New Year's competitions for preschool children

New Year's competitions for preschool children

What are the Christmas trees?

Leading (it can be dressed in the costume of Santa Claus or Snow Maiden) says:

- For New Year we decorated the Christmas tree with beautiful toys and garlands. And where do the Christmas trees grow? That's right, in the forest. Christmas trees in the forest are different - thin and wide, low and high.

The presenter explains the rules of the contest:

- Stand in a circle and join hands. I will tell you what are the Christmas trees. If I say "high", you should raise your hands up. If "low" - sit down and lower your hands. If "wide", then you need to make circles wider. And if I say "thin", you should make a circle already. Is everyone clear? One, two, three, started!

The leader gives the team, gradually speeding up the pace and trying to confuse the players. The background for the competitions can include quiet, but rhythmic music.

Catch the Snowball

For this competition you need to divide the children into pairs. One player from each pair should be given a large empty package, which he must keep open. The second player gets a few snowballs made from paper. Players become opposite each other (the distance must be the same for all pairs). At the signal of the host, players who were given paper snowballs begin to throw them into the partner's package, the task of which is to catch as many snowballs as possible. The winner is the couple, who for the given time caught the largest number of snowballs.

If there are a lot of players, you can divide the pairs into two teams. Then the team wins, in which the total amount of snowballs caught by all the pairs turned out to be the largest.

Fox and rattles

The presenter puts on a fox suit. Each of the players is given a rattle. Turns on a merry rhythmic music and children scatter in all directions from the fox. When the music is turned off, they must quickly hide the rattle behind the back. The fox begins to look for rattles. She takes turns in approaching the players and asks to show her first one hand and then the other. Children need to shift the rattle behind her back from one hand to the other so that she does not make a noise, and Fox is convinced that the player has no rattles. If he did not manage to make it noiselessly - he is out of the competition. The game continues until there are one or more players left who never gave Lisa a rattle.

Instead of Fox can be any other New Year's character. This game is best done in a spacious room or with a small number of players.

Santa Claus is coming

This game is not only fun - it also helps children to develop memory. First you need to learn with them a simple quatrain:

There goes, Santa Claus is coming to us,

Santa Claus is coming to us.

And we know that Santa Claus

Gifts brings to us.

First you need to repeat it several times with his chorusall together, so that all children remember the text well, and then you can start playing. Some words from the rhyme are alternately replaced by gestures and movements. For example, first the word "we" and "us" are removed from the poem, instead players should show themselves. It turns out like this:

Goes, goes to (show by yourself) Santa Claus,

TO (show by yourself) Santa Claus is coming.

And we know (show by yourself), that Santa Claus

Gifts (show by yourself) carries.

When children get to tell a poem with thesegesture without getting lost, you can replace the word "Santa Claus" with a gesture pointing to the door, then the word "goes" - walking on the spot. At the word "know" you need to put your index finger to your forehead, and on the word "gifts" gesture to represent a large bag with gifts. So gradually words become less and less, and gestures and movements - more and more, each time it becomes more difficult not to go astray. When the children will read the quatrains for the last time, only the verb "will bring" and the prepositions remain from the words.

This is just a small part of the games and contests,which can take preschoolers in the New Year. In the next articles, the Country of Soviets will offer you New Year's competitions for schoolchildren-junior schoolchildren and teenagers.