# 5 Amazing Ideas To Keep Your Kids Engaged | Riddhi Deorah

**Creator:** Riddhi Deorah
**Platform:** youtube
**Duration:** 7m
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLmttU-CR8

## Summary

The video presents five engaging activity ideas for parents to keep their children entertained and mentally stimulated. These activities are designed for children aged three and above and encourage physical movement, vocabulary development, and parent-child bonding.

- **Make a Word**: Hide letters around the house for children to find and unscramble into a word, promoting physical activity and cognitive skills.
- **Guess the Object**: Provide hints for children to identify and touch objects around the house, enhancing their vocabulary and observational skills.
- **Who Spotted More**: Take turns naming objects seen from a balcony or indoors, fostering mindfulness and vocabulary expansion.
- **Start Where You End**: A word game where players create words based on the last letter of the previous word, improving vocabulary and phonetic awareness.
- **What's Your Question**: A question-and-answer game that allows children to learn more about their parents while encouraging creativity and communication.
- Activities can be adapted for various settings, including travel, making them versatile for busy parents.
- The presenter encourages parents to subscribe for more ideas and join webinars for additional parenting tools.

## Transcript

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are you struggling to keep your child engaged are you running out of activity ideas to keep them busy if you said yes to this then you're in the right place at the right time I'm going to share with you five amazing ideas that you can use to keep your ready one engaged and most of these ideas work perfectly well for kids three and above can also work for kids to and above depending on their developmental milestone I am ridhi devra

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a certified parenting coach and a founder of easy parenting Hub which is a digital school helping thousands of mothers across the world so let's begin because I'm sure you're getting impatient and you want to know what those different ideas are so the first game that I have for you is called make a word now this is very simple all you need is like let's say four to five small pieces of paper you can like have five small shits and on every chat you

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are going to write one letter so let's say if I'm writing the word Lotus I'm going to write L on one one one shade three on one chain and like that till the letter s now I'm going to hide these shirts in different places and in very simple places not too far maybe inside the house only like let's say one inside the fridge one can be on the desk where I usually work one can be in the mandir in my house one can be in

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the kitchen so just like that I'm going to distribute these chips in different places now I'm going to give my child like hints so this is what I usually do with my son so I give him hints like you know this is where you usually find mommy in the morning so you have to go to that place find that and collect that letter and keep it with himself then the next tint that I can give him

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is that this is where Papa works so you can go to my husband's desk and get a chip from there and collect it so just like that I'm gonna give him different hints till he gets all the five letters for the word Lotus and now I'm going to tell him to unscramble the letters and tell me what the word is so this is one game and you can do it with simple words like gag bat hat and initially if your

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child does not know phonics and does not know how to unscramble the words you can really help them with forming the word but let them at least go and find their letters for you so depending on the age of your child you can of course modify the game a little but this is a really fun game because it keeps them mentally active also physically active because they have to do a lot of running around so this is the first game the second

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game that I have for you is guess the object this is again very simple and the beauty of this game is that you really don't have to do anything so this is what you really need to do so you're going to give your child a hint your child has to guess what the object is once the child guesses what the object is he has to go to the object touch the object and call out the name loudly so

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let me give you an example so let's say if I'm trying to make my child guess the word chair so I'm going to tell him that this is a piece of furniture it's made of wood and we usually use it to rest when we feel very tired so let's say if my child gets his chair he has to go run to a chair touch the chair and call out the word cheering and then he has to

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come back to me and I'm gonna give him another hint and just like that the game continues so you can tell him that you know this is something that keeps the food fresh so of course the answer is very obvious it's a fridge so it's going to go run to the fridge touch the fridge and call out the name fridge so this is very fun for them because they get to move on out and also when they're moving

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around their brains are more active and they're able to retain information a lot better so this is this next game that I play with him then the third game that I play with him is called who spotted more and this is again very simple so all my games are very simple because I don't spend too much time creating it like but this is again very simple so let's say you can just stand on the balcony with

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your child and you can start spotting all the different objects that you see so let's say you know I say sky and then you'll say cloud and Sun leaves tree buildings people road cars you know we are just going to take turns so I'm going to say one thing he's going to say one thing and the first person to run amount of words loses the game so whoever can keep going till the end without stopping and can keep coming up

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with more and more words is the winner again this is a very beautiful game because this is going to make your child mindful of his or her environment because he'll now become more aware of their aware of the fact that there are so many things around us so you can play this on the balcony you can also Play This indoor like in your bedroom or in your living room and you can start spotting things inside the house also

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improves their vocabulary because now you know they are learning new words so let's say you know you come up with a word which they could not come up with so now they know that next time when you're playing this game they are going to use this in order to win the game so that's the third game for you who spotted Moon the fourth game again which is a very simple game and I've just named it I've given it given it this

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name that I start where you end so this is a very simple word game which maybe you've also played in the past with your child and it's really simple to let's say if I make the word bat and Pat ends with the sound so my child has to come up with a word with the letter t so he's going to say tap and then you know again I have to make a word with P so it's

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going to be pen and then from with n he has to make over so maybe he makes the word no so just like this the game continues and again the first person to run out of words or first person to get stuck loses the skin again it's a great way to improve their vocabulary also the sounds of the letters and you can just stop whenever you want this is like an open-ended game so you can keep playing

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as many rounds as you wish to and don't be pushy Don't force them to play with you if they don't wish to but it's a great way to you know keep them engaged and also do something productive and fun with them and the last idea that I have for you and the last game which I play a lot with my son is called what's your question and uh just you know just build it up a little before you start playing

[[5:55]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLmttU-CR8&t=355s)
so just tell your child that you know I'm gonna play something really exciting today and you're going to learn a lot of fun things about your mother so you're excited to learn a lot of fun things about your mother and then you tell him the rules tell them the rules so basically you know the rule is very simple you ask a question and your child gets to ask you a question and this is a great way because you will get to know

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your child a lot better so very simple questions that you know what's your favorite color what's your favorite food who's your best friend did you make any new friends and your child can also ask you who's your favorite person why what is it that you do why do you do what you do and where is and you will be very surprised by the kind of questions they ask because sometimes they can be very very creative about the questions that

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they are asking so these are five very easy aims the beauty is that you can even play this on the go in the car most of them I usually play a lot of these games when we are on the flight when we're traveling from one place to the other and it's nice because it keeps them distracted keeps them mentally stimulated they get to learn a few new things you get to know your child better and a beautiful way to bond and connect

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with your child so these are five fun ways and if you want more such fun ideas make sure you subscribe to my channel and also join me for my next webinar where I'll share with you some very easy tools and techniques to feel good about your motherhood Journey so make sure you do that and with that I'll see you in the next video