The riddle is primarily a genre of folk art, which is passed from mouth to mouth.
A bit of history
At first, she was needed in order to act as a transmitter of religious ideas and myths. Primitive people who used allegorical form in speech were sure that they carefully mask their preparations for the hunt, if they did not name guns, animals or intentions aloud.
People were deeply convinced that everything around had a mind and was hostile. Therefore, you must make every effort to outsmart objects of nature, such as a river or forest, fire or rain. This requires a speech that nature cannot understand.
Much later, some nations will even have peculiar rituals - "evenings of riddles" that were held in the fall, when harvesting was completed.
The elders offered little thematic puzzles about flowers, vegetables, fruits, animals, man, home, natural phenomena, tools. Such entertainment was useful for the younger generation to assimilate the knowledge acquired by generations.
Situation today
At the moment, the riddle has almost ceased to play a mystical or social role. Although she still had no less important tasks: artistic, educational and entertaining. They are especially popular as entertainment.
Often used in children's games, classes for educational purposes. A large number of them can be found in teaching aids and developing literature.
In this review, we will look at riddles about fruits, vegetables, berries, and flowers.
Main types
Conventionally, all puzzles can be divided into several groups:
- Direct. They can be in colloquial or in poetic form. The text of direct riddles uses various features of an object or phenomenon. For example, such children's puzzles about fruits and vegetables:
He is from countries where the climate is hot. Bright, yellow, but unsweetened.
Even ripe sour it. What is the name of the fruit? (Lemon.)
- Mystery-tricks. They differ in that because of the rhyming description, I want to answer one thing, but in terms of meaning I need a completely different one.
For example, such riddles about vegetables and fruits:
She admires herself
Braid grows on the street.
Loves the old and the little guy
Her name ... (Carrots, although I really want to say: "Cucumber".)
It’s rosy,
Juicy and bulk.
And what is the talk about?
Everyone knows ... (Apple.)
Or in this form: Masha collected 10 cucumbers. All but 9, the children gladly ate. How many cucumbers did Masha have? (9, because only one was eaten.)
- Riddles on the development of imaginative thinking. Such puzzles include ambiguous information.
Math. They are solved using calculations.
Natasha had 6 apples. Natasha gave 1 apple to Misha, and they became evenly divided.
How many apples did Misha have in the beginning? (Misha had 4 apples.)
Humorous. Most often they have no clue, but are used as a joke, which is expressed in the form of a riddle or question. For example: What is it - green, white, square and does not fly? (Square white-green watermelon.)
And at present , puzzles about flowers, vegetables, and fruits are used as a fascinating and effective tool for educating and raising children and organizing leisure activities. For example: Drops of sun appeared early in the meadow. It is dressed up in a yellow sarafan ... (Dandelion.)
Riddles about fruits and vegetables
In order for the kid to quickly remember the “heroes” of his daily life, with whom he meets daily in the kitchen, you need to offer him riddles about them. They will help him remember the names of his favorite fruits, vegetables, berries. Through them, the child gets acquainted with the basic colors of the rainbow. There are puzzles about the shape of vegetables, for example, you can ask your baby about which tomato, square or round. During the acquaintance with the products, you can identify taste, introduce the baby to concepts such as sour, bitter, sweet.
For preschool children, the main thing is to touch, taste, see. So they better absorb information and instantly remember it. Therefore, more obvious puzzles than riddles about vegetables and fruits, simply can not be found, because every housewife has cabbage and potatoes.
Mysteries in kindergarten
The teacher in a kindergarten, before offering children various riddles, studies the life experiences of babies through conversations and games. When it is clear what exactly the guys know, you can select the appropriate ones.
Riddles about vegetables and fruits contribute to the development of logical thinking in children and introduce them to the "heroes" of gardens, forests, and gardens.
During the day, the teacher always draws the attention of the kids to what they eat during breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. For this, it is best to use puzzles.
Also, outdoor and board games are held to better learn the names, colors, shapes, appearance of vegetables, fruits, berries.
For example, a ball game.
Children sit or stand in a circle. The teacher makes a riddle. Throws a ball. Whoever caught must name a guess.
Riddles about autumn are especially relevant . Vegetables, fruits and berries in the middle lane ripen for the most part at this time of the year.
What to look for
Enough riddles are not enough. The teacher lays on the shoulders that he must track and correct the main mistakes that children make when solving:
- The child is in a hurry to answer, does not listen to the end, cannot remember details.
- Several indirect features are distinguished, while the main one is overlooked.
- The child consciously omits one of the signs that is offered in the riddle, and replaces it so as to adapt to its guess.
If you have any of these errors, you should pay attention to this. If the situation does not change over time, then the cause is identified and corrective work is carried out.
Mysteries at home
In everyday life, riddles help parents not only to acquaint and develop their child, but also to overcome some difficulties in raising and communicating with him.
The most obvious example is that kids eat vegetable dishes without much pleasure, but riddles about vegetables and fruits are solved with pleasure.
Most of the food we eat contains vegetables. Offering a child to get to know them better through riddles, mothers kill two birds with one stone: they develop a child and instill in him a love of vegetable dishes.
To do this, various vegetables and fruits are placed in the basket, riddles are riddled with the child, and he is looking for a solution.
For example: He looks like a cucumber and a fellow! A barrel warms the sun with a juicy, tasty ... (Zucchini.)