Raising an active child is the joy and, at the same time, the grief of parents. How to channel all this energy into a peaceful direction? Especially now, when good weather is far away and you have to spend almost the whole day at home? Do not despair! Galka-Igralka offers you 20 ideas for fun activities and active games at home for children aged 1 year and older. They will help your baby burn off his energy and have a great time with the whole family!

1. Children's room design

Use your imagination and get the whole family involved in redecorating your children's room. Do your design project, refresh some part of the room, such as bedding, or build fun furniture. And the children will be busy, and the room will be renewed.

2. Elephant race

Take empty tin cans and make these elephant walker legs. If you have several active children at home at once, you can organize a slow elephant race around the apartment. Just don’t organize a speed competition (remember about safety!) It’s better to invite the kids to imitate how elephants walk, and use their hands to show the ears and trunk. The most similar “elephant” becomes the winner.

3. Painted Rocks Party

Many kids love to collect pebbles and carefully store their jewelry. But now your valuable collection will no longer gather dust idle! Color each pebble, make an exhibition and invite your loved ones to the opening.

4. Dolls made from paper bags

5. Mega doll

Does your little one love to play with paper dolls, endlessly dressing them in cut-out skirts and blouses? Move on to more (in every sense of the word:))! Make a child-sized paper doll! You can attach a photo of your child in place of the face. He'll definitely love dressing up his life-size replica.

6. Hide and seek

7. Foam party

Fill the sink with soap suds and watch your child's enthusiastic reaction. Or even better, give him some plastic cups, spoons, cups so he can play with the bubbles. The baby will be delighted!

8. Masterpieces in the bathroom

Fun to make, fun to play and easy to clean up! All you need is grated soap and water or shaving cream and food coloring. This paint will allow your young Picasso to create his masterpieces right in the bathroom without endangering surrounding objects. And muffin tins will serve as just the perfect palette.

9. Disco!

Dancing is one of the favorite activities of active children. This is a great way to lift your spirits, learn to feel the rhythm, and express yourself! Put on your baby's favorite tunes - and go!

10. Hike... without leaving home

Pitch a tent in the center of the room (or even two) and play camping right at home. Don’t forget to grab canned food (if you’re camping outside of the kitchen), fishing rods and other camping paraphernalia. Just don't light a fire :)

11. Decluttering

Sort out old toys that your child no longer plays with and invite your child to give them to someone who needs them more. For example, in charitable organization or less wealthy acquaintances. You will put things in order in the nursery, and the child will receive an excellent lesson in kindness.

12. Scotch tape roads

No purchased parking lot or track can compare with a homemade plan for an entire city! Use several types of decorative adhesive tape to recreate houses, streets, traffic circles and parking lots on the floors. This is a wonderful active game not only for children, but also for parents: while the young racer conquers city roads, you can enjoy a couple of hours of peace.

13. Dough modeling

Making your own play dough is super easy. There are plenty of recipes on the Internet. One of them can be found in Galki-Igralki group on VKontakte (by the way, there are a lot of other interesting ideas). All the main ingredients can be found in any kitchen, and you only need about 10 minutes of time. The result is a pleasant, very pliable mass. And you don’t have to be afraid that the baby will suddenly decide to try out her creation for the tooth.

14. Garden on the windowsill

Many kids love to tinker with a watering can and water something. If your child is one of them, try making a special garden for him on the windowsill. You will need rice painted in different colors, a sandbox mold, artificial flowers and a set of tools for a small gardener. A few games - and by the summer season you will have a professional assistant.

15. Home swim

Who said you can't swim in winter without a pool? Put on glasses and swimsuits for the children and let them splash around in the bath to their heart's content. It's not just a fun activity, but a nice side effect is that your baby will be incredibly clean.

Instructions

IN Lately Board games are becoming increasingly popular. Previously, such games, in which you had to use chips to move around the playing field and complete some tasks, were very common, but then they ceased to be of interest to young people. Now large companies are again happy to play Monopoly or other business games, various strategies or historical plots. Entertainment like "Activity" can combine board games, pantomimes, and word games. For amateurs, you can even organize a chess or checkers tournament at home. Various themed dominoes or lotto will give a pleasant pastime for friendly fun company. Fans of card games can spend time playing poker, preference, bridge or the usual “Fool”.

For restless friends, if you have enough free space, you can organize outdoor games. Although, of course, outdoor games are more intended for the street, some of them can be played at home. Popular game Twister is considered to be in this category, where guests will have to take the most ridiculous poses in order to stay in the game. The size of the twister mat can vary, as can the number of participants. You can also arrange a tabletop or football tournament, if such devices are available. Nowadays, various dance and sports simulators are quite common, because they can be installed on a computer.

Another entertainment for a more relaxed company can be the so-called Mind games. This includes the popular “Mafia” or “Guess Who the Killer”, in which all players need to identify negative characters, and these characters themselves need to avert suspicion from themselves. You can play the game “Broken Phone”, known from childhood - adult company she will seem even more cheerful than in childhood. Association games or riddle games can also be enjoyed by a large group, because you don’t even have to leave the table for them. The game “Crocodile” or “Pantomime” is a little more active, when the presenter must show the hidden word or phrase without words so that others can guess it. A variation of this game is to draw a hidden word on a marker board or simply on a piece of paper, also without saying a word. There's another one interesting game, in which participants stick stickers on each other’s foreheads with some hidden hero, and each player must guess which character he is by asking questions about himself to the other participants.

If the party is being held on the occasion of a birthday or receiving some kind of award, you can arrange festive games such as “Fanta”, when the birthday person gives tasks to all the guests. Games for knowing the hero of the occasion and his interests are also popular, and you can organize everything as in various television programs, for example, “Field of Miracles”, “Liar”, “Oh Lucky Man”, “Weak Link”, etc. The most difficult thing here will be for the organizer of these entertainments.

For large companies, there are various humorous quizzes or “Question-Answer” games, when a variety of delicate and not so delicate questions and answers that fit everything are composed in advance and printed on paper, and the players just take out a separate card with a question and a card with an answer and read it out aloud. Very funny coincidences can result, for example, “Do you often travel on public transport without a ticket?” - “This case, of course, will go without witnesses” or “Do you want to have a lover (mistress)?” - “I can’t say this without a couple of glasses,” etc.

Many parents often wonder: what to do with their child in the evening? What can you play? And it seems that there are not so many games or that they have all already been played. In fact, there is always something to do. The main thing is to use your imagination and have fun.

Children love active games, so I suggest them to top the list:

• Hide and seek . Children love to play this game. But it's better to play it if you have big house or an apartment. Although, if you wish, you can do it in a small one. Children often hide in plain sight; your task is to look for them as long as possible, preferably with comments. Everyone will laugh: both children and parents. It's always very funny what happens.
• Game with balloons . Place a chair at the end of the room (if there are many children, then two chairs). The child should hold a medium-sized balloon between his knees, walk to the chair, walk around it and return to the starting position. If there are several children, then you can arrange a competition to see who can complete the task faster. On children's party, divide the children into teams and let them compete. If adults take part in such a game, children will simply be delighted.
• Save your friends . Your favorite toys are suitable for this game. My boys have a set of Paw Patrol puppies and robocars Paulie, Amber, Roy and Helly. I hide them in different places, and the children’s task is to find and save them. Dolls, robots, cars are also suitable. In general, anything, the main thing is to hide it as much as possible. If there are several children, you can arrange a competition: whoever finds the most wins.
• Piggy toy (turtle, lion cub, dog, etc.). We take any soft toy, turn on funny music and throw the toy to each other. Then we suddenly turn off the music, and whoever has the toy in his hands must reproduce the natural sound of this animal. This game is good to play with a large group of children, especially on birthdays. You can also include adults - it will be doubly interesting for children.
• Home bowling . If you don't have a bowling kit, you can easily make one yourself. To do this, you will need plastic bottles, preferably of the same capacity and a medium-sized ball. I think there will definitely be a ball in a house where there are children. The game is active and interesting, and also helps develop accuracy.
• Fashion show . Not only girls, but also boys love to play this game. Organize a day of “high fashion” without leaving home. You can invite friends or neighbors with children to visit so that there is more people and “models”, it will be much more fun.
• Obstacle course . Create an obstacle course using available materials. For example, you can cut out “swamp hummocks” or “narrow bridge” from paper or cardboard. Stretch the rope, and the children must walk along it without tripping. Pile up pillows for them to climb over. In general, be smart and use items available around the house, but do not forget about safety.
• “The sea is agitated once...” A fun game from my childhood. There should be a lot of children playing this game. The presenter says the following phrase: “The sea is worried once, the sea is worried twice, the sea is worried three times, a sea figure (sports, fairy tale, construction, any, etc.) figure, freeze in place.” Children must freeze in a certain position, depicting some kind of profession. The presenter must guess who is in front of him. If someone depicts an incorrect figure or a non-existent profession, then this child becomes the leader, and the leader takes his place.
• guess who . Everyone sits on chairs or on the sofa, and one child goes to the center of the room and begins to imitate someone with gestures. Children must guess who is in front of them. Whoever guessed correctly goes to the center of the room and asks for the next task. For children before school age You can write in advance on a piece of paper who to show, so that it is easier for them, and they can show characters known to their age. Older children can easily cope on their own.
• Pirate treasure . This game will require a little preparation. You need to draw a map on a piece of paper, marking the location of the treasure on it (leave candy or fruit for the children at the treasure location), cut it into several parts and hide it around the apartment. Then, using riddles or competitions (preferably both), children must assemble the entire map from the pieces and find the treasure. My six year old boys are ready to play this every day.
• Hike . You can play camping without leaving your home. Pitch a tent in the center of the room, climb into the tent with the children and tell stories interesting stories. You can turn off the lights in the room and use a flashlight. Don't forget to bring food with you: fruit, cookies, drink or tea in a thermos. Children will simply be delighted with this trip.
• Edible - not edible . For this game you only need a ball. Take turns throwing the ball to the children and calling out something edible or not. And the child must catch the edibles, and not fight off the edibles or simply not catch them.
• Tasting . Arrange for children to taste drinks or foods. Pour different liquids into four or five glasses: tea, kefir, juice, milk, compote, just water. Blindfold your child and let him guess what he drank. Or cut the fruit into small pieces, stick it on skewers and let the child (blindfolded) try it, and he must name what it is.
• Cooking . You can cook dinner with your children. For example, stick dumplings or dumplings. The main thing is that children accept the most Active participation in sculpting. My kids (all of them!) love helping me in the kitchen, especially making dough. Together we make not only dumplings and dumplings, but also pies, pizza, even cakes.
• Disco . If you don’t want to invent anything or don’t have enough time to organize something interesting, offer the children a disco. My children love to dance and we often have dances. But not just dancing, but, for example, with balloons or soap bubbles. Believe me, you will have an unforgettable evening by organizing a children's disco, and recharge yourself with positive energy for the next few days.

Educational and intellectual games

Active games are good, but you need to develop not only physically.

And the best way to do this is in the form of a game:

1. We sculpt figures from plasticine or special modeling dough . By the way, you can make it yourself: half a glass of salt, half a glass of water and flour. You need to knead until the resulting mass does not stick. The dough figures can be left until completely dry, and then painted the next evening.
2. We draw with paints, pencils, felt-tip pens . You can invite your child to draw a specific something, for example, a forest or a river. My children make their own cards. From white or colored cardboard, they first fold and cut out the shape of a postcard, and then paint it as you like.
3. Offer children coloring books . Many children love to draw. You can participate in this by discussing with your child what to paint and what color.
4. A game of shadows . Take a flashlight and turn off the light, using your hands to draw different shapes. Ask your child to repeat something you showed. If that doesn’t work, let him try to impersonate someone himself.
5. Puzzles . Good game for the whole family. The larger the puzzle, the more interesting it is. We recently bought a 1500-piece puzzle and spent the whole evening putting it together with the whole family. Then the children had already gone to bed, and my husband and I could not calm down until we had completely assembled it.
6. Children's crosswords.
7. Find differences . A game of attentiveness. Buy a difference book that is appropriate for your child's age and have fun playing with it.
8. Mosaics, constructors, wooden cubes – everything is suitable for realizing your fantasy. You can use a constructor to build a city or a farm, and customize many different buildings. If you don't have enough construction sets, cubes and other construction toys will help.
9. Twenty sticks . Place 20 pencils or markers on the table. Two players take turns taking one, two or three sticks. The one who has to take the last pencil or felt-tip pen loses.
10. This game is suitable for school age children : choose a long phrase, any one. For example, “building structure” or “sports competition”. Children should form short words from these words. The bigger, the better. Then the words are read out one by one. If any words match, they are crossed out and no points are awarded. For each non-repeating word - 2 points. The one who earns the most points wins.
11. Field of Dreams . There are several options for the game: you can play according to the gallows principle, that is, we think of a word and write dashes or squares instead of it, and the children guess. The winner will receive a prize (candy, apple, etc.). You can make an improvised drum, like in “Field of Miracles”. But for this you will need: a spinning top, cardboard, paper, scissors, in general, a lot of things. You can’t play a game like this without prior preparation. Using the same principle, you can play the game “What? Where? When?”, having prepared questions in advance.
12. Shop or library . Lay out books or toys, write “prices” on pieces of paper and let the child sell or buy the goods. If he sells it, then let him tell you what the book is about and count the money. If he buys it, then you tell the child what the book is about. Perhaps after such a game the child will want to read. If you play library, then let the child “advise” what you should take to read in the library and why, why this particular book is interesting. It would be nice if the child also names the author (for older children).
13. Play hospital kindergarten, school . Let the child be a teacher or a doctor, and you a student or a patient. In this game you will show your child an example of how to be a diligent student and an obedient patient who is not afraid of the doctor. Of course, it’s good if there are several children, but it’s also possible for two. Or involve your dad, grandma, and grandpa in the game.
14. Great if you know the art of origami . If not, then you can simply cut out different figures from paper (let the child cut it out, and you just help), and make appliqués.
15. Board games . We have a great board game that we play as a family. It's called "Erudite". 120 questions on various topics. For each correct answer (answers are attached) the player receives a letter. The first one to collect the word “Erudition” wins.

In addition to all of the above, there is also a huge number various games: tic-tac-toe, sea ​​battle, cities, children's dominoes and others. In any children's store weight board games for every taste. There are really a lot of them. I offered you the most popular ones in our family. I hope they will help you spend more interesting time with your children. You can invent games yourself, just use your imagination and involve your children in inventing them . They are great inventors!

Play for a child is a part of his life, without which he will not develop as nature intended. In a playful way, children learn to communicate, understand the world, and also with the help of such have a fun activity it is possible to adjust the behavior of various emotional spheres.

Most games are played at home. Among them you can choose ones that are suitable for children of any age from toddlers to teenagers. They diversify life within the family in the best possible way and allow the participants to get to know each other better.

What games can you play at home?

A variety of outdoor active games can be played not only on the street, but also in a house or apartment, provided that they do not damage interior items. For example, Twister is fun active game for any age.

But still, numerous tabletop and role-playing games, which can employ from one to ten people, which is just what is needed to keep a small company busy. Very useful for general development games that talk about various professions, because this information will be useful to them in later life.

It is very useful for children who are afraid of the doctor and medical procedures to try on the role of a doctor, but if they do not know how to play hospital at home, then the parents’ task is to provide them with a play set with a stethoscope, a syringe, and other medical accessories.

Home games for girls

Most games can be played by both boys and girls, but there are some that are played by children of a certain gender. So, for example, all kinds of role-playing games with dishes, dolls and houses are traditionally an activity for girls.

"Wardrobe"

Girls, gathered in a small group, love to dress paper dolls in all sorts of outfits, which are cut out from ready-made templates. Our mothers also had this hobby, but only then different dresses and trousers were drawn by hand and painted.

So that girls can show their design abilities in such children's home games, you can include a competition for the best designer. Using bright markers and gel pens With glitter, girls can create fashionable outfits for their cardboard dolls, which mom will help you draw and cut out.

Home games for boys

There is not much more entertainment purely for boys. This is the construction of towers and castles from blocks, games in the garage with numerous cars. As for board games, boys love sea battles and tanks, which take place on a simple piece of paper, as well as crafts made from construction sets.

What games can everyone play?

Children are little motors and find it difficult to sit still. That’s why indoor outdoor entertaining games are held in high esteem among them. Hide and seek, blind man's buff, catch-up - all these are the simplest entertainments that do not require certain rules and are accessible to everyone, young and old.

"Hot and cold"

Kids love to play a game where one of the players hides an object in the room. And the others are looking for him. As soon as one of the players approaches the cache, the one who hid it shouts: “Warm, even warmer and hot!” when the toy is found. The winner should certainly receive a small incentive prize.

"Knees"

A simple game at first glance, but quite complex in reality. Players sit in a row on chairs or a sofa. Everyone puts their hands on their knees, with one hand on theirs and the other on their neighbor’s, and so on for everyone.

Alternately, each player claps first with his right and then with his left hand. Since all the hands are interspersed, it is quite difficult to guess which hand should clap next. The one who did this inappropriately will be fined and remove the “offending” hand behind his back.

The pace accelerates and as a result there will be even more confusion until there is only one player left, who is considered the winner.

Home board games

Board games are designed for both small and large children. They are preferable indoors, especially in small ones, but this does not make them any less exciting.

Home games for teenagers include chess and backgammon. Checkers - everything that allows you to activate mental activity. Modern ones include Monopoly, Evolution, and Mafia.

Addictive home board games are perfect and for birthdays, the main thing is that they can reach everyone present.

"Activity"

A very popular active board game, when everyone present is divided into two teams and each is given a certain number of pictures. There are chips on the playing field that indicate the turn order. Participants, using drawings, sounds, and facial expressions, must show their team what is shown on the card. The team that reaches the finish line the fastest wins.

Modern children perceive the phrase “play at home” as a synonym for playing on the computer and spend long hours on it. Almost all parents are unhappy with this. This begs the question: how did we live before, when these “hellish machines” did not exist, what did we play at home?

There is a huge variety of indoor games for all ages, in which adults can participate, or they can “start” the game and leave the children to continue it.

Games for preschoolers

These include exciting board games:

• cubes;
• adventure games with tossing chips;
• domino;
• coloring and drawing;
• puzzles and legos;
• simple constructors,

as well as other exciting games:

• role-playing games: mothers and daughters with dolls, children's furniture and dishes, a hospital with a doctor's set, games of princesses and knights, a store with a toy cash register and groceries, etc.;
• finger games for development fine motor skills;
• puppet show;
• lotto;
• modeling from plasticine and clay;
• crafts, models and applications made from paper;
• “edible-inedible”;
• hide and seek;
• blind man's buff;
• twister (for all ages);
• cars, airplanes, construction of houses and garages, airfields;
• “dress the doll” with inventing and drawing outfits for a cardboard doll and much more.

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For preschoolers, you can come up with a quest that will take place directly in the apartment. Hide, for example, cut out stars in various places, and leave a note there with a hint where to look for the next star. For example: “look for something that warms your feet outside in winter” (put a star in a boot or boot), or “look for where things get clean” (in or on a washing machine). Children 5-7 years old are delighted with such search tasks, and they can be occupied this way for a long time. For older children, the tasks can be made more difficult.

Games for schoolchildren

Now there is less time for home games. But sometimes it’s so good to sit with the whole family at the table and play, for example, these games:

• Monopoly is a rather difficult but exciting game;
• Jenge - tower construction that requires manual dexterity;
• mafia - if a lot of people gather.
• tic-tac-toe;
• sea ​​battle;
• table hockey or football;
• cards.

Many more useful information You can read about children's leisure.

You can start teaching your child how to play chess, checkers, backgammon, and don’t be surprised if he soon starts beating adults. Schoolchildren also really like thematic sets such as “Young Chemist” and “Young Naturalist”. It is only important to help the child figure it out at the very beginning, so that there is no accidental explosion.

Hundreds of types of kits are now sold in stores. children's creativity. Let the child learn to draw on glass, and then make beautiful stained glass windows on the country veranda.

Late in the evening you can arrange fortune-telling, or tell horror stories, exciting the mind. Just be careful not to overdo it, otherwise your children may have trouble sleeping.

You can play cook with your parents' permission and cook, for example, pizza, or cook tasty soup, make an unusual salad, or try to make it yourself milkshake or ice cream.

Universal games

• You can arrange a quiz for the most erudite, having prepared in advance tricky questions;
• The sea is agitated once;
• Believe it or not;
• Cold - hot;
• Balda;
• Words (animals, cities, products, etc.);
• Darts;
• Truth or dare, etc.

Home theater and other entertainment

Children also love city and association games. Can you remember vintage games: ring, “The lady sent a toilet”, burime, “gallows”. Families are known to love reading books out loud together and playing music at home. And if you organize home theater? Write a script “on the topic of the day”, assign roles, sew costumes, and when everything is ready, call the guests and gather the whole “auditorium”.

Most indoor games can be played by two people without the need to dive into the world online games. Above are many games that can diversify your holiday and make the pastime emotionally rich.

Games for two

Board games, such as Monopoly or Business, will add variety to home leisure. In addition, they will serve as an excellent training for memory, attention, and thinking. All this will allow you to subsequently work more efficiently, increasing your income.
Sports and entertainment games are suitable for lovers of a fun and dynamic holiday. You can include in the program a large number of entertainment: from the well-known “Twister” to “Balance on the Line” or “Don’t Drop the Stick.” Homemade sport games do not require presence large space, special equipment, are distinguished by simple rules. They allow you to get rid of emotional stress accumulated during everyday work and develop physical skills.

It is only important that adults are sincerely interested in the general fun. And this requires some preparation, effort, and imagination. But children will certainly be infected by your enthusiasm, and family leisure will become much richer and more varied than watching TV shows and sitting in front of a computer monitor.