It only seems that all the joy of summer is in the country. There, of course, you can ride a bike around the village, but there are many other entertainments in the city that the village never dreamed of!
1. Take a trip around your city.
It only seems to you that since you live here, you know everything here! Believe me, there are a million interesting places around where your foot has never gone before. Imagine that you are a tourist, come on a tour. You can even open a guidebook for persuasiveness. View the route and play with your child as a guide on the excursion.
If you don’t want to invent it yourself or you don’t have time, there are special children’s sets of books. For example, “7 routes in Moscow” is a real navigator, and even a know-it-all guide. There are 7 books in a set, each book is a separate route. For example, “Zamoskvorechye” – go around the streets, look into the courtyard in every lane, find out that, it turns out, great writers lived here, and here there is an incredibly beautiful temple, and this fountain was built hundreds of years ago.
You will walk along the embankments, taking a look around the whole city, sigh and be glad that your child has learned so much new about his homeland. By the way, to consolidate knowledge, you can arrange a check-test for the whole family, you will find it on the last pages. For smaller children, there is a game “Find and Show” in the book. On the pages there are photographs of some places that you will meet on your way. They need to be found and shown. For example, that lion over there on the pillar of the museum!
2. Go to the capital
If you do not live in Moscow, take your child to the capital or St. Petersburg for the weekend. Find something to do in these cities and find out everything about the sights, again, guidebooks. The most amazing and very childish one is “Walking from the Box”. There are cards in a convenient box. Each card has a landmark of the city (Moscow or St. Petersburg). You can choose where to go, take with you the cards with interesting facts you need for the walk, and read everything about your route along the way.
3. Arrange a theater day.
Surely the children were in the theater, they know what it means to be an actor. Now you need to try to get used to the role yourself. Declare a weekend as a theater day. Have a show at home. Read the story, maybe even write a script. Prepare costumes, assign roles, rehearse. Play with the whole family and set the camera to record. You can’t imagine what a delight children’s play is! Get used to the role, portray joy, sadness, anger, reincarnate!
Another option is the puppet theater. All you need is a box, from behind which the doll can look out. By the way, you can also look for a special set that will make it easier for busy parents. For example, “Theater on the Table” is a box that contains everything for the performance – fairy-tale books with detailed scenarios, cardboard figures that need to be glued on sticks and “brought out” on the stage, decorations for each fairy tale, and the box itself turns into the scene. It is good that the scripts are Russian folk tales, well known to the child.
4. Go to the museum
Parents are afraid that children in museums will be bored. But fear not! Now there are special exhibitions for children, where everything that is interesting to a child is collected. Any zoological museum will be interesting even for a kid, museums of toys, space. In addition, in museums now, in addition to the main expositions, there are classes for children. Sign up for a while, hand your child into the hands of an experienced guide with the skills of an animator, while you yourself are walking around the museum. You get a child who has learned a lot of new things, and you discuss all the news all evening.
5. Play home bowling.
We saw this idea in Irina Maltseva’s book “The smartest games – step by step”. How to build a bowling alley?
1. For a bowling alley, you need five to six identical plastic bottles.
2. We clean the surface of the bottles from the labels and glue them with colored electrical tape or figures made of self-adhesive paper.
3. For stability, fill colored pins with various bulk substances (peas, beans, buttons, etc.). We screw their caps tightly.
4. Take a small ball – lightweight fabric or plastic.
5. We arrange the pins in a row or in another order, roll the ball towards them, knock them down to joyful applause and count the points (one pin equals one point).
For the curious three-year-old, the bowling alley can be digital. In this case, draw numbers (numbers from 1 to 6) on the type size with a bright marker and immediately repeat each number on the same type size with dots. The winner will be determined by the aggregate of points – the sum of the numbers indicated by the numbers on the knocked-down pins.
In general, there are a million things to do in the city. The main thing is to turn on your imagination!