In many families nowadays, parent-child games are being carried out. From a broad perspective, as long as it is an activity with communication and cooperation between parents and children, it can be regarded as a parent-child game. However, from a scientific perspective, parent-child games should have four basic characteristics.
Four basic characteristics of parent-child games
Inspire wisdom
The game should be suitable for the age of the participating children, allowing them to exert their abilities and also have the function of developing potential.
Equal status of participants
This is a game, not an educational classroom. When parents participate in the game activities, they should get along with their babies in an equal way and not put on airs.
The game is interesting
Throughout the game, children should feel the fun of the game, be able to exert their abilities, and parents can also feel the fun of interacting with their children from it.
Team spirit and natural inspiration ability
The game design should be reasonable, allowing babies to actively seek help and cooperation from their parents. In this process of cooperation, parents can educate while having fun.
However, many parents find it troublesome. Many times, they just throw a mobile phone or iPad to the children and let them play by themselves. Little do they know that this not only wastes precious parent-child time but also increases the possibility of children’s myopia. Today, 50 interesting and easy-to-play games are recommended. Parents, spend a little more time playing with your children, and they will naturally forget those emotionless electronic devices!
50 interesting and easy-to-play kindergarten games
Ants Moving Beans
Ask children to form groups of three, and pretend to be ants. (The first child stands with both hands as antennae; the second and third children bend over respectively and hold the waist of the previous child with both hands)
Ask groups of “ants” to line up and walk, pay attention to mutual cooperation, do not fall, and do not step on others.
Set a certain distance, and place some items as “beans” at the finish line. Ask the “ants” to go from the starting point to the finish line and then return. Compete to move the beans and see who moves the fastest.
Stick the Nose
How to play: Blindfold the parents’ eyes, turn around three times in place, and ask the children to direct the parents to stick the nose to the correct position of the animal with language to win.
Rules: Parents should blindfold their eyes well and not peek. Children can only direct with language.
Where Is My Baby
Preparation: Several cloth belts
How to play: Each family consists of one parent and one child. Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle. The corresponding parents blindfold their eyes and stand in the circle. The children hold hands and sing while circling around the parents. When the song is over, stop and then ask the parents to look for their own baby.
Requirements: Children cannot make sounds, go to find their parents, and parents find their own babies by touching.
I Put Shoes on Dad (Mom)
How to play: Each family consists of one parent and one child. First, let the children recognize the parents’ shoes. Then, ask the parents to take off their shoes and put them in the circle. The teacher scrambles the shoes. When the game starts, the children find their dad (mom)’s shoes from the circle and help the parents put them on. The one who puts them on first is the winner.
Step on the Balloons
Preparation: Several balloons
How to play: Each family consists of one parent and one child. The teacher gives each family a balloon and a piece of string. Ask the parents to blow up the balloon and tie it to their ankle, and carry the child on their back. When the teacher gives the order to start the game, the parents carry the baby on their back and step on the balloons of other families. Those whose balloons are burst are eliminated. See who is the champion.
Small Feet on Big Feet
How to play: Each family consists of one parent and one child. The child steps on the parents’ feet with both feet. The parents and the child hold hands. When they hear the order, the parents take the child and run forward. The child’s feet cannot leave the parents’ feet. See who reaches the finish line first.
Pull the Tail
Preparation: Several tails
How to play: Each family consists of one parent and one child. The parents hold the child in their arms and hang a tail on the child’s bottom. When they hear the order, the game starts. While protecting their own tail, pull off the tails of others.
Three-Legged Race
Preparation: Several ropes
How to play: One parent and one child tie the adjacent two legs together with a rope. When they hear the order, the two run forward together. See who reaches the finish line first and wins.
Push the Trolley (Middle Kindergarten)
How to play: The parents hold the child’s two legs, and the child supports the ground with both hands. When they hear the order, the child crawls forward with both hands. See who reaches the finish line first and wins.
Cute Kangaroo Baby
How to play: Let the child hold the parents’ neck tightly, clamp the parents’ waist with both legs, and hang tightly on the parents’ chest like a small kangaroo. The parents bend down and move forward with hands and feet on the ground. The one who reaches the finish line first wins.
Push-ups
How to play: The child holds the parents’ neck tightly, clamps the parents’ waist with both feet, and lies on the parents’ back. The parents do push-ups with their hands on the ground. See which family lasts the longest and wins.
Wear Big Shoes
How to play: One parent and one child participate. The parent takes off the shoes and sits on the other side of the venue. The child wears the parent’s shoes and stands on the other side. When they hear the order, the child sets off and walks towards the parent. When they reach the parent, they help the parent put on the shoes. The parent carries the child and runs to the other side of the venue to help the child put on the shoes. See who finishes first.
Cotton Balls
Preparation: Three families (one big and one small in each family)
How to play: The parents are blindfolded and use a spoon to scoop the scattered cotton balls on the table into a bowl. (Hands cannot touch the cotton balls) The children use a spoon to scoop the glass beads in one bowl into another bowl. After thirty seconds, the cotton balls and glass beads of one family are added up. The family with the most wins.
Ne Zha Seeks Treasures
Preparation: Decorated newspaper balls, toy baskets, blue crepe paper
How to play: The participating mother holds the toy basket and stands at one end of the venue. The child pretends to be Ne Zha and is held around the waist by the father from behind and stands at the other end of the venue. There is a “wave” in the middle. After the host gives the order, the father and Ne Zha run to the “wave” and look for “treasures” (newspaper balls) in the “sea”. Every time they find one, they throw it into the mother’s toy basket. When the host says stop, the family with the most “treasures” in the toy basket wins!
Kangaroo Relay
Number of people: Eight families (one big and one small in each family) form a group. Each group is divided into two rows facing each other (with a distance of ten meters), for a total of two groups.
How to play: The children face the parents, hold the parents’ necks with both hands, and hook the parents’ waists with both legs. Parents cannot touch the children with their hands. Run quickly to the opposite side and pass the baton to the next parent. The group that finishes the transfer first is the winning team.
I Dress My Parents
How to play: One parent is at the finish line and the child is at the starting line. When the whistle sounds, the child picks up the clothes and runs to the finish line to dress the parent and zip it up. Then the parent carries the child and runs quickly to the starting line. The one who arrives first wins.
Crab Holding the Ball
How to play: One parent and the child hold hands, put a ball on top, and move sideways quickly. The one who transports the ball to the finish line first wins.
Happy Stickers
Preparation: One rope, several stickers, one timer
How to play: The child and the parent form a group. Two groups can start the game. Two parents are respectively trapped by a rope with their backs against each other. Two children stand behind a line opposite the parents respectively. When the game starts, each group of parents tries hard to move closer to their children. When one parent is close to the line of their child, the child sticks a sticker on the parent’s face. Within the specified time, the parent with the most stickers on the face is the final winner.
Rules: 1. The child can stick only when the parent’s foot steps on the line. 2. Stickers can only be stuck on the face. 3. Children cannot go beyond the line.
Small Airplane
How to play: The child faces away from the parent, wraps his legs around the parent’s waist, and the parent holds the child’s chest with both hands. The child holds his arms out sideways. The parent runs quickly to the finish line. The one who arrives first wins.
Fishing
Preparation: Items: Thin cardboard, paper clips, newspapers, about 45 cm long string.
How to play:
Draw three fish of different sizes on the thin cardboard. The largest fish is 1 point, the medium-sized fish is 3 points, and the smallest fish is 5 points. Then cut them out.
Color the different fish with different colors. After they dry, draw scales, mouths, and eyes on them with different colors again.
Attach the paper clip to the tip of the nose on the back of the fish with tape. In this way, the paper clip is exposed the most on the big fish, a little less on the medium-sized fish, and almost not much on the small fish. In this way, the smallest fish is also the most difficult to catch.
Roll up several newspapers to make a hard fishing rod, then tape it together and color it.
Fix one end of the string to a paper clip. Then carefully unfold the paper clip to make a fishhook. Attach the other end of the string to the fishing rod.
Note: You can fish from a cardboard box or simply from the ground. Time yourself to see how many points you can get within five minutes.
Hornball Race
How to play: The parents and the children stand face to face on the starting line at a certain distance. After the game starts, the parents ride the hornball and run towards the children, and then hand the ball to the children. The children then ride the hornball and run towards the parents’ starting line. Whoever arrives first wins.
I’m Little Yao Ming
How to play: The parents and the children stand face to face at the specified position. After the game starts, the children throw the 5 sandbags in the basket to the baskets in the parents’ hands respectively. The parents cooperate to catch the sandbags. Finally, compare who throws the most sandbags into the baskets and is the winner.