Summer outdoor games that are guaranteed to take your mind off your tablet. Summer games for children

Educational games and activities on the theme of summer for preschool children form children's ideas about the warm and hot seasons of summer, about the characteristics and seasonal features of summer nature.

Activities in the form of games develop observation, memory and develop a caring attitude towards nature in children.

Suitable for teachers of preschool educational institutions, parents and all curious children.

Game-activity "In the sky"

Listen to poetry and perform various movements

One two three four five -

We go for a walk together. (Let's walk on the spot)

What is it above us?

This sky is blue. (Raise our hands up)

The sun is shining brightly there.

All children are happy to see the sun. (We lower our arms to the sides)

What's floating in the sky?

Is this a white ship? (Raise our hands up)

They are sailing to us from afar,

Like boats, clouds (Move your hands from right to left)

Birds fly in the sky

High and low. (We wave our arms like wings)

Where do these birds live?

Far and near. (We wave our hands in front of us)

Game "Day and Night"

When the teacher says: " Day", children jump, run, wave their arms ( birds fly during the day). When he says: " Night", everyone should freeze ( birds sleep at night). You can't move. Anyone who moves leaves the game. Then the teacher says again: " Day". Game continues.

Game-activity "Rain"

The sun was shining brightly. (Hands up, fingers spread)

All the trees were hot.

The wind blew and blew. (We show how the wind blows)

And he shook the trees. (Raise your arms up, swing from side to side)

The rain suddenly fell heavily,

I wet all the leaves. (Shaking hands)

The rain wet the ground,

There were big puddles everywhere. (We spread our arms to the sides)

The rain is pouring down more and more.

Where are the smaller puddles?

We will pass, because we can

Jump over the puddles! (We jump on the spot)

Game "Jumping over puddles"

There are sheets of paper on the floor (you can cut out ovals). These are puddles. Children try to jump over all the puddles - first through the small ones, then over the larger ones. The one who jumps over the biggest puddle will be the winner.

Game-activity "Summer meadow"

We listen to poems and perform various movements.

We came to the summer meadow. (Let's walk on the spot)

How beautiful everything is around! (We spread our arms to the sides)

Here are blades of grass and leaves,

Multi-colored flowers. (We bring our hands together in front of us)

We'll run across the meadow (We run in place)

We'll lie on the grass. (We spread our hands palms up)

We'll put our feet up

Let's shake the mime a little. (We shake cheerfully, first with one leg, then with the other)

We'll rest in the meadow

Sunny and warm day. (We squat)

Game "Butterflies and Flowers"

On the floor are flowers cut out of colored paper ( cardboard). All children are butterflies. They spin and fly to the music. As soon as the music ends, the children stand on the flowers and squat.

Game-activity "Berries"

We listen to poetry and bend our fingers - counting berries.

We'll go into the forest with a basket,

We'll pick a lot of berries.

One - strawberry,

Two - blueberries,

Three - ruddy lingonberries,

And four are strawberries.

Five - forest cherry,

We won't have any extra.

Six - red viburnum,

The berry is wonderful.

Seven - sweet raspberries,

Very fragrant.

Eight - blackberry,

Nine - bones,

Ten - blueberry

They ask: “Get it together!”

Game "Collecting berries"

On the floor there are circles cut out of red paper. These are berries. At the teacher’s command, the children begin to collect them. The game will end when all the berries have been collected. The winner will be the one who collects more berries than others.

Game-activity "Helpers"

We listen to the poems and show what is being said.

We help in the garden -

We pull out the weeds. (We show how we tear up grass)

Like this, like this

We pull out all the grass.

We help in the garden -

We water the beds together. (We show how to water)

Like this, like this

We pour them out of a watering can.

We help in the garden -

We collect vegetables. (We show how to assemble)

Like this, like this

We collect them in a basket.

Game "Vegetables and Fruits"

The teacher pronounces the names of vegetables and fruits. If the name of a vegetable is heard, children squat ( vegetables grow on the ground), and if the name of the fruit - stand up ( fruits growing on a tree).

Summer games for children: 33 ideas for summer games with children for children of different ages from the participants of the “Let's Play in the Summer” competition of the Internet Workshop of educational games “Through the game - to success!”

Summer games for children

In June – July 2015, on our website “Native Path” we held a competition “Playing in the Summer”, the participants of which shared many of their ideas summer games and fun with children. In this article I included the most interesting, in my opinion, ideas from the competition participants so that all readers of my site could get acquainted with them. You will find all the summer games of the “Let's Play in the Summer” competition (a complete set of 127 photographs and descriptions of the games) in our VKontakte group “Child development from birth to school” in the photo album of the “Let's Play in the Summer” group.

In this article you will find ideas from readers of “Native Path” - participants in the summer games competition, which I have systematized for convenience into sections:

Section 1. Summer games and summer tasks for the little ones: sorting, finding, searching and others.

Section 2. Ideas for equipping a playground for summer games for children in the yard with your own hands: twister, balancers, tunnels, easel and much more.

Section 3. Summer fun and outdoor games for preschoolers and schoolchildren: Cossack robbers, a teapot, paints, bricks, claps, marksman and many others.

Section 1. Games and summer activities for the little ones

Ideas from Marina Furzikova and her son Daniil (2 years 1 month): math summer games for kids.

- Sorting: divide the sticks into two groups - long and short, leaves - into large and small.

— Finders: we collect natural materials: pebbles, leaves, flowers, and so on. We lay them out in front of the child, and he must, according to the assignment, find the desired item. For example, “Find the maple leaf.”

For the game, you can make a picture in advance in a text editor or Photoshop with the items that you plan to look for with your child at home or on a walk. For example, a picture like the one below. And look for objects from the picture.

— Collectors: we lay out patterns, pictures, letters, numbers from sticks.

— Sequences: We lay out the sequence on the ground according to the given rule. For example, there may be such a sequence: leaf - stick - leaf - stick and so on. Or another example of the sequence: a large leaf (it doesn’t matter to us what shape it is or what size and color) - a small leaf - a large leaf - a small leaf and so on.

— Let's study the quantity: Place the required number of items next to the number. For example, next to the number 2 there are two sticks. Next to the number 1 there is one pebble.

- G geometric figures.

In option 1. We give tasks of the following type: “put two cones in a square, and one in a triangle.” A square or triangle is laid out on the ground using pebbles or sticks or drawn on the asphalt with chalk. In this game it is better to make more geometric shapes and use not only cones, but also pebbles, leaves, and flowers.

Option 2. You need to stand with your feet on the figure named by the adult, drawn on the asphalt. Or put a certain number of cones on a figure.

- Find differences. Mom draws two pictures with chalk on the asphalt, and the baby finds the differences in the pictures.

— “Cake with filling” is an idea for playing in the sandbox with your baby. Marina came up with the idea by chance. She writes: “The game was invented along the way. The kids didn’t want to decorate the cake with flowers. But since the flowers were already picked, I just threw them at the bottom of the bucket and covered them with sand. Words cannot express the children's surprise when I turned the bucket over and it turned out to be a cake with filling. The kids liked it so much that we did the same thing twenty times.”

— Game - fun with a cone “Whose cone will roll next”: we roll the cone down the hill. The task is to ride it so that it flies as far as possible.

My idea for this slide game as editor's note- you can turn this fun into a real educational game - an experiment. To do this, you need to make different slides yourself from boards and scrap materials, and these should be slides of different heights with sides.

The simplest option for making such a slide for a game - experiment:

— bend a long narrow strip of cardboard in the shape of the letter P (you will get a narrow strip “slope-slide with sides”).

- make several of these slides and place them at different heights (a stump, a branch, a bench, a stack of books) and experiment with your child on how a cone, a ball, a tennis ball, a car rolls down from different slides, and from which slide it will roll next.

—game "Sand search"(from sand therapy) - we look for small figures hidden in the sand.

Summer game to introduce children to the color “Flowers” is the favorite game of Elizaveta Mironets and her little son Yaroslav. First, we draw colored circles - bumps - on the asphalt with colored chalk. The child helps his mother draw. And then we jump on bumps of a certain color: for example, we jump only on bumps that are as yellow as the sun. Or only on grass-green hummocks.

When the baby grows up, it will be possible to use colored solfeggio, designating the drawn circles - bumps as notes in color: red - do, orange - re, yellow - mi, green - fa, blue - salt, blue - la, purple - si.

— Summer games with a net for kids Elena Malyutina suggested spending it with the children. She came up with them for her daughter. You can catch soap bubbles with a net. You can also catch rings rolling down the hill with a net. Such games are very useful for the development of sensorimotor coordination, and therefore for the development of the child’s brain, including thinking and speech.

Section 2. Ideas for setting up a summer yard play environment

Equipment ideas home playground for summer games in the yard shared by Yulia Yuryevna Kalinkina and her husband and their three children. This is how interesting it is that they equipped their own yard for children to play. Yulia Yurievna wrote that instead of tomatoes she raises children in the yard 🙂 and that now you can’t lure children out of the yard - there is always something interesting for them to do. And if other children are sitting at tablets, because... If they don’t know how to play, then the children of this family play a lot and every day! I will describe several ideas of Yulia Yuryevna and her family below in the article. You will find all the details in our VKontakte group “Child development from birth to school” in the photo album of the group “Playing in the Summer” in the comments to her photo.

Idea 1. For little artists. Homemade easels in the yard

If your children love to draw, then they don’t have to stay at home. You can draw right on the street. Yulia Yuryevna and her husband made easels for children right in the courtyard of the house on... the wall of the bathhouse! This is an easel designed by the family and very convenient, because... paints and water do not spill.

How to make such an easel for painting outdoors (see photo below):

— We take 4 strips, sand them or cover them with self-adhesive paper.

— We nail a sheet of plywood, plastic or other material onto the wall (to make the surface even)

— We screw the side strips to the sheet with screws, and the top and bottom strips on them so that there is a gap at the top and bottom (see photo).

— We take a roll of old wallpaper and hang it on a tape (rope). We fasten the tape with two screws to make it easier to change the wallpaper roll.

— We screw a board for paints and water to the bottom bar.
— We attach paint and water to the board so that the child cannot spill it: for this you will need to make a special “device.” I will write more about this “device”.

How to make a “sippy” water jar on an easel:

Take a plastic jar and screw it onto the easel. We insert the same jar into it, but with water. This is done so that children cannot spill water on themselves and so that the water is easy to change.

How to make a stand for gouache - a “slipper” on an easel:

We take a plastic bottle (1.5 liters), plastic packaging for dishwasher powder or any other similar packaging is also suitable. Cut a rectangular shape from it. We cut holes in the top for jars of gouache. We insert the jars from bottom to top into the holes. The top of the jar needs to be “thickened” with foamed polyethylene or electrical tape. Then, by pulling the jar up, the child will not be able to pull it out of the stand.

We twist the stand - a rectangle into a tube and tape it with electrical tape to the bottom board with water (see photo) so that children cannot spill it on themselves.

How to make your own finger paints for painting on an easel: Yulia Yuryevna's recipe.

salt + flour in equal proportions, a couple of tablespoons of sunflower oil, dye (powder for Easter eggs) and water to the desired thickness (like pancakes). First we smear the paint, then you can draw on it, and also attach leaves, grass and other small objects directly to the paint spots. You can take the paint with you (along with old wallpaper) to nature, to the river in mayonnaise buckets (mayonnaise packaging) or in other plastic jars with a paid lid so that the whole fun company can paint.

Idea 2. Swing from an old stroller.

This is how you can build a swing for children in the country from an old unnecessary stroller.

Idea 3. Tunnel and tent - a wigwam for children's secrets

Yulia Yuryevna sewed a climbing tunnel from two gymnastic hoops and old, no longer needed curtains. We crawled through the tunnel and ended up in a wigwam - a hut or tent for children's secret communication. In the wigwam tent, children communicate, share their secrets, and share roles in games. This is a secluded corner of the yard for privacy.

Idea 4. Ribbon rain

The rain is located next to the wigwam. This is an idea from the Internet, implemented by Yulia Yuryevna: the wind swirls the rain, it’s interesting to look at it from a wigwam, it’s interesting to run through it, you can hide in it - look at the photo, someone is hiding in the rain! Nobody will find it!

Idea 5. Homemade structures for climbing and developing balance and coordination in the yard

In the photo you see hand-made devices: tires on ropes, rope. As well as balancers and a massage bridge.

How to make a massage bridge in the yard for summer games: We sew two fabrics crosswise and put pebbles into the resulting “pockets” - drainage for flowers. The result is “steps” along which children walk barefoot.

How to make a balance beam in the yard for summer games:

We take a log that is round in cross-section (to walk on sideways) and a flat board. The board is wrapped with ribbons to prevent splinters (children walk on the balance beam barefoot). Balancers hang on ropes. When a child walks on the balance beam, he sways a little - shakes and staggers. The balance beams hang above the ground at a height of 15-20 cm, so that you can jump from them if you lose your balance. Both the older children and the youngest, who is now two and a half years old, love to walk on the balance beams.

Idea 6. Hammock for a summer playground in the yard

The hammock was invented by Yulia Yuryevna and her husband. The length of the hammock is 3 meters, the width is approximately one and a half meters. The hammock is durable, you can even jump on it.

How to make a hammock: The hammock is made from two durable Soviet old bedspreads - blankets for the sofa. It is stitched in the middle - sewn and stitched by hand with shoemaker's nylon thread, the seam does not come apart. There is tulle attached on top of the hammock to prevent apples from the tree and leaves from falling on the children in the wind.

Idea 7. A car for the little driver's summer games in the yard

How to make a car for summer games in the yard husband of Yulia Yuryevna (unfortunately, she did not write his name, so I cannot name him in this article). Car seats are made from shelves. For the wheels, lids from buckets of putty were used. These covers are also used in games as bumps or puddles for children to jump over. The car's steering wheel turns, there is a speedometer and a tachometer with moving arrows. My son loves the car! And they made such a car in an hour and a half!

The car comes with a gas station and equipment for inflating tires for play, also made by the hands of the parents of this family.

Idea 8. A fun and interesting game for adults and children “Twister”

You can make a twister yourself. First, I’ll explain what a “twister” is.

Twister is an active game for fun leisure time for both adults and children of all ages. It is suitable for playing at home, on a walk, with friends, at children's birthdays and other holidays and entertainment.

In this game, the host spins the roulette wheel and calls the player's next move. For example, put your foot on a blue circle. Everything would be simple if this circle were nearby, but he may be in a completely uncomfortable position. You literally have to tie yourself into a knot, showing miracles of ingenuity, flexibility and humor in order to carry out the leader’s commands and wait for the next move to change body position. Fun and good mood are guaranteed. Such a game is ready-made - for example, in the Labyrinth store there are different versions of it - "Twister" made in Russia by RN Toys or an updated twister game made in Ireland. The game is very good in the summer outdoors and gives everyone - both adults and children - a good mood.

The usual “ready-made” twister is a field with circles. And Yulia Yuryevna sewed the twister herself, and not with circles, but with squares. This is what she did. It is very difficult to get across the twister field to the other side!

Section 3. Summer outdoor games and games - fun for preschoolers and schoolchildren

Game 1. Summer set for children's creativity

The author of this idea for games is Nailya Khabibullina. Nailya writes: “In the box we placed a piece of foam rubber 15 x 15 cm, thickness 5 cm. This is the basis for applications. To create appliques we need needles with balls, sequins, buttons, ribbons, laces, etc. You can take this box with you on the road.”

Pay attention to the photo on the right - the playing field for laying out patterns and drawings. And on the left in the box are all the necessary details for the game.

Game - fun 2. Drawing with soap bubbles

The idea was shared by Olga Fedorova. She writes: “Take soap bubbles, add paint... and go outside! The more people and colorful bubbles, the more interesting!” You can complete the resulting paintings, or you can leave them as they came out.

Game 3. Marksman

Svetlana Gvozdeva shared the idea of ​​an outdoor game for fun. Svetlana’s daughter Lida is 5 years old, son Tima is 2.5 years old. This game unexpectedly became a favorite among children.

How to play: Pour some water into plastic bottles for stability. We put the bottles in a row. We mark the line from which the children will throw the ball at the bottles. Children go behind the line and knock down bottles with a regular ball. One bottle sold - one point. The goal is to score the most points.

We mark the points with flowers: each participant has his own flower. Just like you knocked down a bottle, you run after a flower or two (if you knocked down two). In this game it is very good to repeat counting (+1 and +2) with the eldest daughter and the concept of “quantity”, “more is less”, counting within five with the youngest son.

Svetlana writes about her son: “Tima won’t just play tasks like “put 2 flowers in the top row and 1 in the bottom row,” but when, for example, counting points in a game - here you are.” 🙂

My editor's note: It is best to mark points with pebbles, shells, cones or sticks - so that flowers can be left in the meadow. Just for beauty! Let them bloom and bring joy to everyone - anyway, once they are picked, they will quickly wither.

Games 4-8. Meet the playing yard!

A playing yard also took part in the competition—a very rare occurrence these days. Yes, such courtyards still exist - with the friendship of children of different ages, constant games in the yard and joint tea parties. And the entire yard took part in the competition. Children's games were presented to the competition by Lidia Zhuravleva. And these children live in the Sverdlovsk region (Sysertsky district, Bolshoy Istok village). And I am very glad that, by the will of fate, random, when searching through the numbers (for those who do not know: random is a service that randomly selected the winner in this competition), chose this particular yard as the winner and main prize-winner of the competition. Apparently this is no coincidence! I will be glad when the children of the yard write to me that they received prizes and how their festive tea party went in connection with this wonderful event in their lives - victory in our competition!

So, here are the favorite summer games of children in the yard from the village of Bolshoi Istok:

Game 4. Favorite game “Cossacks - Robbers”

How to play Cossacks - robbers: rules of the game

You need to play in a large group - at least 6 people. A team group can include both adults and children of different ages. Prepare crayons for the game in advance. In the game, the robbers will run and hide, giving hints to the Cossacks (by drawing the direction of movement with arrows on the asphalt with chalk). The Cossacks will have to find them.

Step 1. Draw. The guys are divided into two teams - Cossacks and robbers by drawing lots.

Step 2. The robbers run away and hide. After drawing lots, the robbers each take a piece of chalk in their hands (to draw arrows), think of a word together - a code, run away from the Cossacks and hide. At the same time, they draw arrows in which direction they went. Arrows are drawn every thirty meters (approximately). Arrows are also drawn at turns and intersections. You can also draw “false arrows” - this is a circle from which arrows go in all four directions. Then the Cossacks will have to try several options until they find the right path to move on in search of the robbers.

The robbers can first run as a group, and then split up and run and hide individually, each in his own place. Or hide as a group. Once they determine where they will hide, they draw a circle with an arrow.

And at this time the Cossacks go around the corner so as not to hear or see the Cossacks and organize a place for a dungeon into which they must lead the robbers, having caught them. This could be a place in the yard fenced off with sticks, stones, or just a line. They wait for the time given to the robbers to escape. The time that will be given to the robbers to escape is agreed upon in advance - usually this is a count to a certain number. For example, up to fifty, up to forty, up to a hundred.

Or maybe there is another version of this game- the robbers, having guessed a word - a code with each other, draw - designate it with cells on the asphalt. How many letters are in a word - a cipher, so many cells are drawn. And the first and last letter of this word is written - a cipher, and the topic is also called (for example, “this is about planets” or “this is a word from the topic “animals”). While the Cossacks are figuring out this word, the robbers have time to run away from them and hide. (At the end of the game, in this case, the robbers ask the Cossacks for a hidden code word).

Step 3. The Cossacks catch the robbers and bring the caught robbers to prison. As soon as the time allotted to the robbers is over, the Cossacks begin the chase. At the same time, they cross out the arrows. If a Cossack finds a robber, then he catches him and must beat him up. If a robber is caught, he obediently follows the Cossack into prison and has no right to run away. But on the way to the dungeon, his friends can help him by beating the Cossack. Then the robber is free and again runs away and hides.

The Cossacks won when they caught all the robbers and learned the word - the code. After this, the teams change roles.

Game 5. Treasure Island

Lidia Zhuravleva describes this summer yard game like this: “My task in this game is to prepare notes with tasks, hide them throughout the yard (sometimes I have to outside the yard).

The children's task is to find the treasure using the notes. Children really like this game. This time they found a treasure - ice cream. I come up with tasks for them myself. The notes usually come out from 10 to 13 pieces.”

You can also use educational notes in the game: for example, you need to guess what year the photographs found in the note belong to. If by 1917, then run further to... (the location in the yard is indicated), if by 1941, then to another specified place, and so on.

Game 6. Summer game with soap bubbles "Who has next"

We draw a “start” on the ground or asphalt and begin blowing soap bubbles one by one. Where the bubble bursts, we draw a line and sign the name. In the end, the one whose soap bubble flies farther away and bursts wins. We play three rounds. The game is especially popular with young children.

Game 7. Teapot

Lydia describes this game as follows:

“The game is a bit like blind man’s buff.” One becomes the leader using a counting rhyme or at will. He closes his eyes and we all run away.

The presenter (Luda in the photo) asks the participants: “Kettle, kettle, have you boiled?” The rest of the participants, if they are ready, say: “I burned out a long time ago!” If they are not ready, then they say: “not yet.” And then the presenter repeats his question again, and the participants answer again.

After this, Lyuda must catch us, but with her eyes closed, and at this time we all clap.

Sometimes the presenter says the following phrases:
1. "Stop earth!" and all the others must stand or climb somewhere, as long as they are not on the ground. At this time, Luda opens her eyes. Whoever ends up on the ground becomes the leader. If there are several people on the ground, then we count the counting and choose the leader. If there is only one person on the ground, he becomes the leader.
2. “Stop iron” and all others should not touch those objects that consist of iron.
3. “Stop wood” and all others should not touch those objects that are made of wood.
Our children really liked the game in the yard.”

Game 8. Paints

This is a famous folk game.

How to play "Colors":

From among the players, two leaders are chosen: the seller and the buyer. All other participants in the game become paints (in the photo they are sitting on a bench).

The seller approaches each person sitting on the bench and tells him the color so that the seller does not hear. Colors should not be repeated.

The paints then sit on a bench and wait for a buyer to approach them.

The following dialogue occurs:
Buyer: Knock-knock-knock
Seller: Who's there?
Buyer: It's me, the buyer.
Seller: Why did you come?
Buyer: For paint
Seller: For what?
Buyer: For green...
If there is no such color, then the seller informs the buyer that he does not have such paint. If such paint is present, then this paint should escape from the buyer. They run in a circle (the route is agreed upon in advance before the game) back to the bench.
If the buyer still manages to catch the paint, then the paint takes the place of the buyer, and the buyer takes the place of the seller. And everything repeats all over again.
If it was not possible to catch the paint, and it returned safely to its place, then the game continues according to the same scenario.

Game 9. Summer games: game with vests in “Bricks”

This game was also invented by Yulia Yurievna, a mother of three children, and the props for the game were sewn by the grandmother of these children. Great idea!

Preparing for the game:

Children put on green vests and bracelets on their hands. Soft Velcro halves for clothing are sewn onto the backs of the vests. The spiky halves of the Velcro are attached to the bracelet (from there they are then opened while running and immediately used).

How to play bricks:

The player's task is to attach all the thorns from his bracelet to the opponent's back! You can catch up with each other, hug (and at the same time attach a thorn), and cheat: “Look! Grandma has come! - he turned away, and you gave him a slap! — a thorn on the back :).

Since the spines are red and rectangular, Yulia Yurievna’s daughters called them “bricks” and shout: “Here’s a brick for you!”, “Get me a brick!!!” Therefore, this game took root under the name of the brick game.

Children can play the game with pleasure without an adult! And mom can do household chores at this time.

Summer games: Game 10. Clap game.

The idea of ​​this game was shared by Olga Filatova. Claps is a very simple attention game. The game leader sets the rhythm for the players by clapping, and the players move to the beat of the clapping. When the leader stops, everyone should sit on the floor (on the grass if we are playing outside). You can make the game more difficult by changing the rhythm and conditions under which you need to sit down.

Game 11. Shower and rocket from a plastic bottle.

Alexandra Popova writes: “My son is 3 years 10 months old, my daughter is 11 months old. This is our bottle fountain. Or a shower. Whoever likes it. My son likes to use it to water. And it’s good for my daughter to comment. When I get some water, I say glug-glug. When it flows out, it drip-drip. With such a bottle it is also convenient to argue “it sinks or does not sink.” An empty bottle does not sink, but this one does because it fills with water and sinks to the bottom.

They launched a “rocket” in the pool. You lower the empty bottle, cap down, and quickly let go. It takes off like a rocket."

This idea was developed by V.A. Kaye is one of the authors of the webinars of our Internet Workshop of educational games “Through play - to success!”, the author of a system of educational games and subject-based gaming environments and experiments for children. And used by Alexandra, a participant in the Games Workshop, with her children.

Game 12. Game of footprints.

The game was proposed at a competition by Svetlana Gvozdeva, a mother of two children. Svetlana writes: “We found figures of people and animals making their characteristic marks. We made footprints and at first we simply guessed who came and in which direction. And then one made the tracks, and the other made up stories based on them: the little penguin went for a walk and got lost, his mother found him and they returned home together. Or: a girl was walking through the forest, and a bear was walking towards her, the girl saw the bear, got scared and ran away.” This is the kind of sand therapy and speech development that Svetlana and her children achieved.

Game 13. Is the river deep?

Svetlana Gvozdeva also shared this game at the competition. The game is played with children based on the fairy tale by M. Plyatskovsky.

First, read the text of the fairy tale to your child:

“The calf Rogalik and the piglet Button were fast friends. They were such friends that you couldn’t spill water on them. Where one runs, the other will follow.
Bagel will jump out into the field, and Button will rush after him with a squeal. Button will run past the garden, and the thin-legged Bagel will jump after him.
It was not for nothing that everyone called them inseparable friends. One day Bagel and Button were frolicking in the meadow and did not notice how they found themselves near a river.
“Let’s get to the other side,” suggested Rogalik.
“Come on,” my friend agreed.
Rogalik entered the river, reached the middle, and the water was just above his knees.
- Go, don't be afraid! - he shouts to Button. - It’s very shallow here!

The piglet boldly followed his friend. But as soon as he left the shore, he began to swallow water.
- I'm drowning! Save! - he squealed.
Rogalik rushed to the rescue and helped the pig get ashore.
But Button got angry:
- Why did you deceive me that the river is shallow?
- I didn’t cheat! - answered the calf.
- But the river is deep!
- No, little one!
- No, deep!
- No, me-me-e-lkaya!

Button and Bagel argued for a long time, but in vain: they were simply of different heights - and therefore the river seemed shallow to one, and deep to the other.”

After reading, we act out this fairy tale: we make puddles in the sand (we pour water into the depressions in the sand with a watering can). Let's act out a dialogue between animal toys (a pig and a bull), and measure puddles. Svetlana describes the children’s play this way: “We began to think about how to help the short pig from drowning in the puddle. They took a stick, made two notches on it - along the muzzle of a pig and a bull, and measured where the pig could go and where it could not. It seems to me that the game turned out to be very multifaceted in terms of developmental potential: we talked about how puddles are made, experimented, and about what is deep and shallow, and about high and low. And communication skills develop in the game (dialogues and understanding that not everything is good for one and what is good for another).”

I couldn’t tell you about all of them in one article summer games with children, sent to our competition. Because the article would be too long. But don’t be upset - you can always find them in the photo albums of our VKontakte group “Child Development from Birth to School” (album “Playing in the Summer”) and ask questions to their authors.

I hope that you found ideas for games with your child in this article or even try to organize your own play yard! I will be glad to receive comments on the article and your support to all participants of the competition who sent their photos and game ideas.

I wish everyone interesting summer games and a happy summer filled with wonderful events and joy! See you again on the “Native Path”.

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Finger gymnastics “Summer”
(fingers are bent one at a time for each count)

This is why I love summer?
Summer is warmed by the sun.
Two – grass grows in the forest.
Three - daisies - look!
And four is a forest,
Full of fairy tales and miracles.
Five - we swam again.
Six - time to eat mushrooms.
Seven – I’ll eat raspberries.
Eight – we will mow the hay.
Nine - grandma is coming,
He brings us strawberries.
Ten - everything around is dressed in foliage.
That's why I love summer!

I draw summer : (draw with a finger on the table)

Red paint – (paint the “sun” in the air)
Sun,

There are roses on the lawns (they clench and unclench their fingers)

There are mowings in the meadows,

Blue paint for the sky (paint “clouds” in the air)

And the stream is singing. (they draw a “stream” with their finger on the table)

Copybooks for toddlers can be used for cutting with older children
Coloring book "Summer" with samples
Small drawings on a summer theme, that need to be completed to complete the big picture
Math Summer Games:

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Outdoor games

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Summer is the time when children of primary school age are left to their own devices. Not many of them manage to go to the sea with their parents or go to a pioneer camp on their own. Children gather in small groups in the yard, on the beach or at the dacha, but they have absolutely no idea what to do or how to spend their free time. But in fact, summer games for children are so diverse and interesting that you can play and have fun for hours and days. After all, even jumping rope, playing with a ball, relay races, and catching up contribute to physical development. And outdoor games are also excellent educational, cognitive activities that allow a child to express himself and his ingenuity, and also strengthen the relationship between children and between children and their parents.

Outdoor summer games for children in the yard.

"Kitty-scat-meow." A driver is selected one by one from among all the players, standing with his back to the others. The presenter, pointing his hand at any player, says: “Kitty,” as if asking a question. If the driver answers at this time: “scatter,” the game continues, if “meow,” the game stops. Then the presenter asks the still unseen driver what he will do in tandem with the chosen person. Only after this the driver turns his face, sees who he has chosen as his partner and does what he said. You can prepare some interesting tasks in advance and then complete them in pairs.

"Pulling."

It is necessary to draw a straight line; it cannot be crossed during the game. You need 2 teams, whose players choose the strongest in each team. Absolutely all players must clasp their hands together at the elbows so that 1 long chain is formed. Selected strongmen stand on each side of this chain and must pull all the guys in their direction so that the opposite team steps over the line.

"Yard towns".

You need the same number of bats (sticks) as the number of players. Then a circle is drawn in which various tin cans are stacked on top of each other. In addition, at some distance from this structure, lines are drawn - these are levels. The guys take turns throwing their bats so as to knock the cans out of the circle. At the same time, no matter how many cans he knocks out, the player reaches that level. The winner is the one who completes all levels the fastest.

"Enchanted Castle"

All participants must be divided into 2 teams. One of them needs to disenchant the castle (some selected object - a tree, a swing, a wall), and the other, accordingly, needs to be prevented from doing this. In addition, the castle has a two-player gate. It should be noted that those who guard the facility: both at the gate and the rest who are scattered throughout the site are blindfolded. The team that is trying to conquer this castle moves silently around the site and unnoticed passes through the gate to the castle. The other team, not seeing and focusing only on sounds, guards the castle and catches the attackers.

"Directions".

Probably all summer games for children are very fun. Here's one of the funniest ones. Here you need a judge and 2 parallel lines drawn at a decent distance from each other. All the guys stand in the middle between the lines. Then, after the referee shouts or whistles, everyone runs in different directions to reach either of the two lines. Then the referee whistles again and all the players, without stopping, continue to run, but in a different direction. The referee's job is to prevent the players from reaching the line and therefore he must whistle constantly. The one who finally made it becomes the judge himself.

Summer games for children with a ball.

A ball is the most common equipment used by people of all ages. What can we say about children 6-10 years old? Many summer games for children are not complete without this simple equipment. Football, volleyball, pioneerball – what kind of games do not exist in the arsenal of children and adults. Here is another interesting and exciting game - a modified and complicated version of the simple and familiar “Dodgeball”, which requires a large free area.

"Crossfire".

Children are divided into teams - 3 pieces. In the middle of the playing field you need to draw a strip where one team stands. The other 2 stand on opposite sides of the line. Each of these two teams needs 3 balls. The children use balls to cross-fire at those standing in the center. After the last player is eliminated, the teams must switch places, with the one who eliminated the last player entering the line.

"Ostrich egg."

Each player hits the ball with his foot, hand or knee as many times as he can. Then the results are recorded, and then the smaller number is subtracted from the larger number. The difference between these numbers - points - is equal to the number of steps that the loser (that is, who knocked out the least) must take with the ball clamped between his knees. At this time, all the other players must make this clumsy ostrich laugh so that he laughs and drops the ball.

"Hot potato".

Those who want to participate stand in a circle and calmly throw the ball to each other. Then any player who wishes says: “The potatoes are hot!” After these words, the children begin to throw the ball as if it were really hot - quickly and quickly. The child who dropped the ball loses and is eliminated from the game.

"Steps".

Such summer games for children develop their physical skills and develop their imagination, ingenuity and intuition. It happens like this: everyone stands in a drawn circle with a diameter of about 2 meters. A mutually chosen driver throws the ball very high and at this moment, while the ball is flying down, all the children scatter away from the circle. When the driver catches the ball, he must shout “stop” and, after everyone has stopped, choose any of the players. He, in turn, names the number of steps to the circle. These checkers can be named in absolutely any quantity and can be of any type (giant, Lilliputian, jumping, and the like). After this, the chosen one walks the number of steps that he said, and if he manages to reach the driver, then he himself becomes the driver.

There are a lot of such diverse, but equally fun and, importantly, useful games. Summer games for children are always the physical, psychological, mental and social education of younger schoolchildren. Summer holidays allow children to have fun and interesting time, find new friends, play their favorite games, invent them themselves and learn a lot of new and interesting things.

Tatyana Yurina
Finger games “Hello, summer!”

“The origins of children’s abilities and gifts

are at your fingertips"

V. A. Sukhomlinsky

By training small movements of the baby's hand, we contribute to the development of his speech, since it is formed under the influence of impulses that intensely come from the fingers. Scientists note the great stimulating importance of the hand function; they have established that the level of development of children's speech is directly dependent on the degree of formation of fine hand movements. A pattern has been revealed: if the movement of the fingers corresponds to age, then speech development is within normal limits.

Finger games are a unique tool for developing fine motor skills and speech. In rhyming finger games, the content of the poem is depicted using the movements of the hands and fingers. This is very exciting for the baby. Poems attract the child's attention and are easy to remember. Finger games improve dexterity and precision of movements, improve memory, attention, help learn patience, and develop perseverance. This is an excellent incentive for the development of children's creative abilities, which awakens fantasy and imagination.

If you regularly work with your baby, his fingers will gradually become more dexterous and mobile, and his movements will be precise and coordinated.

Summer is coming

Summer is coming

(Consistently connect the fingers of both hands with the thumbs, starting with the little fingers.)

Invites everyone to relax

(Connect fingers of the same name, starting with the thumbs)

Let's swim and sunbathe

(Circular movements with brushes, “sun”)

And relax at the dacha

Bud

Every bud

(Place palms together)

I would be glad to bow down.

Right, left, forward and backward

(Make tilts in accordance with the text)

From the wind and heat these buds

(Elbows are connected into a stem)

Hidden alive in a flower bouquet

(Shaking hands)

To the meadow

They came to the meadow

(Bend your fingers in accordance with the text)

Bunnies, bear cubs,

Badgers,

Frogs and raccoon.

On the green on the meadow

Come too, my friend.

Sun

The sun woke up

(They clench their palm into a fist.)

It felt sweet.

(Raise the fist up.)

It's time for the rays to get up

(Unclench one finger at a time)

One two three four five.

Sun

In the morning the sun rises higher, higher,

(Hands high up).

At night the sun will set lower, lower.

(Hands down).

Well, the sun is doing well,

(We make lanterns with pens)

And we live happily together with the sun

(Clap our hands)

Rain dripped on my palm

Drip-drip, drip-drip

(Children clap their hands in rhythm)

I was catching a tiny little thing.

Drip-drip, drip-drip

(They tap on the palm with their fingers)

The rain suddenly started getting heavier

Let's run to the house quickly!

(Put palms together above head)

The fish lives in the lake

Fish lives in the lake

A fish swims in the lake

(Palms are connected and make smooth movements)

The tail will suddenly hit

(Separate your palms and hit your knees)

And we will hear - splash, splash!

(Place your palms together at the base and clap)

Insects

Let's count our fingers together

We call insects:

(clench and unclench your fingers)

Butterfly, grasshopper, fly,

This is a beetle with a green belly.

(Alternately bend your fingers into a fist)

Who's calling here?

(rotate with little finger)

Oh, a mosquito is flying here!

Hide!

(we hide our hands behind our backs)

Daisies

We are beautiful flowers

(Clench and unclench fingers)

The moths love us so much,

(Bend fingers alternately)

They love butterflies and insects.

The kids call us “daisies”

(Clench and unclench fingers)

Every mother has babies -

(Fingers take turns)

Everyone is beautiful and good.

Fish

One suddenly said: “It’s easy to dive here!”

(Children perform diving movements)

The second one said: “It’s deep here!”

(Swing with closed palms - negative gesture)

And the third said: “I feel sleepy!”

(Palms turn to the side)

The fourth one began to freeze a little.

(They shake their palms quickly - they shake)

And the fifth shouted: “There’s a crocodile here!”

(Wrists connected, palms apart - mouth)

Swim quickly so that it doesn’t get swallowed!”

(Fast wave-like movements with closed palms)

Ladybug

Ladybug

(They shake their palms rhythmically)

Fly to the sky

(Make waves with crossed hands)

Bring us some bread

(Waving their hands towards themselves)

Black and white

(Clap their hands rhythmically)

Just not burnt

(They shake their index finger)

Snail, snail

Show us your horns

(Support the middle and ring fingers with the thumb, the index and little fingers are pointed forward - “horns”)

And crawl, snail,

Quiet along the path

(Slowly extend their arm forward, shaking their “horns”)

Frog - jumping -

Eyes on the top of the head

(Pat palms on knees)

Hide from the frog

(Raise palms up)

Mosquitoes and flies

(Clenches fingers into fist)

Chick-chick

Chick-chick,

Chick, ghoul

(The index and thumb are connected and separated, the rest are pressed to the palm)

I will pour

Take a bite.

(They quickly move their fingers, showing how the grains are poured)

Kluk-klu-klu...

(Tap their index fingers on their knees)

Butterfly

In the morning the sun will shine -

A butterfly takes off from a flower.

(The thumbs of both hands cross, and the palms are positioned horizontally and turn into the “wings” of a butterfly. The “butterfly” flies, then opening and then closing the “wings”)

If he flutters around, he gets tired,

When he rests, he spins again.

(“The butterfly sits on the back of the chair, folds its “wings”, then begins to fly again)

Storm

The first drops fell.

(Tap the table with the index and middle fingers of each hand)

The spiders were scared.

(Lower your hands, rest your fingers on the table and move them)

The rain started to beat faster,

(Knock on the table with all fingers of both hands)

The birds disappeared among the branches.

(Cross your thumbs and wave your hands in the air)

The rain poured down like buckets,

(Rapidly tap on the table with all fingers of both hands)

The kids ran away.

(Run across the table with the index and middle fingers of both hands)

Lightning flashes in the sky,

(Use your index finger to “draw” lightning in the air)

Thunder rumbles but does not subside.

(Clap your hands loudly)

The rain is over. And again the sun

It shone for us in the window!

(Raise both hands up, straighten your fingers and slightly spread them to the sides - the rays of the sun)