You went out into the countryside and are thinking of how to entertain the children? Without a TV, they become too active and uncontrollable. It is in the power of parents to direct energy in the right direction. Invite the guys to play pantomime. For children, this will be a new experience and interesting practice.
What is pantomime
This is such a form of art when an actor does not use words, but expresses all his thoughts and feelings with actions. Seems boring? This is not true. If you look at the performance of at least one professional mime, it becomes clear how he conveys his feelings to people.
The first films, as everyone knows, were black and white and soundless. As you can guess, just memes played in them. Most of these tapes were comedic. It is understandable, to show a funny scene without words is not as difficult as it expresses sadness or longing. Pantomime for children today is used as an educational game. It’s fun. Children and adults, along with them, guess the various characters, actions and emotions.
What varieties of pantomime are
Children love games and often showcase their talents. Acting skill, guys practice most often. It is understandable, because it is more often than others useful in everyday life. What are pantomimes for children?
- Dance Here, children should dance to any music delivered. But for the task to be difficult, the guys must move around the improvised scene in a certain way. For example, on toes or on heels.
- The classic version. In this game, the child makes a word, and he must show the rest, without using sounds.
- Acrobatic Here the child must show his talent as a juggler, jumper or gymnast. Such pantomimes are popular among athletes.
- Eccentric. Acting out a comedic situation.
At what age can children show mime
You need to teach your child to play in public. Thus, it turns out to remove excess shyness from the child. And most importantly, showing pantomimes, children train imagination and fantasy. It seems to this thirty-year-old man that one can easily show how to sweep the floor. A four-year-old child can think about this task for about 10 minutes. Mimes for children can be invented from a very young age, from three years old. When the child already walks well and speaks clearly, he can be given easy tasks, for example, to show how he collects toys or walks with a dog.
Dance pantomime
This type of entertainment will appeal to active children. Here you do not need to think much, but you need to complete tasks. For example, to show the dance of little swans, but do not get on socks, but use heels instead. You can ask your child to dance a waltz, but you need to walk on the floor not with your feet, but with your hands. Such unusual upheavals will help children develop their imagination, and most importantly, understand that you can always look at familiar things from the other side. What kind of dance tasks can you think of for a child? You can turn on the song dance of the little ducklings in reverse rewind and tell the child to make the usual movements in the reverse order.
Revived tales
If the family has more than one child, or if friends with their children come to visit, you can play impromptu scenes. The pantomime tale for children is popular. Parents read any work of art, and the children portray everything they hear. For such pantomimes, tales well-known to children and new fables are great. You can take tasks from the school textbook of literature. Thus, it will be more pleasant for children to read boring books. And most importantly, portraying everything that the child hears, he remembers the meaning of the work.
"Alice"
One of the most interesting games for kids is Alias.
This is a pantomime for
children whose tasks are nested. What is the difference between the version for kids and the game for adults? The fact that the task on the card is only one and it is depicted by a picture. That is, even a small child who cannot read can play such a game.
What do you need to do? Depict animals, people, and objects. For example, you might want to show a cow, a lemon, an apple, a cook, or puzzles. Moreover, in the children's version, all this diversity must be conveyed without words and sounds, exclusively with gestures and grimaces. You can play Alice with either a purchased game or a home-made one. The advantage of cards that will be printed independently is that they can be supplemented periodically. After all, if you play Alice often, you can quickly remember all the tasks and guess them will be uninteresting.
Grimaces
Examples of mime for children can be a demonstration of funny faces. For example, you can play in the image of the emotion that appears on the face after eating: lemon, pear, strawberries, sugar or sea buckthorn. But you can also make faces while portraying emotions. For example, a child may exhibit fear, confusion, joy, pain, or inspiration. Of course, this version of the game is best played with children of preschool or school age. Indeed, at this age, the child should already be able to not only be aware of his emotions, but also be able to demonstrate them.
Crocodile
One of the easiest things to do for children is pantomime. The leader makes a word, and the child must show through actions what he was told. Older children can be taught to play crocodile without adults. But kids are not always able to come up with a task. Therefore, adults can control and direct children's thoughts in the right direction. If the child is lost and does not know what to make of it, you can whisper in his ear so that he remembers what he ate for breakfast. It may be difficult to show oatmeal. But modern babies are sometimes smarter than their parents think.
It is very interesting to play crocodile in a company where there are both adults and children. In such a situation, the child is not always loser. After all, adults will feel sorry for him and ask easy words. But the baby will not spare his parents and relatives.
Snowball
The pantomime script for children can be made from the well-known modernized game.
The first child pulls the task and performs an action, for example, rubs his palms against each other. The card is put off. The next child pulls his card. He needs to repeat the action of the first player - to rub his palms - and his own, to jump on one leg. The third should draw out a card, and then perform the actions of his comrades who have already drawn out the cards. And then sit down 5 times. Thus, the game will continue until one of the children can complete all the tasks in order.
You can play snowball without cards. In this case, the children should simply come up with tasks, and their neighbors repeat. For students, this option is quite acceptable. But for children who go to kindergarten, it is better to give cards.
Daily workouts
A pantomime game for children requires practice. The child will quickly come up with actions and tasks only if he has such a practice. You see, not every day parents pay attention to their child. But if you don’t be lazy and practice this funny game with your child at least 10-15 minutes a day, the results will not be long in coming.
Pantomime Benefits
As from any game, a child can endure much from grimaces and a crocodile. His acting skills will improve once in a while. The child will quickly be able to portray any emotion. True, this does not always benefit parents. After all, their child can lose touch with reality and sometimes flirt. It is necessary to explain to the child where it is appropriate to apply his acting talents, and where it is better to refrain. After all, no one wants a child to make funny scenes at a lesson or in a store.
Mimes allow the child to improve memory. After all, playing such games often, you don’t want to repeat yourself and you have to remember how one or another animal was shown in the last game. Particularly well develop the memory of fairy tales that children beat. After all, the skill to do two things at the same time is practiced here. The child has to train auditory memory. After all, he needs to hear, realize and come up with what to show. If you don’t have time to read fairy tales, you can put audio books for children. This will be a good help to modern parents.
Pantomimes train the imagination. After all, besides the fact that you need to show some animal, you also need to figure out how to do this. Moreover, it’s not interesting to show, for example, a fox in the same way every time. We have to invent something new. In such a game, a child can train the ability to quickly cope with difficult situations. Moreover, with the help of mimes, he can turn even the most difficult life situations into a joke. After all, the ability to relieve the atmosphere is simply irreplaceable in difficult everyday circumstances.