Los hijos y los Juegos de Mesa

Amanda plays with dolls, explores the world, watches TV, learns rules and academic skills, interacts with friends, imitates roles and now incorporates board games into her time, an activity that fosters cognitive, social-emotional and physical areas.

I believe in board games as they have a positive effect on the player to learn and develop skills, from solitary puzzle play to multiplayer games are important from the first three years of life. Amanda started building puzzles at the age of 3 and over time she has become confident in putting together more puzzles and going from different pieces to the same; this game enhances many skills such as attention, concentration, discrimination, observation, memory, classification, synthesis and fine coordination. I am really happy to share a didactic activity that we like and that entertains us.

In December she received a traditional running game called Snakes and Ladders; a random game to advance squares according to the number on the dice until reaching the goal; this game allowed me to reinforce numbers and the parent-child relationship. Then she was given the running game Little Princesses, again a random game, but with the novelty that when falling in special boxes the rule must be fulfilled; I like that Amanda exercises her memory to defend or accept the rules with a good sense of humor, she also incorporated new numbers and above all strengthened family ties. On December 24, another game arrived that brightened up our Christmas, a small gift, the game consists of knowing how to coordinate the fishing rod, while there are fish that rotate and open their mouths in a certain time on a mechanical base; it was a moment of great laughter that after fulfilling the purpose, we created three variants to have new challenges. In January the Three Wise Men brought another board game called Corre Corre, a team strategy game, where everyone wins or loses, invites you to create strategies to choose the right time to feed a lion who wants to reach three animals that want to reach the island to save themselves; for this you have to make the decision in cooperation before moving forward with the roulette that tells you which animal or animals take steps. This game explains a central objective that I already mentioned, but it also exposes a content of nature, but Amanda, by creating empathy, transformed and decided that the animals should take food to the lion, that is to say that the game awakened in the girl the value of solidarity.