Ravina Sewani

Things you will need: small ball which a child can carry, plastic bottles or cups as pins How to:<ol><li>You will have to create enough space before planning out this game.</li><li>Lay down the bottles or the cups at one end.</li><li>From the opposite end, ask your child to roll the ball towards the bottles.</li><li>Encourage your child to hit the bottles in such a way that all of them fall.</li><li>This game can also be played in teams if there are more number of children.</li><li>You can also buy the indoor bowling set from the market. Keep a track of points the children score after their turn. At the end of the game, the child with maximum score wins the game.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:This game will improve your child’s motor and coordination skills.

Indoor bowling

Things you will need: cello-tape How to:Using a tape, tape down any length of the line on the floor of your house. Then ask your child to only walk on the line heel-to-toe from start to end. Variations:As your child gets older, you can make the lines difficult by taping down spirals or zig-zag lines or lines at angles. You can also increase the difficulty by creating shapes and linking the shapes together. You can set a timer and ask 4-5 kids to compete. You can also ask your child to walk on the line backwards. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will improve your child’s body coordination and body balancing.

Balance the beam

Things you will need: inflated balloons, a room to fit around 10-15 children This is a group activity. How to:<ul><li>Make each child write their name on an inflated balloon.</li><li>Toss these balloons into the middle of the room.</li><li>Set the timer for 30 seconds and instruct the kids to stomp and pop as many balloons as they can.</li><li>When the time is up, the players whose named balloons are popped, are out. The players whose named balloons are as such, play the game again for another 20 seconds.</li><li>Keep playing for short intervals until only one balloon remains.</li><li>The player whose name is on the last balloon is the winner.</li></ul> Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will improve your child's logical and coordination skills.

Balloon Name Pops

You will need nothing for this game. How to:This is a group activity. Instruct the children that any time the leader (an adult) announces, “The floor is lava!", no one can touch/walk on it. The players have to get where they are going by stepping on furniture and anything they can toss on the floor but cannot walk on the floor whatsoever. After a few seconds or minutes the leader can declare the floor safe so that the children can walk normally for a while. And you can declare the floor as lava again as many times as you want.The child to walk on the floor after the floor is declared as lava gets eliminated from the game. To level up the game, you can set up a path to reach up to a certain reward. The child to reach the reward first, wins the game. You can also use mat, cushions, planks (anything that is safe and appropriate according to the age of children) on which children can walk when the floor is declared lava.&nbsp; Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will enhance your child's alertness and coordination.

The Floor is Lava

Things you will need:Baking soda, vinegar, 2 droppers, baking sheet or a shallow container which will not get damaged due to baking soda and vinegar, food colouring or watercolours. How to:Make sure that all the steps are carried out by your children. You can keep an eye on them for protection.<ol><li>Spread sufficient amount of baking soda in the baking sheet in a way that the entire sheet is covered with baking soda.</li><li>Take a dropper and place several drops of different water colours on baking soda.</li><li>Now, with the help of another dropper, add a drop of vinegar on top of the water colour drops.</li><li>Observe the colourful eruptions.</li><li>Keep adding more drops of colour and more vinegar. By doing so, the colours will mix and form secondary colours.</li></ol> Why is there an eruption of colour drop?When vinegar and baking soda react, carbon dioxide gas is released. This gas makes the coloured drop rise up like an eruption. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity imparts knowledge of colour mixing and chemical reactions.

Fizzing Colours

Ali Momin

Things you will need: Nothing How to:This activity can be done in groups, pairs, or just by a single child. <ol><li>If it is groups or pairs, ask the children to stand in a circle or facing each other. Start the timer and ask them to stand on one leg. The child who stands on one leg the longest, wins the game. You can also do 'best of the three' to make it a fair game. Moreover, if your child does not have a sibling and his/her friends can't come over, you can do this activity with your child.</li><li>If it is only a single child doing this activity, make him/her stand on one leg against the timer. Every time push your child to stand longer than previous round.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will improve your child's concentration and body balance.

Stand on one leg!

You will need nothing for this activity. How to:This is a group activity and needs about a minimum of 6 children to play it. Choose a kid to be the Goose. Make the rest of the kids sit in a circle. The Goose then shall walk around the circle, tapping each kid on the head and calling, “Duck, duck, duck, duck…” Eventually, the Goose calls “Goose!” when tapping a child. The child on whose head "Goose" is called should be aware enough and at once stand from his/her place. The old Goose has to then run around the circle and try to sit in the vacant spot before the new Goose can catch them. There can be two outcomes:<ol><li>The old Goose sits down in the new Goose’s spot without being caught by the new Goose. A new round of the game begins.</li><li>The old Goose gets caught before (s)he gets to sit down in the vacant spot and hence remains the Goose for the next round.</li></ol> When does this end? Who knows? Children can play this game for as long as they want! Happy Running Around!

Significance:This activity will enhance your child's alertness about his/her surroundings and people.

Duck, Duck, Goose

Palak Vyas

Things you will need: a long piece of string How to:The kids are made to stand in a circle around a long piece of string tied at the ends to form a circle. Then they are asked to create shapes with the string – square, triangle, figure 8, rectangle and many more.To increase the difficulty level, the kids can be blindfolded or can be asked to make difficult shapes. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This is a very fun and challenging game that enhances a lot of communication and coordination among the kids.

Talking in circles

How to:You will have to cut three small circles or squares from a cardboard. Colour them green, yellow, and red. Attach these circles/squares on a stick with glue. Gather around 5 kids for this game. Explain the children that green means go, yellow means slow down and red means stop. Make the child stand in a horizontal line. You can stand 20-50 metres away from them. You can then show up whichever colour you want and the kids have to follow the signs. The one who fails to follow, gets out of the game. You can play this game in a park or at your home! Fun fact:You can increase the difficulty by setting timer for each colour just like actual traffic signals. You can also gather more children to depict heavy traffic on roads. You can also draw a thick line which can be used as a zebra crossing. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will enhance your child’s concentration and will also train them about traffic lights.

coordination skill activities

Activities are an interesting way to teach important life skills to children. Here are a few suggestions for you.