From the moment of birth, your child's need for play arises with him. Games will contribute to his development, facilitate his learning, help him socialize, learn to empathize, realize the importance of respecting the other person, and realize that he is an individual. Apart from these, it will give your child many positive contributions that we have not mentioned yet. The game has neither a place nor a material. Wherever you want to play, whatever material you want to use is your playground and toy.
Games Out of the Kitchen
You can ask your child to help you while cooking and baking in the kitchen. First of all, you need to ensure that the environment is safe. At the age of 4, your child's finger muscles are at a level to hold the glass and grasp the spoon. Choose a cake recipe and put the ingredients on your table in the required dimensions with it. Then start by explaining to your child how to add appropriately to the recipe. Let her add ingredients to your cake that she can hold and add. You can get the idea of decorating the top of the cake from him. Ask how to decorate and decorate with ideas from it. With this game, your child's imagination, fine motor muscles and self-confidence will develop. There is no measure of the happiness he experiences because he spends time with you.
Materials such as strainers and spoons that will not harm the kitchen can also be used as play tools. One of the games that can be played with a strainer is the game played by passing chenille through the hole of the strainer. This requires a strainer, chenille and beads. The strainer is turned upside down and chenille is inserted into its holes. You can let your child do this. Then the beads are threaded through the chenille. It can also be lined up by matching the colors of the chenille with the colors of the bead. Thus, hand-eye coordination will improve as well as contribute to cognitive (mental) development.
You can also play games with chickpeas, dry beans and pasta, which are also culinary materials. These three ingredients are mixed little by little. He may be asked to separate the chickpeas for one of the three bowls, the dried beans for one, and the pasta for the other.
Coloring is one of the most favorite activities of children. Especially if fingers are involved, the activity they did will remain as a memory they will never forget. Pasta, which is also an ingredient from the kitchen, can be used for this. You can paint the pasta using paints such as finger paint, watercolor. Then you can let it dry and use it in different activities. You can make a necklace by stringing dried pasta on a string. You can also use it to decorate around the papers.
Bulgur can also be counted as a game material. Shapes can be drawn on the bulgur by pouring it into a tray or a large bowl. These shapes are determined in advance and drawn on a paper or printed out. Your child can also draw these shapes on bulgur with his index finger.
Apart from these, every non-hazardous item in the kitchen can also be used as a game tool. This is left to your imagination. Do not forget to explain to your children that some of the kitchen utensils are dangerous.
External heat also can be Played Games
Nature is the most beautiful playground with its unique and endless materials. The soil, the tree gives you the opportunity to play many games. It is a material that shapes can be drawn on sand and can be emptied from one container to another.
You can do activities with cones collected from nature. You can paint, you can accessorize your child's room. Your child will also enjoy making a product for their room.
Another area where you can play in nature with your 4-year-old child can be the seaside. You can collect sea stones and shells from here. You can collect flat and flat stones from the sea and draw pictures on them or turn those stones into an object. You can weave seashells into a rope or make a frame. You can classify the stones according to their color by painting them.
You can guide him to draw pictures on the ground with sticks collected from nature, and you can make him go over the shapes drawn on paper with stones collected from nature.
Games Played with Waste Materials
You can consume a game by removing the lids of empty wet wipes boxes. After you have collected enough numbers, you should place two of the same shape under the cover of the empty wet wipe box you removed and close the covers. Then you have to direct it to find the same ones. Thus, when opening the lid, fine motor muscles will work. In addition, by keeping in mind which picture is where, his mental development
will be strengthened.
Waste milk boxes and water bottles are also materials that can produce games. You can make a brand by putting some beads or stones you find in nature into these boxes. You can also cover or decorate the outside of the bottles. You can keep the rhythm with the maracas by turning on a music that your child likes. With your child's imagination, you can make babies, baby beds and many other things from these bottles with your child, turn them into a toy and play games.
Material Free Games
Our hands, feet, eyes, ears and even our skin can be used as a game tool. We can play catch with our hands, we can play hopscotch with our feet, we can play blindfold with our ears. If we think a little, we can find a game without using any materials.
A 4-year-old can now learn to count slowly. Therefore, you can play games with counting. In this game where you will play with two or more people, you have to put your fingers on the ground. With open fingers on the floor, a person begins to count with one hand. Up to 10 or up to 20 fingers are counted one by one. Then, the finger corresponding to the last number of the number you counted will fold inward and leave the game. The game continues until the last person has a finger left.
Another game played by counting is the boom game. In this game, everyone sits on the floor in a circle and stretches their feet. Count up to 5 feet. Instead of the number 5, it is called a boom. Matching foot is out of the game.
Another game where we can use our fingers as a game tool is the game of drawing a shape on my back. Everyone turns their backs in turn. One of the other people draws a shape on his back with his index finger. The person whose back is drawn tries to know the shape drawn. The person who knows the most wins the game.
Nostalgic Games
These games, which were played on the streets long ago, are now on the verge of being forgotten. These games are mostly games that do not require materials or are played with materials obtained from nature.
Blindfold game is a game that you can play inside the house. You only need a material that connects to the eye. One's eyes are closed. Other people try to escape from this midwife. They try to mislead the midwife by making noise while escaping. The person caught becomes a midwife. In this game, care should be taken that there are not many items around and that the environment is safe. The midwife can be you instead of your child.
Hide and seek is a game played outside or at home. A person becomes a midwife and closes their eyes and counts to the desired number. Others are also hidden. One of the people he finds his place becomes a midwife.
Dodgeball is a game that only needs ball supplies. It is played with at least three people. One person is in the middle. The other two people cross over to each other. They throw the ball to the person in the middle one by one and try to touch it. When the ball touches, someone else moves in.
Box box pliers is a game that 4 year olds can play. A circle is formed by holding hands together. The person whose name is spoken by saying the following lines turns around and holds hands again.
box box pliers,
If he eats my apple,
My friend…(the name of one of the players playing here is mentioned)
If he turns his back.
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