Do you want educational games for boys and girls around 5 years old? Well, we give you some ideas, both individual and group games. Children from the age of 5 they feel very autonomous. They begin to relate affectionately with their friends, and they love taking challenges.
Also at this time they are in the process of literacy learning, the school files are already more complex. With these games they will acquire skills necessary for the next stage, and above all they will enjoy. The most important thing is that a child has fun playing, otherwise it is of no use.
Easy educational games that you don't need to save
One of the biggest problems when we consider games with children is where do I keep another game now? Because it usually happens that we already have the shelf or the closet full. Well, we want to tell you that there are some very useful games that will help you develop their fine motor skills, for example that you will not need to save. For example, you can play with your children to make them braids. It can be with her hair, yours, a doll's, or simply three ribbons.
An educational game that will allow you to take on some responsibility is to learn to tie the shoe knot, or to fasten its buttons. You can practice with mom or dad's sneakers and jackets. The most advanced can dare with sailor knots. This autonomy will make you feel good, capable and more confident in yourself.
Other educational games along the same lines are making necklaces, bracelets, inserting basins, macaroni or soup stars in a thread. Play to Mikado or chopsticks, if you do not have the game at home, skewer sticks, plastic straws or cotton buds for the ears, they are worth it.
Games to learn orientation in space
Learning what is near, far, above, below, in front, behind, to the right or to the left can be done by playing. The differences game. Two drawings, with the same elements but in different positions. It is not that in one there is a sun and in another there is not. But rather that in one the sun is above the clouds, and in the other behind them. And have the child explain this difference.
Walking from room to room with a spoon with a small object inside, without dropping it, and carrying it to a basket. First, you have to hold the spoon with your right hand and then with your left hand. If you are going to put an egg in the spoon, be careful to cook it before. It is the typical educational game that you can also do to entertain children on a birthday by creating two teams.
Hide an object in the room, and have the child look for it. He can't look for it like crazy, he has to ask you questions to find it, kind of is it under the bed? close to the door?. Then you can change the turn.
Educational games that improve attention and concentration
One of the most common educational games in this 5-year-old stage is learning to recognize the differences and similarities between shapes or remember a silhouette. These are the basic skills for distinguishing letters and writing them in the very near future.
Game of what is missing ?. It consists of putting some objects on the table, or on a tray. You can start with 5, let the child look at them for a few seconds, then ask him to turn around, take something away and ask him what is missing. You can go adding difficulty to the game. It is very important that you also allow him to remove one thing.
Play the wrong world. You can find some drawings that seem incomplete, for example a house in which there is a table with three legs, a door without a knob, a refrigerator without a door, ask the child to draw what is missing. We hope we have given you some useful and fun educational games for this summer. They will be very useful to your children for going back to school.