Sometimes it’s very difficult to get a child to do arithmetic, learn the alphabet and poetry, and children like to play more. We’ll tell you the top 10 educational games for children.
10. The game "Ten objects"
The game takes place as follows: ten objects are placed on the table or any other surface that fall under the arm and are covered with a towel. After that, the towel is removed, the stopwatch is turned on, and the child must arrange all the objects in alphabetical order as quickly as possible. And to make the game more complex and diverse, you can lay out things not by the first, but by the last letter in the word.
As objects, you can also use animal toys, clothing, various drawings or cubes in the form of figures. So the child will be better to remember their names. The game improves memory and helps to become more focused.
9. The game "Bookworm"
The essence of the game is that you need to choose any subject and begin to describe it, the main thing is that all words must begin with one letter. For example, a bird sings songs. Develops vocabulary. This game can be played together or by several people, and if a child likes it, he can play it himself.
8. Exercise “Memorial Day”
The task is to remember the whole past day, starting from awakening until the evening. You need to tell the second player in detail what you did today: how you brushed your teeth, what you had breakfast, what was you wearing, how was the weather outside, who did you meet for a walk and everything else. You can complicate the exercise by setting the task to remember about two days in a row or even a week.
This exercise game, as the name implies, perfectly develops memory, and also helps to understand how productive the day was. It is suitable not only for children, because rarely and an adult will be able to restore the details of the days spent in memory.
7. The game "ARGI"
Another entertainment for children and adults - you need to try to pronounce any word toroboan - vice versa! There are two options: when one player selects a word, and the second redo it, and when the first player immediately pronounces the “inverted” word, and the second must decrypt it.
Thus, phrases can be pronounced - “kotevts yyvisark”, that is, “beautiful flower” or whole sentences. It awakens brain activity and also develops memory.
6. Game "Missing Letter"
A single letter is selected, vowel or consonant, which should not be present in the dialogue or story. For example, the child should not pronounce the letter E, he will choose the words without it. Thanks to this game, the vocabulary is increased, since you need to select synonyms for words, and memory improves.
First you can take the rarely used letters as “missing”: F, H, Y, and then A, I, E. In a more complex version, you can go alphabetically in a row and vice versa.
5. Games “Can’t say, draw”
To develop the imaginative thinking and memory of the child, you can use this technique: draw each word from the story. So you can easily learn poetry, associations will arise in your head and combine into sentences. For example, to remember the line “Jumping Dragonfly summer red sang” you can draw a jumping ball or trampoline, dragonfly, sun, tomato and microphone.
If you often learn poems this way, you can complicate the game - guess the lines of the drawings, and then tell the poem completely.
4. Game - “Spy Message”
Many children like to transform into spies or soldiers, this can be used to memorize numbers and alphabets. The point is that each letter of the alphabet needs to be assigned a number: A - 1, B - 2, B - 3, and so on up to the letter I - 33. Then, following this code, write a word and give it to the child. For example, the phrase “I want to eat” will be written as: 23 + 16 + 25 + 21 + 12 + 21 + 26 + 1 + 20 + 30.
First, you are allowed to play, spying, and then you can only rely on your memory. If the child does not remember well any numbers or letters and their code, you need to use them more often in sentences.
3. The game "Composing"
A simple, interesting and fun game. Here you need to do what children really like - to write stories. All you need is just to say or write a few words on a piece of paper. The child needs to come up with a story in which all these words will be present. So he will learn how to build sentences, and imagination and imagination will develop.
This game is also useful when children often forget to do something or take with them. For example, you can write a list with things that a child needs to put in a kindergarten: replaceable clothes, shoes, a toy, a water bottle, and the rest. The kid will be happy to come up with his story with these items and will not forget any of them when he is going to kindergarten.
2. The game "5 words"
The meaning of the game is clear from the name - you need to communicate with the child using exactly 5 words in each sentence. Moreover, the dialogue should not lose its meaning, and there should not be unfinished sentences like "I want to go to the park in order." Such an activity will make the child carefully think what to say and how to keep within 5 words.
The number 5 is chosen for a reason. It will be convenient for kids who still feel bad to hold one finger of their hand after each word. So it will be easier for them to play, and a score of up to 5 will succumb faster.
1. The game "In a minute about everything"
2 or more players can participate in this game. Each of them in turn should talk about something exactly a minute, no more and no less. For example, the first player is given the task of telling about the sun, and he says everything he knows about him: what it is, why it is needed, and so on, until the stopwatch stops. You can give hints or ask leading questions. The game develops thinking, teaches to reason and helps to replenish vocabulary.