What you need to know about 5 years of age
All babies begin to actively develop from a very early age. They get acquainted with the world around them very quickly and constantly replenish their stock of information, which at first glance seems very simple. Here, parents can find many educational as well as interesting activities for their children that will attract their special attention.
What a five year old should know
Kids of this age will be able to learn to distinguish colors, solve crossword puzzles, train logical thinking, tell time, study animals, plants, and many other useful things. Cognitive activities will help you explore the world in a playful way.
Note! Each game is illustrated with beautiful, bright, memorable pictures, and voice accompaniment will help those kids who do not yet know how to read to quickly master any task. Each completed children's game will develop confidence.
The development of children should not stop for a minute, especially if this is a preschooler (i.e. 1-2 years before entering 1st grade). Educational games for children 5 and 6 years old are more complex tasks. Here children will have to use their thinking to cope with the tasks. The presented tasks will help develop memory, imagination, attention, counting and other qualities important for a preschooler.
Games for a 5-year-old child at home
What to do with a 5, 6, 7 year old girl?
- We grow flowers and various indoor plants.
- We play with dolls.
- Needlework. You can master various types of creativity (sewing, embroidery, knitting, beading, macrame, drawing, decoupage, scrapbooking, etc.).
- Games related to fashion and beauty (going to a children's beauty salon, etc.).
- Learning how to do children's makeup.
- We create jewelry with our own hands.
- We make a dollhouse with our own hands from shoe boxes and scrap materials, and furnish it with furniture.
- We create outfits for dolls.
- We play mother and daughter.
- We make pictures from sequins.
- We make candles with our own hands.
- We make soap with our own hands.
- Let's learn to cook.
What can you play with a 5 year old child at home?
Developmental logic and thinking tasks are designed for children aged 4, 5, 6 years. Here they must demonstrate the ability to think logically when performing various interesting tasks.
Easy math problems are created for children from 4 to 6 years old with the goal of preparing a preschooler for the first mathematical knowledge and ability to count. Interesting colorful entertainment awaits them, in which they will need to find and count the specified number of objects or living creatures.
Important! Memory tasks are created specifically to properly train the memorization of objects and pictures. Such educational games for children are very useful for schoolchildren of any age.
For example, coloring pages that feature numbers cannot be colored at your own discretion, since each color corresponds to a specific numerical value.
Board games
You can open up the interesting world of board games to your child as early as 3-4 years old. At this age, he is already able to understand the simplest rules, a spirit of competition and a desire to win arises in him. But real interest in tabletop activities usually appears later - around the age of five. The maturity of thought processes, the ability to concentrate for a long time and plan actions make such entertainment more accessible to understanding, turning children 5-6 years old into gamblers.
Basics of board games
Important! Board games are popular with children who attend kindergarten, but are already in full swing preparing for school, mastering the first elements of writing, reading, and mental arithmetic. A good board game can provide entertainment between tedious activities, as well as serve as a learning tool and become a source of knowledge.
Non-traditional drawing technique for the middle group of kindergarten
Most tasks are focused on the formation of the main mental processes - memory, thinking, attention. But there are options with a narrower focus, which are aimed at teaching counting, literacy, the alphabet of music, familiarization with the features of the surrounding world, and expanding knowledge about objects and phenomena. Children aged five become increasingly familiar with works of art or elements of folk art.
Educational games
The training plan should include not only training sessions using special teaching aids, but also tasks to develop skills that contribute to successful learning at school: perseverance, attentiveness, broad-mindedness, concentration. A cognitive child is already interested in learning and is almost ready for purposeful activity.
Developmental exercises
- Puzzles. If your child likes to solve funny riddles, solve clever puzzles or exciting charades, then you can use the Internet, where you can download many interesting tasks from various online sites.
- Crosswords. Many little scholars love to solve bright, original crossword puzzles, which are also available on the Internet. If you wish, you can print the options you like.
- Math games. Math games will help your child get acquainted with numbers or numbers, learn to count, add, subtract and perform other mathematical operations. Activities like these make learning math easy and fun.
- ABC. The online talking alphabet teaches kids how to pronounce syllables correctly and learn the Russian language. The game method will allow children to learn every syllable in just a few lessons. Bright and colorful alphabets are used especially for children.
Educational games (numbers and shapes)
In order for children to develop faster, parents should pay attention to educational games. For example, you can study colors by looking at interesting pictures, or watch an educational cartoon that is aimed at getting to know the colors of the rainbow.
Note! You need to repeat regularly: red, yellow, blue. Such entertainment develops memory and attention.
Training sessions
Note! There is an interesting game “10 Monkeys” that will teach a child to count from 10 to 1. It looks like an educational cartoon for the little ones. After watching it, every kid will be happy to count dolls, cars, and cards.
There are special educational programs for children in the form of mobile applications to learn numbers along with funny characters. An entertaining lesson will allow kids to count and perform simple mathematical operations. They will find funny poems and bright pictures to make learning numbers and counting fun and interesting.
As a rule, any educational game consists of two parts. In the first part, the child gets acquainted with numbers from 1 to 10. Together with the heroes of the game, the child searches for objects or assembles puzzles. The announcer recites a funny poem about numbers. The second part of the educational children's game is presented in the form of interesting tasks for mastering the acquired material.
For your information! There are special copybooks on sale that teach kids to write numbers from 1 to 10 and visually determine where there is more or less.
Outdoor games
For the normal development of children of any age, outdoor games are needed. Often parents stop attaching importance to the physical training of preschoolers, believing that it is more important for children to learn to read, write and count. Thus, outdoor games fade into the background. Sometimes children are enrolled in sports clubs, where they practice only 6 hours a week, which is not enough.
Moving exercises
Note! Children aged six should move as much as possible. To achieve good results in any other areas, you need to combine study and movement. For example, outdoor games for older preschool children may include elements of mathematics and reading.
Finger gymnastics complex for kindergarten children 4-5 years old
"Different steps." Typically, children 5–6 years old love not only to read, but also to count. Guys can just keep count without any purpose. In this game, the driver moves some distance away from the children and gives them the task: “walk 7 giant steps,” “take 22 midget steps,” “tread 50 elephant steps,” or “jump 5 steps like a frog.” The game may not be competitive in nature; the child does not necessarily need to reach the finish line faster. This game is not a race, but a kind of warm-up.
"Fanta". At this age, boys and girls begin to actively master reading. Therefore, parents can offer such an active game in which you need to perform not only some actions, but also read tasks. To play “Fanta,” you need to take strips of paper and write in beautiful, legible handwriting what the child must do. Tasks can be more or less active, for example, asking to bring water.
Note! It’s better to play in a group: take turns taking out pieces of paper, reading, and then performing the necessary actions.
Write and read
Communicating with five-year-old boys and girls is a pleasure. At 5 years old, a child is interested in everything. He is unusually open to all new information, knowledge, as well as to various skills. He wants to do everything at once, try everything: dance, draw, and play tennis. It’s interesting that he actually has an easy time with both mental and physical skills.
It also surprises no one that even before first grade, many children already know letters, can write them, and some also read quite fluently. Children usually also master the simplest arithmetic operations; they can add and subtract. In a word, now is the most favorable time to “cram” more valuable and useful things into your child. Very little time will pass - and this wonderful, delightful interest in the world around us, which pleases mom and dad, will slowly fade away. So don't miss such a good time.
Lesson: “Making fruits and vegetables”
Invite your daughter to make a grocery set for her doll. For example, offer him originals of vegetables and fruits or pictures of them. Let him try to create vegetables and fruits according to their colors.
Make a picture from the received copies or ask them to divide the resulting works into vegetables and fruits.
Parents should remember that only developmental activities in the form of games can captivate a child and teach him to perform the most difficult tasks. Help and be sure to praise the child, then he will learn to accept even failures adequately and will not lose the desire to try again and again. What didn't work out the first time.
What to do with a 5, 6, 7 year old boy?
Boys are interested in everything related to technology, adventure, strength, and movement. Their favorite toys are cars and planes, trains, pistols and construction sets. If you don’t know what to do with a 5, 6, 7 year old child (boy) at home, use this selection:
- Table soccer.
- Table hockey.
- Solving puzzles develops logic, perseverance, teaches you to solve complex problems and make decisions.
- Construction. This includes games with various construction sets, as well as kits for self-assembling exact copies of a car, plane, or ship.
- Burning out.
- Sawing with a jigsaw.
- We make a car wash with our own hands. In the bathroom, you can make a car wash from a five-liter plastic bottle; various sponges, washcloths, and liquid soap are also suitable as necessary materials.