Fun games for the New Year in kindergarten

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

At the age of 3 to 7, children strongly believe in a fairy tale, so educators must prepare a truly magical program for the celebration. In addition to the educational and creative component, it should also include physical activity. What games can be offered for the New Year in kindergarten? The best ideas for junior, middle, senior, and kindergarten.

Junior group

The younger group includes children from 3 to 4 years old. Such pupils need to be given simple, but interesting for their age tasks for coordination, speed, repetition. One of the most popular options for playing for the New Year in kindergarten for the younger group is the "Best New Year's Actor" competition.

Children stand in a circle around the presenter. He must choose a few words related to the holiday, for example "deer", "garland", "snow", "Santa Claus". Each word has its own movement. So, snowflakes can be depicted by turning around its axis, and a garland by circular movements of the hands. The presenter shows the movements 2-3 times so that everyone will remember them, and then begins to pronounce the words one by one.

The task of the children is to repeat the gestures associated with these words. Gradually, the speed of changing words increases, pupils who made a mistake drop out. The most attentive and fastest get prizes.

The game "Who didn't get a gift?" Will be useful for developing attentiveness and creative skills. Educators prepare two sets of pictures with animals and gifts. Each animal has its own surprise: a squirrel - an acorn, a bear - a pot of honey, a hare - a carrot. Then the pictures are laid out on two desks (for two teams of players) and mixed.

Rules of the game:

1. Children are divided into two groups. They will compete with each other for a time.
2. The task of the players is to match the pictures with the animals and their gifts as quickly as possible. When all the pairs are matched, find who did not get the gift.
3. An animal without a New Year's present needs to draw a gift on its own.
4. At the end, children are given small sweet prizes, just like Santa Claus left gifts for the animals.

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Middle group

Children aged 4 to 5 years are already more active and independent, they have well-developed coordination. Therefore, games for the New Year in kindergarten for the middle group are complicated.

A popular game of speed and reaction is chairs. Chairs are placed in the circle, the number of which is 1 less than the number of participants. Music plays and children move around the seats. When the melody dies down abruptly, you need to take a chair for yourself as quickly as possible. Anyone who is left without him is eliminated. Each time, the amount of furniture is reduced by 1 piece.

How to make this game more New Year's? Tell the children that the chairs are Santa Claus's sleighs, which periodically make stops so that he can give out gifts. Also, the chairs can be replaced with New Year's figures, also placed in a circle. Then the children will have to grab them when the music stops.

And after the end of the competition, we can say that the figurines (for example, chocolate hares or Snow Maiden) are gifts for everyone who took part in the task.

In the games for the New Year in kindergarten in the middle group, more creative elements need to be included. The contest "The most beautiful toy" meets this requirement. Children receive the same set of paper, pencils and, if desired, cardboard, scissors and glue. In the allotted time, everyone must draw or create an applique of their own invented toy. At the end, by a general vote, the one whose toy turned out to be the most original or beautiful is chosen.

Advice! All the drawings should then be hung on the blackboard in the office so that the rest of the children are proud of their achievements, and not be upset because of the loss.

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The game "Pop the ball" will help develop coordination. It should be held in a spacious room where children can dance freely. A balloon is tied to each child's leg or arm. In the store, you can easily find blue, red and white balls reminiscent of the New Year, or products with a thematic pattern.

Rules:

1. The game is divided into rounds. At the beginning of each music is played. Children should start dancing so that no one bursts their ball. At the same time, they themselves must try to burst the ball of one of the neighbors.
2. After each round, those who are left without a ball are given a consolation prize. The game continues until there is only one winner left.

Important! The balloons should be taken small and not fully inflated so that they do not emit too harsh noises when popping.

Senior group

The older group for some children becomes the last in kindergarten, since pupils from 5 to 6 years old are ranked among it. Games for this age are selected active, role-playing. They can use complex rule systems.

The first version of the New Year's game in kindergarten for the older group is "Santa Claus and fellows". This is an active game in which you need to show coordination skills and imagination. Pupils are divided into two groups. The first is "Santa Claus". One of the children becomes one of them. He is sent to his "home" - to a chair or to a place bounded by a sports hoop. The rest of the children are doing well. They move away from Santa Claus and quietly, so that he does not hear, agree among themselves what kind of work they will be hired for Santa Claus.

Then the fellows come up to Santa Claus and show by gestures what kind of work they are going to do. The process resembles the game "Crocodile". If Santa Claus guesses what kind of work was conceived, he goes to catch the fellows. Anyone touched by the water is frozen and stands still for the rest of the round. The last one who remained unfrozen becomes Santa Claus, and the former Santa Claus joins the team of fellows.

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Another simple tag-type game is “hats”. It is interesting in that it requires the use of a Santa Claus hat. This element emphasizes the festive atmosphere. Rules of the game:

1. Children are divided into water and runaways. There can be 1 water, and if there are a lot of children, then you can add a 2nd, 3rd or even 4th pursuer.
2. One of the children is given a Santa Claus hat at the beginning of the game. His task is to transfer the cap to the nearest player. This player must also hand someone a hat, and so on in a circle. If a cap has fallen into the hands of a child, it is impossible to move. You need to freeze and put it on, and only then you can continue to move and transfer the object further. There can also be more hats if there are many pupils participating in the game.
3. The salted man changes roles with water.

This activity can be diversified with the help of music, tasks for water that cannot catch anyone for too long, and so on.

Preparatory group

Children from 6 to 7 years old. The preparatory group is not present in all preschool educational institutions, since some parents prefer to either immediately send their child to the 1st grade, or enroll him in preparation in the school building itself. Nevertheless, for children of this age, you need to prepare their own program.

Games for the New Year in kindergarten for the preparatory group can already be diversified with tasks on the account. So, it will be easy for children to master the competition "One, two, three, take the prize!":

1. A prize is placed on the chair. This can be a small treat, a Christmas figurine, a set of pencils, etc. depending on the budget of the holiday. Two players are placed next to the chair.
2. The presenter reads out: “One, two, three … twenty! One, two, three … a hundred! " For "three" you need to pause each time, confusing the child, so that the task is more difficult.
3. When the facilitator finally says “three” and not another number, the children need to react quickly and grab the prize. The most attentive will receive the gift.
4. The number of chairs, prizes and, accordingly, players can be increased.
5. In order for the loser not to be offended, it is imperative to prepare a consolation prize.

Another New Year's game in kindergarten, in which the smarter one will win, is “Puddles and Ice”. The site is chosen, which is one big "puddle". Participants are given two sheets of paper each - these will be "pieces of ice". Everyone starts with one line. During the competition, you need to put a piece of paper in front of you, stand on it, pick up the previous one and put it in front.

And so on until the goal is achieved. Depending on the size of the room, children must either reach the other end of the room, or walk to the end and then back.

Why is this a game of wits? To overtake others, you need to come up with your own tactics: either quickly change the sheets, or put them as far as possible and jump. The main thing is that the floor is not slippery and the paper does not run on it. It is recommended to give the game a fabulous setting by coming up with a task for the sake of which the pupils of the preschool educational institution get through a huge puddle. For example, you need to go to the gifts that Santa Claus forgot and return them to him.

Games with parents

Mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers come to many matinees. They can also be attracted to recreational activities. This will add variety to games and strengthen family ties. What are the New Year's games in kindergarten with parents?

The classic version is "Snowball". This competition is suitable for children from the middle group of preschool educational institutions. Those present sit on chairs in a circle and take turns calling their names, also showing one movement at a time. Each next person must repeat the names of all the previous ones, as well as their movements. The presence of parents makes the game more difficult, because the children in the group already know each other's names. They hardly know their parents.

Interesting! There are many variations of Snowball. So, a person can, in addition to a name, give one of his characteristics, name a color, a favorite pastime, and so on.

"Snowball" perfectly develops memory and attentiveness, and also enhances the sense of collectivism. But back to outdoor games.

When parents are present in kindergarten, it's time to arrange a relay race. The main participants in such competitions are dads. If the competition is held in younger groups, then the task for them will be to transfer the children to the next stage of the relay as quickly as possible, placing them on their shoulders. If the children are already older than preschool age, let the fathers go through one stage themselves, sitting on chairs or special gymnastic balls. The task is to get to the end point as quickly as possible by jumping.

Other types of joint activities of children and adults are often used:

• joint cooking;
• picking up balls in a basket for a while in a pair of child-parent against other pairs;
• decoration ate for a while.

Bonus

From all of the above, we can conclude that entertainment should be varied and correctly selected for age. The most popular options:

1. Games for the New Year in kindergarten with Santa Claus. Santa Claus can act out scenes, ask children to read poems and give them gifts in return, ask for help in something. Also, Santa Claus can be alternately one of the pupils.
2. Outdoor games. Festive variants of salons, relay races, contests with music.
3. Creative entertainment. Decorating spruce, decorating festive food, drawing for a while.
4. Tasks for attentiveness, memory and intelligence. "Snowball", repetition of movements.