Educational games - what to do with a bored child?

rare child is able to sit still for a long time, bored in a queue in a shop, at the airport or train station, in the Doctor Hospital, and elsewhere, where he had to wait long for anything with adults.

Take this opportunity and take the kid interesting games, useful for its development and able to distract him from his desire to "go mad with boredom."

For these simple but useful games that develop memory, motor skills, coordination, imagination and thinking of the child, you will need your imagination and all sorts of stuff - pen, paper, captured from the log house and things like that.

dorisovat figure

child selects any geometric shape, you draw it on a piece of paper.Together with the child fantasize what looks like a figure, and that it is not enough to depict this subject.Then dorisovyvat missing part.For example, if a rectangle similar to the home, and it lacks a roof, it is possible to finish the roof.

Then the child has to say, what is still lacking images of objects - so gradually you get the picture.All of this may draw the kid himself, and the subject may be fictional - such as a fabulous creature that your child comes up with on the go (it can even think of the name and then the story).

Coloring

Take turns with your child coat paper chaotic intersecting lines, curves and straight lines, and then paint over the areas bounded by them in different colors and styles (shaded, stripes, dots, etc.).You can mix colors.Pronouncing everything that you do, out loud, you're helping your child to learn the names of colors and shapes, and allowed him to call them, and fix the received knowledge.

alphabet and numbers

studying with the child the alphabet and expense, can write letters or numbers randomly on paper - let the child joins their lines alphabetically or ascending.

Playing with the magazine - friends

If you have with you or in a room where you are, there is a magazine (of course, one of those that can be shown to children), flip through it with your child - let them choose from all the pictures ofwith whom I would like to make friends.

Come up with a story about the kid that man or beast, about his friendship with your child and their possible relationship.The child must take an active part in the game - to ask him questions on this topic.

Playing with the magazine - believe

Let the child find all the items in the journal of one category - edible, moving, red, people, birds, and so on.You can also ask him to count them.

Games fidgets

If your child can not sit still, you can take his physical activity.For example, make a "contest" in sports invented: standing or jumping on one leg, walking with small steps in a straight line, holding of the breath at a time.The smallest can be asked to quickly touch the body parts you called.Of course, the difficulty of the task should correspond to the capabilities of the child.

Riddler

One of the favorite children's games - puzzles.You call the properties of the object, the kid is trying to guess.If not, you go on to describe the hidden.Then I was with child seats - he thinks of you.It is important to praise the kid for his answers and attempts, even wrong, to maintain interest in the game.

tell tales

Almost a win-win - a fairy tale, you can tell the known or new, national or works of the writer, but you can invent your own.You can make your child the main character of the narrative, so it will be interesting.Let him figure out how to get out of difficult situations on a course of action.