Finally, evening came. A time of joint relaxation and communication, in general, is an idyll.

But what's really going on? In the evening, everyone in the family does their own thing. And to be honest, everyone sits with their eyes glued to the TV, smartphone or computer.
And you feel inside that it shouldn't be like this, this divides the family.

You need to spend quality time with your children, because they grow up so quickly, but what exactly to do, to make it interesting for EVERYONE?

Why games (and not cartoons) are important for children

• Through play, a child prepares for the adult world, not in terms of the exact transfer of skills (teaching how to wash and iron), but in a deeper sense - he gets to know his psyche, reveals internal forces, learns to cope with the assigned tasks (and capturing the dragon in the castle is wow, what a task!)
• Playing games together with your child will give you invaluable minutes of communication and laughter; through play you will become faster find out what your baby is thinking about and what he is afraid of. If a certain plot is repeated in every game, then most likely this is the working out of their fears (children do this unconsciously)
  Of course, play is the main development, and this is exactly how all learning for preschoolers should take place.
• For development the child must move, and not sit, looking at the changing picture of the tablet. We are not necessarily talking about outdoor games - we are also talking about development fine motor skills, which are directly related to the brain

Options for spending time with your child

So that today you don’t get the “Oh, I don’t know what to do in the evening with the child, everything is boring, I’m tired, I’d better go and watch TV,” here is an extensive list of activities.
So, our list: what to do in the evening as a family with children.

1. Creative activities with children:

1.1 Write a story

Children love to fantasize, give them the topic of the story (the new adventures of Polirobokar or Winnie the Pooh's Journey to a modern city) and ask them to fantasize, and you take their dictation. The story should be limited, for example, sheet sizes. The child must be warned about this in advance. It's interesting to watch how they manage to logically complete the story when you show that there are a couple of sentences left until the end of the page.
If the story is not made up, then take turns fantasizing. You offer - offer - your child, you can play according to this principle with the whole family. Mom-dad-child-still a child. For fun, you can divide the roles: one writes a detective story, another a good fairy tale, a third science fiction, and a fourth a horror story. Everyone will try in their proposal to shift the focus of the story in their own direction and in the end it will turn out very funny. In general, this game is great entertainment for a party)))

1.2 Draw with paints, felt-tip pens or pencils

When choosing materials for creativity, you should never skimp. Having bought cheap pencils with a hard lead that scratch on paper rather than draw, don’t be surprised why your child doesn’t like to draw so much. It is much easier to instill a love of creativity through high-quality office supplies. Try the purchased pencils and felt-tip pens yourself - you should have fun, the mark should be soft, and not require much pressure. That's when you and your child will learn how much fun you can get through drawing.

1.3 Color finished images (you can print pictures from the Internet)

If you have a printer, just type “coloring book for boys/girls” or specifically “coloring book construction equipment", "coloring book bunnies". Switch to the Pictures tab and invite your child to choose what they like.

And you can sit down and decorate these now fashionable “mandalas for adults”, which help relieve stress and calm the mind.

1.4 Film a plasticine cartoon

Build the scenery - let it be a toy city, populate it with inhabitants. Now you need to attach the camera to a tripod (if you don’t have one, then place the camera on the same table on a pile of books, make a slight tilt). To make the picture come to life, you need to move the characters a little bit and capture each change with a camera. It is very convenient to use plasticine, but you can also move Lego figures, cars, and soft toys.

1.5 Play with the constructor

A construction set is a very versatile toy, because you can make many different things out of it. One of my friends told me that when he was a child, his parents fundamentally didn’t buy any toys except construction sets. “If you want a machine gun, make it from a construction set; if you want a tank, make it from a construction set; if you want a ball, we’ll probably buy the ball)))” As a result, this guy has extraordinary mathematical abilities and his ability to solve non-trivial problems is clearly head and shoulders above his peers.

In addition to Lego and its analogues, there are other interesting construction sets: Zoob, Polesie, Bunchems, magnetic construction set and others

1.6 Glue a model or applique, play with stickers

With older children, you can glue together a model of an airplane or tank from special kits. Appliques are suitable for kids; they like to tinker with glue and suddenly discover that a recognizable picture has suddenly appeared from scattered small pieces. To make the application even more interesting, print out the animals from Smeshariki. Found. Print out their houses there and glue them directly onto this background. It’s not so scary if your printer is black and white, the images are still very loved and recognizable.

Children also love to paste stickers (you can get a notebook for this and paste them by category). If you are already tired of buying them endlessly, then buy reusable ones, for example, from the “Wonderful Stickers” series of books.

1.7 Sculpt from plasticine

Topics for designing, sculpting and drawing: together we make houses, or planes, or a castle, or together we build a city. One builds a road, another a car, and the third a house.

You can fantasize on the theme “The World of the Future” and fashion flying chairs or a teleportation cabin.
Or you can create a real model, look at the object and try to repeat it. Fashion or assemble from a constructor toy car, Christmas tree, chair.

1.8 Fold paper shapes (origami)

For example, ships(to run them in the bath) frogs(arrange competitions to see who can jump the furthest), boxes (for gifts for grandmothers), airplanes (launch them from the sofa in the most spacious room)

Addition:

Whatever you do, it will be great to have it in the background at least sometimes classical music, it develops the brain of both adults and children, harmonizes and accustoms them to beauty.

2. Intellectual entertainment with children

2.1 Speak a foreign language with children

It’s no secret that learning another language greatly develops the brain, not to mention the practical benefits of knowing a foreign language for any person.

How to easily introduce foreign speech into communication with a child. You can ask with a smile at dinner: Give me bread and point to the bread with your hand, in a few days he will remember and there is a high probability that he will do so himself.

Play Hide the item: Cold-hot, but you tell me in English - hot-cold (under table).

Ball game Edible-inedible. Throw the ball to the child and say the words; if you say something edible, the child should grab the ball, if not, hit it. Call simple ones English words: cat, dog, plane, tank, bread.

2.2 Guess riddles

You can come up with riddles yourself; they don’t have to be complicated. Make a guess about what you see, soon the child will take the initiative and you will be the one making the guesses :)
For example, “A large white closet, mom hides milk in it” (Refrigerator).

Don't neglect reading, start a tradition of cozy reading before bed. It brings us very close. A child needs the world of books to train his imagination, because what you read certainly forms images in his head and they move and come to life. Unlike cartoons, where all the images are drawn in advance, and the child is only a passive observer.

2.4 Read poems and fairy tales by Pushkin

I highlighted this as a separate point, since Pushkin is a unique personality for Russian people and children should be taught his poems from childhood. These are not only sonorous rhymes and beautiful words, they are also an incompletely unraveled second series of meanings, about life, our future and past.

2.5 Decrypt ciphers (Morse code)

Write codes to each other using Morse code, then change and decipher them.

Or encode a message with the answer to the question: “Where is the candy hidden” :)

3. Paper and board games

• gallows (guess words)
• Palms (if the child already goes to school and knows numbers well)
• Board game (Dixit, Monkey Island, Carcassonne, Memo, Jenga Tower)
• Playing with spillikins (games with small objects, matches).

You lay out a mountain of matches and you need to pull out any one without shaking the others; the closer you get to the end, the more difficult the task becomes. Excellent for training fine motor skills and accuracy in movements.

4. Activities for the whole family

4.1 Cooking

Bake a cake, make dumplings, make ice cream or conjure pizza together!
Of course, it’s easier for us to go and make a quick pie for the family without turning the kitchen into winter decorations made of flour and dough. BUT! You need to turn off the perfectionist in you and turn on the good mother. Always cook together brings people together, and for children it is a fun laboratory.

We then they’re used to it, but for them it’s just a miracle how flour, eggs and liquid can suddenly make a delicious pie. And all this mixing, pouring, etc. is a great exercise for fine motor skills.

So, relax about the spilled flour on the floor and feel free to invite your child to have fun in the kitchen.

4.2 Put together a large mosaic with the whole family

5. Fun games with children at home

5.1 Fun Races

If you have several radio-controlled cars, you can build a fun game. Build a track and stands and race radio-controlled cars

5.2 Play Explain with Words or Show the Word

Say otherwise (Alias)- a game in which you need to explain in other words the word that acts as a task. There is no need to buy this game. There is an excellent free application on the phone (that’s what Alias ​​is called).

Crocodile, read the description and word options.

These games perfectly develop acting skills (crocodile), speech, and reasoning skills (say otherwise). Playing them is very useful, and most importantly fun.

5.3 Mini-quest

hide cubes, search and form a word. Children enjoy completing quests, and parents love that children develop their ingenuity without sitting still. Use blocks or a magnetic alphabet, or simply write the word on paper and cut it into letters. Now let the child go out (for example, to the bathroom), and you hide the letters in different places.

5.4 Labyrinths (draw, sculpt, build from cubes)

Children love labyrinths; there is something alluring and mysterious about them. It can be built from different materials, as your imagination and the contents of your shelves dictate. Cubes are perfect, as are books, construction sets, pencils with markers, and dominoes. If there is nothing at all, take a larger sheet and draw a labyrinth with a pencil.

How to play then? The construction of a labyrinth in itself is a fascinating activity that develops spatial thinking. Invite your child to follow the tangled passages with a finger or a small toy. Place an evil minotaur in a dead-end branch and try with a group of good guys to get out or go fight him. Or maybe you are an explorer and as the character progresses, the child will try to draw a plan of the labyrinth. Start playing, and then the child will tell you.

5.5 Role-playing games:

—play travel or for reconnaissance. To do this, you will need to build a plane or a boat, study the map, the flag of the country where we are flying, what is there, what animals, what resources, what people like to eat there. You may need preliminary preparation(Internet, encyclopedia) or you can look about it with your child.

—play school, solve examples
Alternate the complexity of the problems, write 2 easy examples and one difficult one, if you were made a student, then sometimes “make a mistake”, let the child teacher check after you.
—teach to play with animals just like we did in our childhood. Cook porridge for the bears and put them to bed. Preschoolers love it when toys come to life. Do you think these are useless games? It is by modeling ordinary everyday situations that you will be able to understand (if you pay attention) what psychological problems Children have it and can correct them through their favorite bear.

6. Original:

6.1 Write a letter to grandma

In our electronic age, we need to try to maintain children’s connection with the material world, and in general, living paper letters are quite romantic. Make exchanging letters with your grandmother a wonderful tradition. It’s okay if grandmothers live in the same city, the post office will bring them a letter to the neighboring house. Decorate your letter with colorful stickers or include a photo. It's always such a joy to take a fresh sealed envelope out of the drawer and eagerly open it. And I can’t tell you how happy the grandmothers will be)))

6.2 Create a family tree

7. Outdoor games with children:

7.1 play blind cat at home

It's terribly fun tickles the nerves even of adults. If the rooms are small, then an adult must catch with one hand, otherwise our dad can walk through with his arms outstretched narrow room and gather everyone together))) Remove all breakable objects away in advance.

7.2 play hide and seek

7.3 accuracy games to see who gets the cubes into the basket

Stand behind the line (this could be the edge of the carpet or a stick) and from here throw balls or cubes into the basket (basin, box). Count the points of who gets how many, you can play tournaments, first the parent throws 10 objects and writes down how many got on the tournament board (sheet), then the child. To be fair, an adult should throw by stepping back from the line a few steps and sitting down at the child’s level.

7.4 Go outside

Why sit at home, after all? Go out into the fresh air. There you can:

Run or walk quickly

Feed the birds

Play snowballs, build a snow woman or a fortress
- sledding down the hill

And if summer, That:

Build a sand fort (get a couple of water bottles)

What to do if you are very bored playing with your child

You are sincerely going to play with your child, but as soon as you sit down on the carpet and surround yourself with toys, you feel like yawning overwhelms you and you want to go and go to sleep.

First of all, you are not alone, most adults have completely forgotten what does it mean to play?

Secondly, there are a couple of methods that are worth trying, in case they can help you.

Place the child on your knee and looking into his eyes, ask how he is doing and what he wants to play now. Accept the offer with enthusiasm, but if he enthusiastically yells: “Now we will build an Amusement Park in the hall!” - don’t rush to think for him what to build for this. Just ask: “What is needed for this? How can I help you?" Let the child take the initiative, this is useful.

To awaken your interest, observe your child from the outside sincerely and admiringly. As he fantasizes what he tells, you don’t have to struggle to come up with something, what to talk about or what to play. Just relax and follow the baby’s initiative, even if he is only 2 years old (I’m already silent about the ingenuity of 8 year olds).

Another way, just the opposite: look at the toys through the eyes of Yourself-From-Childhood, remember yourself at the age of 8, imagine that this treasure fell in front of you N years ago and start playing yourself, with enthusiasm, in no case for the child, but exclusively for myself. Feel the taste of the game, build a car from such beautiful construction parts, populate the house with residents or decorate it with sparkle. You will feel alive and present, and time will stand still. It's like taking a time machine back to childhood. Be glad that you have your baby and next to him you have the opportunity to relive the happy moments of childhood.

Children's party at home: fun and entertaining games for children and adults. Ancient games from the 19th century, long forgotten and now being revived. Interesting ideas for a joyful mood during the holidays.

Soon New Year and Christmas! And of course, these days we meet with friends, family, go to visit, receive guests. Playing games at home is one of the oldest and traditional winter activities for children and adults. What games can you play with your children and friends? What did our great-great-great-grandmothers and great-great-great-grandfathers play in winter? How to give yourself and your children the joy of holiday and fun? Why does a child need fun, and not just “serious” educational games? You will learn about this from this article. And also take a trip to the 19th century by playing ancient pre-revolutionary children's games.

Children's holiday at home: why do children need fun games?

Educational games are something that every family now knows about, what they write about in magazines and books, and what they show in videos and TV shows. But fun games... Do we know any fun games for children? How often do we play them? Do we include them in our family holidays? For some reason, these fun games for children are often forgotten and are not so often found in modern families. It's a pity. After all, they don’t just create special atmosphere family holiday, comfort, warmth, emotional support, interesting communication, but they also develop the child no worse than “serious” educational games. And besides, it’s so nice to play with them for both adults and children! It is fun games that develop ingenuity, imagination, speed of reaction, flexibility of behavior, independence, the ability to quickly find a way out of a new situation and give the child a cheerful, cheerful mood - the basis for his successful development.

Why does a child need funny funny games? Why does a child need to play with other children or play in a friendly circle of children and adults? Why doesn’t a child’s “educational game” “alone” (with a computer or with chips and a playing field) replace playing with other people? Let's look into history and find answers to these questions.

This is how Yegor Arsenievich Pokrovsky wrote about children's games in the 19th century in the book “Children's Games, Mostly Russian. In connection with history, ethnography, pedagogy and hygiene" (1887):

“There are also views regarding education that are practiced by a certain part of the public and have a lot of harmful influence on the success of the development of children's games... Due to these views, for example, the fast, impetuous movements of children during play are considered impossibly rude, too provincial, masculine; sincere fun in games, of which only children are capable, about whom there is even a saying “He rejoices like a child,” is considered completely inappropriate, indecent, trivial. Simplicity in clothing, which is mostly required for many free children's games, is also considered impermissible, degrading the child to the level of a craftsman, etc., and yet it is precisely dressed-up children, like dolls, according to a fashionable French magazine... and cannot be sent to play, because such clothes will interfere with freely running, fighting, etc.

There is obviously no joy in the games of such children... Meanwhile, from absolute abstinence from games, look at what sad consequences can occur: children in this case do not learn, while playing, many techniques that are necessary and useful in life, they do not learn reasonable attitudes towards to their own kind, but in the end they often turn out strange, inept, often arousing only laughter and mockery at themselves. It is true that they say that “he is more likely to be cut with a knife who has not learned to handle it since childhood...” Along with this remark, let us recall the caustic mockery of the ancient Kornsad, who expressed the idea that the sons of rich parents do not know how to do anything except ride a horse, yes and this is because horses do not flatter them, but, on the contrary, immediately throw them off if they do not comprehend the art of riding. The deep meaning of this ridicule has been fully preserved to this day.

There are relatively few games that are designed for solo play; on the contrary, most games require the participation of more or less other children. In this distribution of games, without a doubt, lies the target, so that with their help, on the one hand, it is better teach children to communicate among themselves, mutual services, mutual preservation of their interests; on the other hand, to accustom one to the excitement of competition, mutual criticism, recognition of merits or shortcomings, encouragement of those who showed greater dexterity, art, dignity in the game, and vice versa, censure of those who somehow blundered in the game.

Often here a well-gifted child leads a less capable child, one helps the other to improve, and in the end everyone helps each other; but at the same time, everyone, in essence, remains in the same rights... In the end, all this leads children to closer mutual communication, unity and friendly work...

No family circle, no school can give anything like this, and yet in games this is achieved so easily and simply.”

Let's play! And let's give each other a good mood!

Fun games for children and adults: let's play together.

Children's games at home: ancient Russian games

Game "Twitch"

A “vodir” is chosen (now we call it “driving”, and children even now often speak in the old fashioned way with the emphasis on the first syllable - “voda”). The water guy is blindfolded.

The remaining participants in the game are players. In this game they are called "twitchers".

Rule of the game: Players are not allowed to leave their seats. If this rule is violated, the player becomes a “water man”.

Progress of the game: Vodir stands in the center of the room, blindfolded. Players enter the room and sit near the walls. Vodir begins to walk around the room.

The players attract the waterman’s attention and “tug” him. For example, they say “Turg-twitch” or rustle their feet on the floor or rustle their clothes in turns. Someone pulled the waterman by the hem. And then on the other side they whispered: “Derg-derg,” and after that a new sound - someone slapping their knees. The waterman needs to guess who pulled him (that is, said or slammed or made some kind of sound). If he guessed right, he transfers his role to the puller. Then the twitcher, who has been solved, becomes the waterman in the new game.

The players' task is to confuse the waterman so that he cannot guess who it is. Therefore, they may speak in a voice that is not their own - squeaky or, on the contrary, bass, etc.

Game "Blind Man's Bluff at the Wall"

A very fun and funny game. Such a fun game is very good for the New Year! After all, it is carried out with a candle and in the dark. And it brings unforgettable impressions, laughter and joy. In addition, children love playing with shadows and coming up with their own options on how to “deceive” the game leader. Whoever they dress up as! And how they laugh when they are confused with... their mom or dad!!!

This is how this ancient game is played. In “blind man’s buff against the wall,” the presenter is not blindfolded; on the contrary, he will need to look very carefully “in both eyes.”

You will need a light wall (this could be a wall in the hallway or in the room). If your walls are dark, you can hang a sheet. A table or chair with a burning candle is placed at a distance from the wall. A chair for the driver is placed between the candle and the wall.

Players will walk past the candle behind the driver so that their shadow appears on the wall. Players take turns walking slowly along the wall, and the driver must guess from the shadow who has passed it.

All players try to confuse the driver. They can wrap themselves in a cloak, put on someone else’s hat, walk crouched to the floor or, on the contrary, walk on tiptoes, stretch their necks or retract them, hunch over, limp, bend over, intertwine their arms or legs, walk in pairs, etc. The player’s task is to figure out how to confuse the driver and how to pass without being recognized.

The driver is forbidden to turn his head back and look at the person and not at the shadow when guessing. If the driver makes a mistake, then he pays a forfeit (fulfills the task - tells a joke, sings a verse of a song, congratulates everyone, etc.). The driver is replaced when he has guessed one of the players or when everyone has passed.

For the game, I advise you to prepare the necessary simple items that you can dress up in - an old sheet to wrap yourself in, a beret or hat, a mask, a scarf, a cardboard box, costume elements such as hare ears, etc. Or you can make it simpler - come up with your own “suit” for the game together and allow everyone to use all the contents of the closet.

Game "Even-odd"

A great game for sharing gifts or little surprises for guests.

Prepare small surprises in advance - candies, stickers, small calendars or pictures, badges or postcards, toys, pencils, cookies, waffles, etc. You can ask all guests to take some surprises with them and use them for a common game.

So, having collected all the surprises you brought and collected, we begin to divide them into piles. The piles will be different - some piles will have an even number of gifts, and some will have an odd number. The piles are covered with opaque scarves on top. This is an old version. And now we can simply put the gifts in opaque bags - and then there is no need for scarves.

We start playing gifts. The first player points to one of the piles and asks: “Even or odd?” The second player answers either “even” or “odd”. Let's count the gifts in this pile. If the second player guessed right, then he takes a bunch of gifts and asks the third player (along the chain): “Even or odd?” The third one answers, etc. In this game, kids will not only receive surprise gifts, but will also be happy to learn how to count gifts :).

Game "Okhlopok"

A very simple game. Everyone stands in a circle and throws a piece of cotton wool up (you need to fluff it up; throwing a roll of cotton wool is useless - it won’t fly:). The goal is to prevent the cotton wool from falling. The player near whom the clapper falls pays a forfeit (sings a song, crows, reads a poem, etc.). Therefore, everyone is trying to quickly blow the cotton away from themselves to their neighbor. The cotton flies either higher or lower, so the players either squat, then stand on tiptoe, or bend over. Usually the result is a very funny picture.

If there are few players, then the game is played at the table. They toss the cotton and keep their hands under the table. Next to whom the cotton “landed”, he pays a fine - a forfeit.

Game "Wing"

The driver is selected. The remaining participants in the game are players.

The players sit at a table and under the table in a circle pass each other an object tied to a thread. At the same time they say:

Oh, little wing, hurry up,

Don't falter and don't lose your temper,

Don't look from under the table

Otherwise there will be trouble.

You need to pass the object on a string in such a way that the driver does not guess who has the “wing.” Therefore, the players, even without a wing, pretend that they are passing it on, wink at each other and try in every possible way to confuse the driver.

At the last word in the text (this is the word “trouble”), the “wing” stops at one of the players. The driver's task is to guess who has the wing and where it stopped.

If he guessed right, then this player with the wing in his hands becomes the driver in the next game. If not, then the driver pays a forfeit. Redemption of a forfeit - a song, dance, riddle, congratulation or trick.

It is important not to break the thread when passing an item on a string. Whoever breaks the thread also pays a forfeit.

Game "Birds Fly"

All players sit in a circle at the table. One hand is on the table. The game leader begins the story:

"I have traveled a lot around different countries. And I came to this wonderful conclusion: all living creatures covered with feathers fly. All birds fly." At the last words, the presenter raises forefinger hands up and everyone repeats after him. The rule of the game is reported: if it is a bird and it flies, then you need to raise your index finger up. Then the presenter continues: “And ducks fly (the driver and players raise a finger up for each correct phrase), and geese fly, and tits fly. And lions fly” Many players will automatically raise their fingers up. And they will be wrong.

The game must be played at a fast pace, alternating birds, animals, fish, insects (they also fly, but they are not birds, and therefore there is no need to raise a finger), flying objects - autumn leaves, arrow (no need to raise your finger, it’s not a bird)

Everyone who made a mistake pays forfeits at the end of the game and completes simple tasks.

Game "Pull and Let"

A very simple and very fun attention game, in which even adults often make mistakes and laugh from it. She is very funny and beautiful. You will need wide satin ribbons about a meter long. How many players are in the game - so many ribbons you need.

The host of the game stands in the center of the room, and the players sit on chairs around him. The chairs are placed in a circle. The driver in the center of the circle holds all the ribbons. He gives the other end of the tape to each player. Ribbons like rays of the sun go from him to the players.

The presenter quickly says either “Pull” or “Let”. What is the highlight of this fun game? The problem is that when you say “pull,” you have to release the tape. But for the word “let” you need to pull the tape, on the contrary! There will be a lot of mistakes!

In this game you can collect forfeits for mistakes. Or you can do the opposite - play for the winner, who will receive a small prize for not making a mistake.

Game "Change Apartments"

Everyone is sitting on chairs. The driver shouts: “Change apartments! Change apartments! At these words, everyone jumps up from their chairs and looks for a new place. And since the driver has already taken one place, there may not be enough space for someone. So everyone is in a hurry, running, in a hurry. Those who did not manage to take a seat pay a forfeit. As soon as the forfeit is paid, immediately (while everyone still has not had time to gather their thoughts) it sounds new team“Change apartments! Change apartments!” The game is played at a fast pace.

Game "Plate"

Players stand or sit in a circle. Each player names himself after an animal. For example, “I am a hare.” “And I’m a fox,” etc. When everyone has remembered each other's new names, the game begins.

Take a wooden (antique version) or plastic plate or bowl (modern version) and twist it hard until it spins (Instead of a plate, you can use many other modern items, for example, a roll stationery tape. The main thing is that the item can be twisted)

As soon as the plate is spun, immediately shout out the name of one of the players. For example: “Hare, catch it!” The hare needs to catch the spinning plate before it falls. Now the hare spins the plate and calls the other player: “Bear, catch it!” etc.

In this game, reaction speed is developed; all players need to be very agile, attentive and tenacious.

Anyone who did not have time to grab the plate pays a forfeit.

Game "Korchaga"

The driver in the game is the potter. It is covered with a scarf on top and planted in the center of the room.

A senior player is selected, who secretly gives names to all the other players. For example, the names of flowers: “You will be a daisy. And you are a rose. And you are a forget-me-not.”

The players stand around the pot. The older player calls them, calling them by the name of the flower. For example: “Chamomile, come here.” Chamomile approaches Korchaga and lightly touches his back with his hand, quickly returns to his place and claps his hands.

The senior player removes the handkerchief from the pot and asks: “Who held it?” If the driver guesses who touched him, then the guessed player becomes the grubber in the next game. If he didn’t guess right, then he’ll have to spend some time in the role of a crook.

Games - riddles, puzzles, charades, puns.

Such games have also been known for a long time and are ancient. They played them for forfeits. If you don’t guess correctly, pay forfeit and have fun with everyone. You can play in another way - for the winner who guessed greatest number puzzles. Here are some tasks from the 19th century:

1.Why is a chicken more likely to eat a portion of oats than a horse? (Because chicken doesn't eat horses)

2. Is it possible for dogs to run into the room and eat up the entire floor? (pun: eaten out = from spruce). Answer: Maybe if the floor is made of spruce.

3. “Young girls are willing to attend the first one; the second is not necessary for girls, but for boys it is necessary for many games. It’s really nice to leave the stuffy room” (Answer to the charade: ball + con = balcony) Other possible charades that you can easily compose yourself by analogy: comp + pass = compass. Steam + hell = parade. Deg+us=degree. Dexterity + bone = agility. Air + spirit = air.

Surprise

And then - a surprise for all readers of the site. And for me too :) I want to introduce you Sorokina Tatyana- a regular reader of "Native Path". Tatyana works as a speech therapist in Krasnodar. She prepared a small surprise gift for all of us - puzzles that can be given as a riddle at children's party and figure it out for yourself. Well, let's try to figure it out?

Puzzles for children and adults from Tatyana Sorokina.

Guess what words are encrypted in these puzzles. Couldn't solve the rebus? Write your question in the comments - Tatyana will tell you what it is. To be honest, I didn’t guess puzzle number 5 right away :). And you?

And finally, a rebus from me: as a gift for Tatyana and for all readers of “Native Path”. A puzzle on the topic of this article. Can you guess it? Answers or questions can be written in the comments.

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Has your computer failed? Everything around immediately becomes boring and uninteresting. What about games? After all, by choosing time to play with a loved one (both a child and an adult), you are making a mutually valuable gift: your days will be filled with happiness and the joy of communication, and the memories of the time spent together will become bright and warm.

Important: classics of the genre - all kinds of board games and puzzles (each age category has its own level). A great way to brighten up your time is drawing, coloring anti-stress pictures or doing handicrafts.

Games for two at home without a computer for girls

The choice of activities primarily depends on the child’s temperament.

Needlework

Homemade puzzles

Postcards or pretty candy box lids are great for making puzzles. Just cut the image you like into several pieces and your puzzle is ready.

Challenge

All kinds of challenges are becoming increasingly popular among children, even the smallest ones. The simplest challenge you can do for a child is playing with drinks.

To carry out the challenge you will need: juice or any other drink (5-10 small bags/bottles with different flavors), identical craft paper bags for snacks (according to the number of drinks), long cocktail straws (also according to the number of drinks).

Pre-insert straws into all drinks. Pack bags/bottles of drinks carefully in paper bags. Place the packaged drinks on the table and invite your child to sip the drink through a straw and guess what exactly he is drinking.

It's not as easy as it seems, but it's a lot of fun.

Fortune teller using origami technique

Invite your guest to make a fortune teller out of paper. Go to and read the detailed MK on this topic.

Games on paper

“Tic Tac Toe” is another wonderful and unfairly forgotten answer to the question of what to play with your child.

See the photo for the rules of the game.

To make the tic-tac-toe game more interesting, try using cookies, nuts, and candies together with tic-tac-toe. The winner, of course, takes all the goodies. The playing field can be painted directly on the table using masking tape.

Games for two at home without a computer for boys

Boys are unlikely to want to make chokers out of buttons. But themed puzzles may well be of interest to young supermen. How to make puzzles from scrap materials, see the beginning of the article.

Construction of towers

• In addition, boys will have fun building towers out of cookies or donuts. Candies, coins, sea or any other pebbles, etc. are also suitable for building a tower. The one whose tower is higher wins.
• You can build not only towers, but also entire cities from plastic or paper cups. In addition, with the help of cups you can diversify your walks fresh air(see photo below).

Reversi

For older children, invite them to play reversi. Instead of chips, the game uses two-layer cookies (64 pcs.). And the playing field (8x8 squares) is drawn directly on the table using masking tape. In the center of the field, 2 light chips/cookies and 2 dark ones are placed diagonally.

See the photo below for the rules of the game.

Rules of the game "Reversi"

Rock Paper Scissors

Another gambling game that does not require long preparation is “Rock-Paper-Scissors”. Depending on the age of the child, you can use a game of 3 elements (rock, paper, scissors), 5 (rock, scissors, paper, lizard, Spock) and even 25!

Rules of the game "Rock-paper-scissors"

How to show game elements: (clockwise, starting from top): scissors, paper, rock, lizard, Spock.

Origami airplanes

Paper airplanes are a classic children's game. Go to and read the detailed MK on this topic.

Games for two at home without a computer for adults

Any of the children's games suggested above can be used for adults.

Card games

While many people consider card games unacceptable for children’s leisure, they are quite acceptable for adults. In addition to "Fool" or "Poker", you can play "Shark". Another name for the game is “Witch”, “Sorceress”. Rules for this card game so simple that you can play with a child (see photo below).

Rules of the card game "Witch"

Games with matches

A box of matches will also help brighten up the evening. No, we are not talking about MK on making fires. IN in this case we'll talk about the game "11 matches". See photo below for rules.

If desired, you can increase the number of matches to 27 pcs.

Another game, also called “11 matches”. However, the rules are different from the previous one (see photo below).

The number of matches required for the game is 11 pcs. One of the matches needs to be marked. For example, color with a felt-tip pen.

Rules of the game “11 matches” (II version)

Linguistic games

Word games will also help brighten up the evening. Perhaps they have too original titles and rules, but in this part of the article we are talking about adults with a corresponding sense of humor.

The first game offered is "Hangman". The rules of the game are in the photo below.

Rules of the game "Hangman".

Step by step example games "Hangman"

The second linguistic game "Balda".

The playing field consists of a grid of 5x5 squares. In the middle horizontal row the word “bulda” or any other five-letter word is written.

Example of a playing field for "Baldy"

See detailed rules of the game below.

Rules of the game "Balda".

Games for two at home without a computer, active

Little fidgets require movement. Perhaps one of these games will become your favorite.

Sumo wrestling

A fun outdoor game. It will bring pleasure to both players and spectators (if any).

To play the game you will need pillows (2 for each player) and large T-shirts. Then everything is extremely simple: put on T-shirts, put pillows under them and start fighting. The winner is the one who manages to push the opponent outside the conditional circle.

Game "Sumo Wrestlers"

Hide and seek

Try playing hide and seek. If you don’t really want/conveniently want to hide, hide an object.

Yoga

If you do yoga, invite your child to repeat a few simple asanas after you. The exercises can be accompanied by words from the famous game “The sea is agitated once...”, slightly changing them (see photo).

The obstacle course will delight not only kids, but also adults.

What can you play at home with a friend? What can you play at home together with your sister?

Any of the games suggested above is suitable for both girls and girls. If none of the options proposed above suits you, try fortune telling for love. You will find options for simple fortune telling by clicking on.

What can you play at home with your girlfriend? What can you play at home with your boyfriend?

Now there is simply a huge choice board games for lovers. But if you can’t purchase a ready-made game, play the game suggested below. An unforgettable evening is guaranteed for you.

What can you play at home alone with your wife?

Any of the games suggested above can be used for a pleasant pastime with the family. It all depends on what exactly you mean by a pleasant pastime and what ultimate goal you are pursuing.

What can you play at home with your brother?

Any of the proposed games is suitable for both adults and children.

What can you play at home together with a child aged 5–9 years?

It is worth dwelling on this topic in more detail, since children need a constant change of activities.

• Game "Yes/no". One player thinks of a word (something that he sees in the room, in the apartment, on the street). The other one tries to guess what the first one is up to. The player who thinks of the word can be asked leading questions, but he can only answer “yes” or “no.”
• "False mirror". One player makes a grimace - the second tries to repeat it.
• Game "Grandfather's Story". One player says: “I went hunting and saw...”. At the same time, he must name any object starting with the letter “A”. The second player repeats: “I went hunting and saw...” At the same time, he must name the item that the first player chose and add his own. But items should be named in alphabetical order.
• Invite your child to name all the words that begin with the letter “T” or any other letter.
• "Nonsense." One of the players says a word. The other must make a sentence in which each word begins with the letter of that word. For example, someone said the word “MISTY” - the second one makes up the sentence “Marina Puts a Scarf on Square Orange.”

Video: Games on paper: TETRIS - season 1 episode 2

GAME FOR CHILDREN AT HOME: HERRING IN A BARREL

This game is for children at home- the opposite version of hide and seek. All players close their eyes and count to ten, and the leader runs away and hides. After some time, one of the players goes in search and, if he does not find the hidden one in one minute, is eliminated from the game. If he finds the leader, he hides with him.

A game continues until everyone hides with the leader, like sardines in a barrel. The main thing is not to laugh and not give everyone away.

GAME FOR CHILDREN AT HOME: BILBOKE

It's such an old French game that grandparents and even great-grandparents can remember playing it.

For this games with children at home you need to take a thick thread or cord approximately 45 cm long. One of its ends is glued with adhesive tape to a tennis ball, and the other to the bottom of a plastic cup. You can also tie the end of the thread to the handle of a plastic mug.

Several people take part in the game. The player is required to throw the ball up and catch it in a glass or mug. Points are awarded for this. You need to catch the ball one at a time until you miss. The player who misses passes the billboke to the next player in line. The first one to score the agreed number of points wins.

From the book: M.A. Mikhailov.

Children holidays. Games, tricks, fun. Yaroslavl, Academy of Development, Academy Holding, 2000.

GAME FOR CHILDREN AT HOME: Who is the presenter?

The game must involve at least six players; one of the players leaves the room. At this time, the rest sit in a circle and choose a leader. The presenter makes simple movements, for example, clapping his hands, shaking his head, shaking his fists in the air, etc. The remaining players must repeat the leader's movements and perform new movements after him as quickly as possible.

Now the player who went out the door returns and stands in the center of the circle. His job is to discover who is leading. This is not at all easy, because while he is looking at the leader, he will not make new movements. When a leader is found, he must leave the room and the players choose a new leader.

From the book: G. Tubelskaya. Children's holidays in the family. Moscow, Sphere shopping center, 1999.

GAME FOR CHILDREN AT HOME: KNOW ME

Many children take part in this game. The leader is blindfolded and stands in the center of the circle. At the signal (clap) of the leader, the players begin to move in a circle. The repeated clap stops the movement. Now the presenter must point to one of the players and try to recognize him. He has the right to touch the player and, if he cannot guess, ask him to say something (pretend to be an animal - meow, squeak, bark, crow, etc.).

If the leader does not recognize the child, he leads a second time.

From the book: M.A. Mikhailov.

Children holidays. Games, tricks, fun. Yaroslavl, Academy of Development, Academy Holding, 2000

Yulia Maznina

Sometimes circumstances are such that the child is forced to spend most of the day at home: the mother is busy or the weather is not at all suitable for walking. But for a child’s normal well-being and development, both physical and mental, he must move a lot during the day. Is it possible to organize outdoor games for children at home so that the child gets his share of movement, and the house remains intact? Can. In addition, when playing outdoor games with child at home, you can teach him not only new movements, dexterity and the ability to control his body, but also combine movement games with role-playing and educational games. But first things first.

You can organize many outdoor games at home:

Gymnastics and games at the sports complex

One of the most simple options outdoor games at home is gymnastics, but it must be done in game form, adding some kind of plot to make it interesting for the child. You can play out nursery rhymes or poems. For example, like this:

Monkeys(from 1 year)

Early morning in the clearing

(I.p.: we squat. We stand up, raising our hands up, as if the sun is rising)
This is how the monkeys frolicked:
(We hop on two legs several times)
Right foot stomp, stomp
(Stomp with your right foot)
Left foot stomp, stomp!
(Stomp with your right foot)
Hands up, up, up!!! (Pull both hands up)
Who will rise the highest???
(We stand on our toes and stretch upward even more)

Hammer, Hammer, hamster(from 1 year)

Khomka, Khomka, hamster -
(Puff up our cheeks)
Striped barrel.
(Hands on the belt, bend to the sides)
Khomka gets up early
(Stretching, raising our arms up)
He washes his cheeks and rubs his neck.
(Rap the cheeks with both hands, then the neck)
Khomka sweeps the hut
(Imitate sweeping)
And goes out to charge.
(Marching)
One two three four five -
(Arms to the sides, rhythmically bend our elbows)
Khomka wants to become strong!
(Press your hands to your shoulder, tensing the arm muscles, as if showing how much strength they have)

Classes at the sports complex can also be accompanied by some kind of plot or poems.

Taxi in the miracle city(from 2 years)

Build a city out of a sports complex. Gift paper bags with handles can serve as houses. City residents are little toys. Hang the bags at different levels of the wall bars, rope ladder, rope (if the child knows how to climb a rope). You can paste on each house a picture of its resident or an inscription if the child can read. Invite your child to become a bus or taxi and take the residents of the wonder city home. To ensure that the child's two hands are free to climb around the sports complex, passengers can be placed in a pocket on the child's clothing.

In a troop of monkeys(from 2 years)

Monkeys are very funny animals that love to play pranks. Invite your child to turn into a monkey and have a little fun too. The monkey can:

• swing on vines (swing on a trapeze and twist - spin on rings);
• climbing trees (climbing up and down the wall bars);
• walk on branches on four paws (we walk on all fours on a bench, raised board or tape laid out on the floor);
• move on your hands from branch to branch (we walk on a monkey bars, if there is one), we twist ourselves on rings);
• sitting on a branch, throw fruits of the tree (attach a gift at the sports complex paper bag with balls from table tennis or rag balls at such a height that the child needs to climb up to it; the child can climb behind each ball or can perch on the crossbar and throw the balls at the target).

For climbing the wall bars, this poem by N. Shilov is perfect:

In the shop

In the shop,
Where is the halva
The hills rise
And the cookies
Stacks
Form
Hills,
Where's the candy?
"Red poppy"
Like mountains
Kara-dag,
And the ranks
Zephyra,
Like the ridges
Pamir,
Place
Only for men -
Conquerors of peaks.

When playing at the sports complex, do not forget about safety precautions: there should be a mat under the sports complex, and insure the child when he makes new movements. How to organize your home sports section you can read in the article.

Imitation games

A good option outdoor games at home can become imitation games. The child can imitate your actions or pretend to be something. You can depict anything:

• toys (yule, tumbler, ball);
• animals (animals, birds, insects);
• transport (bicycle, plane, car, train, etc.);
• appliances (vacuum cleaner, iron, washing machine, hairdryer).

You can also give a task in several ways:

• you simply show or tell the child what to do, who or what to portray;
• the child chooses a card with a drawn or written task (such cards must be prepared in advance). If you depict animals, then on the task cards you can draw not the animals themselves, but their shadow, traces, or only part of them;
• you can ask your child a riddle about what he will need to draw.

Here are some options for imitation games.

Do as I do(from 1 year)

The parent gives commands and carries them out together with the child. For example, reach with your handle to your head, your ear to your knee, your foot to your pillow. You can wish for objects in different parts rooms or apartments, so that you still need to run to them: touch the closet with your heel, touch the table with your elbow, and so on, as far as your imagination and surrounding objects are sufficient. You can execute these commands at speed.

Dwarves and giants

This is a well-known outdoor game for attentiveness. It's more interesting to play it with several children. The presenter can only pronounce the words “giants” and “gnomes”. When the word “giants” is said, everyone should rise on their toes and raise their hands. And when you hear the word “gnomes,” everyone should sit down lower.

The presenter tries to get the players to make mistakes. You can first say “giants” loudly, and “gnomes” quietly. And then suddenly it’s the other way around. Or another option: when saying “giants”, the presenter squats, and when saying “gnomes”, he rises on his tiptoes. And then suddenly it’s the other way around. The pace of the game needs to be gradually increased.

If you are playing with several children, the one who makes a mistake is out of the game. The last player who never makes a mistake becomes the leader. If you are playing together with a child, after a mistake you can simply change roles or assign a penalty for the mistake - for example, sit down 5 times.

Yula(from 1.5 years)

Surely you have a spinning top at home. Invite your child to spin around like a spinning top. When you say “stop”, the baby should stop. You can spin on two legs or on one leg (for children over 4 years old). The following poem by E. Gaiterova would suit this game well:

I’ll become a top now -
I'll spin on one leg.
And now I'll change my leg
And I’ll spin around on it a little.

Tumbler(from 1.5 years)

The most convenient way to play this game is on a mat on the floor. The child sits on his heels, leans or falls on one side, then on the other. A suitable poem by T. Koval “Vanka-Vstanka”:

Vanka-Vstanka is a tumbler.
Even if he wants to sleep,
Still worth it, poor thing,
And he can't go to bed.

Car(from 1.5 years)

Designate several places in the room: garage, gas station, station Maintenance, mail and so on. Invite your child to become a machine. Give the car directions where to go.

After 4 years, you can use places in your city that your child knows as places. You can also tell your child where to go, or ask him to give you a tour of the city: let the child driver hold your hand and choose the route himself.

Around the world(from 4 years old)

This game is a variation of the previous game, but for this game you will need political map peace. Designate in different places rooms or apartments in the country that can be reached in different ways - by land, by water, by air. Invite your child to take a trip. You suggest a country, the child decides how to get to it, and moves to the right place, performing the appropriate movements: driving a car or train, sailing on a ship or flying in a plane or helicopter. For example, you can get from Russia to France by car, train or plane. And from France to Canada - by plane or by ship.

Truck(from 1.5 years)

Invite your child to become a truck. You can use for the game a large truck that the child can drive with his hands, a car - a gurney on which the child moves, pushing off with his feet, or an ordinary backpack that the child will put on himself. At one end of the room, prepare the parts of a large construction set. These will be bricks. The truck must complete a task - transport bricks from the factory to the construction site. Help your child at the factory load bricks into the back of a car or backpack. At a construction site, a child truck must unload bricks. When all the bricks have been transported, you can build a house, a zoo, or something else out of them.

Horses(from 2 years)

Tell your child about how horses and ponies are trained, and offer to play with a trained horse. Designate a stable in the room. The mother-trainer gives commands to the horse, at the end the horse can receive a treat. Example commands that a horse can perform:

• “step” - the horse walks, raising its knees high;
• “trot” - the horse runs;
• “turn” - the horse turns in a circle;
• “bow” - the horse leans forward;
• “to the stable” - the horse runs to a specially designated place, and so on.

Games with large objects, or building a shelter

Playing with large objects is an excellent physical activity for children under 4 years old.

We are building a house(from 2 years)

Invite your child to build a den for a bear, a hole for a mouse, a booth for a dog, and so on, out of pillows and blankets. This game can easily turn into a role-playing game.

Helping mom(from 2 years)

Ask your child to help you: move a pillow, stool or something else to another room big size, but not too heavy; put books on a high shelf and so on. The baby will not only be glad that he was able to be useful to you, but will also receive additional physical activity.

Dancing

A great option outdoor games for children at home can become dancing. They not only contribute to the development of the baby’s gross motor skills, but also develop his auditory concentration and attention. Here are some options for dance games.

Just dancing(from 6 months)

The child and you can simply move to the music the way you like.

Let's dance(from 1 year)

There are many simple children's songs that you can dance to by doing certain movements during the chorus (clapping, stomping, spinning).

Dance with stops(from 2 years)

This game will require a host who will periodically turn off the music. While the music is playing, the child dances; as soon as the music stops, the child must stop. For children over 4 years old, the task can be complicated: not just stop when the music ends, but freeze in the position in which he was at that moment. When the music starts again, the child starts dancing again.

We dress up and dance(from 2 years)

If your child is tired of just dancing, try dancing in costumes. For costumes, you can use items of clothing you have at home, or parts of fancy dress costumes if you have them. To dance in a certain costume, you can choose the appropriate music. Here are some examples:

• put on a red and white Pinocchio cap and dance to the song from the movie “Pinocchio”;
• on the head is a captain’s cap - we dance to the song “Brave Captain”;
• We put on a cap and a sailor collar and dance to “Yablochko”;
• there is a cowboy hat on our head and a wooden or inflatable horse under the saddle - we dance to the songs “Two Cowboys” and “The Song about Cowboy John”;
• We put on our father’s or mother’s slippers or shoes – and dance to the song “Barbariki”;
• put on khaki shorts and a military cap - we march to the song “Soldiers - Brave Children”;
• mouse costume - Scary beast (Song about a mouse) music. A. Moskovoy sl. A. Shutko;

Musical "Cat and Mouse"(from 2 years)

You will need two melodies (loud and quiet) and a presenter who will switch them. You will be a cat, the child will be a mouse. When quiet music is playing, the child can run around the room as he wants, for example, he can try to steal crumbs from the table. When the melody changes, the cat wakes up and tries to catch the mouse. This game is fun to play with several children - mice.

Catching up at home

There is hardly a child who does not like to run. Catch-up, or tag, is one of the most ancient folk games, like hide and seek. With some restrictions, it is quite possible to play catch-up at home. The goal of the game is the same in all cases - the leader tries to catch up and make fun of the other player or players. If the apartment space does not allow active running, you can invite the baby to play catch on all fours.

Catch-up with the plot

There are a lot of catch-up plots with corresponding poetic accompaniment. While the poem is being told, the leader (bear, wolf, dog, etc.) hides or sleeps, and the children walk around him. As soon as the poem ends, the children run away, and the leader catches them:

By the bear in the forest

By the bear in the forest,
I take mushrooms and berries,
But the bear doesn't sleep
And he growls at us.

Geese, Geese

Shepherd: Geese, geese!
Geese: Ha, ha, ha.
Shepherd: Do you want to eat?
Geese: Yes, yes, yes.
Shepherd: Well, fly.
Geese: We can't. Gray wolf under the mountain does not let us go home.
Shepherd: Well, fly as you want, just take care of your wings.

Angry dog

Here lies a shaggy dog,
He buried his nose in his paws.
Quietly, quietly he lies,
Otherwise he’s dozing,
or else he's sleeping.
Let's go to him and wake him up
And let's see what happens...

Don't be as quiet as a mouse...

The mice dance in circles
The cat is dozing on the bed.
Hush, mice, don't make noise,
Don't wake up Vaska the cat.
How Vaska the cat wakes up,
It will break up your round dance.

But you can easily come up with your own plot: a fox and a chicken, a wolf and a hare, and so on.

Catching up with houses

Houses can be circles made of rope, sheets of paper laid out on the floor, parts of a children's rug, stools and a sofa. The mother catches up with the baby, but if the baby has jumped into the house, the mother can no longer make fun of him. You can do without stationary houses: a player can be considered “in the house” if he squatted down, folded his hands above his head in the shape of a roof and said: “Cheers, I’m in the house.”

Feet higher off the ground

This game is similar to the previous one, but the mother cannot make fun of the baby only if he lifts his legs off the ground: sits on the sofa or on the floor and raises his legs, lies on the floor on his stomach and raises his legs bent at the knees, hangs on the crossbar. You can agree that you can stay in the house as long as the person cooking counts to 5 or 10.

Zhmurki

Zhmurki – This is also a type of catch-up, but the driver is blindfolded with a thick scarf or scarf. The driver is spun up, and at the signal, the players scatter and begin to “tease” the driver, giving signals about their location. You can ring a bell or clap your hands. The driver needs to insult at least one of the players.

Catch up with a ball

In this version of the game of catch, you need to tease the child not with your hand, but with a ball (at home it is better to use a soft rag ball or a small beach ball) or a soft toy.

Runners

If you don’t want to play catch-up with your child, allow him to run around alone, but not just like that, but with a plot: you tell the poem and show the movements, the child repeats the movements after you, and at the last phrase he runs off about his business:

Butterfly

In the morning the butterfly woke up.
(We make fists like three eyes)
She stretched and smiled.
(We stand on our toes, stretch our arms up.)
Once - she washed herself with dew.
(We pretend to wash ourselves.)
Two - she spun gracefully.
(We spin around in place.)
Three - she bent down and sat down.
(Lean forward and squat.)
At four, it flew away.
(We run away, waving our arms).

Bees

Bees sit in the hives
(We squat down.)
And they look out the window.
(We support our cheek with our right fist. With our left hand we support the elbow of our right hand.)
Wanted to have some fun
(We get up.)
They flew off one after another.
(We run away.)

Labyrinth

Do you want to play with your child easily and with pleasure?

Build a labyrinth on the floor of a spacious room using large construction blocks or a long rope. The baby can run through the maze on his own, carry soft toys or drive cars.

Hide and seek at home

Hide and seek is also one of the outdoor games that can be played not only on the street, but also at home. There are a lot of options for playing hide and seek. The main thing in all of them is that the child is “hiding” from prying eyes himself or hides an object, and the leader looks for it or the hidden object.

Hide and seek for the little ones(from 1 year)

Everyone knows the little game of “peek-a-boo”. You can play it a little differently with kids: invite your baby to hide his arms with you (put them behind his back), legs (sit on his heels), and tummy (curl up). You can hide your shoulders, elbows, heels, knees by covering them with your hands. This game will allow your baby not only to learn to coordinate his movements, but also to learn body parts.

Looking for a toy(from 1 year)

Choose a toy with your baby that will hide. Ask your baby to close his eyes or close his eyes with his hands, and hide the toy yourself. The kid will probably take a peek and then quickly find it. Then switch roles. When you are searching, it is better to deliberately look in the wrong places and loudly comment on your actions. This will be more fun, and at the same time you will introduce your baby to the space and names of objects surrounding him at home.

The toys hid

Hide toys in the apartment so that they peek out a little and the child can notice them. Ask your child to find all the hidden toys. If the toys are small, they can be placed in a bucket or basket; if large, they can be placed in a specific place, for example, on the sofa. For older children, you can complicate the game: while searching, play funny music and warn that the toys need to be found while the music is playing.

We are looking for treasure(from 3 years)

Hide a “treasure” (sweets or a new toy) in a room or apartment and ask your child to find it. You can give him a hint:

• make a riddle about the place where the treasure is hidden;
• comment on his actions with the words “hot - cold”, “warmer - colder”.

For older children, you can draw a search map or use notes with hints.

Regular hide and seek(from 1.5 years)

Almost all children enjoy playing hide and seek at home. If space allows, you can hide behind doors, behind curtains, behind the end of a sofa or closet, in the closet itself, if you allow it. If you search for your baby, deliberately making mistakes and loudly commenting on your actions, this will give your child a lot of pleasure. You can also search for a child for a deliberately long time or with the help of binoculars or an improvised telescope. You can climb onto a stool and look for the child from there - you can see better from above.

Stick - squealer(from 3 years)

This is a version of hide and seek with a stick – with a knocker, when it is first thrown into the house, and then the presenter must “knock” each player found with this stick. Determine a place - a house and put a stick there. As soon as you find a child, he should run to the house faster than you, knock with his stick and shout: “Knock.” – knock, stick. Help me out! If he doesn’t have time, he becomes the leader.

Ball games at home

For ball games at home, it is better to use rag balls or small rubber balls: they can cause the least damage. You can also play at home with a small inflatable beach ball or a small plush toy.

Piggy toy(from 2 years)

You will need a funny plush toy, such as a cockerel, pig or frog, fun rhythmic music and an assistant who will stop and turn on the music. To the music, we throw the toy into each other's hands. Suddenly the music stops. The one who at that moment found himself with a toy in his hands crows loudly, grunts or croaks!

“Edible – inedible” and other question-answer games(from 3 years)

“Edible – Inedible” is one of the most famous ball games. The presenter throws the ball to other players and names some food or object when throwing. The player to whom the presenter throws the ball must catch it if something edible is named (apple, porridge, juice), and throw it away if an inedible object is named (car, sofa, scissors).

You can diversify this game. For example, agree that players catch the ball only if the one named by the leader an object has a certain characteristic (of blue color, can fly, live and so on).

Another ball game where you have to catch the ball is the game "question answer". While throwing the ball, the leader can ask a question, and the player who caught the ball answers it by throwing the ball to the leader. Questions can be any or on the same topic. For example, on the topic of family: Who are you to your mother? Who is your daddy's brother? and so on. Or on the topic of birds: What do birds build in trees? Can the ostrich bird fly? Sparrow is Domestic bird? and so on.

Another version of the ball game, which involves the players' responses. The leader and players determine topic, for example, transport or vegetables. The presenter throws the ball to the players, the players catch the ball and, throwing it to the player, name an object from the selected group. For example, for the general concept of “transport” the following answers are suitable: car, bus, train, plane, and so on.

While playing these ball games, show your baby that the ball can be thrown in different ways: from the chest, from behind the head, from below, with one or two hands.

Roll the ball(from 1 year)

Show your child how to roll a ball on the floor. Can roll the ball to each other sitting on the floor.

After 3 years, you can offer the child, holding the ball with his hand, take a ride his snake– between construction kit parts or soft animals.

Can be arranged at home bowling. If you don't have skittles, empty plastic bottles can replace them. Let your child throw or push the ball, trying to knock down the pins placed on the floor. Filling bottles with water will make them harder to knock down.

Right on target(from 1.5 years)

Attach a large target on whatman paper or a piece of paper to a wall or door at the child’s eye level. Show your child how to throw a small ball at a target. Your child’s successful throws can be marked on the target with felt-tip pens or stickers. You can throw balls into a large bucket or basin. Gradually increase the distance to the target or bucket.

Let's practice hitting(from 1.5 years)

Hang the ball in a toy net on a sports complex or door handle. Invite your child to hit the ball with a table tennis racket or plastic bottle.

Football(from 1.5 years)

Children under 3 years old can play football at home with a soft ball. Show your child how to kick a ball. Let him try to score it into the goal. The gate can be a stool turned on its side, or a table covered on three sides with fabric. You can designate a gate with two large construction blocks.

Outdoor games with balloons at home

Balloons are perfect for outdoor games at home. Here are some game options.

Flyer(from 9 months)

Children really like this game. You will need one balloon. Inflate the balloon, but do not tie it. Give the ball to the child and ask him to let it go. The air will come out of the ball, and the ball will fly around the room, making indescribable turns. Children enjoy running after the flying ball and looking for where it fell.

Volleyball(from 3 years)

You will need one inflated balloon. The goal of the game is to push the ball up with your hands so that it doesn’t fall as long as possible. You cannot catch the ball with your hands.

Race balloons (from 4 years old)

You will need two inflated balloons (or more depending on the number of participants), a free floor or long table. The goal of the game is to move the balls from one part of the room to another. You can blow on the balls, push them with your feet, elbows, chin, and so on.

You can make the game more difficult by adding obstacles that need to be avoided, such as stools or a tunnel through which you need to crawl. The tunnel can be a box without a top or bottom, placed on its side, a rolled-up gymnastics mat, or a table covered with a cloth.

Running with balloons (from 4 years old)

You will need two inflated balloons (or more depending on the number of participants). Goal: move from one part to another without letting the ball fall to the floor. The balls can be pushed with your hands, carried on plastic plates, you can toss them with a table tennis or volleyball racket (if you don’t have a racket at hand, you can make one from a plastic plate and a stick using tape), you can jump with the ball clamped between your knees.

Transfer(from 2 years)

You will need several balls of two colors. You can use balls small size. Blow up the balloons and scatter them around the room. Divide the room into two parts. Choose the color of the balls that you will collect and which ones your child will collect. The goal of the game is to collect balls of your own color in your half faster than your opponent. You can collect the balls in large bags or a basin. You can agree that the orange balls are pumpkins, the green balls are zucchini, and harvest.

About what other games are possible with balloons, you can read in the article.

We play outdoor games in a circle at home

If there are more than two children gathered, you can also play outdoor games in a circle at home in a spacious room. Distinctive feature of these games is that the participants move in a circle, and the leader is in the center of the circle.

Carousel

The presenter reads a poem. The players stand in a circle and hold hands (or a hoop). Move in a circle clockwise. Gradually they speed up their pace, then run. Then they gradually slow down, stop and squat down:

Barely, barely
The carousels are spinning
And then, then, then
Everybody run, run, run.
Hush, hush, don't rush.
Stop the carousel.
Stop.

Next time you can move counterclockwise.

Blow up, bubble

The players join hands, forming a circle, move back, expanding the circle and saying:

Blow up, bubble,
Blow up big
Stay like this
Don't burst!

Then, if the leader says: “The air is coming out!”, the players, without opening the circle, run to the center, depicting the air coming out: “shhh.” If the presenter says: “The bubble has burst!”, the players scatter around the room.

Loaf

This game can be played not only at birthday parties.

As on (child's name) name day
We baked a loaf:
(Children dance around the birthday child).
Such a height
(Raise clasped hands up).
Such lows
(Squatting down, they lower their hands.)
This is the width
(Children spread out to the width of outstretched arms, stretching the circle.)
These are the dinners.
(Children converge in the center of the circle, lowering their hands down and slightly forward).
Loaf, loaf, choose who you love!
(The birthday boy chooses children by walking around them in a circle).
I really love everyone
But (name of the chosen child) is the best!
(Points to one of the children in the circle).

The game is repeated with the selected child.

Children will be happy if adults join them in these games. Playing in a circle creates an amazing feeling of togetherness between children and parents.

Good for home outdoor games with ropes. You can read more about these games in the article.

We play outdoor games at home for a walk

As you probably already understood, many outdoor games that you play with your child on a walk can be adapted for home by adding a little imagination and reducing the running speed. Here are some more options outdoor games with children at home depending on the time of year.

Snowballs at home. It's winter outside and your little one really enjoys playing in the snow? But there's a snowstorm outside and you can't go for a walk? Play snowballs at home: Crumpled sheets of white printer paper work well as snowballs. Shelters made from chairs and sofa cushions, will make the game even more interesting.

Home leaf fall. It's autumn now, and outside it's raining, and just yesterday you were playing so well with fallen leaves? Try to arrange leaf fall at home: leaves can be cut out of colored paper or scraps of fabric.

Ships at home. Does your child like to float boats in spring streams? Invite him to become the captain of such a ship. To play, you will need a boat on a string of such length that the baby can pull it behind him. You can take a toy boat or make a boat out of paper. You can simply pull the boat along the stream (the stream can be made from tape blue color or a piece of fabric). And here is a suitable poem by A. Barto “The Ship”:

Tarpaulin,
Rope in hand
I'm pulling the boat
Along the fast river
And the frogs jump
On my heels
And they ask me:
- Take it for a ride, captain!

Or you can, while playing this game, tell your child about how a stream is born from a spring, how a stream flows into a river, and a river into the sea. For streams and rivers you will need ribbons different thicknesses, for the sea - a piece of blue or light blue fabric. The Norwegian folk song translated by Yu. Vronsky “In a wooden shoe” is perfect for this trip.

You, me, you and me
In a wooden shoe
With a fair breeze
We will go to the sea along the river.

And then, and then
We will cross the sea
We'll come overseas
We'll meet the musician.

The musician will play for us
Something like that
So to the legs, so to the legs
There was no peace.

And then home again
You, me, you and me
By sea and by river
In a wooden shoe.

Once, while acting out this poem, we used a real shoe, although not a wooden one.

Home hike. Have you ever gone camping with your baby? If so, then he probably really liked it. Why not repeat it at home? If not, then it's time to practice at home. How? Set up an obstacle course for your child and play it like a hiking game: mountains, rivers, forests, clearings. Don’t forget to pack your backpack before the game, and take a short break in the middle of the hike. If you have a home tent, you can even organize an “overnight stay.”

Such games will not only bring a lot of fun to your baby, but will also contribute to the development of his imagination.

A few more ideas for outdoor games with children at home you can find in this video:

Have fun playing games at home!

You can read about what outdoor games you can play with your baby depending on his age in the following articles.

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