Riddles are the first independent tasks for children in kindergarten. They help to develop ingenuity in a child, help to think, reason and evaluate various characteristics of characters in riddles. They arouse interest in nature, in the properties of things, learn to navigate in the world where they came recently. The knowledge that came through riddles, fairy tales, signs and so on, firmly settle in children's heads, help enrich the vocabulary
Riddles. What are they needed for?
Riddles help to develop intelligence, deductive and inductive thinking, logic, everything that is useful to the child in later adulthood.
Especially enrichment with various information develops in children when they come up with riddles themselves, comparing the qualities and properties of objects, their connection with each other.
Mysteries about animals and birds
Children like riddles about animals and birds. They learn a lot about their life, habits, character. In Russian folklore, riddles about bears, dogs and cats, wolves, sparrows and crows, riddles about swallows and so on are most common.
For example, one can note such puzzles about swallows as:
- It flies to us in the spring, cleverly builds such a nest, flies low before the rain, everyone, of course, knows it.
- The tail is like scissors, the beak is small, flat, itself black. Who are these guys?
- By her habits, you can find out the weather: it flies low - to rain, high - to clear weather.
- He builds his nest from saliva, clay and sand, feeds on various insects, the tail is divided into two parts.
There is a riddle about the swallow - short, but according to its description, the child can immediately guess who she is talking about: the little horse is small, it looks like a swift. A smart kid will immediately understand that a little swallow looks like a swift.
The wealth of Russian folklore
But in folklore there are not only riddles about swallows, but also signs, fairy tales, and poems, which also help the child understand his future life.
Previously, people believed that swallows pluck all their feathers for the winter and hide under the bark of a tree, that they dive into the water and winter there until the thaw. It was believed that only young and healthy birds were selected from the water, while old and sick remained there to croak frogs.
According to ancient signs, whoever sees the swallow first will be happy and lucky the whole year.
Thanks to many years of observations, people learned that after all, swallows do not bury themselves in silt in a pond, waiting for the end of frosts, but fly away to the south.
Therefore, the riddles of the swallows and other birds and animals are necessary for the further development of the horizons of the child.