Riddles about swallows - we develop our horizons

2025 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-22 17:55

Riddles are the first independent tasks for children in kindergarten. They help develop ingenuity in the child, help to think, reason and evaluate the various characteristics of characters in riddles. They arouse interest in nature, in the properties of things, teach them to navigate in the world where they came recently. Knowledge that came through riddles, fairy tales, signs, and so on, firmly settles in children's heads, helps to enrich vocabulary

Riddles. What are they for?

Riddles help develop intelligence, deductive and inductive thinking, logic, everything that will be useful to a child in later adult life.

Especially the enrichment of various information develops in children when they come up with riddles themselves, comparing the qualities and properties of objects, their connection with each other.

Riddles about animals and birds

Children really like riddles about animals and birds. They learn a lot about their life, habits, character. In Russian folklore, riddles about bears, dogs and cats, wolves, sparrows and crows, riddles about swallows and so on are most common.

For example, you can mark such riddlesabout swallows like:

1. Comes to us in the spring, builds a nest so deftly, flies low before the rain, everyone, of course, knows him.
2. The tail looks like scissors, the beak is small, flat, black itself. Who is this guys?
3. You can tell the weather by her habits: flies low - to rain, high - to clear weather.
4. Builds its nest from saliva, clay and sand, feeds on various insects, the tail is divided into two parts.

There is a riddle about a swallow - a short one, but according to its description, the child can immediately guess who it is about: a small horse, similar to a swift. A smart kid will immediately understand that a little swallow looks like a swift.

The we alth of Russian folklore

But in folklore there are not only riddles about swallows, but also signs, and fairy tales, and poems that also help the child understand the future life.

Earlier, people believed that swallows pluck out all their feathers for the winter and hide under the bark of a tree, that they dive into the water and spend the winter there until the thaw. They believed that only young and he althy birds get out of the water, while old and sick ones remain there to croak frogs.

According to old signs, whoever sees the swallow first will be happy and lucky all year long.

Due to many years of observations, people have learned that after all, swallows do not burrow into the silt in a pond, waiting for the end of frosts, but fly south.

Therefore, riddles about swallows and other birds and animals are necessary forfurther development of the child's horizons.