Integrate educational games into your little one's daily life

Children need stimulation to develop their abilities and skills, this is not only achieved through theoretical learning of how things work and what their names are, but can also be developed through play.

When children are young, they express themselves and learn through play, this activity is very rewarding for them, and we as parents love to see them enjoy themselves.

How do educational games work in preschool?

Educational games are those that have the ability to teach children through interaction with it, that is, that knowledge is learned through interaction and exploration with the resource.

These increase the psychic and physical development of our little ones, since learning is given in a language that they understand perfectly, that of play.

Through play, children explore, discover their tastes, interests, feelings, hobbies, physical and motor skills and develop their personality.

Importance of teaching materials

It promotes brain growth and expands cognitive abilities such as attention and memory while stimulating holistic development as individuals.

Children are more willing to learn through didactic activities, since they recognize them as pleasant, for them there is no distinction between playing and learning at this point.

These games under the correct delimitation and application cultivate in the children knowledge about languages, history, numerical skills, or any other specific area that he plays tries to stimulate.

Likewise, it strengthens values such as respect, love, trust, tolerance, solidarity and favors emotional growth.

Play stimulates in our children the ability to receive learning in later stages, which is why it is widely used and recommended.

How to integrate it into the home?

It is not necessary to have these games purchased, we can do it together with our son, and thus we are reinforcing manual skills, establishing a link with him and with his learning process while enhancing creative and expressive abilities, we will teach you some games that you can do from home to teach playing.

1. Games that involve strategy

These types of games are distinguished by stimulating in the child the implementation of strategies that help him solve a problem that arises within the game itself.

These games are capable of helping to strengthen self-esteem, since, having generated by themselves these strategies that led to victory, self-confidence is reaffirmed.

• Three in a line

This popular game consists of managing to group three tiles in line first than your opponent, the children will try to deduce the next move of their rival and will continue taking into account what movement they can make so that their pieces are grouped before, so this game involves constant reasoning.

• Ball maze

To make this game you need to get a cardboard box that is longer than it is high to serve as a base, and with small cardboard cutouts, make the shape of your maze to your liking.

Then randomly cut out circles larger than the balls in your maze for your child to dodge them, and they are ready to start the fun.

2. Board games

These are usually played between two or more people, so they favor communication and participation of the members.

It makes it possible to learn from situations in which you do not win, so you will have to increase your ability to tolerate frustration.

• Domino

Depending on the age of the children you can not put numbers at the ends of the cards, but colors, patterns or images so that the grouping of the elements is more according to their abilities.

• Puzzle

This one can be built with popsicles and a picture of your child's preference, just glue the popsicles to the image and then cut out each popsicle individually for a fun puzzle.

3. Memory games

This classification, in addition to directly stimulating memory, also increases other cognitive abilities such as attention, since children must make an effort to remember the elements.

The memory games themselves are very easy to do at home, you just have to print pairs of images and paste them on a cardboard to give more texture to the cards, if it is possible to laminate them it will last much longer.

Sharing our children's time and learning with these games will make us participate in their development while we stimulate them both cognitively and emotionally.