Based on the advice of professional psychologists, we have selected the most useful recommendations on how to diversify your leisure time during the winter holidays.
Puzzles. A wide variety of classic cardboard puzzles, to their volumetric counterparts, that reproduce 3D models of architectural objects will come to your aid. And also a trend in recent years – puzzles in which every detail repeats the silhouette of an animal. The latter will be a real test even for experienced lovers of this activity.
Board games. Introduce your children to the games of your childhood, when everyone did not have gadgets in their pockets.
Needlework. It is useful to develop fine motor skills for children of any age. It will be useful for preschoolers to cut out snowflakes, for example. Girls may be interested in creating dresses for their dolls. The kids will love working with the construction set. And for those who are seriously interested in technology, you can help disassemble a door lock or some household appliance. After all, many children wonder what’s inside.
New Year’s tree in the city center, museum, theater, cinema and the like. You can combine their visit with a visit to an exotic cafe: let your child try for the first time a dish that she has never even heard of before.
Home concert or performance. If the child has expressed artistic abilities, then he will encourage her to express them. Help your child with a costume and music for a performance or set up a screen for a puppet theater. Perhaps this will be the first impetus in the career of a future star.
Sport. Introduce your child to the gym equipment and tell them how to use them. Or maybe it’s time to start skiing, snowboarding or skating. Show that sports can be a truly fun activity.
Kitchen. Teach your child to cook some new dish. Make it in special molds in the shape of Christmas trees, stars and the like. Children will be happy to cut out such figures from dough.
Board game competitions. To do this, you can involve not only family members, but also the child’s friends. In the event you will be able to play lotto, dominoes, checkers, themed children’s games and a wide variety of other board games.
Let the children get bored. A number of psychologists argue that sometimes it is useful to leave children alone at home with their thoughts and interests. If parents go, for example, to visit, and the child is bored again watching videos on YouTube and playing the same computer games, then a creative insight will be necessary. It can open up their creativity.