Activities for a seven year old
101 awesome activities for kids ages 5 to 8
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BackThese activities for 5-year-olds and older are perfect for staving off boredom.
Do you struggle with thinking of fun activities to keep your child entertained on the weekends and after school? You’re not alone! It can certainly be difficult to come up with unique activities for kids. And although it might be easy to just pop in a movie or allow your little one to play games on the tablet, psychologist and play expert Dr. Jacqueline Chinappi, of South University in Savannah, Georgia, urges you to remember that too much screen time can contribute to behavioral problems, obesity and attention issues.
In today’s digital world, this is a growing concern. In fact, according to Dr. Anne Fishel, of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, children around 8 years old at times have up to 11 hours of screen time per day.
Help your little one exercise their mind and body by trying out these 101 fun activities for 5- to 8-year-olds.
- Make a batch of homemade play dough.
- Go on a nature walk and collect leaves or rocks.
- Move the furniture around so your little gymnast can practice their tumbles.
- Play “Go Fish.”
- Make a fort out of blankets and pillows.
- Plant flowers in the garden.
- Camp out in the backyard.
- Read a classic children’s book out loud together.
- Learn to ride a bike.
- Go berry picking.
- Bake a pie using your freshly picked berries.
- Grab some binoculars and go birdwatching.
- Learn how to play the recorder.
- Make sock puppets.
- Press flowers and put them in a scrapbook.
- Build a model airplane.
- Learn how to knit.
- Visit your local zoo.
- Visit a farmers’ market.
- Play dress-up.
- Learn how to braid hair.
- Grab some chalk and decorate the sidewalk.
- Have an outdoor picnic.
- Observe insects through a magnifying glass.
- Is it raining? Have a picnic indoors instead!
- Visit animals at a pet store. (Just try not to bring them all home!)
- Make a map of your house or apartment.
- Learn how to jump rope.
- Make a guitar out of a box and rubber bands.
- Visit your neighbors.
- Bake brownies.
- Pop some popcorn, and snuggle up to watch some home movies.
- Plant a vegetable garden.
- Build a snowman.
- Have a snowball fight.
- Make a pizza with all your favorite toppings.
- Visit a pumpkin patch.
- Make friendship bracelets.
- Turn a pine cone into a bird feeder by adding some peanut butter and birdseed.
- Learn a magic trick.
- Cut out homemade paper dolls.
- Play freeze tag.
- Play “Simon Says.”
- Interview a grandparent.
- Get out a bag of hair ties and create some fun hairdos.
- Go to the library.
- Go on a hike.
- Build a sandcastle.
- Have a tea party with real tea and snacks.
- Cut out pictures from magazines to make a collage.
- Play “Red Light/Green Light.”
- Color!
- Write an original song.
- Take turns drawing each other’s portraits.
- Paint each other’s fingernails.
- Play “Hide-and-Seek.”
- Teach your dog or cat how to do some tricks.
- Make your own bubble solution.
- Lay out an ice cream sundae bar.
- Play “Follow the Leader.”
- Tie-dye T-shirts.
- Have a fashion show.
- Feed ducks at a local pond or lake.
- Make shadow puppets on the wall.
- Play a board game.
- Turn craft foam into bath floats.
- Make pinch pots out of air-dry clay.
- Slice apples and turn them into paint stamps.
- Turn your living room into a winter wonderland with toilet paper, cotton balls and pillows.
- Break out your makeup and let your child give you a new look.
- Put on a play.
- Do a word search.
- Visit a local farm.
- Run through a sprinkler.
- Make nature crafts.
- Learn how to hula hoop.
- Make muffin tin crayons.
- Cut snowflakes out of paper.
- Play mini golf.
- Make hot chocolate.
- Lie down in your backyard, and talk about the shapes you see in the clouds.
- Create a secret handshake.
- Go fishing.
- Put together a puzzle.
- Play musical chairs.
- Learn how to do a cartwheel.
- Make rainbow foam.
- Create a paper chain with colorful construction paper.
- Learn how to play checkers.
- Make a drum out of an oatmeal container.
- Visit a science museum.
- Learn a new language.
- Make leaf and tree rubbings with paper and crayons.
- Catch fireflies.
- Go for a drive with no destination.
- Make a sundial out of paper plates.
- Play “Duck, Duck, Goose.”
- Build a dream house out of Legos.
- Have your child write a letter to her favorite book character.
- Do a crossword puzzle.
- Find rocks outside and paint them.
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25 Fun and Creative Activities for 7 Year Olds
Conducting activities that encourage a 7-year-old to learn or develop new skills and hobbies is a good starting point for any parent. There is a whole bunch of activities that can teach 7-year-old lots of vital information, which can end up delivering the nuances required to master a particular skill.
Educational and Learning Activities
Here are some activities for your child that can get him engaged in the task of educating himself.
1. Crossword Reading
Your kids might be too young to do a crossword by themselves. But, they can read the words aloud for sure!
How to Do
Use a solved crossword puzzle. You can refer to the number within the crossword puzzle, and ask your child to read that specific word. If he is weak at reading, he can spell out the letters first, and then say the word.
What Does It Teach?
By reading the words in the crossword, he will get used to reading vertically as well as horizontally.
2. Food for Ants
Food for Ants is one of the most exciting science activities for 7-year-olds that can put them right in the middle of an unknown world.
How to Do
Work with your kids in figuring out a location nearby that has a resident anthill. Carry along a bunch of tiny food items of varying kinds, such as salt, sugar, honey, shredded fish, and so on. Ask the kids to note down how quickly the ants find each food item, and how long they take to finish it up.
What Does It Teach?
Getting kids to be aware of the biological differences in various animals helps them understand how each living being functions differently.
3. Music With Bottles
Set up the foundation for understanding the base concepts of music, and let your child start exploring the tones all by himself.
How to Do
Arrange glass bottles of the same type and size. Fill them up with varying quantities of water, and place them on a platform. Let your child use a steel spoon, and tap the bottles one after the other. Let him change the levels of water, and explore how music changes.
What Does It Teach?
By recognising the differences in notes and pitch, your child will start understanding the basics of music theory without requiring any targeted study as such.
4. Quick Dice Math
Get the game dice out, and turn it into a new game altogether.
How to Do
Take two dice, and roll them together. Ask your child to either add the values that face up or subtract them.
What Does It Teach?
Math is a matter of accuracy and speed. The dice game helps your child enhance both these skills quite effectively.
5. Hopscotch
Hopscotch is one of the simplest maths-based activities for 7-year-olds, which will have your child fall in love with arithmetic instantly.
How to Do
Chalk out the hopscotch squares on the floor or the path outside your house. Then, start by throwing simple arithmetic problems at him, and let him hop to the answer.
What Does It Teach?
Kids can get a grip on addition and subtraction, and let them become a second habit in their life.
6. The Clock
Two materials are all it takes to teach your kid how to tell the time, as well as numbers from 1 to 12.
How to Do
Take 12 pieces of paper, and jot down the numbers from 1 to 12 on each of them with a marker. Place them in a large circle on the floor to represent a clock. As you call out a time, the kid will have to go and stand on that particular number. For example- when you say “9 o’clock”, the kid will have to stand on the paper marked with the number ‘9’.
What Does It Teach?
This game teaches your kid a skill that he will use throughout his life, as well as how to make associations via verbal communication.
Art and Craft Activities
Making use of a few activities that are focused on artistic skillsets allows your child to express and work on his creative side.
1. Camouflage With Nature
Let your little one explore his creativity with one of the smartest colouring activities for 7-year-olds.
How to Do
Get some white paper, and let your child cut and colour it to resemble various natural elements. Once done, ask him to place those pieces in the garden of your house, or outdoors. Join him and see if you can spot those pieces easily.
What Does It Teach?
Mimicry is the most natural form of learning. By learning to emulate nature, your child gets a better understanding of colours and their various shades.
2. Paper Chains
Bring back nostalgia by teaching your kid how to make some unique paper chain designs.
How to Do
Take a large coloured paper and fold it until there are at least 5-6 layers to it.
Draw the shape of a doll or any other design on it. Let your kid know that he should not cut the edge of the chain. Use scissors to cut along the shape outline, and unfold the paper to see the chain.
What Does It Teach?
Paper chains allow kids to understand how layers of papers work, and fuel their creativity into thinking beyond a single dimension.
3. Sundial
This is a craft activity that also teaches your child an important science lesson.
How to Do
Take a large paper plate, and poke a straw through it. Let your kid place the stick on the terrace of your home at specific intervals, and note the time and position of the shadow of the stick. Make rough markings for the time, and recheck them the next day.
What Does It Teach?
Not only does it get your kid to understand time better, but he also learns how the sun tends to move around the Earth.
4. Milk Art
One of the craziest creative activities for 7-year-olds, this will leave your kids with their jaws dropped.
How to Do
Take a bowl, and add milk to it. Put in a few drops of different food colours right at the centre. Then, add a tinge of liquid soap right on them, and watch them swirl around in various shades. Let your child experiment by putting the drops in different locations of the bowl.
What Does It Teach?
Apart from letting your child know how specific molecules react with each other, the swirling colours can let him experiment with different painting styles.
5. Sock Puppets
Let your child go berserk with his whimsical behaviour as he puts on different sock puppet characters.
How to Do
Get some old socks out of the closet, and use a pen to paint various faces on them. Distribute them equally between you and your kid, and then indulge in some character banter, with different voices and speaking styles!
What Does It Teach?
Apart from being solid fun, your child learns to perceive the underlying layers of communication, and expresses his thoughts in a better way, too.
6. Stone Painting
This one will be loved by the kids, as there’s no right or wrong, and no limit to their imagination!
How to Do
You’ll need a couple of stones and some acrylic colours. The size and shape of the stones don’t matter here. Ask your kid to paint a character on each of the stones to be placed in a particular scenario. For example, he can paint animals and trees and then place them around in a forest scene.
What Does It Teach?
This game teaches kids that they don’t need a paper or a fixed canvas to draw on. And, since there are no limitations, they will be encouraged to use their imagination to the fullest.
Indoor Activities
Make use of these activities to turn your house into a playground whenever you want!
1. Simon Says
This is one of the most popular fine motor activities for 7-year-olds that is a good bit of fun.
How to Do
You get to be Simon, and your kids need to follow each order that you say out loud, as long as it is prefixed with the phrase “Simon Says”.
If you don’t say “Simon Says” and your child still follows it, then he is out of the game.
What Does It Teach?
While making your child more attentive, he also learns how to control his motor activities according to the orders he receives.
2. Don’t Hold the Pillow
Combine this with music, and you have got a clear winner.
How to Do
Queue up some intense music, and start it up as you toss a pillow or a ball to your child. Let the children then start tossing it amongst each other. At a random point, stop the music. The child who has the pillow has to step out.
What Does It Teach?
It helps your child be more attentive to the music, as well as strategise the best time to toss or hold the pillow/ball.
3. Scavenger Hunt
This is a spectacular activity that your child will truly enjoy, and that has the potential to turn your home upside down!
How to Do
Hide a bunch of things around the house in non-traditional places.
Give your kids some clues as to what the object is and where they can find it. You can guide them vocally by saying if they are close to it or further away.
What Does It Teach?
By focusing on visual strength and mental acuity, children learn to translate the clues into actionable decisions and work accordingly.
4. Animal Behaviour
One of the best rainy day activities for 7-year-olds, it works best when paired with some great snacks!
How to Do
Each child picks up a piece of paper, which has the name of an animal on it. Each player is supposed to enact his animal without making any sounds. If the other children can guess the animal, the actor gets a sweet or snack as a prize.
What Does It Teach?
Understanding other aspects of animal behaviour, and working on non-verbal cues, help children improve their communication.
5. Chinese Whispers
Watch how a simple sentence can change into a comical one by the end of this fun game!
How to Do
Get everyone to sit in a line.
Whisper a long sentence in the ear of the first child. That child needs to repeat whatever he heard to the next child. There can be no repetition at any point. The last child stands up and says the sentence out loud, which will almost always be something else altogether.
What Does It Teach?
This gets downright hilarious at times, and also lets the children know how simple words can be easily misinterpreted.
6. Blow the Cup
This is a fun game that encourages a healthy competitive spirit when played with multiple kids or with a time limit.
How to Do
You’ll need paper tape and a paper cup. On a table, stick random lengths of tape to create a simple maze. Place the cup at point A of the maze. The goal is to blow the cup till it reaches Point B (the other end of the maze), without having the cup move out of the lines.
What Does It Teach?
Through this game, kids learn the importance of control.
The harder they blow, the further the cup will move, and vice-versa. Kids will also gain an understanding of angles, as that too plays an important role in dictating the direction of the cup.
7. The Memory Game
This activity tests the memory skills of your kid and requires a few household items.
How to Do
Take a paper bag containing ten random objects picked from around the house. Ask your kid to keenly observe as you take out one object at a time while saying out loud what it is called, and placing it back in the bag. Once this is done, the kid will then have to recall each of the objects in the bag.
What Does It Teach?
This game tests the listening skills and memory of kids, as they will have to rely on these skills to recollect each of the items in the bag. The skills can further be improved by increasing the number of objects, or asking the kids to recall the objects in the exact same order they were pulled out.
Outdoor Activities
Get your child out in the open and involved in energetic and exciting activities with complete freedom.
1. Snake Bites
With a lot of kids, this can easily be one of the most intense physical activities for 7-year-olds.
How to Do
All kids hold hands and should not let them go. The first in line is the head of the snake, and the end is the tail. The head’s task is to bite the tail, and the tail needs to escape, without any of the kids leaving their hands!
What Does It Teach?
Kids learn how to work with each other and use the existing space effectively.
2. Egg Spoon Balance
Do this in an open area, which can be hosed down with water quickly (in case the eggs break!).
How to Do
Let each child hold a spoon in his mouth. Balance an egg on it, and let them race to reach the finish line without dropping the egg. The first one to complete it wins.
What Does It Teach?
Your child learns to establish a balance between speed and stability, all in one go.
3. Water Balloon Attack
There’s no better way to get your children to take a bath than this!
How to Do
Split the kids into teams, and hand balloons to each one of them. Let them fill the balloons with water and then throw them on the kids from the other team. The group that has the least soaked kids wins.
What Does It Teach?
Kids learn how to work as a team towards a common goal and protect each other.
4. Supermarket Search
Shopping doesn’t have to be an activity for parents alone.
How to Do
Draw up a list of all the items you need from the supermarket. Let each kid take his trolley, and bring those items to you. The one to get all the items first can get his favourite chocolate as a gift.
What Does It Teach?
Children learn to spot items quickly and find the shortest way to complete the requirement.
5. Catch the Ball
There’s no better way to get your kids to pay attention. Be ready for the rush!
How to Do
All kids stand in a circle. With you in the centre, throw a ball high in the air. When it is at its peak, call out the name of a random kid. He needs to rush in and catch the ball before it hits the ground.
What Does It Teach?
Attentiveness, along with springing into action at a moment’s notice, can be learnt quickly with this activity.
6. Group Into a Number
This is a fun game which doesn’t need any materials, and will guarantee the kids have a gala time!
How to Do
Ask the kids to assemble in a circle. Call out any number from 1 to 4. When the number is called out, each of the kids will have to scramble to form a group of that number of members. The kids who are not a member of any group will be eliminated. The last person remaining while the game progresses will be the winner.
What Does It Teach?
Through this game, kids learn the importance of teamwork. Also, quick thinking and coordination are essential, so that a child can be the first person to form a particular group, instead of being left out.
With a large variety of activities for 7-year-olds at home and outside, keeping them engaged won’t be much of a problem! Beyond that, these activities make sure that your kids end up learning something new, and pick up a skill that they might not have had earlier.
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This category contains educational activities and educational games online for children 7 years old .
We understand that 7 years is a serious age in the life of every child. Usually at the age of seven, children go to school, they have new responsibilities and concerns. To make it easier for the child to join the learning process and study well, we have developed these developmental activities that can be performed online. Educational games for a seven-year-old child are interesting activities that are an integral part of the learning process. Due to the fact that all the tasks are colorful and interactive, the preschooler does not get tired and perceives learning as part of the game.
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The system will help the child to study, gradually increasing the complexity of the exercises. At the same time, the platform will monitor student progress and adjust the learning plan. Full statistics of the results of classes will be available to parents. In addition to developing activities, the child will also be offered educational games for children of 7 years old for easier mastering of the material.
Thanks to the classes, the child acquires and develops the necessary skills and knowledge: perseverance, work for results, imagination, the ability to analyze and think logically.
Lots of activities and games for seven years old!
Our exercises cover a wide range of subjects, train different types of memory, help prepare for school online. At the same time, it will be enough to deal with seven-year-old children for 20-25 minutes about 4-5 times a week. A huge number of educational games will not leave indifferent any child. Also, for more diverse activities, you can take specially selected workouts. Or, you can create your own workouts, for example, preparation for school, where you include the necessary exercises. It is important not to forget about classes and to devote time to learning regularly.
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one of the most difficult childhood crises is associated with this age, when the child loses spontaneity, begins to hide something, chooses an object to follow.The desire of parents is superimposed on the psychological crisis accelerate the development of a child of 7 years, the requirements of good study and exemplary behavior. Do not look for developmental aids that separate classes by gender.
It is useful for both boys and girls to complete tasks and play educational games for 7 years old, which contain both cars with tanks and dolls with bears. Such tasks enrich vocabulary and contribute to the overall development of speech. Note that speaking aloud the answers to any questions from our training tasks should be given special attention. It is important for children of 7 years old, both preschoolers and first graders, to be able to retell questions and tasks in their own words. And also explain why they chose one or another answer.
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