Kids love to play. Parents are always looking for options to keep their children constructively engaged. What if you can find a play that is not only a fun activity but also helps you keep your child engaged? Yes, you read it right. This article is all about the games that activate your child's brain and improves their cognitive thinking.
Matching Picture Cards -
It is a memory game and relies on memory recall. The person who remembers and matches the cards on both sides is the winner. It is a good way to improve your child's memory.
You can modify the game based on the age of your child. Matching pictures with alphabets or words, matching animals with their young ones, matching animals with their homes, matching flags with countries, matching vegetables with their names, and much more.
Benefits -
1. Improves visual memory
2. Improves visual discrimination
3. Improves short-term memory loss
4. Improves concentration
What's Missing? -
Arrange a few items in the tray. Let your child look into the tray and memorize the displayed items. Then cover the tray with a napkin. Ask your child to tell the names of the items in the tray.
You can even remove one or two items from the tray and ask your child what's missing in the tray. Both variations of the game are interesting. Make it tricky by adding more items to the tray.
Benefits -
1. Improves visual attention
2. Improves visual scanning
3. Improves concentration
4. Improves visual recognition
Solving Puzzles
Puzzles are brain-challenging and activate a child's logical thinking. There are a variety of puzzles available, crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, logic puzzles, etc. Every puzzle has its advantages and improves your child's cognitive thinking capabilities.
Benefits -
1. Improves problem-solving skills
2. Improves logical thinking
3. Improves reasoning skills
4. Improves strategic thinking
Board Games -
Board games are fun to play. Kids love board games as they are group games. Even parents can join with kids to play board games. Carrom board, Ludo, Monopoly, Checkers, Connect 4, Chess, etc., can all be played by all age groups.
Benefits -
1. Help in learning to follow the instructions
2. Help to regulate emotions
3. Improves motor skills
4. Improves problem-solving
5. Improves logical thinking
Arranging Blocks -
This game is suitable for kids below seven years. They love making different patterns with blocks. Blocks are easy to use and tweaked into tons of fun activities such as Counting Blocks, Stacking Blocks, Building a Maze with Blocks, Bowling with Blocks, Tower Building, and a lot more.
Benefits -
1. Improves problem-solving skills
2. Improves imagination & creativity
3. Express their own self
4. Improves mathematics and geometry
5. Improves self-esteem
Online Games -
Embracing technology is essential these days. The days are gone when we wanted to keep children away from screens. Having said that, we do not mean to say that kids must be allowed to play online games all the time. The parents can monitor the kid's screen time and make sure, they are playing within the allowed time.
Benefits -
1. A great source to develop technical knowledge and usage of computers.
2. Enhances memory, brain speed, and concentration.
3. Improved multi-tasking skills.
4. Build skills for future careers.
