Every mother wants her child—who is a piece of her soul—to be smart and have a strong ability to focus. This helps the child get high grades at school, which predicts a bright future. Based on this desire, starting from the preschool age, you can choose some important and simple educational games to help increase your child’s concentration.
Experts recommend selecting games that mothers can play with their children before the age of six to prepare them for school and boost their focus. “Nadormagazine” interviewed Dr. Manar Abdel Aziz, a speech therapy and learning difficulties specialist, who highlighted seven simple and important games to improve your child’s focus and intelligence, especially before school age, including the “missing number” game, bedtime stories, and more:
1. Missing Number Game to Boost Focus
Teach your child to count from 1 to 10 correctly, making sure they recognize numbers and their shapes. Count aloud, but skip one number and see if your child notices which number is missing. This tests their observation and concentration skills. Then, switch roles and let your child try skipping a number while you guess the missing one.
2. Opposites Game to Increase Focus
From age 4, test your child’s understanding of opposites by asking questions like “Are you feeling cold or hot?” or “Are you happy or sad?” Encourage them to recognize and say the opposite of a word you say (e.g., black/white, soft/hard, tall/short). You can turn it into a fun contest.
3. Imagination Strengthening Game
Make sure your child knows basic shapes (square, triangle, circle). Ask your child to draw a triangle on a blank paper with their eyes closed. This helps develop imagination and hand-eye coordination.
4. Longest Focus Challenge
Play a quiet game where your child must focus on a specific picture on the wall or stare silently into someone’s eyes without speaking. Measure how long they can maintain this focus. You can turn it into a friendly competition among kids.
5. Letters Game to Boost Concentration
Write categories like “boy, girl, object, animal, plant, country” vertically on paper. Ask children to name one item from each category starting with a specific letter (like “A”). When all spaces are filled for a letter, move on to the next letter. The first to fill their list wins.
6. Color and Word Game to Improve Focus
Make sure your child can identify primary colors. Write color names using different ink colors (e.g., write “red” in blue ink) and ask the child to say the ink color, not the word. Repeat for other colors.
7. Bedtime Story Retelling Game
Read a short, simple bedtime story to your child every night. The next night, ask your child to retell the story to younger siblings or parents. This helps enhance memory, understanding, and speaking skills.
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