In the modern world, museum tours, holidays and performances in kindergartens and schools are always organized for children, and it becomes more and more difficult for parents to entertain sons and daughters.
Therefore, if you decide to arrange a budget holiday at home or in the country, or guests come to you, you can hold an interesting competition with the distribution of prizes.
Children's contests at home: for the smallest (2-4 years)
Among the kids you can spend animal sound recognition contest. Adults can watch from the side. Toddlers are divided into two groups. One of the participants imitates the sound of an animal, for example, “Mu-u-u” or “Woof!”, And the opposing team will guess which animal the player made. Points can be awarded both for a successful question and for the correct answer. In the end, the team will win, the participants of which will be able to remember and guess the largest number of animals.
Can hold another children's contest at home for babies. It does not require special training.
Regardless of the number of players, children are divided into two groups. Then collect any five items. For example, it can be: a spoon, a rattle, a ball, a book and a pillow. Then you need to ask: “What makes the loudest sound?” The score is given to the participant who will quickly show or, better, put his hand on the loudest object, in this case a rattle. Questions and subjects can be anything, depending on your imagination. Next time you can take a candy, a pencil, a sheet of paper, a pan and a pacifier and ask: “Which of the objects is white?”.
At the end of the game, you will need to count points and give out prizes. You can reward not only the winning team, but also the most active players.
Such a competition will appeal to children and help them develop a quick reaction.
Children's competitions at home: for preschoolers (4-7 years)
Among the kids you can spend candy and toy contest. To do this, you need to free a fairly large room and remove those things that children can break or throw off. But the room should have a large number of nooks and crannies. Similar games are also good to arrange in the country. In this case, you can hide fruits or vegetables in the garden, in the grass, and ask the children to find them. Most likely, it will be more interesting for children to work independently, and not as a team. The competition is not designed for a large number of children.
You need to tell the children the rules of the game. For example, in half an hour they should find twenty hidden candies in the room. Well, the winner receives not only all the sweets he finds, but also a soft toy (or any other gift).
Young children are happy to participate in a fashion show. The competition is more targeted at girls, but boys are very pleased to take part in it.
So, the princess dresses and knightly outfit should be shown. You can use anything you want to create a costume!
If funds allow, you can prepare quite expensive accessories for children: buy elegant dresses, wooden balls and shiny crowns in the store. But with no less pleasure, children use improvised items for outfits. An old nightgown can turn into a royal dress, and the lid of the pan can become a knight's shield. In this case, the prize must be awarded to the one whose costume will cause more laughter.
If you don’t have enough time, and you want to take children with something interesting and useful, you can invite them to assemble puzzles for a while. All that is needed is a few large jigsaw puzzles. If there are fewer pictures than children, divide the participants into teams. But it is better that everyone collects his picture. Make sure that all jigsaw puzzles are the same size, and that everyone has enough space.
Most likely, such a children's competition at home will take the guys a long time. At the end, it remains only to announce the winners and give them prizes.
Children's competitions at home: for students (7-12 years)
In the fall, you can organize outdoor competitions, for example, arrange the collection of chestnuts and acorns for a while. If you want to teach children to work independently, give a separate task to everyone. Or arrange a team competition.
If your area has more acorns than chestnuts, then for chestnuts you can give two or three points to each participant or team, and for acorns - only one. In the same way it is possible to collect leaves, and in spring and summer wildflowers. But, of course, do not tear a large number of plants unnecessarily. Therefore, it is better to arrange such competitions in the fall.
Well, where to put the collected material? You can arrange a children's contest at home for the cutest craft or toy. Make sure that everyone has enough glue, plasticine, paper.
Much depends on the abilities of the children themselves. As a rule, younger students love creative competitions. In this case, invite everyone to come up with their own toy, inspire children with pictures from magazines. If the young participants are not enthusiastic, tell them about the prizes, offer a choice of two or three simple crafts. You can make an application of leaves or animals from acorns and chestnuts.
Since the task is creative, and ratings can be subjective, try to have as many prizes as possible. For example, you can give rewards for the cutest crafts, for the most original, for the most difficult, for the most accurate, etc.
Of course, a craft contest can be arranged not only in the fall. At any other time of the year, natural materials can be replaced with paper, glue, pieces of cloth and cotton. In children's magazines it is fashionable to find a large number of toys, the manufacture of which even a small child will cope with. You can sculpt animals from plasticine or paint flowers.
The guys will be interested participate in the quiz. If you did not have time to prepare, you can organize a joint solving of crossword puzzles, scoring participants with points for the correct answers. But it’s much more interesting to come up with your quiz with the original rules of the game.
It’s best if you visit a museum before conducting a quiz. Then you can hold a contest using the knowledge gained. But the quiz can be organized without visiting the museum.
Write various tasks on the sheets. Try to come up with unusual questions. On one sheet you can write the question: "What animal lives in the water and feeds on plankton?" And on another sheet stick a photo of the dog and sign below: "What kind of dog is this?" The third leaflet can be blank, with a small signature on the edge: "Fold the airplane from this leaflet." The more diverse the tasks, the more willingly the guys will begin to carry them out. For the correct answer, you can accrue one or three points, depending on the complexity of the task.
Children's competitions at home: for teens (12-16 years old)
With older children, prone to creative expression, you can spend competition of submissions. There must be at least six participants, and preferably ten to twelve. Each of the participants prepares a number. You can tell a poem of your own composition, sing, dance or show focus. Each team must choose a moderator who, in addition to demonstrating their own performance, will announce the numbers and explain what is happening on the stage. The more complicated and interesting the number, the more points the team receives. According to the results, the winners receive prizes, but the losing team should not be left without an award.
If there are few participants, but a lot of time, tasks can be complicated. Then each participant will have to prepare two or three numbers. In this case, for example, one of the numbers should be dance, the second - musical, and the third - whatever.
For older children you can organize an interesting and informative competition. Recently, towns and playgrounds in which a child can test yourself in a future profession. Something like this can be organized at home. Each participant will need to talk about the chosen profession and demonstrate any skills. For example, a future business woman can demonstrate a warehouse of office supplies or fashionable clothes and talk about the merits of her goods. The future chemist can show the experiments, and the future teacher can give a lesson in physics or biology for the rest of the children.
Of course, in such a difficult competition, it will not be easy to choose a winner. Therefore, it is desirable that the award goes to everyone, at least encouraging, and there were several prizes. It is important that each participant is convinced that his future work is important and necessary, and if he tries, he will be able to achieve success.
You can change the competition a bit and instead of choosing professions, invite everyone to try themselves as a businessman or business woman. One participant can, for example, sell clothes and shoes, the second - books, and the third - interior items. Everyone will have to talk about the benefits of their product. Adults or other children will need to evaluate whether the child has done a good job. You can put points for a product demonstration, for a good business plan, etc.
Children's contests at home: for children and adults
In autumn, you can pick mushrooms or leaves in the fresh air. The principles of competition are similar. When collecting leaves, you need to divide the children into two or three groups. Each team will have to collect more different leaves, and rivals - guess which trees they belong to. When collecting mushrooms, both team and independent work is possible. In this case, you must ensure that children are not lost in the forest. It is best to go in a cohesive group or sort out into teams in which an adult or several adults will follow the order. In this case, the guys should find as many mushrooms as possible. In the same way, you can organize the collection of medicinal plants or berries. Of course, the collection of plants, berries and mushrooms can be carried out only under the supervision of parents, but this competition will captivate for a long time a person of any age. Developing contests will not only entertain children, but also introduce them to the natural world.
To have fun and usefully, arrange physical education. Here a lot depends on whether you are going to study with the guys at home or play on the street. In the second case, you can arrange skiing competitions, divide the children into groups and arrange a game of basketball, run racing. There are so many options that there is no need to list them.
It is much more difficult to arrange such a contest at home. In this case, the guys need to take a large hall in which they could study, without fear of destroying or breaking anything. At the head of each team you need to put a parent who will come up with exercises. The remaining children will have to repeat the actions of their captain. As a result, that team will win, the participants of which will perform the most difficult and unusual exercises, for example, push-ups and squats, most harmoniously.
