How To Keep Your Child Busy In The Fall?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The blissful summer inactivity ends in autumn. The time has come for the collection and processing of fruits, seasonal gardening and gardening work. If a child is with you at the dacha, then there is little time left for classes with him due to household chores. His independent fun in the sandpit, the pool is a thing of the past - the weather sets you up for other games and activities. Unfortunately, many parents do not know what to do with their child during this period of the year. Working together is the ideal solution

Harvesting

From the age of three, the child can be involved in some simple gardening work. In a playful way, it is interesting to collect fruits and fallen leaves. At this age, the baby strives to be like an adult, so he is happy to clean up the flower bed with you, collect seeds, etc. Try to motivate your first child, give him the opportunity to plant tulip bulbs or garlic cloves on his own. If you cover the beds with dry foliage for the winter, entrust the child to do this, you will see how much pleasure he will get from this activity. Such methods help to acquire certain skills, to foster a desire to work.

To pick pears and apples, you need to have a baby bucket or a small basket. It is good to combine such an event with simple arithmetic operations. From four to five years old, easy tasks are available that stimulate the mental activity of the baby. For example, counting the number of fruits, summing up, comparing values. Simple tasks are solved: how to do it equally, who has more, how much less.

Planting trees and perennials

At five or six years old, the child will cope with more complex assignments: joint planting of shrubs, perennials, warming tree trunks, picking cabbage, carrots and potatoes. It is important to have the right equipment and baby gloves. Believe me, the planted tree will be the pride of the child.

Camping in the woods

On fine days, you can play tourists and go on a mini-hike with picnic provisions. Such an event goes well with an educational excursion to the anthill, collecting acorns, cones, chestnuts, twigs. All this is useful for crafts. Having shown imagination, in conjunction with cardboard, paper, plasticine, fairy-tale characters, animal figures, panels and models will be obtained. Such activities will help broaden your horizons, improve knowledge about the world around you, and foster love for nature.

It is interesting to have fun in finding the "treasure" that you have prepared in advance. A six-year-old child can look for him even on the territory of the dacha according to a drawn scheme or a route sheet (a kind of quest game). It is important to draw arrows, select the beginning of movement, draw objects of buildings, paths, trees, bushes and indicate the end point of the search. If there is a magnifying glass in the house, then let the child examine blades of grass, flowers, stones. Any ordinary object in an enlarged form looks different and arouses interest.

Educational and entertaining games

For entertaining fun, flying a kite is suitable. Make a paper airplane and compete, whose farther will fly away, or more precisely, will land at the desired point. The presence of a radio-controlled car makes it possible to play independently. Help me think over a track with obstacles, arrange a gate, a garage. Short daylight hours can be rationally used for an evening walk with a flashlight.

Frequent rains moisten the soil well - this is an excellent condition for drawings on sand, ground. Play the artist. Any pointed stick or twig will help to make interesting drawings and patterns. Do not forget to praise the creative impulses and efforts of the child. The competition for the best drawing is taking place in an interesting way. In inclement weather, the child will be happy to draw his favorite flower on paper. Make a simple fruit still life, help compose the image.

Herbarium collection

Use walks to collect beautiful autumn leaves, which are sufficient during the leaf fall. Offer to make a herbarium. Explain how to properly dry the leaves and arrange them nicely in the album. Such activities contribute to familiarization with the native nature. The child learns the names of trees, shrubs, learns to distinguish them, answers the question: "Whose leaf is this?" Autumn colors of foliage help to consolidate the names of the main colors and shades.

Autumn is a good time for learning, physical labor, knowledge of the surrounding nature, mental, aesthetic development. This period provides great opportunities for organizing joint work, active recreation with children in the country. It is important not to overload and give them feasible tasks, to interest them. Indeed, only in this case, any business will bring joy to you and your child, help physical, moral and mental development.