What to play with children 2, 3, 5, 6 years old?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

In the life of every parent, there are moments when the baby is not able to entertain himself on his own, so he clings to an adult in every possible way, catches his attention, whine and interferes with important things. In his opinion, adult affairs are such a bore! After all, it is much more interesting to play, watch cartoons and read books. Oh those babies! So you have to put things off and figure out what to play with the children so that the apartment does not turn into the count's ruins, and the cat is not found hanging by the tail on a clothesline. Therefore, below are a few ideas for playing parenting.

All life is a game

How quickly we forget that we ourselves were once children! The system of school education is gradually washing out the craving for fun children's games, offering not quite adequate replacements: success, recognition, good grades, a worthy future. But if you leave the game in your life, thenit will be easy to save the entire palette of colors, allowing you to draw inspiration even when there is no strength, when there is endless rain outside the window, and there is a protracted crisis in the country. Fortunately, with the birth of our own children, we are given a second chance to remember the little child inside ourselves and let him fool around a little …

Games for two year olds

You can play with a small newborn bag. Children of any age readily respond to game messages from the outside. But the most interesting for adults are children after two years. Everyone already understands, they are open to everything new and so cute in their desire to copy the behavior of adults. Playing with a child of 2 years is not difficult at all. It is enough to put a constructor in front of him and show how the parts are connected, remaining close by, in order to positively evaluate the first creative results of the work of little fingers. You can offer role-playing games to get acquainted with certain professions or homemade simulators to learn basic shapes, colors, sizes.

Games with children of three years old

Wonderful age of disclosure of children's independence! What to play with a 3 year old? He will show you and tell you what he is interested in at the moment. It could be modeling from plasticine every evening with the goal of independently creating "Lightning McQueen" according to my father's example. Or a role-playing game in a kindergarten, when all the toys must be fed, planted on a potty and placed in the appropriate corners of the children's room. The main thing is not to interfere and, followingadvice from J. Gippenreiter, to help when asked.

Playing with four year olds

What to play with children if they are already four? You can offer to make a plasticine labyrinth yourself and try it out right away. To do this, stock up on a lid from a cardboard box, plasticine, a small iron machine and a magnet. The walls of the labyrinth are drawn on the lid, then plasticine walls are lined up along the marked lines. The machine is placed at the beginning, and a magnet is attached to the bottom of the lid, moving which you need to take the machine out of a predicament.

Games with five-year-olds

Playing with a 5-year-old child is not difficult if you know and support your child's hobbies. Is the kid an athlete? Then he needs to organize from improvised means a platform for the exit of physical activity. If the child is a creative person, then you should experiment with different materials and techniques, offering paints, plasticine, scissors, and sewing. For example, five-year-old children are already able to cut out and compose multi-layered 3D paper pictures, panoramas or scenes with moving elements, where smoke pours from the chimney of a steam locomotive, and hungry chicks protrude from the nest towards their mother.

Games with six-year-olds

To play with a child of 6 years old, it is better to focus on his hobbies. Games with them can also be in the nature of preparing for school: simple tasks, the first books for independent reading, the first rhyming. The main thing is that children like such games and do not discourage their natural desire to learn andlearn new things.

Games at home

Bad weather outside the window or no mood for street fees? You can always find entertaining activities within the four walls. Parents can brainstorm ideas of what to play with their children at home. You will definitely have to choose from at least three games that will captivate not only the younger members of the family, but also adults.

1. Worth a meal with your child. If he is still small, then let him help his mother cut fruit salad. A couple of drops of yogurt - and the whole family can try the baby's first dish. If the child has already grown out of the usual training of fine motor skills, then you should organize the joint preparation of some pastries, which, again, will be nice to taste with a cup of tea. By the way, these can be curly cookies, for example, in the form of letters and numbers, which a preschooler will be happy to fashion himself.

2. You can organize a homemade twister by drawing multi-colored circles on a roll of old wallpaper. Or build an obstacle course from stools, a table, sofa cushions, buttons scattered on the floor and a sleeping cat. Who will pass all the obstacles cleanly and quietly, without waking the animal, will receive a prize candy.

3. A great time to create a home puppet theater or shadow theater. After all, it is necessary to make a screen, and come up with a plot, and cut / glue / sew characters. And then, on long winter evenings, put on performances for family viewing.

Outdoor play in spring

Awakening of nature, puddles and drops, birdsong is the mostinspiring environment for children's harmless pranks. Here's what you can play with your kids:

1. It is imperative to make a small boat out of a walnut shell, providing it with a paper sail on a match attached with plasticine. And it’s better to make a boat for mom and dad too. Then put on high rubber boots and set sail on the longest puddle with rapids and unexpected turns of the channel. You can also practice breathing by helping the boat overcome an obstacle.

2. Early spring is ideal for knocking down icicles. Only safe material should be chosen as "bullets", for example, small buttons or boxes from kinder surprises. You can throw your hands or use a simple slingshot. Whose asset will have the most downed icicles, he is well done.

3. You can keep a calendar of the awakening of nature, every day to note how much the snow has melted and the trees have turned green. You can keep a weather diary with your child using the icons "sunny", "cloudy", "rain", "strong wind", etc.

Street summer games

But in the summer there is no question at all about what game to play with a child! You don’t even have to take any gadgets with you: crayons, a spatula with a bucket for sand, a jump rope, a ball, but it’s more interesting with them.

1. You can draw small circles and walk on them, as if on a road. Some circles can have a semantic meaning, for example, you need to jump on those shaded with red chalk, and on filled onesblue - clap your hands. You can throw pebbles into circles on the asph alt, trying to hit the bull's-eye.

2. Fantasy game "The sea worries once". So children will learn to feel the features of things, phenomena and living beings, depicting them according to dominant features. For example, how to freeze in the form of a tree or a monkey? Very soon adults will learn acting from their children.

3. You need to visit all the playgrounds in the area, learn to climb trees and swim in local rivers. After all, summer is given to us in order to gain points in the immune basket of both a child and an adult.

Autumn can be playful too

What to play with children in the fall, when it's slushy and all "sentimentobr"? A creative approach to business will quickly translate minor notes of mood into a more cheerful level. The main thing is to look for a game element in everything and compose interesting backstories. For example, like this:

1. You can offer the child to choose the direction of the walk and the way home. Or use the trick of avid travelers: stock up on small white pebbles and leave one at a time on the road, so that later you can return along them. You can draw a map of your journey, and even bury the treasure in order to find it in the spring.

2. Be sure to collect your treasury of natural materials, then you can use them to invent crafts for kindergarten or just to decorate your home.

3. It's time to make bird feeders, and put treats there in winter. To processIt’s worth bringing dad in to make it, because the bird’s cuisine should be strong and “survive” the winter cold without any problems.

Winter is just the time for games

What games you can play with children in winter, you will be prompted by cheerful yard children, arranging snow fights from behind snowy walls and building round dances of snowmen.

1. You can try to follow the trail. Let the child step on the footprints left by the adult. At the same time, an adult can fool around and experiment with the width of the step, either seeding like a midget, or measuring the way with leaps and bounds. And it is not necessary to make the track even, no one forbids wagging, circling and jumping: the more outstanding the path, the more fun the game.

2. Slides! On the pope and on the dad, on the ice, on the sled, on the haunches. All possible descending options must be tried.

3. Joint preparation for the New Year - you can plan the filling of the festive table, make Christmas decorations from s alt dough, cut out paper garlands. By all means, you need to draw patterns and winter pictures on the windows with tooth powder or stick paper stencils. Be sure to make gifts to all grandparents and friends, as well as write the best letter to Santa Claus.

Calm games before bedtime

The end of the game day, full of impressions and pleasant emotions, should also be entertaining. Only evening games are not aimed at the development of the child and knowledge of the world, but atpeace of mind for the baby. Routine repetitive routine moments, quiet conversations about the events of the day that has come to an end, dreamy expectations of the coming day, a pleasant bedtime story - all this sets the child on a calm wave. So, what to play with the children before bedtime:

1. Together with the child, remember and count the good events of the day. Talk about what you liked most about the past day, and what you would like to change tomorrow.

2. You can put the toys back into place to the music, even at speed, but with obligatory stops: stop - they froze and caught their breath, and then again for cleaning. Try folding a toy in a different way, maybe the new place will be better than the previous one?

3. An adult can start telling a fairy tale, but the kid will continue. What interesting directorial finds can be gleaned from this joint fantasy creation!

I would like to wish readers to make the game a part of their lives, but not the game that psychologists write about in treatises on manipulation and people management techniques, but a children's game that makes the world a little more fun, a little more interesting and a couple of percent more magical.