What games for five year olds do you play? Does your child enjoy reading, writing, or number games? Memory games? Or maybe pretend play with puppets, pantomime characters or using favorite TV characters for inspiration!
Five year olds are pretty active, too! All that thinking has to be balanced by a good dose of energetic fun, as your child starts to learn to ride a bicycle or to swim, to play in teams and feel important in preschool sports... remember your first sack race at school - or that bean bag race? Ahhh, those were the days!
Watching your own child at this age and stage is a total pleasure, as you begin to see the huge progress he or she has made - and with new skills and experiences coming into play almost every day.
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Guess Whats Missing
You can start with only a few items, such as stuffed toys, small toys or other objects. This is a fun game with 4 or more people sitting in a circle.
First,...
Zombie Tag
This game is great for groups. You pick one person who is a zombie and they have to walk and chase the others with their hands out.
When they tag they ...
Fishing!
First you neeed a cardboard box. With the child or children paint the outside so it looks like an aquarium, on the inside put several paper fish.
Each ...
Make a Robot
This is a fun craft I play with two five year olds I babysit.
All you do is get a box and tell them to make a robot. They can use paint, paper, googly ...
Shark and Dolphin Game
First you pick 1 or 2 people to be a shark - but it really depends how many people you have.
The shark has to get the penguins but the penguins are ...
Four Corners with a Twist
You pick a person (should have about 5 to how many people) and then that person gets in a different room and the other kids go in a corner (should name ...