What, if not games, delights children? Children are ready to play endlessly! And if adults take the time to bring the whole family together for this, simple entertainment will also be of great benefit. After all, games at home will help not only to have a great time, but also to unite all household members and even resolve minor family troubles.

Family games can be divided into three categories:

sports/active games;
board/calm games;
creative games and activities.

Sports games in the family

Mom, dad, I am a sports family! This motto can be adopted by many families who love active pastime. Sport games often held outdoors: in nature, in the country, on a children's or sports ground. One has only to take with him a couple of things that are likely to be found in any home with a child: a rope, balls, hoops.

Sports games are good for the whole family. With their help, you not only maintain the health of the household, but also develop the endurance, dexterity of children, and also contribute to the development of teamwork skills. It is not for nothing that family psychologists widely use them in solving problems both within the same generation and between relatives of different ages.

Board games for the whole family

As for board games, you can talk a lot and for a long time on this topic. After all, there are a lot of games that will be of interest to every member of the family. They develop not only intelligence, strategic thinking, teach to compare, compare, draw conclusions, but also teach the most valuable skill - the ability to communicate in a team, enjoy communication, give in, negotiate, reasonably accept not only a win, but also a loss.

Let's start with word games. This is the compilation of a series of words starting with the last letter of the previous word, deciphering abbreviations, composing words from one long one, searching for objects in the room starting with a certain letter and others. There are other games as well. For example, you can spend the whole evening playing loto, dominoes or the Crocodile game! There are children's versions of these games that allow a wider range of households to take part in them.

Walking games, where each player rolls a dice to move a piece around the map, are especially good for large families. Logic games, various puzzles, riddles can serve as an interesting option for the whole family. For the smallest, you can offer mazes, simple puzzles, although older children are happy to take part in this.

Interesting games for the whole family are puzzles, puzzles, trick questions, crossword puzzles, chess and checkers, tic-tac-toe. All this has a great effect on overall development, logical thinking, imagination, memory and attentiveness, and, of course, helps to spend the evening in a warm and cheerful atmosphere.

Board games can be either made by yourself (and this is another useful thing for the whole family that can take an evening or weekend) or you can buy ready-made games and sets in the store. In addition, if you have a printer at home, then some of the material can be printed from the Internet.

It is worth choosing games, of course, according to the age of the child. In addition, it is important to keep in mind that young children may not immediately understand your proposal, so you need to try different options. Choose family games in such a way that each family member can take part in them with interest. After all, if everyone likes such an activity, the relationship between parents and children will undoubtedly be wonderful. The most important thing is that it is pleasant and exciting, as well as useful, to spend time with the whole family.

Creative games and activities with children

Creative activities can also be attributed to board games, but, perhaps, it is more correct to single them out in a separate group. They also contribute to the mental development of the baby, stimulate imagination and artistic taste, develop industriousness, and even motor skills develop in the child mainly due to creative activities. Drawing is suitable for all ages (for example, you can draw a picture with the whole family, create a tree from handprints, color pictures), modeling from plasticine, clay or salt dough, origami, collecting interesting pictures from mosaics and much more.

For a long time, children can be captivated by such an unusual thing as drawing with the left hand(for right-handers and, respectively, the right hand for left-handers). An adult can name simple figures or words, and children, under general laughter, try to draw the declared “wrong” hand. This game is simple, but extremely useful for the development of both hemispheres of the brain.

Family Art Magazine- another original and trendy activity for the whole family. Its appearance, shape, style and theme may be different. Usually, an art magazine contains drawings and notes on the theme of family life and uses absolutely any artistic means for self-expression. The main thing is that everyone involved in the creative process likes it!

You can also publish a book on any topic. The texts can be written together, the drawings will be drawn by the younger members of the family, and the parents will take care of the technical aspects of making the tome. By the same principle, a guide to the hometown, a wall newspaper or a scrapbook on the theme of relaxation or family holidays is made.

It is necessary to play at home with children - any child psychologist and teacher will say this. And it is joint family games and entertainment that is the cement that holds the whole family together, gives unforgettable memories to your children and feelings of warmth and kindness coming from the hearth. Play family games and enjoy being one family!

Hello dear readers. Any holiday is an occasion to get together! But even the most dear people who have something to talk about sometimes get bored at home gatherings. Here comes the time interesting and fun contests, which should raise everyone's mood and make your celebration unusual. In this article, I want to offer you my contests, which are suitable for people of all ages. And you can also pick up gifts for your loved ones, using the advice from my new article Or congratulate your relatives

Have you already prepared gifts for your loved ones? If not, then the article What to give a girl' will be useful to you.

For seed I'm cooking some interesting gift, which I wrap in several layers of newsprint (the more, the better) and tie with a ribbon. I say that a package has arrived, but, unfortunately, it was not said for whom it was, and I suggest that all guests take turns removing the packaging layer by layer. The one who removes the last layer from the parcel and turns out to be a happy addressee))).

And now the contests:

Contest 1. Roll up the present.

Two participants come out and stand side by side, shoulder to shoulder. The touching hands are tied with them, and with their free hands (one with the left and the other with the right hand), the participants must put the gift in the container, close it, wrap it neatly with newspaper, tie it with a ribbon and tie a bow.

2 or 3 couples are called and whoever ties faster and more accurately wins. Required: 3 containers, a gift is taken from the table. 3 ribbons and 3 double sheets of newspaper.

"Cablegram" (a game for adults and children from 5 years old)

You will need paper and a pencil.

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How to play:

Step 1. Write on a piece of paper in a column the name (child, grandmother, your name, dog's name, etc.). You can also write just a word. The word must be 5 or more letters long.

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Step 2 Together with the children, come up with your own interpretation of this word, i.e. a sentence in which the words begin with the letters of the given word and follow in order.

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Example 1

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G - Giant

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A - chieftain

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The proposal turned out like this: "A giant robot is looking for a chieftain's hat."

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Another version of the same name: "A loud roar frightened the walking artist." Or: “The robbers said to the inspector: “The sixth was arrested.” Or: "The goose lay down, depicting the skin of an antelope."

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Example 2

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C - Sergey

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B - in the evening

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T - solid

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A is an apricot.

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The result was a sentence: "Sergey ate a hard apricot in the evening."

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The sentence must make sense, although elements of fantasy or humor are allowed.

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Game "Mimicry and gestures"

The host thinks of a word and tells it to one of the players who will beat this item. The task of the demonstrator is to describe the object as much as possible with gestures and facial expressions. Under no circumstances should you speak. Guessing, in turn, asking leading questions, must recognize what kind of task the leader gave.

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The game is very exciting, especially if the participants are not devoid of a sense of humor and have acting skills.

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Find a surprise (treasure)

You can play this game with the whole family (parents come up with a task). For kids, the task will be in pictures, for older preschoolers and younger schoolchildren - in the form of cards with words (“table”, “on the window”, “in the closet”).

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Step 1. Hide your surprises discreetly from children in different places of the apartment. For the little ones, draw a plan - how to go to the treasure. On the plan, be sure to indicate the place from which the child will begin. For older children (who are learning to read or can already read), lay out the path clues in words or short phrases.

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For example, a hint for children 5-7 years old - the word “window” is written in large letters on the note. So, you need to look for the next path sign on some window in the apartment.

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For children from 7 years old, the hint may be different: "Look on the window."

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Or a hint in the form of a riddle, a rebus, a “guess the missing word” task.

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Step 2. The child is looking for a surprise either according to the plan or according to the way signs (they found a note on the table with the word “window”, went to look at the windows.

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On the window in the kitchen, they found the clue "cupboard". We went around different closets at home and found the clue "sofa".

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There was a surprise on the couch under the pillow.

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Step 3. The child will definitely receive his surprise (calendar, small toy, leaflet with a picture, etc.), even if he needs help on the way.

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This game is very interesting for children and they are happy to read the words and learn to use the plan.

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"Funny Tale"

All she needs is paper and a pencil.

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The first player writes the beginning of the tale, then folds the sheet so that the next participant does not see what was written.

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In a circle, all players write one desired line for the fairy tale, while bending a piece of paper.

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The game ends when the sheet is completely collapsed.

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Lost Search game

Game for adults and children from 3 years old

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This competition for the whole family develops attentiveness and visual memory of its participants.

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Rules

For props, you need a colored tablecloth and many small items. It can be lipstick tubes, small boxes, caps, ballpoint pens, teaspoons, matchboxes - in general, everything you find at home. The more varied the props, the better.

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All these utensils are laid out on a table, which is previously covered with a tablecloth, and the participants are seated around.

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The essence of the game is to remember all the items lying on the playing field and immediately notice the item that will disappear from the table.

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Example. The driver invites the players to carefully look at the table and try to remember many more items and how they are located. After that, everyone should close their eyes, and the driver removes from the table and hides one of the objects.

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At his command, the participants open their eyes and try to figure out which object has disappeared.

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The one who guesses becomes the leader.

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The game of turnaround

Game for adults and children of school age.

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The task of the players is to unravel the well-known expressions said in reverse. For each guessed expression, the player receives one chip. The one who guessed the most shifters wins. He is awarded a medal. The rest of the players are also awarded, but - with a diploma for participating in the game.

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Here are our favorite flip-flops that we played over the holidays with family, colleagues at work, and friends. First, give the players some examples of shifters and their clues, and then start a fun game of riddles:

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Happiness moves in heaps (Trouble does not come alone).

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Started having fun - cowardly sit at home (Finished business - walk boldly)

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He hid that algae - get out of the aquarium (He called himself a load - climb into the body).

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To frighten dogs - to walk around the city (to be afraid of wolves - do not go into the forest)

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From courage, the back of the head is small (Fear has large eyes)

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Bald head - male disgrace (Scythe - girlish beauty)

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On a policeman, boots get wet (On a thief, a hat is on fire)

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From idleness you will release all the squids into the ocean (Without labor you will not catch a fish from the pond)

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A scout near Moscow will leave (Language will bring to Kyiv)

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Carriages of cleanliness are afraid (Tanks of dirt are not afraid)

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Cheerful night in the morning, because there is no one to rest (Day until evening is boring, if there is nothing to do)

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Happiness has gone - close the window (Trouble has come - open the gate)

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The anchor turns black in the company (The lonely sail turns white)

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The logic of the black stallion (Nonsense bullshit)

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The hare is eaten by the hands (the wolf is fed by the legs)

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Animal stalls humiliated (Man sounds proud)

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The flame has stopped! (The ice has broken!)

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He hid in the field, it was a little hot (He came out of the forest, there was a severe frost)

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Run, century, I'm terrible! (Stop, moment! You are beautiful!)

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Cabin boy. Jung, cry! (Captain, captain, smile!)

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A tornado screeched a hymn to him: “Get up, cactus, get up!” (The blizzard sang a song to her: “Sleep, Christmas tree, bye-bye!”)

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Rested tools of production do not sleep (tired toys sleep)

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Than enemies sit in a gloomy dungeon (than friends roam the wide world)

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If I were king

The game develops the imagination. Before the game, agree with the children where you can take things for her (from the nursery, or only from the living room, etc.). And say that the rule of the game is that after use, all things will need to be put in their places.

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How to play

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Step 1. The first team starts (select it by lot). They say: “If I were (hereinafter referred to as the role, for example, king), then I would have (hereinafter referred to as 5 items, for example, throne, crown, servants, palace, mantle).

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Step 2. The other team must quickly find these things in the room in the 3-5 minutes allocated to them. For example, a scarf can become a mantle. If a chair is draped with a veil, then there will be a throne. At the signal, the preparations are over.

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Step 3. The second team presents first what it came up with. And the first evaluates.

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Then the teams change places and the game is repeated. For the game, you can take on different roles: professions (doctor, captain of the ship), fairy-tale characters (Cinderella, King, Pinocchio, etc.) At the end of the whole game, all things are laid out in their places.

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Game "Package with a gift"

This game can be played by the whole family or a friendly company. Moreover, the more participants in it, the better. This game develops a very valuable moral quality of a person - the ability to share with others and the ability to keep a given word and rules, the ability to rejoice in the luck of another person and not perceive it as a personal defeat.

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Prepare for the game:

1. Bundle. Take a little surprise and wrap it in paper. Secure with adhesive tape (transparent adhesive tape). Then wrap again in a layer of paper and fasten with tape again. And so on until you get a bundle of many layers of paper. Fasten the layers so that you can easily unfold them during the game.

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2. Surprises for each player (picture, calendar, candy, nuts or something else).

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How to play:

Stand or sit in a circle. You can play together with your child. And you can in a large circle of acquaintances and friends. Turn on the music and pass the bundle to each other in a circle to the music. When the music stops (you can either appoint someone, for example, a grandmother, "responsible for the music" or pre-record the music with pauses), the bundle stops.

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The player who has it in his hands unties it. And then passes the bundle with a surprise in a circle. The bundle becomes lighter and lighter, and no one knows when the layers will run out and the prize will finally show. With each step, the child finds it harder and harder to hand over the bundle, and one does not want to give it away! But you have to share, because the rule of the game is to pass it on as soon as the music starts.

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At the end of the game, the last player - "lucky" - unfolds the bundle and gets a surprise!

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But all players must also receive a little surprise so that the children can rejoice together.

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Game "Traffic light"

Mark with a rope or a line on the floor two lines - the starting line and the line for the traffic light. One person in this game will be the traffic light. We choose him by counting.

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The players stand at the starting line, and the traffic light stands on the other side of the room with its back to the players.

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The task of the players is to quietly approach the "traffic light" and touch it.

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The game ends when everyone has touched the traffic light.

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How to play:

The traffic light counts to 10: “One, two, three, four, five” and suddenly quickly and unexpectedly says: “Red light”, immediately turning to the players.

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Players must freeze in place at this signal. If the traffic light notices that one of the players continues to move, he sends him back to the starting line.

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You can confuse players by changing the pace of the score, making pauses. The game teaches children to control their behavior, to control their movements.

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Game "Magic melody"

This game is experimentation, it will be interesting for children of any age and adults.

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Take glasses or glasses. It is better to find a set of identical glasses or glasses (6-12 pieces), but if there is no set, then you can take the same cans or the same glass bottles.

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Pour water into the bowl so that it is at a different level in each vessel. Show your child how to get a sound, for example, by gently tapping a glass (glass) with a spoon. Let the children experiment. Let them try to understand in which vessels a higher or lower sound is produced. You can also use drum sticks.

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Try playing different tunes on this unusual crockery musical instrument. It captivates not only children, but also adults!

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Game "Change!"

This game can be played both indoors and outdoors during the summer. The minimum number of players is 4 people.

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Everyone stand in a circle. Or sit in a circle on chairs.

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One player (we choose him according to the counting rhyme) is the driver. He names two other players, for example: "Mom and Dasha".

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At these words, mother and Dasha should change places with each other, that is, mother should sit on Dasha's place, and Dasha - on mother's. At the same time, the host tries to be the first to take someone else's place - either mom's or Dashino.

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Who was left without a place - leads in the next game.

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The game develops attention and speed of reaction.

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You can also please your loved ones and play

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Have fun games and harmony and peace in the family! I really want to believe that games for the whole family will bring many joyful bright moments into your life! I wish you success in their implementation! Happy holiday!

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The right games for the whole family are one of the better ways unite households. They can be mobile if parents are ready to remember their childhood and actively move around; with words, if children can already read or are just learning to do so; creative, and most importantly, they will be developing in any case.

The role of family games in the development of the child

The child comprehends the world through the game. The game develops, educates, teaches. In the process of playing activity, the child learns the rules and behaviors that he will need to cope with life's difficulties. Children may enjoy playing alone, but they also usually enjoy playing with others.

At a time when a child plays alone, he conducts a kind of internal dialogue, and playing with other children, as well as with parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers or friends, is communication, the exchange of information and experience. It is important that the child has the opportunity for both.

In the process of joint games, opinions and knowledge are transferred, ways of behavior are developed and skills are trained. Try to get your child to play with other children, and find time to play together yourself.

In most cases, play with young children consists of simple actions, usually often repeated, accompanied by a standard set of words. Little kids love it. How older child, the more he understands, and the more difficult his game actions become.

In joint play, children play different roles that reflect everyday experiences and the child's own views. Problems are discussed, beliefs are formulated, explanatory work is carried out. During the game, rules and values are transferred that will be useful in other situations.

The best cooperative home games occur spontaneously and are played without formal guidance or direction. However, some family games for kids and adults are listed below. Try them out at your next event. Perhaps these family fun will suit you and your household in the best way.

Active home games for children and adults

When organizing active games at home for children and adults, pay attention to the following ones:

"It's me",
"Package with a gift" (this game is conditionally mobile),
"Treasure Search".

"It's me!"

This family game can be played if at least 4 people are ready to play. You can play it both at home and on the street, but, perhaps, only in the summer.

All participants form a circle. You can stand, you can bring chairs and sit down.
The driver is chosen with the help of a counter.
The leader calls the names of the two participants. For example, dad and Katya. Hearing their names, dad and Katya should change places.
The driver must try to get ahead and be the first to take the place of one of the named participants, daddy or Katino.
The participant left without a place turns into a driver and already calls the following names himself.

Game "It's me!" is a great way to develop attention and train reaction speed.

"Package with a gift"

To conduct this game with the family, you need to attract as many participants as possible, so it will be more fun.

The main props are pre-prepared - package with a surprise.

It's done like this: a small souvenir is wrapped in wrapping paper and neatly, preferably in one place, fastened with tape. Then follows another layer of paper, fastened with tape, and another, and another. You need to pack a souvenir until there are enough layers. Carefully seal the layers with tape so that it is easy to unfold the bundle.

Such game competitions for children and adults should be provided with musical accompaniment. In particular, this contest requires a cheerful music track with small pauses every 15-20 seconds of music. If there is no such track, appoint a person responsible for the music (he will stop the melody at short intervals).

The game itself is organized as follows:

Participants stand or sit in a circle.
To the music, they begin to pass the bundle in a circle from hand to hand.
The contestant holding the bundle when the music stops must remove one layer of packaging.
The music resumes and the bundle moves around again.
At the next pause, the next layer is removed and so on.
The surprise is given to the one who unrolls the last layer of the package.

By regularly conducting such games for children at home, you can develop in them such a wonderful human quality as the ability to share. The winner does not receive a prize for any special talent or achievement. As the number of wrappers decreases, it will become more and more difficult for children to decide to give the bundle to the next player. And the implementation of this rule will teach you to be responsible in interaction with others, as well as following the accepted rules, fulfilling the obligations voluntarily assumed.

The game trains the ability of children to be happy for another person, sincerely congratulate them on good luck and not consider such a loss as a personal defeat.

However, this and other family competitions involving children are best ended with a small encouragement for each of the players. Small souvenirs will help the losers sincerely rejoice at someone else's victory.

"Treasure Search"

The game is good because all family members can play it, and parents, as the most experienced and ingenious, will have to come up with a game plan, the tasks themselves and arrange them on cards (for example, “under the window”, “in the locker”, “on the chair "). For children who can read, this is not difficult, but for younger children who have not yet mastered this skill, tasks can be arranged in the form of pictures, even if they are schematic.

Hints are hidden in different places of the house or apartment.

When planning a search, parents should take into account the abilities of their children and their age. It is best for kids to draw a search plan, marking the beginning of the path with a cross. For children who already know how to read or at least learn to do so, text prompts are compiled. It can be a word, a phrase, or even a small phrase.

The first card is given out just like that or, if there is a desire to complicate the beginning of the game, as a prize for guessing a riddle or a solved rebus. The rest of the clues are laid out in different places in the dwelling, as pointers to the next search item. For example, a card with the word "sill" indicates that the next pointer can be found by looking at all the windows in the house.

For older children, the task can be complicated and instead of direct instructions, riddles, word games or puzzles can be used.

Thus, the search for a surprise or treasure goes in stages with the help of signs or a route plan. And the final destination should be the place where the parents "buried" the treasure that goes to the seeker.

So that the interest in the game process among the little “treasure hunters” is not lost until the end of the search, parents should provide the necessary assistance to the children. Still, an adult, when compiling a task, can sometimes overestimate the capabilities of a child, or evaluate it not quite right. Therefore, the prize, regardless of how the search went, should go to the participants in the search.

The developing role of this game for children in the house is that it trains logical thinking (when the signs are encrypted) or the ability to read (reading cards to search for treasures is very exciting and the training is unobtrusive). And the ability to use the plan develops spatial thinking.

Games for adults and children with words

There are a lot of word games that the whole family can play. Here are just two of them: "Cablegram" and "Find and name."

"Cable"

This game is remarkable in that it does not require a specially equipped place, both the road on the way home and the house itself will do. Only a pencil and paper are needed.

The rules of the game are simple: any word or name is written in a column (it is desirable that it consists of five or more letters). And then this word "turns" into an abbreviation, that is, an encrypted sentence.

Example:

WITH- the most

IN– delicious

E- food

T– aunts

A– Alena

A stands for SVETA like this: "The most tasty food Aunt Alena.

There are many options for decryption. Parents themselves can choose: to compose them together or arrange a competition for the best proposal. The main thing is that it should be meaningful, although humor, hyperbole and fantasy are welcome.

During this family game, the participants practice the skill of working with words and letters, the speech ability to compose coherent phrases.

creative family leisure

Creative games for the whole family include such as "Gifts of Santa Claus", "If I were a king", "Magic melody".

"Gifts of Santa Claus"

"Gifts of Santa Claus" (wizard, fairies, etc.) is a variant of another well-known game "Snowball". It has different variations and this is one of them. In this case, the basis of the plot is the giving of gifts.

Rules:

The order of players can be determined by drawing lots or counting.
The first participant pronounces the phrase, the second repeats it and adds his own, the third repeats the previous two and ends with his own.
The game continues until the first mistake.

Example:

Mother: Santa Claus gave me (the name of a specific gift sounds here) a ball.

Child: Father Frost gave my mom a ball, and he gave me roller skates.

Dad: Santa Claus gave the ball to mom. He gave Sasha rollers. And he gave me a bag of health.

The game trains memory and speech skills of redesigning the text. And the opportunity to present the most unusual, and even fantastic gifts, develops the imagination well.

"If I were king"

It is necessary to organize this game action in a well-known room.

Determine which room(s) can be used. For example, from the kitchen and bedroom, or only from the nursery.
Agree that the end of the game means that the used items are returned to their permanent places.
Division into teams can be done in various ways. For example, if there are two children in a family, then one team can have a dad and a child, and the other team can have a mother and a child. In other situations, mom versus child and dad, or dad versus child and mom. Here, parents and children can show their imagination and form teams in different ways.
The team that starts first is determined by lot. The idea is this: “If I were a captain (king, astronaut - you can call a profession or a fairy-tale hero), then I would have a cap, a sword, a map, a compass and a pipe (there are five items that can be attributed to the selected character).
The second team is given up to five minutes to search in the selected room for the named things. Moreover, you need to quickly pick up a replacement for exotic items that do not exist in a simple home. For example, an umbrella can turn into a sword, a map can be drawn in a notebook, a pair of bows can be attached to a beret to make a cap, and so on.
The team that gave the task evaluates the result. Then they change.

This game for the whole family will be a good exercise in imagination and creative rethinking.

"Magic Melody"

Another version of the game for the home, it is more creative and to some extent even experimental. It can arouse interest in a person of any age.

Glasses or glasses are needed (it is better if it is a set of identical items) in the amount of six to twelve pieces. You can replace them with glass bottles or jars.
Vessels are unevenly filled with water.
To obtain a sound, that is, tapping on a glass (glass, jar, bottle), you can use a suitable stick (even a drum stick, if available).
And then the experiment begins: changing the water level to get different sounds.
Actually, the creative stage will be an attempt to play some kind of melody on a “created” musical instrument.

Summer games for adults and children

Summer is a period of active recovery from the winter cold and boring evenings at home. At this time of the year, many parents have the opportunity to spend more time with their child. When the summer school holidays begin, and the first storm of emotions from the coming summer has passed, you will most likely be thinking about what to do with your child. If your children are already tired of swimming and playing football, offer them new interesting activities that will bring your whole family together and provide you with fond memories for a lifetime. Spend this time doing activities that the whole family can participate in. Do you know what to play with your child in the summer?

Let's play travel

If the whole family is going to visit another region or another country, start your summer holidays by turning part of the house into the place where you are going. Study this country or region, find 2-3 distinctive features of this area and reproduce them at home. Plan daily educational games at home with your kids on these imaginary journeys.

Have a picnic together

Even picnics can be turned into family games for kids. For them, it is always a small interesting and fun journey. And if you take with you not only parents, but also friends and their parents!... If your child goes to senior group kindergarten or elementary grades school, contact the parents of his kindergarten or school friends and organize a joint picnic. Arrange for everyone to bring a blanket, different toys and, of course, something tasty. Before this activity, you and the rest of the parents should find out if any of the children have food allergies.

We organize a photo hunt

For older children or those who are interested in photography, organize a photo hunt. Prepare a list of items in your yard or neighborhood. Take pictures of these items with your child, and then download the pictures to your computer.

Celebrating Nature Day

Your children and their friends can participate in environmental activities with you. Come up with 2-3 activities that help environment such as planting young trees and watching them grow during the summer. Collect old clothes and use them as work shorts and capes. Let the children act out in their new outfits.

Gardening

The most interesting thing about the idea of gardening is that it is a very long activity that requires careful preparation, because you need to start taking care of the plants in early spring. Before you start organizing even the smallest garden or garden, look at catalogs and useful websites with your children, write down ideas, and then decide what you want to grow - flowers or vegetables? Children will love to keep track of any planting, and the vegetable harvest will also come in handy in the kitchen. Go for seeds and fertilizers in the spring, and take care of your garden in the summer. Distribute the responsibilities for caring for plants in the family, who will water and who will clean the garden, discuss the successes achieved together, and the fruits of your joint work will bring great pleasure to the whole family.

Radio controlled models

Radio-controlled helicopters, cars, tanks or boats provide an excellent opportunity for exciting family competitions. Arrange races of radio-controlled cars for speed, races of tanks with overcoming obstacles and defeating a conditional target, or flights of helicopters along a given route and landing as accurately as possible. The conditions for the competition and the criteria for identifying the winners are determined in advance by the whole family. Of course, such competitive battles on the ground or in the air will appeal to both children and adults.

Ice cream fights

The ice cream fight game is like water fights and kids will love it on a hot summer day. Buy a few kilos of cheap ice cream, big spoons and go to the yard to have a fun sweet fight. Pay attention to the clothes of children - it is best to play in bathing suits. A prerequisite for the game is the joint cleaning of your yard at the end of the battle.

Reading competition

This is a variant of a very useful game at home on the eve of the new school year. Choose a topic that you would all like to explore. For each family member, select age-appropriate literature (books, magazines, newspapers, websites) and help younger children read the material. Write on the board how many books each of you should read, and then write the title of each book or magazine you read under your name. Define your reward system for more books read and host an awards ceremony for the winners. It is a good idea to read the literature about the new place before going somewhere and to make a travel itinerary and excursions with the whole family.

Bicycle washing

You can set up a bike wash in your yard using the car wash as an example. Prepare a sign with the words "Bicycle wash", fill up with water, cleaning products and sponges and invite the children to wash their bikes first, and then your neighbors may ask you to wash their bikes already for a minimal fee. For your children, this activity will be a good example of how money is made in the family. Spend your entire joint salary on sweets for the whole family or put in a common piggy bank.

Family board games

The board game phenomenon

Today, board games are becoming more and more popular. Both children and adults love them, they are especially good for playing in the family circle. What is the secret of the growing popularity of modern board games? After all, it would seem that in the 21st century, the computer and computer games should outweigh completely and unconditionally, but ...

The popularity of board games lies in the organization of the process itself:

Board games(at least, most of them) are designed for two or more participants, which means that the game becomes a means of communication, experiencing vivid emotions and excitement without destructive consequences;
Board games are able to gather at the same table both children and adults, this is one of the few forms of leisure that contributes to the unification and rallying of the family;
Board games in terms of time and place are absolutely universal. It depends only on the desire of the players whether they will play on a rug by the fireplace or in a cafe, whether it will take place in the early morning or late at night;
Board games contain techniques that contribute to the development of certain skills: logic and abstract thinking, the art of communication and concentration.

All these qualities of board games allow us to talk about them as a therapeutic tool, affordable and low-cost.

Modern board games for the whole family

Our propensity to play is probably in our genes, although we hardly think about it as a child. Much more important is the excitement and passion with which we plunge into the world drawn on a sheet of cardboard.

At the same time, modern board games for children and adults are more diverse and often more difficult than their predecessors. A rich selection of board games allows everyone to find a board game to their liking.

Economic games allow you to deploy a strategic struggle for territory and resources. The most popular in this segment for many years is the well-known game "Monopoly".
war games- games with military strategies, where the struggle can unfold at the level of countries and even planets. The boys love these kinds of games. And the undoubted leader here is the game "Bakugan".
Adventure games(collections) - set the main task of reaching a certain point on the playing field or sent to search (collect) given items, as, for example, in "Elfenland" or "Crazy Maze".
Detective games- require players to determine the exact picture of the crime. The most successful game of this genre is "Mafia", which today is mastering television screens and club spaces.
Classic board games no doubt have not lost their popularity to this day. Checkers, chess, dominoes - games for all time.

The game has become part of the modern socio-cultural sphere, moving with the times, annually creating new types and types. The so-called Cross-media games have already appeared - hybrids of modern media technologies and board games. In addition to the well-known attributes (dice, field, etc.), they can use a multimedia disk or a mobile phone. From this class of games, one can name SMS chess, where the game situation is displayed using a conventional chessboard, and the game process itself is implemented through the exchange of moves via SMS. The video game "Atmosfear", which comes with a special DVD, is built on the same principle. Players move chips around the playing field on the table, and instructions and tasks are received from the TV screen, feedback is provided by the DVD player remote control. And this is only the beginning...

Twister is a family game - how to play Twister?

Twister is an exciting game that is perfect for children's parties and family parties, picnics, hiking, and just playing at home or in the yard. Be sure to get Twister for games with children if you don't already have this game. You can be sure that it will become one of the favorite family leisure options for your family members.

The Twister game has simple rules, but these rules can be changed and supplemented at your request. If you have lost the manual, the following steps will help you refresh your knowledge of the game.

Spread the playing field on the floor. It is best to play indoors, but if you decide to play outdoors, lay out the field on the ground, making sure that there are no sticks, stones or other hard and sharp objects under it. To prevent the field from being blown away by the wind, press down the corners with something heavy.
Take off your shoes. All participants must be barefoot, with or without socks. But remember that the surface of the field is slippery!
Determine the participant who will spin the roulette wheel and play the role of the Judge in case two participants occupy the same circle on the field.
Stand on the edge of the field. If two players are playing, they must stand on opposite edges of the playing field (along) facing each other, while placing one foot on the nearest yellow circle and the other on the nearest blue one. When there are three participants, the arrangement is the same as when playing for two, but the third person stands on the side of the field with red circles, standing on two of them. If you decide to play with four, split into two teams so that you stand opposite each other, while occupying all four colored circles.
Spin the wheel! The judge does this first and then loudly calls out the color that has fallen and the part of the body to be placed on the circle of that color. All players must move at the same time, while occupying only the free circle. If two players stand on the same circle, the Referee must decide who was first. If all six laps are already taken, the Judge will spin the wheel again. If the named part of the body is already located on the dropped color, then the player must rearrange it to another circle of this color. In a 4-player game, you can bet more than one body part on a circle.
You cannot remove your arms or legs from your position. Except when you need to skip the hand or foot of another player. But the Judge must be warned about this in advance. Otherwise, the player is out.
You can only touch the field with your hands or feet. You can't fall. Anyone who breaks these rules is out. The game continues until one player remains on the playing field: he becomes the winner. If two teams play, the one whose at least one member has broken the rules loses.

Games for the whole family are able to develop creative, logical and other abilities not only for children, but also for adults. And most importantly, they are able to make life more fun and friendly. Play for health!

Game for the whole family "Unfortunately, fortunately" | family leisure

What, besides a common living space, unites several people in a family? Friendly Sunday lunches, cozy joint dinners, big family holidays… But now, the feast and fun are over, and the adults again freeze in front of the TV, the children return to their favorite computer games, and the apartment again becomes a communal apartment for several people immersed in their own affairs. Sad. And why not spend the evening doing some common activity so that your children have something to remember later with warmth and love? After all there are many games and entertainment for the whole family and we are ready to offer them to your attention.

Games for the whole family

Let's not talk about playing cards, dominoes, lotto, backgammon, checkers and chess. These games are known to all. We want to talk about creative games that will appeal to every household, games that are exciting and unifying. For example, "A fairy tale in a circle" . You can play this game at home, or you can pass a long journey with it so that the road does not seem so tiring. So, someone says the first phrase, for example: "Once upon a time there was a princess." The next participant continues: “And she had a favorite doll.” Then the next narrator enters, and so on - in a circle. A fairy tale can end in ten minutes, or it can “affect” for several days. The main thing is that this game involves the whole family.

A game of attention and memory "What changed?" . Lay out several items on the table and invite the facilitator to carefully study their location. Then, when the facilitator leaves the room, make some changes to the order of things on the table and invite the returning facilitator to find these changes. Sometimes it can be very difficult (one little girl just took out a refill from a fountain pen, and her mother wondered for half an hour what had changed), but it’s a lot of fun.

A game "Adjectives" . The facilitator, having retired, writes a short story, deliberately omitting all definitions before nouns, and invites the rest of the players to name any adjective in turn, which the facilitator immediately enters into his story. The result is a fun read aloud that causes a lot of laughter and uplifting.

The next game is called "Crocodile" , but there must be at least four players. Two teams are formed. The first team thinks of a word and calls it to one of the players of the second team. The task of this player is to pantomime the hidden word so that his team can guess this word. The team can ask questions that can only be answered with “yes” and “no”, and also only with pantomime. If the word is guessed, the teams change places.

In addition to games, you can come up with other entertainment that will unite your family and give everyone pleasure. For example, work together on a day off cooking something delicious . Make dumplings or bake pies with different types toppings, and do not drag them to your room to the TV or computer, but have tea at the common table. Or all together master some outlandish dish, because it is both healthy and fun when the whole family!

Surely you have accumulated a lot of family photos, but there is not enough time to put them in an album. Call for help at home, let them help you organize photos by dates and events , let them come up with interesting, funny captions for photographs, because for relatives there is nothing more valuable than family memories. Here, remember different stories from your life, putting the pictures in their places. Both you and your children will enjoy it.