Exercising memory is always important, at all ages, and especially in this society in which we hardly have to resort to the effort of remembering things. It is essential that children enter 0 and 6 years old play memory games to improve your levels of concentration and attention.
I encourage you to continue reading to know some activities and curiosities about memory, and practice them in a fun way with your children.
Activities for children under 3 years
We propose you a memory game, between the year and the two, in which the child does not have to travel much. For example, take a couple of dolls that he or she really likes and name them. They better be short names. Every day do the same dialogue between these two characters. Something short, type Good night Pepe, Good night Lola ...Every day repeats the scene and you will see how soon your child will do it himself. As you repeat it, you can add phrases, such as: Have a good rest, Pepe. Have a good rest, Lola, And so on accumulating. This simple game will help your baby and little by little he will be the one to incorporate new experiences.
Another very entertaining game is look for the hidden toy. Let's go find Pepe. The important thing is not so much to find it, but rather that the child remembers where he has looked for it. For this we will ask you, have we already looked at the washing machine? Repeat this game several times, it does not matter whether or not the child remembers where he has looked, but rather repeats the mental action of remembering.
Memory games up to 6 years
Already from the age of 3, children are able to use strategies to memorize, such as repeating, narrating or pointing out what they have to remember. Autobiographical memory develops between the ages of 2 and 4. At this age you can already ask them about what they did yesterday, or the friend's birthday ... and yes, it is the moment when they remember all the promises you make to them.
The most famous game and easy is that of couples, which you can complicate as the child grows. You already know a lot of face-up or face-down cards and you have to match them. Following the same line is to match the shadow with the figure. You can print, for example, sheep or Disney princesses and have your son or daughter match the shadows with the appropriate figure. This will help you fix your attention.
These exercises are to practice visual memory in a fun way, but at this age it is a lot of fun learn songs. Another game is add words, for example. I go to the supermarket and I am going to buy a liter of milk, to which your son responds, I go to the supermarket and I am going to buy a liter of milk and a cake, and then, you, so you are adding things to the shopping cart.
Memory games for everyone
From the age of 6 you can start doing more complex memory activities, from the typical puzzles, adapted to their age in difficulty, up to semantic games.
An easy way to exercise your memory is to ask to help you pick up clothes, or prepare food. When picking up the clothes, then he will keep them in the drawers that correspond to him, in the kitchen you can ask him for the ingredients to cook, ask him if you have added salt. Things like that, that you will increase in difficulty until your son or daughter knows all the grandmother's recipes by heart.
A very beneficial and complementary exercise to this is to ask, after performing the action that reminds you step by step of the activities you have done on the day, his class schedules, the order in which he has dressed. This helps to sort the memory timeline.
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