Introduction: This article mainly introduces the educational games which help intellectual development.
Educational games are small games that use certain logic or mathematics, physics, chemistry, or even their own principles to complete certain tasks. Generally it is more interesting and requires proper thinking, suitable for young children to play. The puzzle game is a game that exercises the brain, eyes, and hands in the form of games, so that people can gain logic and agility in the game.
What is the significance of educational games for mental development?
The educator Krupskaya said: “For children, play is learning, play is labor, and play is an important form of education.” Gorky also said: “Play is a way for children to understand and transform the world.” .
Therefore, educational toys and games are the driving force of children’s intellectual development. It can stimulate children’s curiosity and creativity, and enable children to master some knowledge and skills, form a correct attitude towards things, and promote children’s all-round development. Toddlers are lively, active, and like to imitate, and games generally have specific plots and actions, and are highly imitative. Educational games are in line with their age characteristics and can satisfy their interests and desires.
What educational games are there?
1. Classified games. This is the method proposed by creativity scholar Wells. On weekdays, you can provide children with different types of educational toys with common characteristics, such as outdoor toy car, spoons, wooden abacus, iron coins, wooden reading blocks, paper clips, etc., so that children can find their common characteristics to classify and encourage them to repeat classification. You can also provide teaching toys such as symbols, colors, food, numbers, shapes, characters, words, etc., so that children can classify them according to their characteristics.
2. Kids role play toys games. For example, let children play role play toys and encourage them to use their imagination to freely play the roles they like. Parents can provide some clues, such as giving him a plane, imagine that he was flying in the air…
3. The game of imagination. Imagination can make the impossible
become possible. In the imaginary world, children think more freely. We can use “the means of transportation or cities in the future world” as the theme, and let the children use their imagination to describe the future prospects.
4.A guessing game. Guessing is not only interesting for children, but also stimulates their reasoning and imagination. We can use some words to describe the answer. We can also give some clues with what the child likes, and let the child propose questions and infer the answers. Besides, we can also ask the child to answer with gestures.
In short, parents should teach children to play different games in combination with educational learning toys according to their children’s different ages and physical and mental characteristics. Morever, we can take time to accompany the children to play with educational wooden puzzles, which will not only make the children happy, but also achieve the effect of developing intelligence and cultivating good morals.
Post time: Dec-03-2021