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2007-12-10 03:00:25     
Article by Jennie Gandhi

Kids represent a small world of fun and entertainment. There are many activities for kids that they enjoy and helps them to grow in all spheres of life. Play and other activities promote healthy child development.

Some of the most common children's activities are as follows:

Paper Painting

Paper painting is something that every child enjoys. Provide your child with paint brushes and unwanted paper pieces. You will be surprised to feel the pleasure they have while painting a picture with a creative mind and blend of colors.

Carton Mania

Give your child cartons that you have kept aside. They will enjoy making various different objects like tea sets, zoo and many other objects using these cartons. Allow them to use paintbrushes and colors to make the objects more colorful and beautiful.

Making Paper Dolls

Paper is one such thing that every child enjoys playing with. A child can make creative and imaginative objects like tree, pen stand, boat, ship, flower and beautiful dolls with papers. Draw a doll standing with legs together on a piece of cardboard. Cover it with colorful paper to make distinction between the clothes and the body. Decorate the clothing with various different kinds of decorations and embellishments. Add other features like hair, nose and ear using articles like wool, red paper and brown paper respectively.

Beading

Beading is a process of collecting beads and joining them together to form a shoe lace, a string or a hair band. Children enjoy playing with an assortment of colorful beads. Let them sort different kinds of beads by their color, shapes and sizes. This will help them to learn different shapes and colors.

Puppet Making

It's pleasurable to make puppets using old socks. Draw or glue eyes on the socks and add some yarn or drawn hair to it. A child can also make use of fabric paints, colors, embellishments and other articles to add features to the puppet. The creativity of a child can be enhanced by these kinds of activities.

Sand Activities

Everybody in their childhood love playing with sand. Children can perform lot of fun activities using sand. They can make their dream houses on the beach, prepare various different creative objects, sculptures and can also use sand for painting. For painting all they need is colored chalk, salt, and glue.

Memory Games

These games help a child to enhance his mental ability. There are many different kinds of memory games that can be played individually or even in groups. Apart from stimulating the mental behavior, these activities also help a child to grow socially.

Puzzle Games

By playing different types of puzzle activities, a child learns about pattern recognition, solving through sequence and making use of logic. These games can also enhance the child's development cycle by developing his reading, writing, problem solving and coordinating skills and aptitudes.

Outdoor Activities

Outdoor activities like volleyball, football and baseball are played in groups, so these activities often develops a feeling of sharing and togetherness in a child. Your child can enjoy a full scale of entertainment through these activities.

There are many more activities for kids that children enjoy and activities that enhance every domain of child development.

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