Spelling games for kindergarten

Free Online Spelling Games for Kids

We have fun, free online spelling games for kids in addition to the practice and test sections of our website. These interactive spelling games can be played with our imported lists or play spelling games with your own words.

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Crazy Fish Game

Can you help Crazy Fish eat the correctly spelled words on surfboards? Test your spelling skills by making your own spelling lists or by using our spelling lists. If you have children who hate spelling, then this is the kind of spelling help you need. Enter easy words, hard to spell words, holiday lists or anything you like. Crazy Fish is just one of the many new spelling games for kids that we’ve recently developed. Use these fun word games for students to improve your child's spelling or even vocabulary.

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Spelling Memory Game

Memory Games are always a favorite, and this interactive spelling game will keep your children entertained. Your student will get to know and recognize their spelling lists through playing this memory game with their own spelling words from school or with our grade appropriate spelling lists developed by teachers. This is one of our many new great spelling word activities for kids.

King Cactus Game (Hangman Spelling Game)

Our fun King Cactus game is a hangman style game. The object of the game is to save the fish from getting caught by the fisherman! Select a letter that you think is in the word and if it is wrong, bits of a fish start to appear on the hook. If you can't guess the word, then the whole fish in on the line and you are caught and end up in the fisherman's bucket!

Mouse Maze Spelling Game

Use the mouse maze game to practice spelling. Help Herman the mouse navigate toward each cheese. Once Herman touches the cheese, your student will hear the spelling word and will be prompted to spell the word to continue. If there are a lot of words on the spelling list, you may find yourself helping Herman through multiple mazes until you've reached the end.

Word Scramble Game

If you're looking for fun spelling activities for kids then the Word Scramble Game was made for you! We take your spelling words and scramble them up and you have to guess the words by selecting letters. If the letter is right, it sticks, but if it is wrong, you have to keep trying. It's a unique way to practice spelling with an engaging spelling game.

Word Chopper Game

Chop Away at Your Spelling Lists until you get all the words right! Word Chopper is another great original interactive spelling game developed by Home Spelling Words. The object of the game is to spell the words correctly until you've spelled them all correctly. Essentially, you whittle away at your spelling list by spelling words right. This is a great way to practice for your weekly spelling tests as you are able to practice as much as you like, while playing a fun game. Spelling practice is never boring when you can play games to learn.

Word Search Game

Use the Word Search Maker to create a word search with your own spelling list. Every time you reset the game it mixes up the words and changes the Word Search so it is fresh and interactive. To play, highlight the words with your mouse and they get crossed off your list until you are done. To mix up the words and play again, simply click the play button.

Fill-in-the-Blank Game

Our Fill-in-the-Blank game is interactive and changes every time! It randomly selects letters to hide. This makes the game different every time you play, so your student can play over and over without getting bored. Just like the test or practice sections, this game checks for capitalization, apostrophes, and even spaces. It's a great way to learn while having fun. You can use your spelling lists from school or use ours. If you are looking for free online games for kids, all of our Fill-in-the-Blank games are completely free to use.

Spelling Soup Game / Word Catcher Game

The Spelling Soup game drops words from your spelling lists. Students must catch the correctly spelled words in the bowl to get points. This game changes every time you play and helps students learn to recognize correctly spelled words versus misspelled words.

Bink Bonk Game

Bink Bonk is a fantastic educational game. The player must use the paddle to hit the purple blocks and they will be prompted to spell one of their spelling words from their list until their entire list is completed.

9 Fun Spelling Games For Kids That You Can Do At Home

If you think all spelling games are rigid and boring, think again! At HOMER, we’re all about building confident learners ready for school and life, and we believe this can be done in fun and exciting ways!

From sneaky switching letters to jumping across letter lily pads, we’ve selected our favorite spelling games to share with you to make your child’s spelling journey an enjoyable one.

In this article, we’ll break down the importance of spelling in early learning, including the stages of spelling development.

We’ll also tell you about nine fun, simple spelling games that you can play at home with minimal equipment required. Let’s get started!

Why Is Spelling Important In Early Learning?

Spelling development is a critical skill in early learning for many reasons.

Spelling is a lifelong skill that your child will use every day, no matter the career they choose later in life, so it’s important that we build strong, confident spellers from early childhood.

As children learn to spell and write with higher accuracy, it makes their writing easier to read — not only for the adults and peers in their lives but also for themselves. This increases confidence in children as spellers and writers.

Additionally, strengthening your child’s spelling abilities assists in both reading and writing skill development.

Phonetically reading and spelling are connected in that reading involves blending sounds into words and spelling involves separating sounds to write a word.

Taking advantage of this skill reversibility is a plus for early readers and will help your child simultaneously build skills in reading and spelling.

The Stages Of Spelling Development

The five stages of spelling development are the precommunicative stage, the semiphonetic stage, the phonetic stage, the transitional stage, and the correct stage.

Here’s a closer look at each of these stages.

Precommunicative Stage

The precommunicative stage is the first phase of spelling development. If your child falls into this group, they don’t yet understand letter-sound correspondence, which is the relationship between written and spoken language.

Children in the precommunicative stage also haven’t yet grasped the difference between upper and lowercase letters, and they may not know the entire alphabet. But that doesn’t mean they’re not trying to learn those letters.

At this stage, children are usually scribbling. Sometimes those scribbles look very similar to our alphabet. Other times, not so much.

All this scribbling and letter learning helps prepare them for the next exciting stage!

Semiphonetic Stage

The big milestone of this stage is that a child begins to understand letter-sound correspondence.

Children arrive at this milestone by learning how to connect written letters to the sounds they make. For instance, for the letter “p,” they may say “puh” to indicate the sound it makes in words.

Another interesting element of this phase is that children may ignore vowels when spelling words. Instead of writing “because,” they may spell it as “bkz.” The child hears the /b/ and the /k/ but attributes the /k/ to K, not C, and the buzz sound for S, which is almost a Z sound.

While it can be tempting to try to correct your child, that shouldn’t be the focus at this stage. Instead, celebrate their progress because this phase won’t last long.

Phonetic Stage

You will notice further development of letter-sound correspondence at this stage. Your child will also show an improved understanding of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, such as pan, bit, dog, cat, etc.

Children at this spelling stage will begin to understand letter chunks. This is when we connect more than one letter to create a specific sound. For example, ch, sh, br, etc.

The phonetic stage is a major milestone in your child’s spelling development. They are on their way to understanding the basic spelling rules of the English language!

Transitional Stage

Children show an improved ability to handle decodable and non-decodable words at this stage.

Decodable words follow the regular spelling rules and patterns of the English language. Therefore, it’s easier to sound them out when spelling. Non-decodable words are different because they don’t follow the regular patterns of our language (done instead of dun, was instead of wus, give instead of giv, etc.).

As your child’s phonetic instincts improve, they’ll get better at spelling decodable words by sounding them out.

When your child doesn’t know a word, they may rely on their ability and understanding of the structure of words. But they may still incorrectly spell some words. For example, they might spell “egul” instead of “eagle.”

Since non-decodable words (i.e., sight words) don’t follow regular patterns, children may eventually learn them through memorization.

Correct Stage

When your child has reached this stage, they understand the basic spelling rules of the English language. This includes dealing with silent vowels and consonants, prefixes and suffixes, and alternative and irregular spellings.

Children can comfortably handle many words at this phase and may even notice their own spelling mistakes.

With these stages in mind, the games we’ve selected below are geared toward children in the semiphonetic, phonetic, and transitional stages.

This means we’ll be focusing on developing your child’s skills in using consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, sight words, phonetic spelling, and letter-sound correspondences.

Keep reading to find out how to play our favorite spelling games!

9 Fun Spelling Games You Can Do At Home

Kindergarten Spelling Games

Throughout kindergarten, your child will begin to learn CVC words that are phonetically regular, such as bed, kid, top, and bug.

When choosing spelling games for your child in this age group, it’s best to stick to activities that include these types of words to build confidence and enhance what they’re learning at school.

Try out our favorites below!

1) Letter Switch

For this exercise, you’ll need letters written on post-it notes, magnetic letters, or some letters cut out from a magazine — whatever is most easily accessible for you.

Starting with a CVC word such as “cat”, have your child change out the first letter to create a new word, such as “pat”. It’s best to start with first-letter changes, as most children will find this the easiest way to learn.

Once your child becomes more familiar and confident with CVC words, you can increase the level of difficulty by having them change the last letters of the word (changing “pat” to “pan”, for example) and then introduce changing vowels, so “pan” becomes “pin”.

Start with a small goal — five correct letter changes equals a win, for example.

Eventually, as your child becomes stronger with their letter changes, you can increase the number of correct changes needed to win the game.

2) Create-A-Word

Start by gathering the post-it notes, magnetic letters, or cut-out letters that you would have used in our first game.

Pick out three letters in no particular order that create a CVC word, and then have your child create a word using the letters you’ve chosen.

If your child is having trouble spelling a word using the letters given, try first putting the vowel in place. This way, your child only needs to fill in the beginning and ending consonants.

Ready to increase the difficulty level of this game? Try picking out six letters and have your child spell out two words!

3) Visualize The Word

As we help our children with their spelling, it’s essential to help them visualize the words so that spelling really comes alive for them. Fortunately, spelling activities can make learning to spell creative and fun!

For this activity, you’ll need a few magazines, a pair of child-safe scissors, a glue stick, craft paper, a marker, and some crayons.

Start by introducing your child to a CVC word, like pan. Then, hand them the magazines and ask them to find the letters p, a, and n (you may want to help them look for larger words in the headlines or titles so that they’re easier to glue).

After finding these letters, have your child cut them out and paste them onto their craft paper. Once they’ve completed this, have them search for images of pans to add to their masterpiece.

Creating this art piece can help children focus on each letter individually, and the visual representations of the word may also help them remember what the term actually means.

First Grade Spelling Games

As your first grader is learning to solidify CVC words and phonetically spell words with beginning and ending consonant blends, it’s important to find spelling games that help reinforce these lessons.

We’ve chosen our favorite games to help your first grader reinforce phonetically regular words and memorize crucial sight words that aren’t phonetically regular. Take a look below!

4) Letter Removal

Using magnetic letters or a chalkboard, select and spell out three words that your child is learning to spell.

Have your child close their eyes and take away one letter from each word. Scramble up the removed letters and once your child opens their eyes, have them remake each word.

Once they’re an expert, try taking away two letters from each word, then three, and so on. You could also add in time limits once your child is ready so they can try to beat their personal best!

5) Poster Words

Using the Dolch Word List or your child’s writing, select a word that your child is often misspelling or would like to learn to spell.

For more advanced spellers, try selecting a few words at a time to watch their progress bloom!

On a sheet of paper or cardboard (one per word), draw five large checkboxes at the top and write the word in large bubble letters in the middle to create a poster.

Next, spend some time decorating the letters with colorful markers, stickers, glitter — anything you want!

Once per day, have your child spell out their chosen word without looking at the poster. Each time they’re able to spell it correctly, they get to add a giant check mark to one of the five boxes.

After they’ve filled all five boxes, it’s time to create a new poster! You can even hole-punch each poster once it’s completed and store it in a loose-leaf binder, watching it get thicker and thicker as your child masters more words.

6) Unscramble The Word

For this fun game, all you need are fridge magnets or alphabet blocks.

Choose three words, and scramble their letters with the magnets or blocks. Then, have your child unscramble these words by placing the letters in the correct order.

For an increased challenge, ask them to complete this task within a certain time limit. You can even start with simple words and increase the difficulty as their spelling skills improve.

If you have multiple children, this can also be a great competitive game — the first player to unscramble all their words wins!

Second Grade Spelling Games

Your second grader now knows words with less frequent letter-sound correspondences, such as oy, oi, ou, and aw sounds. This means you can select a variety of age-appropriate words in the spelling games you play to help expand their vocabulary.

Three of our favorite spelling games for second graders are below!

7) Build A Spelling Snowman

This game is just like the traditional Hangman game, but more kid-friendly!

Start by choosing a word in your head, and on a whiteboard or piece of paper, draw the correct number of lines for each letter to be filled in as you play. For example, the word “fright” would have six blank spaces to be filled in with each correct guess.

Have your speller guess what letter might be in the word and fill in a blank with a letter on each correct guess. For each incorrect guess, gradually draw a snowman piece by piece until you run out of additions.

This could start with a large circle for the snowman’s body, a smaller circle for his midsection, and an even smaller circle for the head.

It’s up to you how generous you’d like to be as to how many extra parts the snowman has, but remember to draw in his sticks for arms and fingers, buttons, carrot nose, and of course, his smile!

This fun spelling game can also be played in reverse so that with each correct answer, you’re slowly building the snowman.

8) Leap Across The Spelling Lily Pads

Start this game by writing out each letter of the alphabet on separate pieces of paper to act as your lily pads.

Place the lily pads in any order on the floor and choose a word for your child to spell, saying it out loud. Start with shorter words, and then slowly build up to more complex words.

Once your child knows the word to spell, they can hop like a frog from one lily pad to another until the word is correctly spelled out.

You can add time limits or a points system

Start this game by writing out a select number of letters of the alphabet on separate pieces of paper to act as your lily pads.

Place the lily pads in any order on the floor and choose a word for your child to spell, saying it out loud. Start with shorter words, and then slowly build up to more complex words.

Once your child knows the word to spell, they can hop like a frog from one lily pad to another until the word is correctly spelled out.

You can add time limits or a points system if your child is more advanced, and keeping track of their achievements makes this game even more fun!

9) Spell And Toss

All you need to play this game is a ball that you can easily toss around (e.g., beach ball, tennis ball, etc.). If you’re playing inside, a balled-up sock might be better.

Start by having your family stand in a circle. Then, the first player has to call out a word and toss the ball to the next player, who needs to say the first letter of the word.

When that player is done, they will toss the ball to the next person, who needs to say the second letter, and so on. When a player gets a letter wrong, they can toss the ball to the next player, who will try a different letter.

The player to say the last correct letter gets to decide the next word to spell. As your child’s vocabulary and spelling skills improve, you can pick the pace up by requiring each player to name their letter within a certain time limit.

This is also a great way to practice for the spelling tests your child will likely have once they reach second grade.

Effective Strategies To Help Your Child Spell

In addition to playing spelling games, here are some tips to help your child improve their spelling.

Focus On Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is a person’s ability to identify and manipulate sounds, specifically phonemes.

A phoneme is the smallest possible unit of sound in a language. Every word in our language is made up of phonemes, and we blend them to help us form words.

For example, “dog” has the phonemes d/o/g. So, we blend these small sounds (i.e., phonemes) to pronounce the complete word.

Understandably, children who haven’t yet mastered this skill will have some trouble spelling accurately. That’s why helping your child with phonemic awareness is a great place to start.

If your child is struggling with some words, you can read them out loud slowly by focusing on each phoneme and then speed up to say the entire word. For example, c/a/t. Cat!

Practice With Rhyming Words

Rhymes are a critical component of phonological awareness. But they deserve their spot on our list because of how effective they can be in helping children with their spelling.

That’s because a child who knows how to spell the word ball will find it easy also to spell all, call, fall, hall, etc.

You can check out this blog for effective rhyming strategies you can use at home.

Allow For Phonetic Spelling

This tip is important, particularly for younger spellers. Allow your child to spell a word out according to what it sounds like to them.

You can achieve this by first encouraging them to say each letter as they spell. For example, /c/ /a/ /t/ for cat or /p/ /i/ /n/ for pin (later advancing to /s/ /p/ /i/ /n/ for spin).

Once they’ve spelled it out, review it together while focusing on each letter. You can then talk about which letters need to be changed for the word to be correct.

Practice The Chunks In Words

As highlighted above, when we talk about chunks, we’re referring to the grouping of more than one letter together to produce a specific sound. The English language has many, such as ple, br, ch, sh, all, as well as word families such as ish, ang, ack, etc.

Allow your child to practice writing words that have the same chunks (e.g., child, chair, chain, champ, etc.) so they can familiarize themselves with the word families — groups of words with a typical pattern or feature.

The next time your child encounters a word that begins with a “ch” sound, they’ll be better equipped to spell it correctly.

Make Regular Reading A Priority

This is one of our favorite tips!

Reading has many incredible benefits for children, such as cognitive and language development, improving listening skills, and developing a child’s imagination. So, make this a priority by having a variety of books that you can read together.

While reading, remember to emphasize words with specific patterns or rules. For example, if you come across the word ring, remind your young learner of the other words with an “ing” sound, like wing, sing, king, etc.

By doing this, you help your child recognize similar pronunciations and spellings more easily when they see them in the future.

Make Spelling Fun And Simple With HOMER!

With the spelling games above and some practice, your child can improve their spelling skills while having fun in the process!

One way to make spelling fun is to use our Explore Letters Kit. It is a perfect addition to your exploration of spelling, from CVC words for kindergarteners to more advanced spelling words to develop your second grader’s skills.

Packed with fun activities and expert tips and instructions, our Explore Letters Kit will take your child on a spelling journey like no other!

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Spelling games | Educational and methodological material on the Russian language on the topic:

SPELLING GAMES.

1.Check Dunno.

Dunno played with words, making one word out of two. Check if he

composed the words correctly?

Paul+Osa = stripes

Kol+Osa = colosses

OG+Wasp-fits

Tooth+I = teeth

oak+b+I = Dubya

2. Who quickly correct the errors. (Subject: Capital letter)

The cards have misspelled text.

Task: Find and correct all capitalization errors as quickly as possible.

3. Read the offer. (Topic: Case endings.)

Cards are made from an album sheet on which sentences are written, but instead of nouns, the corresponding figures are placed.

Assignment: while reading a sentence, students use pictures to name nouns in the appropriate case, choosing the correct ending.

4. "Choose three words" (The game is used to reinforce any topics in the Russian language)

Purpose: To follow the formation of spelling skills, taking into account the stage of work on spelling.

The choice of words depends on the topics studied or covered.

Nine words are written on 9 cards:

1st set: fish, blizzard, stocking, oak trees, jam, scarecrow, streams, plague, mushroom.

2nd set: entrance, warehouse, crow, hail, filming, treasure, gate, rise, sparrow.

Bread

CLU-KA

Kali-Ka

Bere-kiki

FILKI

Obl-ki

Pied KI

Marty-ka

Redi-ka

Du-ki

Lo-ki

Tetra-KA

CLA

0053

Tra-

Carko-Ka

Li-KI

Ostro-oki

Promotion-KA

Blue 9000 9000

Refined

Tasks:

Explain spellings by choosing test words.

6. Game "Ball"

Didactic task: Repeat the formulation of clarifying questions and case endings.

Game objective: Help the proposals get to the Ball.

Contents of the game:

Ball in the Grammar Kingdom today. There were many proposals for it. But the sentinel will not let them into the palace until each noun from those who have appeared has its conjugation indicated. Help the proposals get to the Ball. What questions does the clock noun ask?

Materials:

A table is drawn on the board, the halves of which are separated by a sentry. The proposal is analyzed by one student, tips from the class are accepted.

Cherry blossoms in May Mother gave her son a book Swallows return from Africa Hare feeds on tree bark Sister came to her brother Sasha wrote a letter Fox hid behind a bush, etc. H a s o v o y In (what?) May blooms (what?) bird cherry. etc.

7. Game "Find the ending"

Didactic task: Repeat the case endings of nouns.

Game task: Find the endings of some words in sayings.

Content of the game:

“The ending is a very changeable, moving part of a word. She can easily get lost. Find the lost endings for these proverbs.”

Materials:

Cards

Pick the berries... you will find the box.
Drop by drop... and the stone hammers.

Without a primer and grammar... Mathematics cannot be learned...

8. The game "Nicknames"

Purpose: formation of the process of inflection and word formation, consolidation of phonetic and grammatical analysis of words, spelling of proper names.

Move: Form animal names from the following words:

BALL, ARROW, EAGLE, RED, STAR

Make proposals.

BALL, ARROW, EAGLE, GINGER, STAR

Highlight the part of the word that you used when composing nicknames (suffix, ending).

9. Game "Team chain game"

Didactic task: Complete the appropriate nouns in the accusative case.

Game objective: Make the chain as long as possible.

Contents of the game and Materials:

Listening to music, mom...
I am writing a dictation, a letter,...
They are building a tower, a house,... etc.

10. The game "Hard - soft"

Purpose: to create conditions for repeating the spelling of hard and soft characters.

Students are divided into two teams. One team is called “Stone”, the other is called “Water”. The “Stone” team gets up if I read a word with a hard sign, if I read a word with a soft sign, the “Water” team gets up.

Words: congress, drive in, blizzard, pours, entrance, pour, announcement, stakes, runners, detour, ears of corn, drink, shooting, etc.

11.Game: Be careful.

Purpose: to activate memory, attention, vocabulary, based on knowledge of the rules.
Write out from the proposed poems with combinations of zhi, shi:
1. Siskins lived in a hut,
Mice, hedgehogs, swifts,
Walruses come to visit them
Both giraffes and snakes.
2. Vest, animal, belly,
Giraffes, painting, lives,
Briar, tires, reeds,
Cars and pencils,
Circle, serve, be friends and live,
Hurry, make laugh,
Hiss and sew.
All combinations of ZhI and SHI
Only with the letter I write!

12. Game: Slovoznaikin, give me an answer.

Purpose: to determine the level of development of children, to develop memory, thinking, speech.
Children are invited for a certain time to remember and write down as many proverbs and sayings, riddles and quatrains as possible, in which words and a given rule are found - "Spelling of words with combinations of zhi, shi." For example:
Proverbs and sayings:
Life is given for good deeds.
You can't hide an awl in a bag.
If you hurry, you will make people laugh.
To live life is not a field to cross.
Friendship is like glass, if you break it, you won't stick it together.
Riddles:
Two birch horses
They carry me through the forest.
These red horses,
And their name is ... (skis).

He is tall and spotted

With a long, long neck,

And he eats leaves,

Leaves of trees (giraffe)
Quatrain:
She sewed a fur coat - she sewed a skirt,
She sewed a hat - she sewed a slipper!
Good seamstress Natasha!

13. Game: Change the letter.

Purpose: to intensify the mental activity of students, develop spelling and phonetic vigilance, attentiveness, logical thinking.
Children are offered the original word with a spelling, they change either one or two sounds in it sequentially, while maintaining the combination -chk-, and receive new words. The one with the most words wins.

daughter pen
barrel river
night candle
bump stove
point kidney
cloud daughter
wheelbarrow night

14. Game: Name one object.

Purpose: to develop methods for checking unstressed vowels.
The teacher says a word denoting many identical objects, and the students name one such object and explain what vowel should be written in the root of the word. For a correct answer, the row receives a point. The winner is determined by the number of points.
Sample material: words: doctors, eyes, rooks, gardens, basins, balls, sides, rains, yards, moles, seas, knives, fruits, fields, horns, etc.

15. Game: Capital letter.
Purpose: to reinforce the rule of capitalization in words.
Equipment: each student has a set of signal cards.
The teacher invites the class to listen carefully to the poem. Then the students mark with signal cards, all the rules for writing a capital letter, which are mentioned in the poem. Next, you need to protect each of your answers, that is, explain which rule is fixed. The winner is the one who manages to protect all signal cards.

An ordinary letter has suddenly grown, The letter
Has grown above the letters - girlfriends At the line at the beginning,
They look with respect So that we notice the beginning.
In the letter of a friend, First name, last name
But why? Are written with her,
For what merits? To be more noticeable and more visible,
To sound loud and proud
The letter did not want to grow by itself, Your name
The letter is entrusted with an important task: The name of the street, city.
Put in the word Large letter -
Not in vain and not easy Not at all empty,
The letter is so tall.

In a big letter -
Respect sign. (S. Izmailov)

16. Game: Half a minute for a joke.

Purpose: to fix the spelling of the capital letter in animal names.
Equipment: the board contains the names of those animals that are found in Yu. Chernykh's poem: a dog, a chicken, a cow, a cat, a horse.
The teacher asks the children to listen carefully to the poem and say what is wrong with it. The correct answer is rewarded with a game token. Some children add nicknames to the names of animals on the board, while the rest do this work in a notebook.
Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman
With a little granddaughter.
They called their red cat
Zhuchka,
And they called Crested
They called the foal,
And they also had
Burenka hen,
Murka dog,
And two more goats -
Sivka and Burka.

17. Didactic game "Be careful."
Purpose: to activate memory, attention, vocabulary, based on knowledge of the rules.
From the proposed poems write out words with combinations of zhi, shi:
1. They lived in a hut of siskins,
Mice, hedgehogs, swifts,
Walruses come to visit them
And giraffes and snakes.
2. Vest, animal, belly,
Giraffes, painting, lives,
Briar, tires, reeds,
Cars and pencils,
Circle, serve, make friends and live,
Hurry, make laugh,
Hiss and sew.
All combinations of ZhI and SHI
Only with the letter I write!

Creative games for children - Kindergarten No. 46

Creative games are created by the children themselves. The themes of these games are varied. Children depict the life of the family, the construction of new houses, our holidays. In these games, most often their attention is attracted by the relationship between people - the cares of the mother, the affectionate treatment of the grandmother and other family members, the behavior of children. Here are two girls playing mother-daughter. One of them treats her "daughter" affectionately, attentively, patiently. Another "mother" shows excessive severity to the "daughter": she strictly reprimands for disobedience, often punishes. It is clear that the behavior of these two girls in the game is inspired by different impressions, which, like in a mirror, reflect the relationship between parents and children in one and the other family. Often, by the games of children, one can judge the relationship not only of children and parents, but also of other family members: grandmothers, grandfathers, etc. A large place in creative games is occupied by the display of the work of adults: children play a train, a steamboat, and with great love depict brave warriors. However, parents should always remember that without getting to know the environment, without reading books, stories, fairy tales, poems accessible to children, without attention and care for the correct and reasonable development of children, their games will be poor in content.

Such games cannot advance the physical, moral and mental development of the child. Borrowing the content of games from the surrounding reality, children, however, do not mechanically copy this life, but process the impressions of life in their minds, reveal their character in games, reveal their attitude to the depicted. Family, kindergarten show children an example of love for work, for their city. Friendly relations with each other. All these qualities are manifested in the games of children. For children, games occupy the largest place. Thematic games, in most cases, are prompted by the available toys, which are the primary organizing principle in children's games. Children quickly move from one role to another. Parents should take care not so much of buying as many toys as possible, but of carefully selecting them so that they are accessible, bright, capable of inducing the child to useful play. To give a child the right toy in time means to support and enliven his game. Already at a young age, children love simple fairy tales, accompanied by action.

Katya's grandmother used to play a lot with her four-year-old granddaughter. Their favorite game was called "Turnip". “Grandma planted a turnip,” grandmother began thoughtfully, and said: “Grow, grow, turnip, sweet, strong, big, big.” A large, sweet, strong, round, yellow turnip has grown. The grandmother went to tear the turnip: she pulls, she pulls, she can’t pull it out ... (Here the grandmother showed how she pulls a stubborn turnip.) The grandmother called her granddaughter Katya (Here Katya grabbed her grandmother’s skirt): Katya for the grandmother, the grandmother for the turnip - pull, pull, can't pull out. Katya called her brother, and he was just waiting for that to cling to Katya. Brother for Katya, Katya for grandmother, grandmother for turnip - pull, pull ... pulled the turnip. And then an apple, or a pie, or a real turnip appeared in the grandmother’s hands. The guys with a squeal and delight hung on their grandmother. And she gave them gifts. The children liked this dramatization fairy tale so much that, as soon as they crossed grandmother's threshold, Katya asked: “Grandma, grandmother, let's pull a turnip!”

Children show great interest in building materials. Sometimes during the game the child needs to build a ship or a car. Parents help the child to realize his plans and show how to build. The use of building material in games develops the child's imagination, as this material can be used in a variety of ways. Children build all kinds of buildings, often this is done in connection with the intended game: a house for dolls, a crib; to the pilot - an airplane, etc.

In children 4-5 years old, the content of creative games is enriched under the influence of education, in connection with the growth of their independence and the expansion of the range of ideas. They are no longer satisfied with the depiction of individual episodes, but come up with different plots. If earlier, for example, a train was depicted with movements and sounds reminiscent of the horns and noise of a steam locomotive, now the roles of a driver, a conductor appear, and the train does not just go, but carries passengers and goods. Children of five years old know how to make the necessary building, they find a variety of uses for toys. Their speech is so developed that they can depict various scenes, speaking for the characters. They easily turn into a father and mother, a passenger and a driver.

The child uses toys and various objects to fulfill the assumed role, which contribute to the creation of images. Plot toys (doll, bear, horse, car, etc.) push the child to certain games. For example: you can ride a horse, carry loads, water it. In a dish - cook dinner or treat a doll with tea from it, etc. As for objects and materials, children use them in games in different ways. Cubes and bricks - depict bread, cake or a table, chair. Adults should be attentive to the conceived game plan of the child and not destroy his game just because it seems funny to them that a twig in a game can also be a horse. In creative games, children not only reflect the accumulated experience, but also deepen their ideas about the events depicted, about life. A child, like adults, learns the world in the process of activity. In specific actions related to the fulfillment of the role, the child pays attention to many aspects of life that he would not have noticed without play.