Educational games for children 4 years old:
1. The child already knows the words "large - medium - small", "more, less, even less."
He knows spatial prepositions and adverbs: “for”, “above”, “under”, “near”, “above”, “below”, “in front”, “behind”. Now it's time to introduce him to the plan. Draw a plan for a doll room or a multi-car garage with a tool table. Invite your child to build a room or garage out of blocks according to the plan. Of course, the first time you have to help him, but he will quickly master the new business. After that, you can complicate the task: draw a plan of your room and mark with a dot the place where you hid the toy or candy. Let the kid be the tracker.
2. The game “What? Which?".
You name some object, and the child tries to give it as many definitions as possible, describing the properties of the object.
What kind of clock do we have on the wall?
- Large.
- And what else?
- Red on the side.
- What is the dial?
- White, and arrows on it.
What other watches do we have?
- Small, round.
The more definitions the better. If the child finds it difficult to answer, you need to help him by giving answers in turn. These questions can be asked about anything.
3. A game in which you need to name several items that have a common feature.
What happens blue?
- Sky.
- What else?
- Sea, water.
- And look, maybe we also have something blue in the house?
In this game, it is best to compete to see who can name the most, but, of course, mom will lose more often.
4. Game "Comparisons".
This leaf is green...
- Frog!
- What else?
- Like a cucumber.
- What else?
- Like grass, like a grasshopper!
Think of what clouds look like, spilled tea or milk, or just a blot in a kid’s drawing. Very soon you will notice that comparisons are extremely accurate and accurate, which will surprise you, and sometimes it will be just a fantasy. It doesn't matter, it's still a manifestation of creativity.
5. Children's educational games for children 4 years old developing auditory attention.
We can assume a variant of the game "The lady sent you ...":
They sent you a hundred rubles.
Buy whatever you want
Black, white do not take
"Yes" and "no" do not say.
Think of any questions, but the child must answer immediately. If he answered incorrectly, now he asks questions, and you answer. This game is especially good to play when you are driving for a long time.
And here is another game. You say a phrase, and the child must hear the mistakes-inconsistencies and be sure to correct them.
You call the child to dinner: “Pasha. Go eat soup and drink meatballs, ”or say:“ Grandmother cooked pies and baked compote, ”etc., whatever your fantasy tells you. If the child did not notice or hear something, it is necessary to draw his attention, explain and fix the correct expression.
6. Introduce children to the names of baby animals, wild and domestic animals, herbivores and predators.
What are the animals? You say a phrase and the child completes it.
1. Animals with 6 legs are ... (insects).
2. Aquatic animals whose body is covered with scales are ... (fish).
3. Animals whose body is covered with feathers are ... (birds).
4. Animals whose body is covered with wool are ... (animals).
5. Continue the row: tiger, lion, wolf .... cow, goat, parrot...
It is desirable that the child name at least 3 examples of animals in each group.
Learn the poem.
Who has who
The camel has a humped camel,
The gray mouse has a little mouse,
The cat has fluffy kittens,
Squirrels have red squirrels.
The rabbit has downy rabbits,
The dog has playful puppies,
The cow has an affectionate calf.
The pig has a cheerful piglet,
The horse has a foal
The goat has a funny kid,
Sheep have lambs
And my mother has freckled guys.
L. Leonova
7. To develop attention, select and read confusion verses.
Warm autumn now, the grapes are ripe with us.
A horned horse jumps in the snow in the summer meadow.
In late autumn, the bear likes to sit in the river.
And in winter, a nightingale sang among the branches “Ha-ha-ha”.
Quickly give me an answer - is it true or not?
L. Stanichev (translated by A. Alexandrov)
8. The game "Who will be who."
You offer the child the names of objects and phenomena, and he must answer the question of how they will change, who they will become.
You say: egg, chicken, boy, acorn, flour, wooden board, iron, cloth, student, sick, weak, evening, winter, snow, etc.
When the child answers, discuss the different answers with him. From an egg, for example, a chick, a turtle, a snake, a crocodile may appear, and from a student - a student, scientist, engineer, doctor, and you never know the specialties.
There is also a reverse version of this game: "Who was who." In this case, the child must guess who the chicken (egg), cow (calf), cherry (bone), fish (egg), grandmother (girl), butterfly (caterpillar), day (night), etc. was before.
After this game, ask your child:
- Where do horses live?
- Where does the bear winter?
- Who turns into a frog? Etc.
9. The game "Let's talk the other way around."
You say: “Tall”, and the child answers: “Low”, fat - thin, small - big, hot - cold, clean - dirty, ice - water, artist - spectator, beautiful - ugly, cheerful - sad, etc. .
10. The game "Who is superfluous?".
This game will help develop attention and thinking, the ability to combine words into groups according to a common feature, by belonging to the same species. Invite the child to find one extra word from a series of words:
Brave, resolute, evil, courageous, brave.
Vasily, Fedor, Semyon, Ivanov, Evgeny.
Milk, cream, sour cream, lard, cheese, kefir.
Birch, pine, tree, oak, spruce.
Decrepit, old, worn out, small, dilapidated.
Deep, high, light, low, shallow.
Carrots, turnips, onions, pears, beets.
Cherry, cabbage, plum, apricot, peach.
Hammer, flares, saw, glass.
Pike, perch, crayfish, bream, crucian carp.
Chickens, goslings, ducklings, hares.
Hares, wolf cubs, squirrels, owlets.
Cup, bowl, knife, bucket, plate.
11. Game "Name it in one word":
Student's bag - worn on the back (satchel);
- a curtain on the window (curtain);
- student's desk (desk);
- scissors, hammer, saw, ax;
- fox, ferret, lynx, elk;
- a device for locking something with a key (lock), etc.
The opposite option is also possible, when a concept, a word is proposed, and the child must explain its purpose or explain what it is.
12. The game "edible - inedible." On edible child claps his hands.
Bun - a box; jam - cookies; nut - T-shirt; cheese - fish oil; honey - plane;
cheesecake - rattle; wagons - pasta; chocolate - marmalade; soup - tooth; sails - sausage.
You can complicate the task by naming three edible and one inedible, or vice versa.
13. O.M. Dyachenko and N.E. Veraksa offer in their book "What Doesn't Happen in the World" an excellent game "Help the Artist".
On a sheet of paper, the mother draws a little man, as best she can, at least “arms, legs, a cucumber,” and tells the child that the artist did not have time to finish the picture and asked him to help. Let your kid come up with any details, and you depict everything. Think of who is drawn here, what kind of eyes, hair, what clothes he has, where he is, in the garden or at home, does he have something in his hands or not. Discuss all the details, don't be embarrassed, draw as you can, it doesn't matter. When you decide that the drawing is finished, you can come up with a story based on it, what is the name of the little man, what is he doing or where is he going. The game can be played many times, finishing something, adding details, everything that comes up. The game has many advantages.
First, it is the joy of creating together.
Secondly, this is important for children who are not very self-confident, and then the mother obeys and draws everything that she is asked. While playing the game, you will quickly notice that each time the child will be more and more bold to offer new and new details, especially if you calmly complete them.
Thirdly, she will teach the “know-it-alls” guys to listen to the opinions of others. With these children, it is better to discuss all the various options in advance and, perhaps, advise your own, as the most successful. This will teach the child to listen to the opposite side and be able to negotiate with her.
When inventing a story, guide the baby so that he does not get lost in the wilds of fantasy. Let the story be small, but with surprises, like a talking dog or an alien you meet, and, most importantly, it must be complete.
Happy child 08.12.2016
Dear readers, today on the blog we will talk about how you can have fun with our children and grandchildren. And this will be a selection of educational games for children 3-4 years old. Pick up new topics and ideas for yourself. Julia Verenkina, mother of two children, will tell about such games. I pass the floor to Julia.
When a child turns three years old, a very difficult period begins for parents. Indeed, at the age of 3-4 years, the baby wants to try everything and do a lot on his own. The child wants to prove to everyone that he is smart enough and should be treated as equals. But at the same time, the baby is still too small and he needs maternal love and care. And it is during this period that much attention should be paid to the development of the child - exciting and educational games using improvised materials. This article will be devoted to this, which will tell you what educational games for children 3-4 years old can be played.
Features of children of this age
The features of babies at 3-4 years old are considered sociability, curiosity, the desire to be given as much attention as possible. But psychologists also say that from the age of three, a child acquires such qualities as capriciousness, disobedience and stubbornness. Thanks to games, these problems become easily solved. While playing, it is easier for the baby to establish a connection with the world around him, with adults, and he also develops the ability to internal dialogue, which is required for productive thinking.
But it is important to note once again the fact that this age is approximate, because one child can cope with a certain task earlier and better, and the other a little later. All children are different. And among other things, one educational game may not appeal to your child at all, and the other will become his favorite. In this case, experiments are indispensable.
Didactic game for children 3-4 years old "All objects by color"
At the age of 3 years, you should already begin to teach your child colors and the ability to distinguish one shade from another. The All Objects by Color game is an excellent method for accomplishing this task. So, you need to have: sheets of blue, red, green and yellow colors that will serve as clearings, as well as mushrooms cut out of paper of the same shades.
The parent should offer the baby to place mushrooms of two colors, of all possible ones, in the clearing. The blue meadow should be planted with blue mushrooms, and the green one with green ones. After that, the other two clearings should acquire fungi of their own color.
- Sveta, what mushroom did you take?
- Red.
- Sveta, in which clearing do you want to plant a red fungus?
- I want to plant a red mushroom in the red meadow.
This game will help develop fine motor skills of hands and speech of children.
Logic games for children 3-4 years old
Logic is the ability to think rationally. In our life, it is very difficult to do without it. And in order to help the formation of the logic of the baby, we need special logical educational games for 3-4-year-old children.
Game "Cook"
For example, the game "Cook" using improvised items fits just fine. It is necessary to put empty pots available in the house on the floor, and lay out their lids next to them. Little Sherlock needs to find its “hat” from each pan, analyzing their size and color.
The game "Leaf fall"
The game "Leaf Fall" requires a little preparation. It is necessary to collect leaves from trees that will simply be guessed along the contour, for example, maple, oak and birch leaves. Next, the parent should outline them on paper, and the baby should determine which contour will fit this or that leaflet. Important: it is forbidden to attach a sheet to the drawn image.
Fruit cocktail game
"Fruit cocktail": you need to blindfold the child and let him feel the familiar fruits: banana, tangerine, apple, kiwi, etc. A simple game, and we develop both logic and imagination for the child.
Games for the development of speech for children 3-4 years old
At this age, it is necessary to engage with the child in the formation of a grammatical structure and an increase in vocabulary. It is necessary to select those games that will not only be effective in the development of the baby, but will also interest him.
Game "Vredinka"
3-4 years old are the most stubborn in children, and this is definitely worth using. A preschooler should already be able to name antonyms for simple words, for example, light - dark, sad - joyful, poor - rich.
Sound trainer game
An excellent developing speech therapy game that will allow you to achieve impeccable speech. It is necessary to repeat with the child the sounds that animals make. It is necessary to achieve the most accurate imitation.
Game "Baby Detective"
This game develops both speech and attention. During the walk, you need to ask the child to describe everything that is happening around him. He needs to correctly and competently build his story, speak big sentences and pay attention to even the smallest nuances that catch his eye.
Such games help to replenish the vocabulary of a 3-4-year-old child and teach him to correctly compose sentences, summarizing them into a whole text.
These correct speech skills will be excellent helpers in school. In the exam before entering the first grade, a child who has played educational games with his parents can show excellent results.
But a good result in this case is simply impossible without the development of fine motor skills of the hands, because the correct functioning of the speech apparatus is directly related to such a skill.
Finger games for the development of fine motor skills 3-4 years old
With a baby of 3-4 years of age, joint games should be organized to develop fine motor skills. Physiologists tend to argue that this is what contributes to the normal development of speech. Such a moment should not be missed.
The game "Magic Clay"
The game "Magic Plasticine" has already become almost a classic for the development of hand motor skills. It is recommended to sculpt the kingdom from plasticine together with the baby, this contributes to good communication and contact between the parent and the baby. Every day you need to create one hero, the dimensions and appearance of which you can think of yourself. And fingers can be trained not only with plasticine, but also with clay and dough.
Puzzle picture
Puzzle painting is also a very popular and exciting way to develop in this area. Puzzles must be combined into one whole picture. As the age increases, the pieces of the puzzles should decrease. At the age of three, you can start with 9 puzzles, and at the age of 5, you can assemble a canvas from 200 pieces.
Memory Games
You also need to pay attention to the development of the memory of your 3-4-year-old miracle. In the future, this will have a positive effect on the easy mastering of large school material. And then success in training is guaranteed.
Supermarket game
The game "Supermarket" implies that the parent gives the child a task, during which certain goods should be purchased, discussed earlier. With each game, it is worth expanding the shopping list.
Game "Cleaner"
"Clean" is a game whose rules are as follows: it is necessary to give time for the child to look around in the room and remember as many objects as possible. After that, the baby goes to another room, and the parent makes a change in the location of some things. Going back, the child should guess what has changed in the room.
Live coloring pages
You can offer kids live coloring pages, the characters of which can be revived. How much surprise the children will have! And not only with them, but also with adults! If you are not familiar with live coloring, I invite you to watch a short video.
And you can also download live coloring pages for free here.
Free live coloring pages
Board educational games
Board games are always very exciting for a child due to their colorfulness and diversity. What games can you play?
Game "Scoobidoo" will help develop attention and fine motor skills. During the game, you should be the fastest to make your centipede.
"Merry Pirates" - the formation of mindfulness with the help of cards. Each of the pirates must acquire his own ship, which matches his clothes and attributes.
Flash games for children 4 years old are useful because they reproduce real life situations. Favorite cartoon characters get into difficult stories and in order to help them, you have to learn new objects and skills, as well as call on your attention and concentration to help. Games for children 4 years old are a great helper for parents who want to comprehensively develop their child from a young age.
Types of flash games for children
Flash games for children 4 years old can be conditionally divided into several categories.
- ABCs and primers
These categories of games teach the child letters, syllables, words and basic spelling in a simple and easy manner. As a rule, favorite cartoon characters help to learn, thanks to which the process is fun and interesting. - Learning to count
Together with your favorite cartoon characters, even boring lessons become exciting. As a rule, children are taught to count, and other characters of their favorite children's TV shows. Thanks to them, the child trains memory and attention, there is interest and focus on the result. - Puzzle
Simple logic games always benefit the players. The child learns the basics of strategy and tactics, begins to look for non-standard solutions, creative approaches to the game process, develops logic and quick wits. - Puzzles
Putting together a puzzle - what could be more interesting?! Small pieces of a single whole, which gradually add up to a large and vivid picture, this is a very responsible and exciting activity. Such games form the simplest geometric knowledge, thanks to which the child is better oriented in space and understands how various objects interact with each other. - Coloring and drawing
Young artists enjoy spending time drawing on the computer. And unlike the use of real paints and felt-tip pens, you can be calm: the walls in the apartment will remain safe and sound.
With the widespread use of computer technology and the Internet in our modern life, it is not difficult to find educational activities for children 4 years old online. By opening a browser on the site, you can easily select educational activities for children 4 years old at home or for classes in kindergarten. This site has a whole complex with a variety of exercises for children 4 years of age: tasks for logic; ordinal counting of objects up to 10, 20 and up to one hundred problem solving and arithmetic operations; basics of literacy; comparison of definitions; orientation in space; development of horizons; study of various figures and much more. All this will greatly help in the development of your baby. Spend time with your child in the exciting world of educational games.
For a very convenient functionality. Complete a simple registration, log in to your account and the site will remember the results of your classes. This is a convenient and easy way to advance in learning, moving to new levels of development. All the knowledge acquired by the child will be useful both in everyday life and for classes in kindergarten. Please note that such exercises for kids are an integral part of the formation of the child. It is very important to consistently move in the development of new material and not to miss individual developmental programs, even if their development is not given the first time. Be patient and you will be rewarded with the most quick-witted and precocious child. It is also worth noting that children's developmental activities have a beneficial effect on subsequent schooling. Since, at this age, the child is still able to memorize a huge amount of information from the outside world.
The period of early preschool development of the baby is very important. At this stage, he acquires skills that will be useful to him in later life. To direct his physical, emotional, mental development in the right direction, parents must provide him with the necessary loads.
Given the age, the leading activity should be the game. Moreover, these should no longer be the usual hide and seek, but educational games for children 3-4 years old, which are available to parents even at home, without the involvement of teachers and educators. Each of them must fulfill its function: in a playful way, you can contribute to the formation of logic, speech, fine motor skills, memory and attention.
Logic is the ability to reason soundly and even wisely.
Without it, a person has a very difficult time in life. To contribute to its formation in a baby, you can pick up special games for the development of children of 3-4 years old, which can teach logical conclusions.
cook
Put on the floor all the empty pots that you can find in the kitchen, and put lids next to them.
The goal of the game is to select a lid for each pot. The child must analyze which lid is larger and which is smaller, and find his own dishes for her.
Parents should prompt the child by asking him which dish is larger, what color it is, what it is made of, etc. Such a game will help the child better navigate with sizes, colors, shapes.
leaf fall
Collect leaves from trees that are easily guessed by the contour, for example, oak, maple, birch, outline their borders on paper.
The child must guess which contour corresponds to which leaf, without applying the latter to the drawing.
To simplify the task, if the child is only 3 years old, you can decorate the leaves that you drew, then you can ask the child where this leaf is drawn, and later proceed to complicate without color. The same can be done not only with leaves, but also with any objects that have radically different shapes.
Fruit cocktail
Blindfold your child and invite him to guess the fruits known to him by touch: pear, apple, banana, orange and others.
Another variation of this game: draw these fruits yourself so that the fruit looks like a real one. But do not use a photo, because the drawing will still not accurately convey the picture.
Third wheel
We need cards with drawn objects, among which one will be superfluous. For example, among the cup, spoon and mug there will be an iron. The child in the process of developing the game must exclude the last item.
It is good to arrange such children's educational games on logic every 2-3 days so that the baby's intelligence is not overloaded. And on days off from brainstorming, you can work on the speech abilities of your child. And again to help you - gaming activity.
Speech
There are a wide variety of games for the development of the speech of children 3-4 years old, aimed at the formation of a grammatical structure and replenishment of vocabulary.
Choose in advance those that will interest your baby, and not just be useful. Moreover, a specialist is not required at all. All tasks are easily performed at home with parents (about the norms and deviations of the speech development of a child of 3-4 years old, you can read in).
Vredinka
It's no secret that 3-4 years old is the most stubborn age, and you should definitely take advantage of this when looking for games that develop speech.
In particular, the preschooler must select the simplest antonyms for the words that you call him. For example, white - black, cheerful - sad, kind - evil.
It is very easy to explain to a child how to do this. Recall a time when a child had a lot of fun, for example, when a grandmother came to visit. Explain this emotion to your child. And then let him remember how upset he was when his grandmother went home. Explain that these are opposite emotions. To make the game more fun, you can build grimaces, depicting a particular emotion.
Grimace will help to stretch the muscles of the face, and warm up the child's interest in other speech-developing games.
Sound Trainer
For the purity of speech, developing speech therapy games are needed, aimed at correcting the pronunciation of different sounds. Repeat with your baby the sounds that different animals make. Set him the task of reproducing as accurately as possible.
Do not lean heavily on the letter "R". Use the hissing sounds of a snake, a hedgehog, a howl of a wolf, a lowing of a cow.
Little detective
This is a game that develops not only speech, but also attention. As you walk down the street, ask your child to describe what they see. He must correctly and competently build his speech, speak sentences and notice the smallest details and nuances that he sees.
Didactic games of this kind make it possible to enrich the vocabulary of a 3-4-year-old kid and teach him how to correctly build not only sentences, but also link them into a single whole - a text. Such speech skills will be very useful to him in school. Yes, and on testing before grade 1, your child will show excellent results after such educational games. But to achieve success in this field, one cannot do without fine motor skills of the hands, with which the speech apparatus in the cerebral cortex is directly connected.
Finger for fine motor skills
So that the fine motor skills of the hands ( norms and features of the development of fine motor skills) do not suffer, be sure to conduct educational games for children of 3 years old at home, and actively participate in them yourself.
After all, it is on this indicator, according to physiologists, that the further formation of speech in a child depends. Don't miss this important moment.
Magic clay
Blind with the child the kingdom of plasticine.
Every day, let him create 1 hero, the parameters of which you can set yourself. At the same time, fingers can train not only on plasticine, but also on dough or clay.
Puzzle picture
The most fun of all fine motor skills games are puzzles that contain small pieces. They need to be combined into a single canvas. With age, the details should become smaller and smaller.
Start with 9 puzzles at age 3 and finish with 200 puzzles at age 5.
Puzzle drawings should also not be too complicated or unfamiliar. If your child likes to watch a cartoon about Fixies, buy a puzzle with Fixies. So he will like this game more, and it will be clearer to collect a picture.
Drawing
The correct grip of the pencil, the pressure on it, the evenness of the lines depicted - all this is present in drawing. So coloring is another important type of educational game for this age. Moreover, the child should deal with them daily.
It is important to follow the child as he draws. If the kid just drives a pencil in all directions without thinking, then such an activity can hardly be called an educational game. It is important to focus his attention on how he holds a pencil or pens, how he presses on it. It is not worth using felt-tip pens at the very beginning.
These simple but very useful educational games for children aged 3-4 will help to form fine motor skills of the hands without deviations and prepare the baby for school properly. At the same time, do not forget about memory, which also needs to be trained at an early age.
For the development of memory
There are special games for the development of memory for children 3-4 years old, which in the future will allow him to absorb large amounts of school material. This will also affect learning success.
Supermarket
Give your child the task of going to the virtual store and buying a range of products and things. Each time you send it to the supermarket, increase the list.
Say: we need to cook soup, please buy potatoes, cabbage and meat. After that, the child must bring exactly these products. If he brought not what he needed, or one forgot something, it is important to help him with leading questions.
You can buy a ready-made game in the store, or you can make different products yourself.
Chistyulya
Let the child look around in the room, let him remember, as far as he can, the location of things. Then he comes out and you swap some items. Having come to you, the baby must guess what has changed.
The game can be simplified a little by laying out different items in a row. The child must also remember their location, and you must either remove the object or swap objects with each other. The child will have to indicate what has changed in the row.
Artist
Draw a simple pattern with it. Let him take a good look at it. Then remove the picture and ask him to reproduce it himself.
You can make educational games for children 3-4 years old with your own hands, or you can buy ready-made, desktop ones. The child will enjoy playing with them every day.
Desktop
Modern educational board games for kids 3-4 years old are exciting and diverse. See for yourself.
Merry Pirates
Here it is supposed to work with cards for attentiveness. Each pirate must be able to put on his ship, analyzing his attributes and clothes.
The essence of the game is as follows: the player rolls the dice, he gets a certain combination, for example, blue, 3, girl. This means that you need to find 3 blue cards where a girl is drawn.
Mikado
Board games at home like this one are good because they bring the whole family together in the evenings. Multi-colored sticks are inserted into the ring, which must be pulled out one by one from the sheaf so that the rest do not fall apart.
This game trains mindfulness, develops perseverance. More suitable for children 4 years old, after all, it is difficult for younger kids to sit still for so long.
frog race
Another board game that develops coordination and fine motor skills. Small frogs need to be driven into one large frog by pressing their tails with your finger.
For the full formation of personality, parents must arrange games for the development of a child at 3-4 years old, so that in the process he can learn about life. Trying on various roles, making decisions, getting carried away and creating their own world in developing game activities, the preschooler will progress comprehensively, training his higher mental functions. This will allow him to confidently walk through life in the future and achieve success in everything.