Ravina Sewani

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:2 big containers, soap, mud, sand, soil, water, brushes, sponges. 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>Take a container to create mud pit by adding soil, sand and water.</li><li>Take another container to create soap water.</li><li>Place the containers at quite a distance. Connect these containers via a track on which cars can go on.</li><li>Dirty the cars in the mud pit. Send the cars to the soapy water container via a track.</li><li>Clean the cars with sponges and tooth brushes.</li><li>Then clean the cars with clean water and set them to dry.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will help kids appreciate our community helpers. This activity enhances gross and fine motor skills of kids.

Muddy car wash

Things you will need: inflated water balloons, small kids pool This is a group activity and needs to be done outdoors to not make a mess inside the house. How to:<ul><li>Put water balloons into a small kids pool and instruct the children to sit down and attempt to break the balloons.</li><li>The one who pops the most balloons in the shortest amount of time wins this game.</li><li>After each child takes a turn, empty the water from the pool and refill with the same number of water-inflated balloons.</li></ul> Happy Gaming!

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

Water Balloon Sit and Pop

Things you will need:Salt, water, white glue, watercolours, ice tray, pencil, dropper or paint brush, cardboard. 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>Write different words on the cardboard – name of the child, city you live, or you can write numbers or letters too.&nbsp;</li><li>Trace the words with glue.</li><li>Sprinkle sufficient amount of salt over glue.</li><li>Drop watercolours on these traced letters using droppers.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will improve your child’s motor skills, co-ordination skills, letter and colour recognition skills.

Salt, Glue, Watercolour art

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!

How to:Using pillows and cushions design an obstacle course in your house. From the start line ask your child(ren) to go through the obstacle course to reach the finish line. You can also make 2 or more children compete against each other. The child to finish the course the fastest, wins the game. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This game will tremendously improve your child’s motor skills and body balance.

Pillow obstacle course

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

Thing you will need:Large transparent container, toy dinosaurs, water, shells, stones, bowl of hot water, salt, tweezers or something similar which is heavy and can break the ice, blue food colouring (preferably powdered colour)Activity should be done with a group of 5-10 kids. 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>Fill about 1/3rd of the container with water and freeze it.</li><li>Place a few toys, stones and shells.</li><li>Pour another layer of water above these toys and freeze it again.</li><li>Place remaining toys, stones and shells.</li><li>Pour the last layer of water and freeze it again.</li><li>Place the ice block you prepared out in the open or on a table.</li><li>Mix salt and the blue food colour in sufficient quantity. Sprinkle this mixture on your ice block. You will see that the ice block is starting to melt.</li><li>Pour the hot water over your ice block so that the ice block melts faster.</li><li>Using tweezers break the ice so that you can recover your dinosaur toys, stones and shells.</li><li>Repeat the steps. Add more salt, more hot water, break the ice with tweezers.</li><li>This activity will definitely keep children busy for a good 2 hours. Let them discover how they can recover the toys faster.</li></ol> Note:Carry out this activity in your backyard or veranda so that your house does not get messy. Why does the ice melt by adding salt?Salt helps in melting the ice faster because salt decreases the melting point of ice. The kids also have fun as they see a blue stream of water running down. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity helps children bond well and develop their co-ordination of fine motor skills.

Dinosaur Dig

Things you will need: boxes of different sizes but more or less of the same shape How to:Give them boxes of different sizes and ask them to stack as many as they can without letting the boxes topple down. Instead of boxes, you can give them anything. The only thing to remember is that all the things should be more or less similar yet be difficult enough to stack up on each other. Let them figure out why their stacked tower is falling. They will gradually be able to stack more things and make a bigger tower of things. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This game will help improve your child’s motor skills and logical thinking skills.

coordination skill activities

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