16 ways to keep your child busy with only paper at home
Recreation / / December 29, 2020
1. Effects
A fun and simple storytelling game. Each person takes a piece of paper, writes one adjective on top. Then he folds the sheet so as to cover the word, and passes it to another player in a circle. On a new sheet you need to write a name. Then the actions are repeated.
The order further should be as follows:
- one more adjective;
- another name;
- scene;
- what the characters are doing;
- what the first said to the second;
- what the second answered;
- what happened after;
- what people thought.
Words can change, for example, instead of the names of people, you can write the names of animals. You can also add additional moves, for example, indicate what the person was wearing. Try to come up with funnier options to make the story as funny as possible.
2. Puppet show
To make dolls yourself, cut out the drawn figures or pictures from magazines and glue a thin (3-4 cm) strip of paper to their back. Glue or staple the ends of the strip. Now impromptu puppets can be put on a finger and played out with their help any funny scenes. And if you have a printer, you can print out.
You can also put on a real theatrical performance at home. To do this, you need to come up with a funny plot, draw or print masks of heroes (for example, fairy-tale characters or animals), put them on their faces and get used to the role.
3. Points and squares
She - sticks and chests. Ideally, you need a piece of paper to play. Draw a wide square - this is the playing field. Take two different colored markers or pencils. The first player draws a line two edges of the square anywhere inside the board. Then the other player must do the same.
If a checkered sheet is not at hand, use a regular one. Draw a playing field, and inside at the same distance - about 1 cm - place dots. The move will be the connection of two points with a horizontal or vertical line.
Your task is to paint over all or almost all of the edges of the cell with your own color: 3 or 4 edges - the square is yours, if 2 by 2 - it goes to the player who placed the final line. Within the filled square, write the letter of your name. Whoever has more squares wins.
4. Crossword
Crossword templates can be found on the Internet or you can compose yourself. To make it easier to come up with words, choose a theme, such as colors, space, or animals. You can use riddles as tasks.
You can use examples instead of verbal questions to help your child learn math. But the child will still need to enter the answers into the crossword in words. For example, 4 + 4 =? Answer: eight.
5. Crocodile on paper
The principle is the same as in the classic game: one participant explains the hidden word to the other. Only you need to draw it, not show it with gestures.
If you play with two or three, everyone comes up with words for themselves. If there are four or more of you, make up the words to each other in turn: whoever guesses, draws next.
6. Puzzle, or mosaic
If you have old junk magazines at home, you can cut a photo into pieces. If not, the picture can be printed: a regular photo, drawing or full Puzzlealready split into fragments. For convenience, before cutting, stick the puzzle on a piece of cardboard: this will make it easier for the parts to fit together.
You can send an image to print directly from your smartphone, tablet or laptop using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth - you just need to install the HP Smart app. HP Smart Tank printers are very fast. It takes just a minute for the printer to print a full stack of 11 black and white or 5 color pages.
You won't have to suffer with replacing cartridges. The printer has built-in ink tanks that can be easily refilled by yourself and without the slightest spills, using special bottles. And with an automatic sensor, you can keep an eye on ink levels so they don't run out at the worst possible time.
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7. Application
Old magazines, colored paper or printouts. But if there is nothing like that, a simple white sheet will do: you can cut out the necessary details, and then paint them with pencils or felt-tip pens.
You can come up with an idea for an application in advance or give the child complete freedom: let him dream up and glue some unusual animals, aliens or magical creatures from the details.
Application is an interesting entertainment not only for kids: older children can be offered to cut out different fragments of pictures and make collages from them.
8. Complete the drawing
Option for toddlers. Draw some figurine (pear, apple, whirligig) and color in half. Then ask your child to finish the drawing.
Option for older children. Draw something in the center of the paper, fold one of the halves in half so that one part of the drawing remains open and the other is covered with a blank sheet. Ask your child to finish the picture the way he wants.
9. Counting game
You will need a sheet of paper and bones. If the latter are not available, you can download the application to your smartphone.
The move begins with throwing the dice: the number on the first die is the number of cells horizontally (a), the number on the second die is vertical (b). Inside the resulting quadrilateral, you need to write its area: multiply a by b. Players need to draw squares with felt-tip pens or pencils of different colors. When the entire sheet is full, the game is over. Whoever has the sum of the numbers in the squares is greater, he won.
10. "I know…"
A game in which you need to find words in predefined categories for a hidden letter. Make a table, head the columns as you want: names, colors, cities, animals, plants, and so on.
Now name a letter and have your child come up with words in each category. Then switch roles. To make the game more fun, challenge each other. For example, think of six words in 2 minutes.
11. Doodling or coloring
Coloring book or doodle pattern can be printed. And for very young children, even draw some simple figures for coloring on their own, such as an apple or a hare.
12. Fortuneteller or fortune teller
Simple entertainment that will keep your child busy for a long time. To make a predictor:
- Take a square piece of paper.
- Fold it in half.
- Unfold the sheet and fold it in half in the other direction.
- Unfold the sheet again.
- Fold the corners towards the center - do not unfold them.
- Flip the sheet over and fold the corners back to the center.
- Fold the sheet in half again.
- Insert your fingers into the slots formed by the corners - you get a figure that looks like a four-leafed leaf.
- Color the four outer squares in different colors.
- Flip the fortune teller and write the numbers one through eight on the triangles.
- Open the valves and under each number write predictive options, such as “Yes,” “No,” “Ask later,” “Maybe,” and so on.
Return the fortune teller to the four leaf position and start playing. Ask a question, choose a color and a number. Now open the predictor in different directions, the number of movements depends on the conceived figure. When finished, stop and look at the corner with your color, remember the number. Uncover the fortuneteller and see what is written under it.
13. Gallows
The classic word guessing game. First of all, a "gallows" is drawn on the sheet: a large letter "G" with a short line sticking out from the center of the upper stick.
The presenter thinks of a word: a noun in the nominative singular, consisting of at least eight letters. He writes the first and last letters on the sheet, and replaces the missing ones with dashes.
The task of the other player is to guess what the word is, naming one letter at a time. If the letter is guessed, everything is fine, if not, a detail is added to the gallows: first, the circle - the head, and then five sticks - the body and limbs. That is, you can make a mistake only six times.
14. Pong hau ki
A traditional Chinese game for two people. In addition to a sheet of paper, you will need four more small items: buttons, magnets, earrings, rings - it doesn't matter. The main thing is that each player has two of them.
The first step is to prepare the playing field. To do this, draw a square without the top edge and connect the corners diagonally: you get two triangles intersecting in the middle. Place objects in the corners of the square: pieces of one player on top, pieces of another on the bottom. There will be a free point in the center. The player on top starts to walk first. He must move his piece to the center. The second player is now walking. The aim of the game is to move the pieces to fill the empty space. When one of the players has nowhere to move, he lost.
15. Origami
It is great to organize competitions with paper figures. For example, you can fold planes and launch them to check which one will fly next. Or make paper slides and check which one the small ball will roll off faster.
Or you can just create cool paper figures by templates. For example, a fox cub, a crane, a frog, or something else.
16. Maze
A game in which you need to take the character out of the trap, or, conversely, help him get to some goal. Very simple templates can be manually redrawn from the sample on the Internet. But doing this with labyrinths will not be easy.
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