Fun activities for 5 year old boy

Fun learning activities for 5-6-year-olds

Your child will probably have started synthetic phonic activities at school so finding time to enjoy playing with letters and sounds in games at home will really help them with that.

Other activities can help your little ones to develop key skills such as speaking, listening and numeracy. If you’re not sure what your child’s doing in school, you can find out more about it in our school section and click on their year group to disover more.

We’ve pulled together our top five ideas here and hope you’ll have fun testing them out!

1. Rhyming games

Listen to and join in with rhyming stories, like Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo.
Play rhyming games, or sing an action rhyme.

Make silly rhyming jokes. For example: What do you call a smelly elephant? A smellyphant! What do you call an elephant watching TV? A tellyphant!

2. Phonic games

Play snap or bingo with letters and sounds. Write letters on pieces of papers or cards, to create homemade flashcards. Make two for each letter. Use them to play snap. You could also create a bingo card with eight boxes – each one containing a letter. Put the flashcards into a pile, facing down and take it in turns to be the bingo caller.
Play phonics fishing! Use homemade letter flashcards, add a paperclip to each, tie a magnet to some string and a stick and ask your child to ‘fish’ for a particular sound.
Play ‘I spy’ games (for example, ‘I spy something beginning with a…’, using the letter sound) when you are out and about. For help with letter sounds, take a look at our sound chart.

Activity: Vowel sounds

Practise phonics by matching the pictures to the vowel sounds.

Activity: Phonics guidance

Learn how to say all the phonics sounds (phonemes) and letters.

3. Memory games

Play ‘Kim’s game’. Put a few items on a tray (for example, a crayon, an apple, a building brick, a toy car). Then look, cover, remember and check!
Talk about, photograph or write out some ‘events’ from something you have done together – can your child remember the correct order?

Go shopping – try to remember the list together!

4. Listening games

Play games such as ‘Simon says’ – party games are often good ways to practice speaking, listening, and memory skills, without them even noticing!
Listen to music and talk about the instruments being played – find pictures on the internet together.

5. Action games

Make a puppet theatre with cardboard boxes or a towel over a chair and encourage your child to make up or retell a story to you (or any willing family members!).
Have lots of fun dressing up with clothes and props at home so that your child can dress up as a character and act out favourite stories. You can find lots of cheap props and clothes for dressing up in charity shops.
Play games such as ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’, but write the times down for them to read instead of saying them.

6. Tactile games

Use magnetic letters to spell names and simple words on the fridge or radiator.
Use modelling clay to make your child’s name or simple words like mum.
Enjoy jigsaws together and chat about finding the right pieces!

7. Screen games

Watch TV programmes linked to books and then read the books afterwards. Little Princess, Katie Morag, and Charlie and Lola are good places to start. Talk about what they like or don’t like about the characters.
Find story-telling sites like Little Kingdom, story-telling TV programmes, or story apps for your phone.

8. Car journey games

Play ‘The cook’s cat is an amazing cat/beautiful cat/clever cat/daft cat…‘ and so on, and then make up your own versions (for example, ‘The doctor’s dog…‘).
Play this noisy version of the car game, ‘Who can spot…?’. It’s great fun – but check out with the driver first before you start this one! Decide on a noise, or a word to call, when you spot the things you’re looking out for. For example, ‘Bang!’ for a yellow car, ‘Buzzz!’ for a bus, and ‘Wow!’ for a bird.
Listen to an audiobook.

Video: Car journey games

Get ideas for fun and educational car games for kids! Educational author and parent Isabel Thomas shares her ideas to relieve the boredom of long car journeys.

9. Out and about activities

Ask your child to find the things you need to buy when out shopping by reading the labels on products together.
Check out your local library or community centre to find out what special activities or clubs are running.
Try to do a few visits or find some information together to link with the topic or project work at school.

10.

Reading books of all kinds together

Carry on reading books of all kinds to and with your child: picture, pop up, information, poetry, eBooks, print books… and the levelled books brought home from school. Video or record your child reading them for fun!

Why not choose a book from our free eBook library to share on-screen together?

55+ Easy Activities for 5 Year Olds

AHEAD: Banish boredom in your house with these 55+ super fun hands on and easy activities and crafts for 5 year olds or kindergartners.

Do you have a 5 year old or kindergartner at home? Then this is the ultimate list for you. Here are 55+ amazing activity ideas to do with your 5 year old or kindergartner. From building an aquarium to making 2 ingredient silly putty to making paper houses and cork boats, there are tons and tons of really cool ideas your 5 year old will love.

This amazing list is organized into 4 sections:

Boredom Busting Activities
Arts & Crafts
Fun Learning Activities
Sensory Activities

OK Let the fun begin!

Boredom Busting Activities for 5 Year Olds

Make a chalk maze – create a maze for toy cars using sidewalk chalk

2. Build a backyard obstacle course outside.

3. Build a fort – used blankets, cushions and chairs to build the ultimate retreat nook. Dontas forget to add lots and lots of books!

4. Build a marble Run – use cardboard, construction paper, tape and marbles. Roll the construction paper up to make a tube and tape them to the cardboard to make a marble run.

5. Make silly putty.

6. Giant Dots and Boxes.

7. Play with giant water beads.

8. Nature Tea Party – Collect things from your backyard like rocks, leaves, dirt and flowers to make a nature tea using your favourite tea set or a jug and cups.

9. Spray Bottle Water Fights.

10. Magnetic Tile Ramps.

11. DIY Post-It Dominoes.

Arts & Crafts for 5 Year Olds

12. Three Marker Colouring Challenge – Close your eyes and choose three markers from a pile. Use those colours and only those three colours to colour a favourite coloring page.

13. Make crazy hats – Construction paper, tape and scissors. Create the craziest looking hats you can using cut out lighten bolts, spirals, and different shapes.

14. Make a paper house.

15. Build Easter Egg Boats

16. Draw to music.

17. Giant Nail Painting Activity.

18. Make a garden sensory bottle.

19. Paint Kindness Rocks – paint rocks using washable paints and brushes and once dry write kind messages on them.

20. Textured Rainbow Sun Catcher Craft

21. Family Portrait Sticky Wall.

22. Make An Aquarium.

23. Cardboard Picture Frame Craft

24. Giant Baby Doll Colouring – Not into baby dolls? Trace cars and trucks to decorate them!

25. Textured Heart Sun Catcher Craft

26. Potato Masher Ice Cream Craft

27. Gems and Water Colour Flower Craft

Fun Learning Activities for 5 Year Olds

28. Baby Doll Haircuts.

29. Colour by Addition – Parents write simple addition or subtraction problems in each section of a colouring paper. Then create a key idenifitin which colour each answer should be. For instance if the answer is 3 then colour that second red.

30. Shaving Cream Sight Word Game.

31. Build The Alphabet Sticky Wall

32. Spray Bottle Letters – use a spray bottle to make letters on a fence or on a sidewalk.

33. Ice Cream Skip Counting Sticky Wall – Supplies: contact paper, masking tape, foam sheets, scissors and black sharpie.

34. Build A Magnetic Tile Clock – use magnetic tiles to make a giant clock. Use post it notes for the numbers or washable chalk markers.

35. Rubber Duck Math Race

36. DIY Egg Carton Ten-Frame Game

37. Magnetic Tile Ten Frame Game

38. Ocean Sight Word Sensory Bin

39. Ten Frame Sensory Bag

40. Dot Sticker Sight Words

41. One More One Less with Dot Stickers

42. Post-it Memory Game

43. Mystery Math: A Crayon Resist Activity

44. Toilet Paper Roll Skip Counting

Sensory Activities for 5 Year olds

45. Cork Boat Sensory Bin – make boats out of corks, elastic bands, toothpicks and foam sheets for the sails. Fill a sensory bin with water and blue food colouring, fish, sharks and sea shells.

46. Ocean Sensory Bottles

47. Wash the Horses Sensory Bin – fill a sensory bin with water and bubble bath to make bubbles. Add horse toys, combs and wash clothes.

48. Cloud Dough Kitchen

49. Textured Playdough Activity

50. One- Step Slime Sensory Bin

51. Under The Sea Bath

52. Make Shaving Cream Worms – use shaving cream, colander and a large bowl to make shaving cream worms. Turn large bowl upside down, cover the top with shaving cream, press colander down on the shaving cream to let it squeeze through the holes of the colander.

53. Shaving Cream and Baby Doll Sensory Bin

54. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Sensory Bin

55. PAW Patrol Play Dough Tray

56. Colour Mixing Tea Party

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Educational activities and games online for children 5 years old from Kids Smart

Logic games and tasks online for a child of five years old

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tasks for children 5 years old

Attention and memory

Magic points

Miracle cubes

Find a pair

Memorize and guess

Mirror cubes

Find a fragment

Collect a photo

Fifteen

Collect a picture

collect the animal

Office arithmetic

Electronic hours

hours with arrows

Reading and diploma

alphabet

Choose the letter

Logic

and similarities

Find a shadow

Same objects

Learning to count up to 10

Composition of a number up to 10

Funny account

We count animals

Learning numbers from 0 to 9,0003

Consider items

Color figures

Color and black and white

We distinguish colors

Sorting by color

We study the figures

figures and figures and figures and figures and figures and figures and figures and figures and figures objects

Learning shapes

Comparison

Short or long

Small or large

Learning to count up to 20

of the order of about

Learn numbers from 10 to 20

Numerical row

We count animals

The composition of the number up to 20

Consider items

Wordsania

Letters at the end of

Letters at the beginning of

Find the word

word

Entertaining mathematics

Subtraction (up to 10)

Addition (up to 5)

Addition (up to 20)

Addition (up to 10)

Comparison of numbers (up to 20)

Comparison of numbers (up to 10)

Subtraction (up to 5)

Subtraction (up to 20)

English

Room

Animals

Toys

Pets

Alphabetical order

Musical Musical Music tools

Colors

Learning to count up to 100

Numbers in order

Learning numbers up to 100

Number series

Attention and memory

Magic points

Miracle rugs

Find a couple

Remember and guess

Mirror cubes

Find a fragment

Pick up

PEAD

Pick the animal

9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000

Clock with hands

Reading and writing

Alphabet

Pick a letter

Letters in order 9Ol000 numbers from 0 to 9

Counting objects

Color shapes

Color and black and white

Distinguishing colors

Color sorting

Studying colors

Figures

Figures and items

We study figures

Comparison

Short or long

Little or large

Learning to be considered up to 20,

by about

Learning from 10 to 20

Numerical series

Counting animals

Composition of numbers up to 20

Counting objects

Slovania

Letter at the end

Letter at the beginning

Find the word

Collect word

Entertaining mathematics

Subtraction (up to 10)

Add (up to 5)

Add (up to 20)

Add (up to 10)

Comparison of numbers (up to 20)

Number Comparison (up to 10)

Subtraction (up to 5)

Subtraction (up to 20)

English

Room

Animals

Make Word

Toys

Pets

Alphabetical order

Musical instruments

colors

Learning to count up to 100

on about

Learning to 100

number

Useful developing games for five years!
A five-year-old child shows more patience, attention and memory are strengthened, he has a developed fantasy and imagination. This section presents educational activities and games online for children aged 5 years , which cover a wide range of topics and subjects necessary for the development of children at the age of five. Logical tasks, studying time by the clock, learning the alphabet and counting, shapes and colors. Learning tasks located in this category help to expand vocabulary, learn to count and solve simple problems, train attention and logical thinking.

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Our system automatically adapts to each child and adjusts the level of difficulty of developmental and educational exercises for children aged 5 years. Training sessions are held in an understandable and playful educational form. Children gradually learn and consolidate knowledge, and the system gradually increases the complexity of the exercises. If the child does not cope with the current level of tasks, the platform will offer easier exercises.

Various tasks!
Educational online classes for children aged 5 broaden the child's horizons, are a convenient way for preschoolers to acquire the necessary skills, form the perception of the world around them and help prepare for school. The development of mathematical skills, memory, attention, creative thinking, the ability to analyze and make decisions - all this in one online platform Kids Smart.

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It is very important for a five-year-old child to develop his abilities, this will be useful both at school and in the future. Children at this age are open to new knowledge and curious. Training sessions with a five-year-old kid take about 12-15 minutes. Educational games can be divided into days of the week, for example, on Monday - mathematics, on Tuesday - the study of the alphabet, and on Wednesday - logic classes.

Also, a parent can create their own workout for a 5-year-old child, consisting of all subjects at once, as well as use the suggested workouts on the site. Do not forget that you need to practice systematically in order to achieve a result.

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Educational games for children aged 5, online learning sessions. Tasks for training logic, memory and attention for boys and girls 5 years old.

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Logic games

A 5-year-old why is interested in everything new, bright, interactive. We recommend exciting and useful games that will not only entertain the child, but also develop his logic. Choose any block to start.

Find the extra

Continue with pictures

put things in order

guess a riddle

Sets

Logic questions

Math Games

Entertaining tasks in pictures will help the child master the numbers, count within 10, form basic mathematical concepts. Each game develops 1-3 specific skills: navigate in the approximate number of objects and count them, master addition and subtraction, arrange in ascending and descending order and much more.

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Count the cubes

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Account from different sides

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Attention is an essential mental habit. Tasks, games and exercises from LogicLike help develop all the key properties of attention: volume, stability, concentration, selectivity, distribution and switchability.

Number Games

Shape games

Patterns in pictures

Say a word

At 5 years old, a child should not be required to concentrate.