Eight ways to encourage play in children

If you feel that your children are stuck in a routine with the game, you will surely like to listen to these ideas to enhance creativity and imagination through the game. And if you also do not have too much free time to be with your children here we give you some ideas to play with them.

If time accompanies, one of the best alternatives to play with children is nature, in it you will find hundreds of stimuli that will encourage their curiosity and that will help them develop their scientific vein, all children have a little scientist inside!

1. Go outside to play

As I mentioned above, playing outdoors is always fun for children, and if we also play outdoor games, it will help us foster a love for nature, discover new ways of playing including natural elements, and in addition, they can " guarrear "all they want, there are no sofas or upholsteries that can get stained!

2. Games without batteries

If we have too many toys with batteries, I recommend that you take them out or that when they run out, do not replace them. Apart from contaminating the environment, batteries slow the imagination of our children's heads. So imagination to power and invent the sound of a car, a helicopter or a doll crying. I have it checked with my son, the toys he uses the most are the ones that have less technology, at first he likes the little lights but after a while he gets tired.

3. Games made with natural elements

Unleash your imagination and think of anything you have at home to play with your child. This game to find the hidden treasure using rice can be a very fun option. You can also hide different materials in colored balloons and let your child guess what is hidden inside the globe and sort the balloons by colors, count them ...

4. Play in pajamas

Whatever you do, doing it in pajamas is scientifically proven that it is much more fun.

5. Sign up for anything

Kneel down, get up to your sight and make the child with them. It will be fun for your children and a happiness therapy for you.

6. Be spontaneous

Surprise your children halfway when you go errands by car (or for a walk). I talk about doing it by car because you can hide your bicycles or scooters in the trunk and between one errand and another you can stop, park the car in front of a park and tell them to get out of the car, take out the bicycles and play for a while! Surely you surprise them and they are very happy.

The day I took this picture of Lucas I had to go pick up something at a friend's house and the poor man had no choice but to come with me, the road by car is a bit long and although he always behaves super well when we travel By car, I thought it might be an illusion for him to make a break to go out and play when he wasn't expecting it.

7. Turn up the volume

Put music at full speed and dance your favorite songs, sometimes we forget to dance with the amount of things we have to do per day but surely if we all dance a little every day, we will smile more!

8. Cooking with children

You know that I am a devotee of the kitchen and especially with my son, here you have many ideas to cook with them.

Photos | Caro Ferrer, BabyPlays on Flickr On Babies and More | Do not forget: play with your child at least half an hour a day, Ten benefits of playing with children