Games are an important component of children's development. And games and experiments with water allow you to learn something new in a fun way, gain various skills necessary for the correct development of a child.
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Getting to know the properties of water
Water is an amazing substance that has unique qualities and the basis of life on Earth. Using simple experiments, you can introduce children to the most basic properties of water, learn its features and draw conclusions.
“The water has no smell of”
You can use fruit juice, sunflower oil or kefir to compare water with other liquids. Invite your child to compare how all these liquids smell and draw his own conclusion.
“Water has no buzz
For the experience, you can take liquids suitable for consumption and compare how sour, sweet or spicy they can be and how tasteless water is.
“Water does not have the color”
For a small experience, you can pour orange juice into one glass, and water into the other and place small objects in both glasses. It will become clear that the juice “ will hide the object due to its color, but in the water the object is clearly visible because the water is transparent.
“Water can be in three forms of”
This is a rule we know from school, but you can introduce a child to it much earlier than first grade. The water can be liquid, for example, the water of rivers, lakes, oceans, or even morning dew on blades of grass. The water can be solid - hail, snow, ice, frost. Or it can be gaseous, in the form of steam (just look at a boiling kettle of water).
“Water can be of different temperatures”
With your child, you can see how the water boils in the saucepan. How bubbles form and how it gradually cools down if the pan is removed from the heat. You can also freeze the water by watching how a crust of ice gradually forms.
“Water does not have a form”
This can be easily checked by pouring water into objects of different shapes, the water is so liquid that it takes the form of these objects without having its own.
Simple water games
After learning the properties, it's time to play and have some fun. Playing with water is very interesting and educational, and it also perfectly develops creative skills.
“Let's play ice age”
Small toys and a plastic box will come in handy for this game. You need to add a little blue paint to the water to make it look a little more like water in the ocean. And then dip the toys in the water and put the box in the freezer. Once the water freezes, you can start real “buildings, just a little hot water is enough to save the toys from the icy captivity.
“Breaking foam”
All the little ones love bright, colorful foam, you can give the baby a whisk, pour some liquid soap into the water and suggest whipping the foam yourself And you can also blow soap bubbles, just find a device convenient for this.
“Big wash”
Water and some laundry detergent - Remove small dirt perfectly You can show your child how to just do it if you rub the item a little in a soapy solution and then rinse it in running water.
Experiments with water - wonderful transformations
“Water is the basis of life”
For this experience, you need to draw a flower with clearly defined petals on paper. And then cut it out and carefully bend all the petals to the center. Next, take a large container of water and lower the flower there so that it ends up on the surface. A minute or two later you can see the flower petals gradually open.
“Let's play with ice-cakes”
For this small experiment, you need to first freeze the water and then break the ice on many ice floes of different sizes. Each such ice floe can be inserted with a toothpick with a sail or even put a toy animal on it and put it on a swim. So, a child will become familiar with the properties of water when it turns into ice and can depict the wind that helps ships with a sail move faster on the water.
“If it started to rain”
It's unpleasant to find yourself outside in the pouring rain without an umbrella, right? With this experience, a child can understand what will happen if water is poured from above onto different objects and how these objects “ will behave around when water hits them. Some can get wet and others can remain unharmed, so you can understand what absorbs and what repels water.
“Drowning items”
With this experience, you can understand how heavy different objects are. You can offer your child paper, cardboard, plastic, plywood, wood, metal or stone so that he can determine how quickly some objects sink and how those that remain on the surface behave.
“Foci with lava”
For this interesting experiment, you need to fill a clear container 1⁄3 with water and 1⁄3 with sunflower oil. Then add a little food coloring (preferably blue or red) and a spoonful of regular salt. And after salt crystals enter the container, the oil begins to sink to the bottom, and after the salt finally dissolves, it begins to rise in the form of bizarre bubbles.
Even more interesting games and fun creative tasks can be found in ours article.
