Children's holiday
Do not forget that the game can help in organizing the behavior of children on holidays, when the house guests - adults with children.
You can not rely on the fact that pre-school children themselves organize it. In the best case, they will act with toys, each by itself. But such an occupation will not last for a long time, whims and quarrels may begin that will spoil the mood for adults and children alike.
How to organize children so that they can look at each other so that no one is bored?
Someone from adults should initiate a joint children's game( if conditions permit, then play with children is better in a separate room).
You can start with simple games with rules( mobile or verbal), in which the adult takes on the functions of the presenter, and all children perform the simple game actions offered to them. These are games like "Do as I do"( the presenter shows some pose or movement, and all the participants repeat it), "Catch the ball and throw it back", "Say the opposite"( the presenter calls the word, the playing answers the opposite in meaning,for example: cold - hot, fast - slow, etc.).
A good story can be played by a story game in the theater where people can be artists, and the audience will be dolls and other children. The adult organizes this game: finds out what he would like to show each of the children( tell a poem, sing a song, etc.), seat the audience, inviting them to a performance, and then, performing the role of entertainer, conducts a "concert".If such a "concert" turns out to be interesting, you can invite adult viewers to it, the children will gladly repeat their performances for them( besides, every mother is pleased to see for herself, and to show others how her child reads poetry, sings songs, dances).Of course, in no case should not be forced to any of the children to speak, even better the child just applauds to others, but with pleasure, than through force, experiencing a painful feeling, doing something on order. It is possible that at first the children will be a little shy, then the adult can start the show himself, telling a short funny story, a poem.
If your house has a set of bobabo dolls or a set of flat figures for a desktop puppet theater, instead of an improvised concert( or along with it) you can show the children a small play based on the famous fairy tales( "Repka", "Three Bears", "Little Red Riding Hood", etc.) or according to a previously invented new plot. Mom can tentatively agree with the daughter( son) that they will show such a performance to the guests together.
Another kind of entertainment for children can be the game "Guess-ka".Initially, an adult offers children to guess a few puzzles, starting with the simplest and gradually moving on to more complex ones. Starting with a simple should be to ensure that all children feel self-confidence and the opportunity to join the game. Here are a few examples of such riddles: Two ends, two rings, in the middle of carnations( scissors).Without windows, without doors, full of people's room( cucumber).The girl is sitting in the dungeon, and the braid is on the street( carrots).The steamer floats back and forth, then behind it, such a smooth surface, or wrinkles can not be seen( iron).In this case, the adult agrees with the children that the answer will not be shouted out, who will guess that he will raise his hand. It's very good if the rewarder is given a reward - pre-prepared baby books, balloons, postcards, badges, etc.
If the children after the riddles of an adult does not exhaust the interest in this activity, you can invite each of them in turn to make guesses to everyonethe rest or even invent their own, completely new riddles. For the most successful puzzle, too, you can give a prize. To create puzzles, you can attract adult guests as equal participants to children. In such an original competition, adults are sometimes less resourceful and inventive than children, which, of course, enhances the pleasure and joy of the little participants.
During such adult-organized games, children will get accustomed to, get accustomed to each other. Then they can play without the direct participation of an adult. He can only offer them toys for the story game: some board game or a children's billiard, bowling alley, etc.( given the desires and age of the children).
It often happens that guests bring gifts to a small landlord( and this happens not only on the day of their birth).To ensure that the children-guests do not have a feeling of being deprived( for a little man to give even a toy prepared beforehand as a gift is always not easy) and to give them additional joy, you can prepare and for them modest gifts-small toys. They can be presented to children at the moment of transition from adult-organized entertainment to an independent game, which will thus receive an additional stimulus.
In conclusion, we should note that it is not necessary to take very young children( or invite them to a children's holiday) to 3-3.5 years old. For a child it is tedious to stay in an unfamiliar( or unfamiliar) situation, even if it does not appear to be externally and shows signs of fatigue and anxiety. A new situation, many unfamiliar faces, noise, a violation of the usual regime, is too much stress on the nervous system that is not yet strong. If circumstances compel parents to take their child with them, the visit should not be delayed.