5 Best Free Child Games for Your
Preschooler
By Nicole
O'Reilly
Feeling pressured into sending
your pre school child to an educational or music class. Forget it! Spending some
quality time with you playing some free child games will give them all the
stimulation they need.
There seems to be more and more
pressure on parents these days to enroll their pre school children in all sorts
of innovative learning programs. There are music and swimming classes, craft
centers and activities to promote movement, motor skills or sporting ability.
Did you know some of the best learning tools for your kids are right at
your fingertips, literally! We as parents are the primary carers and therefore
the first teachers of our children before they start school.
Without all the
classes and activities that we could pay for them to do, just playing simple
free child games, your kids will get all the stimulation and encouragement that
they need to get the best start.
By providing them with an
enriched environment with free activities based around your home and
neighborhood you will get more quality time with your children while enhancing
their imagination and creativity.
~ Kid Game Idea Collection ~
Top 5 Free Child Games / Activities- Indoors
1. Storytelling- Telling stories to children promotes language,
listening skills and imagination. Don't feel confined to reading from books,
tell your children a special family story that helps them to know their place in
the world. How mum and dad met, how great grandpa sailed in a tall-ship to start
a new life in a new country, or the story of their birth. These tales will
delight them time and time again, perhaps you have photos to help them put faces
to names.
2. Dressing Up- As children the dress-ups box was
always our favorite treasure trove for creating characters for a play or story.
Pretending to be dinosaurs, truck drivers, doctors, zoo keepers or even mum can
keep children entertained for hours. The more props the better so always have a
store of blankets for cubbies or tents and assorted boxes for cars, dolls beds
or wherever their imagination takes them.
3. Music- Children love a chance to dance and jump around. By the age of three
they will already have some favorites which will probably have actions to match.
Given the opportunity to march, stomp, clap or any other loud action will be
happily accompanied by any musical instruments that you have around the house.
If you don't have any, a pot and wooden spoon will do just fine!
~ Kid Game Idea Collection ~
4. Craft- By using
recycled materials you just need some glue, a little inspiration, and your
child's creativity will do the rest. Materials can be used to create collages,
space rockets, animals and a whole lot more. Keep a ready supply of recyclables
by keeping cereal boxes, toilet rolls, candy wrappers, magazines and yoghurt
containers. Other crafty ideas can involve play dough, paint, crayons, chalk and
modeling clay! The ideas are endless.
5. Board Games and Card
Games-
Fun for the whole family or just two bored kids looking for something to do on a
rainy day. For younger children these games help them with numerical skills,
taking turns and gamesmanship, as well as the concept of chance and that anyone
can win the game. Super for holidays as they are easy to set up and can last for
hours.
There are many card games to learn from easy kids games right up
complicated ones for teenagers and adults. Best of all, the only equipment
needed is a deck of cards. Board games like Scrabble and Monopoly have been
played for generations and will continue to be, unless everything becomes
computerized!
Most of these activities will be known to you, but have
you played them all? If not, then get out there and enjoy some free child games
with your tribe, they'll love you all the more for spending some one on one time
with them.
The place to go for all your games needs for 0-6 year olds is
