This document discusses the importance and benefits of various types of games for childhood development in kindergarten. It describes how children's theatrical, story-role-playing, construction, autodidactic, and folklore games help develop social skills, cognitive abilities, creativity, and cultural understanding. These games imitate real-life situations, build practical and technical skills, stimulate cognitive activity, and impart virtues and respect for traditions. Overall, playing different games in kindergarten effectively prepares children for school by developing important social, intellectual, and cultural aspects of their growth.

1. Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic
Partnerships for the school
education project:
“Puppets mission: childhood
without borders“ 2014-2016

2. Kindergarten
“Latinka”,
Shumen, Bulgaria

3. Games as a
learning strategy in
kindergarten

4. Games are а leading type of activity in preschool. When playing,
the child imitates the actions and behaviours of the others but
in a creative way. Games develop the child as a person. They
develop those parts of its psyche that would subsequently affect
the success of its working and learning activities as well as its
relationships with people.

5. Children's theatrical games are
associated with independent
creative transformations and
free interpretations of familiar
literature.

6. They give children the opportunity to walk into the
essence of the literature works, the experiences of
the characters and the nature of the situation.

7. Children's theatrical games put together the wealth of
gaming culture, artistic speech, art, music and dance.
Everything that fascinates children.

8. Story-role-playing
games are distinctive
for preschool children
and they also occupy
an important place in
their lives.

9. Social relationships between adults, born in the process of
collaboration, are a main object of transformation. Through role-
playing games, kids represent the norms of human life and
activities, which helps them acquaint and learn more about social
reality.

10. The specifics of the subject role-
playing games introduce adults
by their social function - mother,
traveler, client; professional -
chef, doctor, vendor.

11. Role-playing games build and improve social experience. That is
why those type of games are important for the formation of
social consciousness, intensive development and effective
preparation of the child for school.

12. Construction games are another
variation of games. What’s
specific here is that these
games are creative and children
actually transform objects
which were originally created
while building relations with
each other.

13. Via the constructed
models, children recreate
their knowledge and
understanding of the
surrounding material
objects.

14. This game helps children
to develop practical
experience and technical
skills, as well as forms the
development of space
orientation.

15. The real value of construction games is rooted in the
combination of subject, playing, cognitive and social activities of
the children.

17. Autodidactic games are typical games with rules. They are
specifically developed for educational purposes and incorporate
both cognitive and educational potential. These games naturally
stimulate children's cognitive activity through game tasks,
content rules and pursuit of victory.

18. Thus, the child develops cognitive activities without even
realizing it and literally trains itself.

19. Autodidactic games, which are
based on gaming interest,
create cognitive attitude
towards intellectual tasks and
therefore activate the
cognitive perception of reality.

20. Folklore games are among the variety of traditional
games which bring knowledge of human daily life,
beliefs and values.

21. Folklore games
combine text,
melody and
movements.
Festivity,
majority and
spectacle are
among the key
features of
folklore games.

23. The world of folklore games is both pragmatic and enchanting,
romantic and beautiful. Their language is terse and precise. The
content is presented through simple dialogue.

24. Children’s folklore games
are full of educational
activities and clear
folklore perspective.

25. They influence children’s minds spontaneously and indirectly
by enhancing morale and inspiring respect for labor,
knowledge and all virtues.

26. Thank you for
your attention!