1- GAMES FOR CHILDREN WITHOUT ANYTHING IN THE HANDS
The Latuvu
A game of observation . It is called an object or person in the room where we are, waiting room or file a store: a man with a mustache, a big basket, a cap ... and our children must locate the thing before that we have finished counting to 10. From 3 years.
The Alphabête
Riddles vocabulary . Just choose a theme, for example the animals , and in turn each player must recite the alphabet in order by giving a name: A as a maggot, B as a baboon, C as a caterpillar ... Variations can be made with brands of cars , first names, names of cities ... From 7 years.
Jacques said
The timeless reflex play . It always works when you have a large room and you have 3 or 4 children on hand. We stick them against the back wall. If the playmaker says
Jacques said, "Take 1 step forward"
or "Jump with a bell"
or "Shoot the tongue"
Players must execute the command, but not if one gives the order WITHOUT pronounce the fateful phrase " Jacques said ". The one who is mistaken retrogrades to the back wall. To make matters worse, the orders are announced slowly at first and then faster. From 7 years.
Hiding place
Its secret corner . In a hurry, a hut is made by covering the table of the kitchen with a large tablecloth or a sheet , and the child takes with it his toys. From 3 years.
2- GAMES FOR CHILDREN WITH A KIT OR A BOX
Shape the dough has
A must-have for children . In this beautiful metal box, a book of instructions to make vegetables and animals in clay 8 sticks of dough. The game box. Modeling clay , 11,95 €, éditions Hugo Jeunesse. From 3 years.
The Toy Factory
Recycling game with the " Find and Make " kit and from everyday objects of recovery , bottles or plastic cups, empty packaging, rolls of cardboard, the child constructs an airplane , a robot , an elephant ... Tools and accessories supplied (plastic saw, fasteners, stickers and instructions for use). Find and make Robot , 10 € on www.myToys.fr From 10 years.
Doll house kit
Her doll house without glue or scissors.
A kit containing pieces of thick cardboard decorated and drawn stickers to build a two-storey dollhouse and mount its furniture , with only an ingenious system of tongues.
The child can accommodate Playmobil characters or Polly Pocket .
My Doll House. 24,95 €, Mango Jeunesse editions. From 5 years.
Your knits
Creative leisure is a trend. And easy with " My Tricot Trunk " which contains wool balls , knitting needles, patterns. It will just be necessary to teach the child to go up the stitches and turn the ranks. Ma Malle à Tricot , editions Fleurus, 13,95 €. From 8 years.
Stuff box
This box holds in the pocket and promises days of jokes and amusements to facetious children . The " funny eye trinket box " contains a lot of stickers in the shape of eyes to stick around, on the fridge , on badges , or on his eye to make jokes . Ed Tourbillon. € 9.99. From 7 years.
Sets of paper
Folding and cutting for children .
In a metal case, everything to learn all sorts of techniques from paper :
papier mache, origami , postcards, banners, masks. Contains perforated, adhesive tapes ...
Paper games, Hugo Jeunesse editions, 11,85 €. From 8 years
3- GAMES FOR CHILDREN FROM A TOY
Beurky Sneaky
A delusional board game : action game with suspense , adrenaline and a small crazy side. The jaw snake swallowed full of objects that belong to you. Each one turns, the children must plunge their hand in the mouth filled with viscous paste type Slim to go recover them. The box contains a snake, 10 small objects, a pot of Slim dough, 10 cards, Dujardin, 26 € . From 5 years.
A ball
The toy forever . Whether it's a simple bouncing ball or a ping-pong ball, there are 1000 ways to play with ... if you have a little space: the child throws the ball and must bounce once on the ground before reaching a basket ; or he throws it against the wall and he must be caught flying 5 times in a row without touching the ground, the variant with a rebound requires a little more space.
Soap bubbles
Another classic . The soap bubble cost 3 times nothing and the children do not get tired of it. Everyone has their own and we play " catch bubbles " trying to break the bubbles thrown by others.
A puzzle
For a calm child .
He can bend over for hours.
And it exists for all ages, of all styles.
Like Zou , 30 pieces, Nathan. From 4 years.
And Where's Charlie? 250 pieces, Nathan. From 8 years.
Cooking tools
They can become games. It 's these clever tools , safe to cut fruits and vegetables in the kitchen drawers: slicer , Parisian spoon to make melon balls, size spaghetti of vegetables, press -ail, cutting chips, grater, metal cookie cutters to make apple fritters or potato ... Put some vegetables and fruits available! From 8 years
4- GAMES FOR CHILDREN FROM A BOOK
For rainy days
"50 ways to play with his little demon loved when it's a rotten time," a clever little book, full of game ideas from what is found in the house. Editions Tourbillon, 7,95 €.
To romp
" 52 sports activities to be spent " In the form of a deck of cards illustrated in a fun way. It contains 52 cards-ideas games to have fun outside or in. Ed 365, 6, 99.
For patients
" 100 crazy crazy labyrinths ".
This little collection of labyrinths a pencil and it is addicted.
In the cover of the book itself is inserted a labyrinth to go with 2 marbles.
Editions Fleurus, 7,50 €. From 7 years.
For funny little ones
Funny or naughty children's albums to borrow from the library: Eleonore Zuber's "Nose Dumpling Pie" (Editions Le Toucan, 8 €), Susie Morgenstern's "The Drops Club" (Editions L'école des loisirs , 3,85 €), or "Titeuf à la folie" by Zep (éditions Glénat, 9,50 €). From 6-7 years.
We also like the Almaniak 2014 "Jokes and games for children", a calendar-almanac with every day a joke or game poilant. Editions 365, 12,99 €. From 8 years.
5- GAMES FOR CHILDREN WITH PAPER AND PENCIL
The proverbs to finish
The first player writes a beginning of a well-known proverb such as " Shine Well Who ..." or " Who Wants to Travel Far ..." and passes the sheet to his neighbor completing the proverb he reads. Then the child writes the beginning of a new proverb and passes to the neighbor who completes. It lets you learn full as well as their meaning. From 10 years.
Inventing chimeras
We throw four or five words (king, red, rocket, moon, huge ...), which we note on a sheet, the child lets his imagination dictate the rest of the story and he writes it. years.
Comic
We trace several frames on a sheet of white paper and we propose to the child who is overflowing with imagination to fill them with drawings and then to invent a story from his drawings that he will tell in bubbles, box by box. From 10 years.
