Child’s play is about much more than entertainment, playing is learning. It serves a pivotal role in both physical and psychological development. When it comes time to prepare your youngster for primary school, families can incorporate fun games to aid in the transition. Check out the following pastime activities to help get your child kindergarten ready.

  • Kid’s Card Games: Tried and true classics like Go Fish or Memory help kids develop hand and eye skills and gain motor control.
  • Legos & Blocks: Building and creating with blocks and Legos strengthen hand muscles and helps children learn colors and letters.
  • Read Stories: Those early story times set the foundation for beginning reading. Read to your child and allow the little one to tell you a tale or two, even if he or she cannot yet read. Ask your child to a specific question about the story.
  • Sing Nursery Rhymes: This activity helps kids make predictions about the story. It also helps them develop writing skills. They grasp an understanding of words with like sounds and similar letter. Besides, rhyming is just fun!
  • Play-Dough: Make homemade dough or putty and build an assortment of animals to create your own zoo. Play-dough is a great tool for strengthening little hand muscles. It helps develop the gripping skills needed to hold and operate a writing utensil.
  • Build a Parkour: Build a training course, climb stairs, go through hoops, balance on a beam. By achieving these tasks your child will build equilibrium and positive self-esteem.
  • Draw Me… A Penguin: Let your child select the drawing tool and create on any surface. This can involve anything, including a sponge and a wall, or chalk and a sidewalk. The higher the canvas the tougher the workout when those upper arm muscles must get the job done.
  • Bake Cookies or Cook a Pie with them: It takes motor skills to mix ingredients together and open containers. Baking also encourages independent thinking and teaches lessons on chemistry and division.
  • Dress Up: Put together a costume gala to encourage kids to put together outfits, dress themselves and encourage independence.
  • Puzzles: Matching and grouping develop both problem-solving and foundational number skills.
  • Play Dice and Counters: These games develop reasoning and numeracy skills, it also helps young children to learn patients while waiting for their turn.
  • Ball Games: Sports play is great for developing hand-eye coordination and gross motricity skills. It is important the kid understand, they don’t have to win every game. They must learn to roll with the punches and be resilient.

If parents use casual teaching methods your child will pick up important skills without even knowing there was a lesson being taught. Play-based learning is fun and will help give kids the tools they need to transition to primary school.

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