Interesting and Educational Games for Children

Coming up with educational activities for your child, doesn’t have to be in the old conventional way by learning from a book. You can come up with different activities that are fun and don’t require much effort, time and money. While there lots of things that you could do to teach your child valuable lessons and skills, I made a list of a few activities that you can do at home together with your child. Check the list.

Observation Game
People who have good observation skills have bigger chances to succeed in life. Imagine working on some project and missing important facts -this mistake can have fatal consequences. Knowing this fact, as a parent you should help your child to develop good observation skills. In order to do that, you can play this game so-called “Observation Game. You will need 10 different pictures or cards that have pictures. Show the cards to your child. Each card should be observed about 2 minutes. After you have finished, place the cards face-down. The player should write short description about each picture recalling the information in his memory. The more detailed description player makes -the better. That means that his observation skills are really good. If you are not satisfied with his results, repeat the game by using different cards from the previous.

Coloring Games
Coloring games let kids express their creativity. They don’t present only fun. They are beneficial too. Playing coloring games utilize kid’s motor skills. You don’t have to buy coloring book in order to play this game. These days, there are lots of sites that offer “printable” pages in many different forms. You can find your kid’s favorite cartoon character from Super Why, Clifford, Sesame Street and many more. All you have to do is to find sites that offer this kind of service and print the pages that your child wants. If you want you can visit sites that offer free online coloring activity. Search on the web for that kind of sites and let your child choose from the wide options available on these sites. If he is horse lover, search for horse games that offer coloring activity. If he wants vehicles, search for that type of games. Let him choose what he wants to color. Using virtual crayons he can draw and color the pictures without any difficulty.

Basketball Game
Most of the kids struggle with math subject. If your child has problems with this subject or you want to improve his math knowledge, “Basketball Game” is the right game for this purpose. If you don’t have real basketball court, you can use some empty big box as a basketball court. Make ball from paper or other material. Ask your child to take three rounds of 10 shoots. Let him count the shoots that he makes and keep a track of his results. If you want to make the game more challenging, after each round ask what the ratio of missed shoots and basket scores is. Besides these educational games, you can come up with more innovative and interesting games. Just. Don’t forget to have fun while playing!