Quick 5 minute games for reception children (aged 5) to play as time fillers.?
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One game we used to play in improv class (not sure how old your children are) is to create a story one word at a time. Each child says one word adding on to the story. For ex:\n\nChild 1: "The"\nChild 2 "Bear"\nChild 3 "was"\n\nand so on. It can get quite amusing and helps them develop their intuitive skills.\n\nGood luck!
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* Bubbles\n* Water-guns 3 for $1 at the dollar store.\n* If you can borrow/buy a little plastic pool - they love water. If not - do you have a sprinkler? Let 'em play on that!\n* Games like pin the tail on the donkey are fun\n* Another game - don't spill the beans.  Use dried beans - like pinto beans - and let them use a big plastic spoon. Fill the spoon with a certain number of beans and have them walk from point A to point B.  The child with the most beans wins!\n* Finger paint/pudding.  Color vanilla pudding w/different color food coloring and let them 'paint' and eat on their paper plates!\n* Make plain cupcakes and let them decorate w/sprinkles\n* Silly songs and dances\n* Pinatas are fun - but watch how those little guys swing! lol\n* A puppet show with socks. Let each kid make a puppet using markers and all your mismatched socks. Glue buttons on for eyes and let them decorate the rest of the puppet w/markers.  \n* If it's a boy - let them make worms and dirt.  Make choc pudding and put it in little cups.  Let them add the crushed oreo cookies to the top (to make it look like dirt) and give them gummy worms to put in the 'dirt'. Give 'em a spoon and let them eat!\n\nHope those ideas help.  \n\n~Maxie
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I am a speech therapist and I work with kids around those same ages.  Don't brake the ice, cootie, candy land, chutes and ladders, memory, eye spy, and go fish are some favorites with the kids I work with.  Also as far as active inside games they love throwing a ball, i have a plastic bowling set.  We also play "search party" where we turn off the lights and look for items with a flashlight.  Any arts and craft type games are good and they always like to color.
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Any good games would be a game with a prize or something, it gets the child wanting to do it and therefore makes it more fun!! Hope this helped!!
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Hi, I'm watching my 4 yr old granddau. playing on her computer right now. I have Pajama Sam, Freddie Fish, the old Living Books disc. She has completed a couple of the Freddie Fish and PJ Sam games by her self and I can see a very big improvement in her patience and problem solving. And I picked them up cheap on e-bay. Works for me and keeps her busy. ~:)+
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There are alot of educational games based on the old favoutires like memory , bingo, gin rummy- for example bingo boards with the answer, but a question is called instead of the number ( the board may have the number 7 on it, but the bingo question is 56 divided by 8, so the child needs to work it out to get the answer) .There are companies that specialise in educational games (learning ladder, Hawker brownlow, etc) BUT research has shown that half an hour a day at the child's appropriate level will yeild results as long it is provided in a supportive manner. Have you also considered that your child is bored (very common with gifted children), being bullied or has another reason for this change in behaviour?
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http://fallingsand.com/ a great time waster\nhttp://www.addictinggames.com/
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Keep them occupied..drawing or coloring is good,make believe is another good one;like pretending they are authors and have them write stories about certain things they like;board games are okay long as they are easy and fast playing;Have them play school with each other;Play card games;if all else fails put kid videos on!
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get her to play cards or bored games
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Make it fun or somethig like play a game
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Bejeweled is really fun.\nAnd look for a game called Push Push (I had a hard time finding it, but it was worth it! My friend had it on his cell phone and I was so addicted to it!)
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Try these sites they are my favourite\nespecially motherload on miniclip and wordspell on flash arcade\nhttp://www.miniclip.com/\nhttp://flasharcade.com/
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Pogo.com has some fun games.  I like Word Whomp and Pop It.  They also have a daily crossword puzzle. Bored.com also has some interesting stuff.
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Start with a story hour  some willing to sit will kids for an hour and read... have a site with stories animations and music  a learning process, free with no spam
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Have the kids pick up their own toys and put them away.  Make a game of it, set a timer, or sing songs while you do this.
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Quick Math-Mind Games
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Jumpstart and Reader Rabbit have some excellent educational games for little guys.  My 4 year old is already on 1st grade games.  He loves it and plays them every chance he gets.