he becomes interested in something new.

• At the age of 3, he wants to do everything himself. This is a time of independence that must be respected and cherished, because it allows the child to feel like a good fellow. Choose games in which the kid himself can do something, decide, invent, choose. And the task of the parents is not to interfere if the child wants to act independently, and to help if he asks for help.
• At the age of 4, the baby develops spatial thinking, and his speech is already becoming an adult. This is the time of labyrinths and puzzles, the most simple board games or card games. At this age, you need to sculpt, build, fantasize.
• At the age of 5, you can already write books and build large castles. The child develops his own hobbies, and adults should support them and follow them in the game.
• At the age of 6, there is an acquaintance with letters, numbers, the first reading in syllables, the first examples. But no study - just a game! At the same time, it is important that the child is not difficult and bored.

15 games to develop different skills

We develop fine motor skills

Fine motor skills are finger dexterity, but they are directly related to the development of the baby's speech. So the more the child works with his hands, the better he will speak and build sentences.

1. Welcome to the kitchen

Fill three to four bowls with different grains, such as small rice, large beans, soft oatmeal. At first, the child can touch and touch each rump with his fingers with his eyes open. Then blindfold him and ask him to guess by touch which cereal is in the bowl.

The same "guessing game" can be arranged if you put small toys that are familiar to your baby in a bag. First let him look at them, and then he will try to recognize the toys from the bag with his eyes closed.

2. Books with windows and valves

Children love bright books, and they love to play with them even more. Choose books that let your little fingers do the work. For example, the series "" ("Animals", "Colors", "Transport", "First Words") are baby books in which the answers to the riddle poems are hidden under the valve. It needs to be bent, developing dexterity in order to see the picture-answer.

For older children, the series "" will be excellent "windows". This is an entertaining encyclopedia, but all the most interesting is written here under the closed window-picture. Opening them, you can learn a lot about the topics "About weather and nature", "Oceans and seas", "On the farm" and "Dinosaurs". And there are also, where on each page the cardboard needs to be opened, like a curtain in a theater.

Developing spatial thinking

Math doesn't start with numbers and counting. First, the child needs to learn how to compare objects: more - less, longer - shorter, higher - lower.

3. Pots, spoons, cooks

Children love to play in the kitchen, so don't rush to leave. Take out pots and lids. The child's task is to determine by eye which lid fits which pan in size.

Now put plates and spoons of different sizes in front of the child (you can also use cups, if any). His task is to match a small plate to a small cup and a small spoon, a medium plate to a medium cup and a medium spoon, combine a large plate with a large cup and a large spoon.

Develop a sense of rhythm

To sing and dance, play musical instruments in the future, read and learn poetry, you need to learn to feel the rhythm.

4. Drummers

Take a large saucepan or bucket and turn it upside down. This will be the drum. Prepare a ladle or large scoop. Invite your drummer to hit the bottom of the bucket or pot with a ladle, but only to the rhythm. You can clap your hands, you can put on music. The child should accompany different songs with different rhythms with "percussion". If you want a timpani - take two covers.

The same thing can be thought up with less rumble than a ladle makes when hitting a saucepan. For example, invite your child to jump to the beat or just clap to the music. And it is possible and not only to the music, because the rhythm of the poems also needs to be felt. Take a book with children's poems and clap reading: "OUR TANYA Cries LOUDLY, DROP IN THE RIVER A BALL …"

We develop visual memory

Visual memory helps to quickly record any new information. Thanks to her, a person can become literate if he reads a lot, as well as memorize people's faces well.

5. Memori

There is no better memory game than this one. You need to take cards with paired images (lotto or just a set of cards will do). Lay the pairs face down. Have the child open two cards at a time and remember which ones are. His task is to open two identical cards at once in one move, that is, a pair. If he found a pair, he leaves two pictures open and looks for pairs further.

This game is great for developing visual memory and attention. By the way, there are memorials with different themes to help parents (animals, colors, English words). Here, these very pairs are hidden behind cardboard curtain windows. They do not need to be laid out or turned over - they just need to be moved to reveal the drawings. Very convenient: not a single detail of the game will be lost.

We develop speech

Pronouncing words correctly, building sentences, retelling without difficulty and always being the center of attention - all this will ensure the child has a good speech.

6. Breathe deeply

Do you think that in order to speak and tell beautifully, the child just needs to learn more words? It is necessary, of course, but it is also necessary to train breathing in order to finish the sentences to the end. This will help the game with cotton balls.

Build a labyrinth on the table using a constructor or any other items. Place a cotton ball at the beginning of the maze. The child's task is to blow on the ball, moving it through the maze to the very finish. Here both breathing will develop, and thinking, because the baby will have to build a path.

7. What do I see

This game is good to play outside, although you can also at home. The child should see and think of some object, for example, a blue car, which is parked in the yard, and describe it. What is it (shape, color, size), where it stands, what's next. You can add on your own who drives it, what it helps people do. And your task is not to guess the subject for as long as possible in order to give the child the opportunity to tell more.

We develop independence

The most important stage in a child's development is their growing need for independence. The success, confidence and determination in the future depend on how much the parents allow the child to do on their own.

8. Take me home

Dressing yourself is a matter of course. Choosing what you want for lunch is very good. But can you find your own home? When you go for a walk, invite your child to find their way home. And you yourself just go where the baby takes you.

Develop imagination

Imagination is needed not only for artists and actors. It allows you to create in any field, enjoy reading, dream, invent and invent.

9. The palm turns …

Circle the baby's hands and feet on the sheets of paper. Now let the little artist transform these outlines into different objects. For example, a beautiful octopus will turn out from the palm of the hand, and a bouquet of flowers from the heel. Imagine together!

10. Traveler's Album

Chances are, a whole bunch of adventures await you in the summer: you can go to the sea, to the village, or just walk a lot outside. Use this time to make an album to remember the brightest summer walks. Invite your kid to collect little things that he wants to keep: tickets, shells, small souvenirs.

11. Search from A to Z

Write the alphabet on a piece of paper. Now start looking for a corresponding object around you for each letter. If objects are no longer found at home - run into the street! After all, there D is the road, P is the sandbox and, most importantly, S is the sun. The game will help the kid remember letters and get to know the world around him, teach him how to be attentive.

12. Map of the area

We found this game in the book of ideas for toddlers from 4 to 6 years old "". Invite your child to draw a map of the neighborhood in their yard. Mark the house in which you live and other important points for the baby: here is a favorite playground, and here is a bus stop. And you can also add your own routes, for example, the path to kindergarten or to visit a friend. So in the child's head there will be a complete picture of the place in which he lives.

13. Everyone to the exhibition

Surely your child has “exhibits” dear to his heart: his own drawings and crafts or favorite toys. But what if you spread them out in the room and call your grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt? This is how we develop speech and oratory skills. And the child will surely be pleased to proudly tell about their favorite things.

14. Create a robot

People make robots to help them do different jobs. What kind of robot do you and your baby come up with? How will he be useful: will he take away all the toys or will he play ball with you? Now draw it! Such tasks develop imagination and teach you to think outside the box.

Learning colors

Teach your toddler to distinguish colors in practice.

15. It's okay

Parents' dream is toys laid out in boxes. You can turn this cleaning into a useful educational activity and a fun game.

Arrange the boxes and invite the child to put toys: everything red in a white box, everything blue in a green box. And then you can give other tasks. Everything small - in one box, everything big - in another. Or you can remove toys at speed. Who will choose all the rabbits faster from soft toys?