Meanwhile, Maslenitsa, or cheese week is a cheerful and binge period, in which both adults and children are happy to indulge in a variety of Shrovetide fun. This week, the kids prepared the ice mountains for the Shrovetide meeting on the last day of the Shrovetide week - they were poured with water and rolled around. Every day the children regaled themselves with ruddy pancakes, cheese and eggs.
On a forgiven Sunday, festivities in Russia reached their peak. It was believed that the louder the holiday, the faster people will be able to wake up the spring, and the sun will look out. On the street there were noisy and crowded parties, fairs were held. Children together with adults took part in numerous competitions and amusements, sang songs, danced.
Currently, the Maslenitsa holiday is celebrated on a grand scale in institutions for children - schools and kindergartens. Particularly fond of funny games are preschool kids. In this article we will tell you how it is possible to celebrate this holiday with children, and what Shrovetide fun will be especially interesting for them.
Description of the holiday Maslenitsa for children
Like any other holiday, you can celebrate Shrove Tuesday in various ways, the main thing is for the children to have fun. To begin preparing for the meeting of the spring sun should be in advance, because you need to make a scarecrow, which is first installed in the room to decorate the interior, and then, already on the street, is burned.
It is better for children to offer a scarecrow themselves, although it can be easily purchased at most stores. Meanwhile, during the making of the Maslenitsa, the guys can learn something new about the holiday and become interested in its history and customs.
On the table on this day must be pancakes and other pastries. If the age of the children allows, you can also bake pancakes yourself. You can also make traditional costumes for the holiday.
Of course, for children of both early and older age, the Carnival celebration must certainly be filled with numerous cheerful and active games. Usually this holiday is celebrated on the street, and, moreover, it takes place in the winter, so the guys should not freeze.
We bring to your attention the following mobile games for toddlers and older children.
Active games for a group of children on Shrovetide
- Round dance "The sun". The guys stand in a circle, holding hands, one of them is in the center, depicting the sun. Children lead a dance and sing funny songs. At some point the child, depicting the Sun in the center of the circle, screams: "I'm burning!", And the other kids rush in all directions. The one who was first caught by Solnyshko, becomes in his place.
- Burners. All children are broken up into pairs and stand in a column, holding hands.
In front of the whole column stands a child, who was chosen as the leader, or a burner. All children sing a song or read a rhyme, at the end of which the first couple of guys begin to run away from the leader, and the burner tries to catch one of them. If both members of a couple escaped from the lead and stood at the end, the same child continues to drive, if he grabs one of them by the hand, the one who lost the pair becomes the burner. - Taking a snow castle. Here all together - both children and adults - first build a large castle of snow, and then divide into 2 identical in the number of team members. The first team defends the castle, and another tries to conquer it.