To be honest, holding such a holiday is quite difficult. Firstly , having found themselves on a picnic, the last thing children want to do is play in an organized manner - everyone has their own interesting thing to do. Secondly , organizing a children's party in nature requires certain physical characteristics. For example, a loud voice :-).
If you still decide to gather guests for a picnic and are planning an entertainment program, without having the temperament of a clown and the skills of an experienced animator, use my selection of competitions.
I chose only those games and competitions in nature that are easiest to organize (most of them can be carried out with a number of participants from 4 people).
So far there are only 20 ideas, but I plan to add interesting outdoor competitions to this article, so over time there will be many more!
ATTENTION!
ALL-ALL-ALL competitions for children (more than 200) HERE!!! Follow the link and you will be taken to a catalog containing games and entertainment by age. Many programs can easily be held outside.
. My quest scenarios (free) are especially popular: . • Country quest for children 6-10 years old (this is an ideal outdoor scenario for hot weather) The mystery of the underground bunker • Culinary quest “Ratouille” • Treasures of the Egyptian princess • Quest for princesses (6-8 years old) • Quest based on Conan Doyle’s story “Lost” world" • Tasks for creating quests yourself • Quest "Night at the Museum". • There are also such fun competitions for teenagers...
Catch-up games
Bear
Lay out the toys, pots, bags and things that you brought for a picnic in the clearing. Place a bear in the center of this composition, at a distance of 5-7 steps, draw a line on the ground, behind which there will be a “house”. The presenter shouts: “The bear has woken up!” Children must save property and put it behind the line, and the bear can only catch the one who has nothing in his hands (at the moment when the child returns for things from the safe line). The one who collects the most things wins. And the player who finds himself in the bear’s clutches becomes a bear.
Catch-up “Short Legs”
Participants in the game will need to catch up and run away with an empty plastic bottle held between their knees.
Paints
The players line up. The presenter turns away and moves away 5 steps.
- Knock Knock? - Who's there? - I don’t know myself. - Why did you come? - For paint. - For which one? - For the blue one!
Everyone who has this color on their clothes holds on to this color with their hands and remains in place, the rest run away from the leader. The one who was caught drives next.
Shopping centers
Children and adults do not always want to spend time outside. Rain or hot sun ruin plans for a walk outside, but don’t despair, because various Moscow shopping centers provide entertainment services to visitors!
Afimall City
A large shopping center with a lot of interesting places. Cinema; Cosmic – play area for children and adults; VRPark is a virtual reality park accessible to all ages, with game genres ranging from horror to adventure; Dream Aero is a flight simulator that cannot be compared to conventional computer simulators; it will provide the controller with complete immersion in flight.
Airpark
Visitors are presented with: a rope panda park, a virtual world, laser tag, a culinary studio, an ice skating rink, a dance studio and a photo studio, interesting quests, play parks and rental of children's cars!
Riviera
The shopping center is equipped with such places as: Autotown, Legorod, Kidburg, Mirror Maze, Panda Park, Walk in the Dark, Builders' City.
Central children's store
Virtual amusement parks, funny train express, InnoPark, karting, KidBurg and cinema, children's clothing, footwear and toy stores.
Capitol
In the Capitol there is a cinema and a children's trampoline equipped with: a climbing wall, a panda park, a restaurant for a snack, and locker rooms for boys and girls.
Fights
Balloon fight
This game will be fun in nature. Tie small balls to the players' right ankle (a rope no more than 30 cm). Only 2 players participate in the duel. Hands are not involved, they need to be clasped behind your back. The winner is the one who manages to burst the winner's balloon with his foot. The one who wins gets a new opponent with a ball on his leg. This continues until one player remains with a whole ball on his leg.
Knight Tournament
If you have a relatively flat and not thick log, you can fight with long thin balls. The winner must stand on the beam.
Parks
What better time to enjoy good weather than in summer? Many Moscow parks are well equipped for recreation.
Alexander Garden
The park, located near the Kremlin wall, is visited by tourists every year. Here, in warm seasons, flower beds and trees are well-groomed, children can see WWII monuments, walk next to fountains and even run under water jets. After a tiring walk, they often visit nearby cafes and restaurants.
More about the Alexander Garden
VDNH
A place recommended by many visitors to the park for outdoor recreation, visiting attractions, exhibitions, fascinating master classes, fairs, and a rope park.
Exhibitions of museums, cultural and technological centers are regularly held. This is an art complex with history, opened before the Second World War, the “All-Union Agricultural Exhibition”. The modern park combines a wide infrastructure, including paths for scooters and bicycles, children's and multimedia playgrounds, and the Moskvarium.
More about VDNKh Park
Sokolniki
A beautiful park, well-equipped and clean, with restaurants, cozy cafes and pizzerias on its territory. You can ride on the carousel, there are many electric cars for the little ones. Several equipped children's playgrounds, separate bike paths.
What's interesting in Sokolniki Park
Estate "Kolomenskoye"
The vast territory of the park is open to visitors of all ages! Here people willingly spend time with their children: they walk and enjoy the air, go to museums and churches, open almost at any time, and also sail along the Moscow River on water transport. There is shade and green grass for a picnic under the trees.
What to do in Kolomenskoye
Gorky Park
You can enjoy a ride on a pedalo, walk along fountains and ponds with ducks, ride on attractions, and enjoy the clean air. It will be fun for children to attend annual master classes, ride bicycles, and a skate park has been built for scooters and skaters.
Where to go in Gorky Park
Muzeon Art Park
Many sculptures provide vacationers with the opportunity to immerse themselves in a creative atmosphere. In the summer, a flower exhibition is held there, where vacationers admire the skills of landscape designers and, if desired, purchase rare plants. Concerts and competitions are held annually. A pleasant place on the embankment, a cozy cafe on site.
Muzeon Park: details about the sculpture park
"Apothecary Garden"
The territory of the botanical garden is located both outdoors and indoors. Inside, the air humidity is specially adjusted for the growth of various plants. There is also a mini-museum with insects on display, from butterflies to rare beetles. Visitors are presented with types of tea with descriptions of what pain they help with. After watching, visit the cafe on the ground floor.
What to see in the Apothecary Garden
Izmailovsky Park
You can take a long walk by the pond with your children. A short trip on catamarans is available for a fee. There is a cafe for snacks. In the Izmailovo Kremlin, a child can attend master classes, learn about the architecture of the building and visit a balcony overlooking Moscow.
Izmailovsky Park in detail
Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve
The park is well equipped for walks and active recreation, there is a rope park, children and adults can feed the ducks, and various bright celebrations are held seasonally - concerts, performances. The park also pleases the eye with its architecture.
Tsaritsino in detail
Comic games
Game "Steam Train with Obstacles"
Stage 1 of the game.
Between the trees at a height of 30-40 cm, stretch the rope in zigzags. All participants of the holiday stand in the train one after another, holding the waist. To the music, the first player begins to move in small steps, choosing a difficult route. You need to step over a rope, walk around a tree, and so on. It's just fun, especially if there are more than five participants.
Stage 2 of the game.
One of the players is taken aside and tightly blindfolded with a scarf. At this time, the rope needs to be removed and brought to the beginning of the route. And now the presenter tells you how to raise your leg, how many steps to take, where to turn. The player follows commands, thinking that the rope remains in place and diligently overcomes non-existent obstacles. Try it, it's fun!
Relay races:
Shashlik
Best suited for an autumn picnic as it requires fallen leaves. As usual, we divide the children into teams. We collect leaves in advance. Determine the running distance (no more than 6-7 meters). At the end of the route, provide each team with a skewer (a stick on which to string a leaf). The player runs, strings the piece of paper onto a stick, and returns to the team. The winner is the team that, naturally, will have the most luxurious kebab by the time the funny children's song ends.
Jerboa
A distance of 5-7 meters and back must be overcome by holding the ball tightly between your knees. At the same time, you can take cones, nuts or small pebbles into the “mink”. The winning team is revealed again at the end of the song.
Ember
We divide the children into two teams. We collect small pebbles or cones according to the number of participants. Small juice boxes will also work. You need to not just run and put a coal in the fire, but move, throwing the object slightly upward. This is a coal, it burns your hands! The team that finishes its fire the fastest wins.
Firefighters
A game for hot weather. Each team member has empty disposable cups. Teams need to be lined up with their right side to the direction of movement.
The last player in the line must have a full glass of water. On command, he pours water into his neighbor’s empty glass as carefully as possible, runs and becomes the first (necessarily next to the previous participant). It is the turn of the one who now has a full glass of water. He also pours it over to his neighbor. This is how you need to get to your goal. The team with the most water left at the end of the relay wins.
On the Zavalinka
Everyone was running around, tired. We sat down on a log...
Time for sedentary games and competitions, which, by the way, are also very fun.
Conductor-trainer
The host divides the guests into groups (if there are few children, each gets a separate role). Let frogs, cows, dogs, cats, pigs, ducks, bees, sheep, and so on appear at your holiday.
They will have to sing a song for the birthday boy to the tune of “ Happy Birthday to You”. First, everyone sings a line. The conductor points with his baton, and...
Kva-kva-kva-kva woof-woof
Oink-oink-oink-oink meow-meow
Quack-quack-quack-quack zhu-zhu-zhu
Mu-mu-mu-mu beee-beee….
And now all together!
The main thing is that there are no other vacationers nearby, since the choir turns out to be very solemn :-).
The fairy tale has come to life
Let's take the simplest children's fairy tale. All guests get roles. Those who lack the main characters become trees, sun, clouds, wind.
“Masha and the Bear” is best suited for the forest. Just think about who you will give the role of the stump, because a bear will sit on it!
Crocodile on a picnic
One of the participants gestures to show some item needed in nature, the rest guess. Matches, firewood, barbecue meat, a thermos, a backpack and a pump look fun in this pantomime.
Scarecrow garden
You need to tie two sticks in the shape of a cross (the transverse one is shorter). Each team must receive such a blank. You need to make a garden (or forest) scarecrow from scrap materials - jackets, hats, buckets, garbage bags, bottles, etc. The team with the funniest dummy wins.
I appeal to all readers of the “Holiday Again” blog! If you have proven ideas for a children's picnic party, please write in the comments. Let's collect the best outdoor competitions for children together!
Good luck!
Consultation for educators on the topic: Organization of children's leisure time in the summer
One of the most important issues in the work of a child care institution in the summer is the organization of children's leisure time.
Summer is the favorite time of all children, because in warm weather you can spend almost the whole day outside. Our task is to organize the life of children in kindergarten so that they spend it with joy and pleasure and receive a boost of energy even in the city. Working with children outdoors in the summer is not only good for health, but also has great educational value; it helps to develop in preschoolers an interest and love for nature, a caring attitude towards it, develops artistic taste, creative imagination and design abilities, dexterity and ingenuity, and educates hard work, perseverance, patience.
Summer brings big changes to the organization of the educational process of preschool educational institutions. Children are actively involved in games, leisure, entertainment and recreational activities in the fresh air, and the forms of their organization are mainly collective.
Leisure includes a variety of activities: artistic, aesthetic, sports, and musical accompaniment creates a positive emotional mood. The lack of systematic classes significantly relieves teachers and allows them to take a new approach to event planning. Teachers are faced with a problem: how to organize children’s leisure time in an interesting, entertaining, creative way, and captivate them with useful, practical activities. The optimal form of organizing children's leisure in the summer are activities that do not require significant preparation on the part of children, have developmental and educational functions and are carried out in an emotionally attractive manner. — Summer holidays .
- Children's Day (June 1).
- Russian Independence Day – June 12. On this day we organize an exhibition of drawings “I live in Russia”, play folk games, introduce children to various folk genres (fairy tales, songs, riddles, counting rhymes).
- Day of Family, Love and Fidelity (July 8).
A real treasure for organizing summer leisure is the folk holidays: Ivan Kupala (July 6-7), Elijah’s Day (August 2), Honey Spas (August 14), Apple Spas (August 19).
They perform the function of introducing children to the riches of folk culture and developing their national identity. During the holidays, children take part in games, dances, relay races, attractions, and everyone together sings songs, reads poems, guesses riddles, and gets involved in the cultural heritage of society.
- Game minutes. For example, with natural materials (sand, water, earth, plants). Children get acquainted with the different surfaces of plants: smooth, soft, rough.
To develop mathematical skills - measure the required amount of something; sort objects by shape, size; count the number of items in the game, divide the items equally between the participants; divide the finished “cake” into 2-4 parts)
The “Pour and Measure” game using plastic jars, bottles, jugs, and funnels will allow you to clarify the properties of water, and older preschoolers will practice measuring activities. Children love to play with water, especially when they don’t have to be afraid of spilling it and splashing something. Older preschoolers can be given game tasks, for example, pour 5 cups of water into a watering can or measure which bucket will hold the most water.
Everyone knows that you can draw with crayons, but not everyone is familiar with educational games that can be played on the street using ordinary asphalt crayons. With crayons you can outline various objects that are at hand: sandbox molds, the bottom of a bucket, leaves, or, for example, your own hands and feet. From the resulting silhouettes you can make drawings and then paint or shade them. This entertainment will help our children develop fine motor skills.
You can draw different geometric shapes and invite your child to complete them so that they turn into something recognizable. For example: what does a circle look like? It looks like an apple, a balloon, a sun, etc. Children will be able to not only learn the names of geometric shapes, but also develop their imagination.
For kids, the teacher can draw a winding path, and the child must walk along it or roll a car on a string or a ball.
You can draw multi-colored ovals (red, yellow, blue, green) and invite children to jump from one to another like a bunny, naming the colors. Or you can draw the shapes in one color, but make them different shapes (circle, square, triangle). Let the child jump and name the shape of the figures.
Crayons will help us reinforce the names of letters, numbers, and geometric shapes with children. Draw, for example, large letters. Ask your child what letter is drawn here and invite him to walk with his feet along the contour of the letter depicted. In the same way, you can play with numbers and geometric shapes (run in a circle, walk along the sides of a square or triangle).
Game “Logical Sequences” - you draw a logical sequence consisting of two or three elements, and the child must continue it. Example: AAAABA. or 123123, or + — = + — =…
Game “Divide into parts” You draw a figure, and the child must divide it into 2, 3 or 4 equal parts. You can also play Tic-Tac-Toe on the asphalt.
Another interesting game is “Make up a story” or “Make up a fairy tale”, which develops coherent speech and imagination. One of the participants in the game draws 3-4 objects at his own discretion (any), and the other must come up with and tell a story based on them. Then you can change roles. For example, the sun, a butterfly, a flower. This game will allow us to solve the problem of developing children’s ability to distinguish literary genres: story - fairy tale (invite teachers to come up with a short story).
Ball games. Despite its simplicity, ball games are very useful for children, as they develop almost all types of muscles. And it doesn’t matter whether the baby throws or catches the ball, he trains coordination of movements and vision. You can come up with a wide variety of games for summer boys with a ball that you can either throw or kick. — Musical clock. This is a time for a wide variety of musical activities: children can dance, play musical games, learn new songs, sing those that are familiar to them, and play musical instruments. (Christmas tree, sunshine, etc.)
— Travel games. Consecutive visits by children to various points on a pre-prepared route. The plot of the game is thought out in such a way that children visit new places, get acquainted with new phenomena and objects in the role of travelers, sightseers, tourists, and visitors. It is necessary to organize a stop along the route where children will be offered various tasks and games. It is important that travel games are the only type of game whose plot and roles allow for direct teaching of children and the transfer of new knowledge to them. Against the background of positive emotions caused by play motives, children gain new knowledge about nature, and a consciously positive attitude towards it is formed.
— Creative platforms. When organizing creative areas, several workshops are created on the site: in one place children draw, in another they fold origami, in a third they sculpt. A workshop is a space organized so that it is possible to conveniently engage in the proposed type of activity. If possible, you can decorate the workshop - hang a sign with the name, drawings, posters, crafts. Children can take part in any workshop that interests them. Some try themselves in different types of activities, while others limit themselves to one. Younger children will need the help of adults who will accompany them and help them choose an activity they like.
- Exhibitions. Organizing an exhibition is quite labor-intensive, but at the same time it can captivate both children and their parents, for whom visiting an exhibition of children's works will also be of great interest. The exhibition should be held in several stages. At the first stage, its theme is selected and it is determined which products will be accepted for the exhibition. For example, at the exhibition “Nature and Fantasy” crafts made from natural materials will be presented, and at the exhibition “What a summer it has come to us!” - drawings. The stage of making crafts for an exhibition. If there are too many of them, you need to select the best ones. Exhibition design. Organization of visits. Children, together with their teachers, come to the exhibition and listen to the “excursion” conducted by one of the teachers (you can take an older preschooler as an assistant). Children look at the works and at the same time learn the rules of behavior at the exhibition.
— Children's sports competitions develop dexterity, the ability to coordinate movements, and action in a limited time and space (children's playground). Team competitions develop a healthy spirit of competition, and hanging swings have a beneficial effect on coordination of movements and the vestibular system. — Project activities. The project method covers the activities of educators, children and parents, coordinates and regulates their actions on the identified problem. As well as homework done by children and their parents - an essay on the topic “How I spent my summer”, design of a poster “So the summer has flown by” and an album “Here it is, what our summer is like.” The result of the project is the presentation of an album with children's stories about summer. Summer holidays in kindergarten will be wonderful if all adults, both teachers and parents, take a responsible approach to its organization, are sensitive to the wishes of children, and take into account their life aspirations and interests. It is necessary to structure leisure activities in such a way that children remember the fun time spent in kindergarten for a long time. If children learn and learn a lot over the summer, then teachers will also experience a sense of pride and satisfaction from their work.
I wish you success in finding interesting leisure activities for children!
