10 group coordination games
The role of the game is basic in the development of the child. Without realizing it and having fun, it stimulates a whole series of aspects such as coordination, knowledge of your body, gross and fine motor skills, etc. It is very important that, at these ages, children play and move ... that is their most important task. And the jgroup coordination games, those of always like the hiding place, can become our best allies.
The game is always a trainer for the child, regardless of which one. The games always, birthday and parties have other functions besides the purely playful. As children are always willing to play, we can take advantage of them as unbeatable opportunities to help them develop coordination and spatial sense.
With games, children struggle to imagine situations and to establish and follow rules. As well awakens intellectual and physical possibilities, increase your knowledge ... But it is also exteriorization, relief and relaxation.
The movement and group coordination games they are directed mainly to physical activity (always important) and to the acquisition of various general skills: spatial orientation, stimulation of reflexes, coordination in a broad sense, lateralization, knowledge and experimentation of one's own body, attention capacity, psychomotricity ...
Rules of games for all
In this phase of their development, the games also teach them to live in society, to interact with other children. Everyone has to follow the rules of the game and has to respect their peers.
The rules of the game must be clearly explained and enforced in a rigorous manner. There are no cheating children, only children excessively involved in the game, driven by the desire for victory. When someone does not follow the rules, we will have to explain them again, without blaming them.
The role of the game director
If they are allowed to play them alone, without a bigger front, the children will tend towards the exciting aspect of the game, that is, the competition. Nothing more normal than to play to win. It will be necessary to channel this legitimate confrontation for the victory towards higher goals: that everyone wins at some time, that the winner does not overwhelm the rest, that there are prizes for all, different types of games so that everyone has possibilities, etc.
For everyone to have fun, especially the little ones who can immediately lose interest, these games you need an adult director. You will have to pose the basic rules and arbitrate in conflict situations. But above all, you must manage the group so that everyone can have fun ... and learn.
10 coordination games for children to play in a group
1. To the potato rum
We have all been children once and we will have played this nice game. The famous song "When we eat the potato, we will eat salad ..."It can be replaced by any other traditional song, it's about having fun for the children spinning together by the hands. So they exercise and learn coordination. If there are many children, two concentric circles can be made that turn in opposite directions.
2. Obstacle course
To the style of an "American track", We can place various objects so that our children have to avoid them. We need a wide space. First, we will chalk a line on the floor and balance, then climb on a chair, go under a table, do a somersault and can compete to see who takes less to complete the entire journey.
3. The darkness
The popular game of darkness is that one of the children has to catch an object with closed eyes. For this, you will have the help of another boy or girl who will guide you. It is not easy because you will have to orient yourself without seeing anything and move your hand a little to the left or to the right when they tell you. To further complicate the game we can place some objects so you have to dodge them.
4. Upside-down world
This world is crazy, crazy. Here it is necessary for an older person to carry the weight of the game. You have to say a series of verbs and the boys and girls have to Do just the opposite. They will have to sit down when they say: "Get up", cry when they say "laugh", etc. It helps them in their coordination. It is fun. They can go eliminating those who are wrong.
5. Through the looking glass
For this game we will need great concentration because they will have to perform certain upside down exercises. We will place our son in front of a large mirror and looking at him he will have to touch his left knee, remove a handkerchief from his pocket, cover his right eye. We can also use a series of objects to put them in a box and then tie them with a ribbon.If you put yourself in profile before the mirror and looking through it, it will be more difficult.
6. The infernal robot
With this game the children are trained in the coordination of their movements. The boys and girls, who will be placed in front of us, they have to do what we say: move the head, stick out the tongue. At first it will be easy, but little by little we will complicate the orders: raise the left hand, touch the ear with the right and raise the left leg. We will eliminate those who do not make the orders. The game is more difficult when both arms or both legs have to execute different movements.
7. The rescue
Two teams are made and a space is delimited, with limits that can not be crossed. One of the teams has to try to catch all the members of the opposing team. When this happens, the tables are changed. One of the features of the game is that the captured can be rescued if any of their team manages to touch them.
The playing field has to be wide enough so that it can run.
8. Follow the king
All the boys will line up, one after the other. We will go first, as if we were a king with his vassals. Everything we do we have to do those who come behind: if we bend down, everyone has to stoop; if we pass over a stick in balance, everyone will have to do it. After a while, we can change the king. It will be very fun to see how one of the guys does it.
9. Chairs and music
For this popular game you need as many chairs as there are players minus one, and a music device. The chairs are placed in a circle and the boys and girls have to go around them until the music stops. So everyone should sit where he can. Those who run out of chairs are eliminated and a chair is removed until only two players and only one chair remain. The fun is assured but the integrity of the chairs may not, so we will have to use some stronger or little new.
10. Slipper from behind
We will sit all the children in a circle but one with a sneaker will go around and singing: "The shoe from behind, tris after, you will not see it or not, tris after, look up, that bean fall, look down that chickpeas fall ... "and the rest goes up or down when he says it. At one point, the child leaves the shoe behind another child who will have to chase after him before he can sit in his place. If he does not get caught, it will be his turn to sing and leave the shoe. It is a game for both indoor and outdoor.
With the shoe the rhythm and coordination is stimulated, because you have to make the gestures according to the music. In addition, the attention span is developed to go off as soon as the shoe is left.
Beatriz Bengoechea. Family counselor
