Any matinee will become more fun and interesting if the New Year's performance is accompanied by competitions and interesting active games. In kindergarten, it is important to select games according to the age of the children and their level of development. For children in the nursery and junior kindergarten groups, it will be difficult to understand the conditions of difficult competitions. And children from the older group will have more fun if they receive small prizes for participating in the games.
Every year, parents and preschool teachers look for and prepare a large amount of entertainment, decorating the hall with snowflakes to create a festive mood and joyful emotions. And there is always a shortage of ideas to make magic and fairy tales happen. Take it and use it - let matinees or performances at home bring sincere joy and be remembered for a lifetime.
Magic songs
Children stand in a circle and take turns calling songs that mention winter, New Year and New Year's characters (Santa Claus, Snow Maiden, snowflakes, and so on). Those who cannot name the song are eliminated from the game and receive a consolation prize. And the winner will receive the main gift. Children of kindergarten age know many songs from cartoons, for example, “If only there were no winter”, “The little Christmas tree is cold in winter”, “My best gift is you”, “Umka’s Song”, “Three White Horses” and so on, so the competition It will turn out to be cheerful and lively.
New Year's competitions and outdoor games for kindergarten with parents
Parents are often invited to the kindergarten’s matinee. Adults watch the kids with affection and record what is happening on video. If you prepare competitions in which parents can participate, this will primarily please the kids. And serious adults will remember their childhood.
The content of the article
- New Year's competitions and outdoor games for kindergarten with parents
- New Year's party games for kids
- New Year competitions for kindergarten in the preparatory group
- Fun and funny competitions from Santa Claus for children at home
Hat
What you will need:
- Hat,
- Prepare several riddles for the presenter.
To the accompaniment of rhythmic, cheerful music, children and adults stand on stage or in the center of the circle. The hat is put on one of the participants, and he must put the hat on the head of his neighbor. The music stops abruptly. The participant who is wearing the hat at that moment must recite a poem about winter or New Year, or guess the presenter’s riddle.
Portrait of Santa Claus
What you will need:
- Large Whatman paper,
- Markers of different colors,
- Head scarf or blindfold.
Whatman paper is mounted on a stand. Two teams: a team of parents and a team of children. Each participant in turn from each team, blindfolded, draws Santa Claus on whatman paper with a colored felt-tip pen. Moreover, each subsequent person is not told which parts of Santa Claus are already in the picture.
Bag of surprises
What you will need:
- Two small bags with drawstrings,
- blindfolds,
- Various toys of approximately the same size: cubes, fox, bunny, matryoshka, rattle, etc.
Two children and an adult competing. In turn, each person, blindfolded, takes out a toy. Describes what he felt. The participant who guessed more objects that he described wins. Who has the better imagination?
Dress up the Christmas tree
What you will need:
- Two small artificial Christmas trees of the same size,
- Two boxes with unbreakable Christmas tree decorations.
Two teams of three people. Parents and children. On command, they decorate their Christmas tree to the music. The one whose Christmas tree is the most beautiful and neat wins.
New Year's auction
Parents and children sit in the hall or stand in a circle. The presenter asks to name the attributes of the New Year's holiday. For example, a Christmas tree, garlands, rain, and so on. The participant who stammers and cannot say anything sings a song or reads a poem as punishment.
Freeze
Two teams play. Team of parents and team of children. Each team in turn, without words, must depict a scene from a cartoon about the New Year or about the symbols of the year. The rest of the matinee participants must guess what kind of cartoon it is. The team that scores the most points wins.
What are New Year's heroes missing?
For this competition, you need to prepare pictures (drawn or made of felt) of New Year's heroes with the missing details (in two copies), for example, a snowman without a carrot-nose, a Snow Maiden without a braid, Santa Claus without a bag of gifts, a Christmas tree without a star, and so on. Children are divided into 2 teams and for each team, pictures or applications with characters are attached to the table or wall in any convenient way (easel, using push pins, etc.). At the “start” command, the children must consult and decide together what the New Year’s characters are missing and complete (or stick on, depending on the initial preparations) the missing details for each character. The team that quickly figures out and fills in the missing parts will be the winner.
Morning of Santa Claus
Santa Claus asks the guys: “Children, you wait for me every year and behave well, you should know how my morning begins, what exercises I need to do so that I can be on time for everyone and what I need to eat to be strong. Tell me one by one, one sentence at a time, what I do when I wake up. And then a word to the participants. For example, the first says: “Santa Claus wakes up and washes himself,” and the second adds: “brush his teeth and gets dressed,” the third says: “does exercises for Santa Claus.” So the imagination and humor of children will help reveal all the secrets of the life of Santa Claus.
The best New Year's actors
Before the game starts, the presenter makes some designations - shows the actions that the children should do when they hear this or that word, for example: lanterns - they twist their hands, snowflakes - the children spin, garlands - the children blink quickly, the wind - the children blow, and so on. Then the leader begins to command and monitor how the children remember and perform the actions. That is, when the presenter says: the lanterns are now being lit, the children must turn their hands. And now the garlands are turned on - the children blink quickly. And now snowflakes are falling - the children are spinning. The leader repeats himself repeatedly, and the children perform the actions. At the end of the game, the most attentive and dexterous children who correctly performed all the actions, having heard the “code” words of the presenter, will receive prizes, for example, magic wands (and even though they are toys, thanks to their imagination, they can be used to command and force everyone to perform the actions that are needed ).
The simplest crafts for the New Year 2022 from pine cones and other scrap materials
Unusual crafts can be made from spruce and pine cones. You need to collect this natural material in advance and dry it so that it is convenient to work. Cones fit perfectly into the interior of an apartment decorated in eco-style.
You can make a large ball out of pine cones. This can decorate a living room or kitchen. It attracts attention and surprises.
Materials:
- foam base or paper, newspapers;
- pine cones;
- ribbon;
- glue;
- paint in an aerosol can;
- decor
Step-by-step production:
- Prepare a ball-shaped base. It is very convenient to use a ready-made foam rubber blank. These are sold in florist shops. If it is not possible to purchase such a ball, you can make it yourself from newspapers or paper, rolling up a base from them.
- Prepare the cones, select only whole specimens.
- Glue the cones one by one in rows onto the base. You need to try not to have any gaps.
- Make a loop from the tape and attach it to the top of the workpiece.
- Decorate the craft with aerosol paint or any decor.
On a note!
If there are gaps left, it is worth covering them with spruce or pine branches, you can use cotton wool or tinsel. Any decor will do - you just need to use your imagination.
You can make interesting Christmas decorations from pine cones. Such crafts will fit perfectly into a variety of styles. They are easy to make, and the toys are more than economical.
Materials:
- cones;
- glue;
- satin tape;
- colorful fluffy balls.
Step-by-step production:
- Sort through the cones, select only the most beautiful ones, without damage. Pine cones open well in a warm room. For such a craft, you need exactly open specimens. If you have pine cones, that's even better. They look very decorative.
- Glue fluffy balls in a chaotic manner to the inside of the petals.
- Make a loop from the tape and glue it to the base of the pine cone. The gluing area can be decorated with a bead.
On a note!
If you glue not multi-colored, but monochromatic balls, for example, white ones, to the cone, the result will be less bright, but more noble. Such crafts will fit perfectly into the Scandinavian style.
Pine cones can be considered a universal material. You can make a lot of interesting things out of them. If you want something unusual, you can try bleaching the cones. To do this, they are dipped for 1 hour in a mixture of Whiteness and water (1:1 ratio). After bleaching, they lose their natural pigment and acquire an unusual shade.
Gifts for everyone
Near the Christmas tree there are little animals (soft toys), for example, a bunny, a cat, a dog, a monkey (2 of each animal), and “gifts and treats” for the animals are scattered throughout the room, respectively - carrots, fish, seeds and bananas (from colored paper, felt or plastic models). Children are divided into 2 teams. For one team, the animals sit on one side of the tree, and for the other, on the other. At the command “begin”, the children begin to look for gifts for their animals: they found a treat - give it to the animal and continue searching. When the host stops the game, a count is made to see which team was able to collect more “gifts and treats” for their animals. This team will be the winner.
Symbol of 2022 DIY felt tiger
For the New Year, you definitely need to make a craft in the shape of a Tiger. This is a wonderful talisman. You can leave it at home or give it to friends and acquaintances, and the manufacturing process will cause a lot of delight.
Materials:
- felt in several colors;
- needle;
- threads;
- narrow tape;
- filler;
- eyes;
- scissors;
- glue;
- black outline on fabric;
- patterns.
Step-by-step production:
- Transfer the patterns to felt. You can pre-draw them on paper yourself. You will need 2 oval parts (width about 6 cm, height about 5 cm), 2 orange parts for ears (height about 3 cm), 2 white parts for the inside of the ears, a black nose, muzzle, and a pink tongue.
- Cut the ribbon to the required length and make a loop out of it.
- Attach the ears to one of the large parts, glue the white parts of the ears inside.
- Glue a ribbon loop in the center.
- Cover the central piece from above with exactly the same one and stitch around the perimeter, leaving a little space for stuffing the craft.
- Glue the muzzle, tongue, and eyes onto the tiger's head.
- Stuff the toy with stuffing and sew up the part that remains unsewn.
- Draw stripes with acrylic paint or a black outline. It is very convenient to use paint in a tube.
On a note!
Stripes on the tiger's head can also be made from black ribbons. But first they need to be cut into narrow strips and their edges melted.
Who was left without a gift?
For this competition you need to prepare pictures of animals, for example, a bunny, bear, monkey, dog, cat, chicken, etc. (in several copies, depending on the number of teams) and pictures with treats for these animals (carrot, barrel of honey, banana, bone, fish, grain, etc.). For each team (in the same way), on a separate table or on the floor, pictures of animals and pictures of treats are laid out scattered, excluding one picture with a treat for an animal, for example, a picture with a banana. At the “start” command, children begin to “investigate” and try to find out faster than their rivals who was left without a gift. But this is not enough. As soon as the children guess who was left without a gift, they must draw a treat on a piece of paper for the animal that did not receive anything. The team that completes the task faster and better than others will win.
Give Santa Claus superpowers.
Modern children are precocious and they have their own idols and favorite superheroes. Therefore, the idea of awarding Santa Claus with a special superpower will be interesting and fun. The presenter states that now each participant has the opportunity to award Santa Claus with a special superpower. Each of the guys takes turns telling what superpower he can give to Santa Claus, telling how it works and demonstrating it. For example, super speed, penetration through walls, super resistance to heat, and so on. It all depends on the guys’ imagination.
