Ravina Sewani

How to:2 or more children can play this game. This activity requires nothing. Begin the game by saying out loud a word starting with letter “A”. Your child will then have to say a word that starts with letter “B”. When it is your turn again, you will say a word that starts with letter “C” and so on. This can be played in groups; gather your child's friends and they can have fun for hours. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will improve your child’s focusing skills and vocabulary.

ABCD

Things you will need: paper and pencil How to:You will have to write these words down on a piece of paper for your child to do this activity. Ask your child to unscramble these words of emotions: <ol><li>PHAYP</li><li>DAM</li><li>ASD</li><li>GYRNA</li><li>YOJ</li><li>EARF</li><li>PRISURES</li><li>YHS</li><li>DESUFNOC</li><li>VELO</li></ol> Note: Emotions help children to express themselves better. While they are unscrambling the words, you can also ask them to make those expressions so they will have fun doing this activity. You can think of more such words depending on your child's vocabulary. Happy Gaming!

This activity will enhance your child's thinking ability.

Unscramble the words - Emotions

Things you will need: paper and pencil How to:You will have to write these words down on a piece of paper for your child to do this activity. Here is the list to get you started with the activity: <ol><li>Can you unscramble this word to the name of a pet animal? - OGD</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the name of the king of the jungle? - OILN</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal who lives in water? - SHIF</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that likes to drink milk? - ATC&nbsp;</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that jumps on trees? - KNOMEY</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that likes to eat carrot? - ABITRB</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that gives us milk? - WCO</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that is seen in rainy season? - RFOG</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that&nbsp;has big horns? - REED</li><li>Can you unscramble this word to the animal that has big ears? - ETLNEHPA</li></ol> You can think of more such words depending on your child's vocabulary. Happy Gaming!

Unscramble the words - Animal

How to:If your house is spacious enough, you can try this very fun activity indoors only. Tape down a maze on the floor for your child. The difficulty of the maze will depend on the age of your child. Ask your child to find the way to the end from the starting point.You can make this interesting for your child by placing his/her favourite food item/toy at the end point. When they successfully get to the end through the maze, they get their food/toy as a reward. You can make this activity more challenging by setting up a timer. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will improve the cognitive skills of your child.

Tape Maze

How to:Gather at least 7-8 children in a park/in a big enough room in the house. Make the kids stand in a circle. Blow up a big balloon. The kids have to push/kick balloon in such a way that it does not touch the ground. They have to keep the balloon in the air for as long as possible. The kid’s who fails to do so, gets out. The game continues until there is one winner. One of the kids from the circle can start by hitting the balloon up. As soon as the first kid hits the balloon, (s)he has to call out a name and that kid will then take the game forward. Every kid who hits the balloon has to call out the next kid’s name so as keep the balloon up in the air.Observe children going crazy watching each other try hard to keep the balloon up in the air. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity comes with all the fun and laughter.

Keep the balloon up

Things you will need: drawing papers, pencils, erasers, and crayonsHow to:Gather a group of 8-10 kids. Team them up in pairs. Provide them with the activity essentials. Give them around 20-30 minutes to draw anything they want and 10 minutes to colour their drawings. You can also carry out this activity between siblings or just 2 children.Call all the pairs one by one to the centre and ask them to exchange their drawings. Each child of the pair has to list out all the things (s)he liked about the other’s drawing. The other kid of the pair has to do the same. All the pairs should do this exercise after finishing their drawings. Lesson from this activity:At the end of this activity, explain to the children that it is always important to see the good in every person in their life. No matter the situations or circumstances or how hard it gets, if we look deep enough, good can always be found inside every person. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will help your child to develop respect others and see the good in them.

What I like about your picture?

Things you will need: 2 tubs (small broad tubs or containers in which things can be dunked), things to dunk (balls, small toys, soft toys, small boxes, erasers, books, etc) which are safe for children How to:<ol><li>Gather a group of around 8-10 children. Divide them into 2 groups. You can plan this game in the playground or in your backyard.</li><li>At the starting line, make the children stand and give them the things to be dunked in the tubs placed at the finishing line.</li><li>Instruct the children that they have to pick one thing at a time from their stock of things and go and place it in their tub at the finish line.</li><li>Make it clear that they have to place things in their tub only and not in other group’s tub.</li><li>Start the timer and ask the kids to compete against each other.</li><li>Stop the timer after a minute or so and count the things in each tub. The group with the maximum number of things in the their tub, wins the game.</li></ol> Note: Ask the group to think and come up with a solution where they can dunk the things more effectively and quickly. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This game will teach your child how to work as a team in a group and also enhance their communication and social skills.

Dunk It

Things you will need: balloons, marker How to:This is a group activity. So, more the children, greater the fun. <ol><li>Divide all the children into two teams equally.</li><li>Make two sets, each of six balloons.</li><li>On these balloons, write the letters to spell out the word W-I-N-N-E-R.</li><li>Scatter the balloons in your backyard or in your house. If you do it inside the house, make sure to remove any furniture that might hurt the children.</li><li>Instruct the children to race and find the letters that spell the word WINNER.</li><li>The first team to collect and arrange their balloons to spell “winner” wins the game.</li></ol> Note: You can spell any word that you want. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will teach your child teamwork and communication among the team.

Balloon Word Search

Things you will need:Plastic/polythene bag, Sharpened pencils. 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 gallon size storage bag and fill about half of it with water.</li><li>Take a few pencils and sharpen them.</li><li>Poke these pencils one by one straight through the bag – in from one side and out from the other side.</li><li>Observe what happens!</li></ol> Why does the water not leak out from the bag?The poly bag is made of molecules which are able to seal themselves around the pencils and prevent the water from leaking. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This fun activity teaches basic concepts of science.

mathematics activities

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