Riddles - this is one of the types of development of thinking in children. The child gets acquainted with the riddles from childhood. It’s good if the first ones contain an answer picture. Auditory perception, together with visual perception, will quickly help the child understand the essence of the mystery. Considering the answer-drawing, the baby will be able to compare the signs of the description of the object indicated in the riddle with those present in the figure. Mysteries about nature with answers will be ideal for children of primary school age.
A riddle is a charge for the mind. Russian folk art is permeated by them. Even in fairy tales, the hero, in order to achieve his goals, had to go through a path dotted with riddles, the solution of which required him to have ingenuity, wisdom, knowledge and true friends.
Classification
There are a great many riddles on various subjects and ages; they can be composed both in poetic form and in prose. Puzzles with a rhyme answer are well suited for group classes, where the answer is called a choir.
By origin they can be divided into 2 groups:
Folk mysteries are those that have come down to our time, created by the people and not having a specific author. Since the origin of riddles is very ancient, dating back to the mythological era, in folklore riddles often animals, plants, natural phenomena are endowed with human qualities. The basis of folklore is the worldview of ancient peoples. Mysteries about nature make up a large part of folk art.
Author's puzzles are created by a specific person, they are also called literary. By origin, they are divided into different topics.
Thematic classification
In literary riddles, one can distinguish the following main topics:
- Man: family, work, relationship.
- Home: dishes, furniture.
- Food.
- The drinks.
- Clothes, shoes.
- Tools, crafts.
- Musical instruments.
- Natural phenomena, nature.
- Letter letter.
- Spiritual values.
- Concepts about time.
Mysteries for kids about the seasons
For kids, puzzles about nature and animals are better suited (which they already have an idea about). You need to make sure that everything that is said is familiar to the kids. When guessing with the child should highlight the main features of the described subject and find the answer. The guessing process will stimulate the development of imagination, memory, and the ability to build a logical chain. It’s better to start with simple puzzles in which the signs of the item to be hidden are indicated quite clearly, without metaphors and hyperbole.
For example, for kids, such puzzles about nature are suitable with answers that examine the seasons:
1. Sheets everything with a white carpet, sneaks through frost?
Answer: winter.
2. Leaves of multi-colored steel and fell from trees. So it comes to us, and it rains with it ...?
Answer: autumn.
3. Birds flew in from the south, sonorous songs sang. The sun shines brightly, and children walk around. Who came to us?
Answer: spring.
4. The sun shines high, the river has been warm for a long time. Have fun going swimming, sunbathing and indulging. What season is it?
Answer: summer.
5. The bear lay down in his den, he will suck on his paw. He will now sleep sweetly, while a painting woman has come to visit us ...
Answer: winter.
6. Harvest we all gathered and put things in order. They walked friendly into the kindergarten, because in the yard, quietly and quietly, we crept up to us and took the rains with us ...?
Answer: autumn.
7. Rested, freshened, ripe berries we ate. It peered into the guests, bright and hot, our long-awaited ...
Answer: summer.
8. Brooks ran, the ice flowed in the river, the bushes woke up, they all dressed in greenery. The time has come to visit us, time of year - ...?
Answer: spring.
9. Outside the window is white and the colors have disappeared. Everything around was wrapped in white outfits. What time of year has come?
Answer: winter.
10. Clouds of snow dispersed, ice melted. All the flowers bloomed, stretched to the sun. Winter has gone frosty, has come ... green.
Answer: spring.
Children's puzzles about nature
Nature is what the baby gets acquainted with when he is born. Developing, he notices how everything around is changing, the seasons are replacing each other, getting acquainted with natural phenomena. Mysteries about nature help children consolidate this knowledge and focus on the components that make up a natural phenomenon. Kids will be interested to analyze the signs of existing natural phenomena.
Riddles about natural phenomena:
1. A multi-colored arc, shines in the gray sky, the sun is setting?
Guess: Rainbow.
2. White grains from the sky tumbled down, covered paths, wrapped at home.
Guess: snowflakes.
3. The sky turned black and black, lightning flashed. Something followed thundered, frightening everyone in the district.
Guess: Thunderstorm.
4. A cloud in the sky appeared, darkened, grew. Suddenly wet the whole earth and watered flowers.
Guess: rain.
5. Leaves fall, swirl, cover the ground. In multi-colored colors, everything around changes.
Guess: leaf fall.
6. White, like sugar, flies from the sky. He doesn’t have legs, he hurries to the ground.
Guess: snow.
Natural phenomena
In the winter period of time, knowledge of weather conditions will be strengthened by riddles about winter natural phenomena :
1. Nose froze, ears froze, came to us ... crackling.
Answer: frost.
2. Hanging from the roof, melting and shining in the sun?
Answer: icicle.
3. Falls from the sky, whirls and sits on our hand. It melts in the palm of your hand, and it remains on the fur coat.
Answer: snowflake.
4. Under your feet it’s very slippery, neither walk nor step. Frost came to us at night, froze water, all of it in ... he turned.
The answer is ice.
5. A strong wind suddenly blew, he brought snow with him. He swirled everything, wrapped it up, wrapped it in cold.
Answer: blizzard.
6. Everything is covered with a white fur coat: paths, trees, swings, and houses. And the traces of all it became clear who passed on the fur coat. What kind of fur coat is this?
Answer: snow.
7. In the morning we got up, and the trees changed their outfit. And on the branches appeared a little white coating.
Answer: hoarfrost.
Live nature
Growing up, the child begins to divide nature into living and nonliving. Secrets of wildlife will help to consolidate the knowledge gained.
Here are some of them:
1. Barks, bites, caresses the owner?
Answer: dog.
2. He eats sour cream, he drinks milk. And purrs loudly, our beloved ...?
Answer: cat.
3. What a miracle, here is a cow, without horns and without hooves. He wears red clothes in black peas. Who is it?
Answer: ladybug.
4. Flaps its wings, flutters from flower to flower?
Answer: butterfly.
5. Nectar will collect a lot and quickly carry to the house. Hardworking, but her name is ...?
Answer: a bee.
6. Little green, does he chirp in the grass?
Answer: grasshopper.
7. Green, fluffy for the holiday came to us?
Answer: tree.
8. He goes through the desert, carries two humps?
Answer: camel.
9. A little white trunk, green braids. Curls spread, dangling earrings.
Answer: birch.
10. Galloping horse, in striped clothes?
The answer is: zebra.
Riddles for schoolchildren
With age, puzzles need to be complicated. The presence of specific signs is optional, they can be generalized, exaggerated. The riddle may contain a hint, then you need to be smart.
Schoolchildren are only mysterious by ear, stimulating memory, auditory perception, logic, thinking, they are taught to be smart.
Mysteries about nature are complex:
1. Without arms, without legs, and draws patterns on the window.
Guess: frost.
2. Blue field, all strewn with silver?
Guess: sky with stars.
3. Noises, screams day and night, but the voice does not break?
Guess: a waterfall.
4. In the green field, the circle is blue. Stirs, splashes, doesn’t spill out onto the field?
Guess: Lake.
5. Does it make its way out of the ground and continue to flow?
Guess: a spring.
6. The damsel is chubby, in the blue sky. Hiding from the sun during the day, going out for a walk at night?
Guess: moon.
7. Light and airy, do not catch with hands. You cannot live without him; does he surround us everywhere?
Guess: air.
8. Without a sting, without thorns, a stronger bee stings?
Guess: nettle.
9. Without arms, without legs, without voice. Flies, runs like a bird?
Guess: wind.
10. Is the river calm, the wind will blow - will they run through the water?
Guess: waves.
Conclusion
The role of puzzles is great in the development of a child’s personality. However, little time has been devoted recently to this direction. Riddles are present in kindergartens, and in school their number decreases sharply. It is wrong to assume that they are created only for entertainment and do not carry a semantic load useful for mental development.
A child who knows how to solve puzzles has logic, developed thinking, imagination and versatile knowledge.