New Year's fairytales for children

Fairy tales are an extraordinarily important element in the life of any child. Accumulating the wisdom of several previous generations, these short and long literary works possess a truly magical power.

Than useful stories for children?

With the help of fairy tales, you can introduce the baby to the surrounding space or certain concepts, and do it unobtrusively, in a simple and jocular manner, which is very pleasant to young children and facilitates the process of perception. During reading, the baby's speech develops actively and his vocabulary is expanded. In addition, reading fairy tales to a child, especially at night, strengthens the psycho-emotional connection between him and his parents and facilitates further contact.

Today fairy tales are also used for therapeutic purposes, for example, in neurological disorders in boys and girls. Modern pedagogues and psychologists successfully use such a direction as skazkoterapiya. This method of treatment involves the artificial creation of such conditions in which the child, working with a fairy tale, on an emotional level finds a solution to all his problems and life difficulties.

On the eve of the New Year, when white snowflakes are circling on the street, winter stories and narratives become very popular. Books with cheerful and sad New Year's tales for children should be in every house, because they help create the magic mood associated with the coming of this wonderful holiday.

The best New Year's fairytales for children

Next, we offer you a list of the best funny and sad New Year's tales for children, which must be introduced to each child:

  1. "The Snow Queen". The great story of Hans Christian Andersen about the great and all-consuming love, human kindness and faithfulness. This tale is not only unusually interesting and exciting, but also instructive, since it is possible to draw useful conclusions from the text of its narrative. Of course, for the youngest children this New Year's fairy tale is not suitable, but for boys and girls over 5 years old it should become one of the favorite and most popular books.
  2. For kids, in turn, well-known folk tale "By the Pike's Command" is perfect . In this story the poor Emelya suddenly catches from the hole a magic pike, which talks in a human voice and is able to fulfill any of his wishes.
  3. On the eve of the New Year there is an action in an interesting tale-play "Twelve Months". Evil stepmother in a fierce cold sends her stepdaughter to collect snowdrops, completely not caring that the street is winter. Based on the story, a magnificent two-part film was shot, which the children are very fond of watching on cold winter evenings. In addition, such New Year's fairy-tales plays are often used as a scenario for staging performances for children.
  4. "Frosty." Russian folk tale, telling about what tests had to go through the main characters Nastenka and Ivan on their way to their happiness and love.
  5. "Grandmother-Metelitsa." The instructive and informative tale of the Brothers Grimm, whose main characters are the wicked stepmother, her native lazy daughter, the industrious stepdaughter and sorceress Mrs. Metelitsa.
  6. For children from 4 years old the New Year's fairy tale in verses "Santa Claus and goat-dereza" is perfect - a funny and kind folk story about a bovine goat, a good sheep, Grandfather Frost, Snow Maiden, a cunning little fox and a hungry but kind wolf. Often, according to the plot of this fairy tale, theatrical performances organized for the New Year are organized in kindergartens.
  7. Also for children, the folk tale "Two Frosts " about brothers Moroz Blue Nose and Moroz Red Nose can be interesting.
  8. In the fairy tale of G. Kh. Andersen "Fir" the action takes place just in the New Year.
  9. In addition, kids will love the story of VG Suteev "Elka", as well as a cartoon, based on his motives and called "Snowman-mailer." Noteworthy are other works by this author - funny and kind fairy tales "Santa Claus and the Gray Wolf", "When the Christmas Lights", "Snow Bunny" and "Happy New Year".
  10. Finally, the older guys can learn a lesson from E. Schwartz's play Two Brothers. In this story, the younger brother took offense at the eldest and left the house on New Year's Eve. The father, in turn, sent the elder to look for the youngest in the forest, where he met Grandfather Frost.