Children become interested in diaper toys, and a painted wooden doll with a secret inside is well known even to a one-year-old baby. Riddles about a nesting doll will interest a child of two or three years old, as well as verbal puzzles about other objects familiar to him, distracting from leprosy, while stimulating his logic and memory.
Birth of Russian nesting dolls
This traditional toy is actually not as ancient as is commonly believed. At the end of the 19th century, its prototype was brought to Russia from Japan, which was a figurine of a Buddhist sage with four of his followers inside. The idea pleased the patron Mamontov. He decided to carve a similar souvenir from a tree in his toy workshop located in Abramtsevo near Moscow.
According to the artist’s idea, the upper doll depicted a girl in a scarf and a Russian sundress holding a black rooster. A boy was hidden inside her, then a girl again, and so on. The last, eighth figure, depicted a baby. So the first Russian nesting doll appeared, which is still kept in the Sergiev Posad Museum. Subsequently, the figurines making up the souvenir began to be made similar to each other, like sisters, by girls. Very often, the riddle about a nesting doll for children is based on underlining this feature:
Sisters are like faces
Like two drops of water.
But they are sitting in each other.
What kind of cute toys?
Why is the toy so named
There are two main versions of why this fun was secretly called a nested doll:
- The upper doll initially looked like a young beautiful girl possessing the features inherent in a healthy peasant woman: round-sided, chubby, rosette. Matrona was the most popular name in the villages in Russia at that time. So the folk toy acquired a truly popular name.
- The largest doll turned out to look like a full and very beautiful woman named Matrena, who served at that time in the Mamontov estate and had many children. This determined the name of the toy.
Mystery games for children 5 years and older may be accompanied by stories about why the toy is called a matryoshka, and assumptions about which version is the most reliable.
A doll from you and me
Hides little sisters swarm.
Wooden like spoons
And their name is all ... (nested dolls).
Matryoshka - Russian symbol of motherhood
Riddles about a nesting doll - encrypted questions about friendship and love. They give the doll to children and adults, always wishing happiness and family well-being. Looking at her, people most often recall motherly care, closeness between sisters and brothers, support that they give each other, helping to cope with troubles and rejoicing in victories together. It is a symbol of unity.
A large doll with its entire large family can serve as an example of love and mutual assistance for the baby, when the elder protects and protects the younger:
The first sister is big
The second sister is hiding in her,
Break the third you'll find
And so you get to the little one.
In the middle is a baby
That toy’s name is ... (matryoshka).
Acquaintance with Russian folklore
A tool for transmitting wisdom from generation to generation are puzzles in Russian. They educate and teach. However, they do not have moralizing that children simply hate. But the features of the ancient secret language that underlies all the puzzles attract and carry every child. This interest should be used while developing ingenuity in kids and practicing logic.
Open this doll -
There will be a third in the second.
Unscrew the half,
Dense, ground
And you know how to find
Fourth pupa.
Riddles about a nesting doll, a yule and a tumbler toy will introduce children to Russian folklore and folk art, so diverse and witty. Along with proverbs and sayings, they have a strong influence on the mind and feelings:
Bright red handkerchief,
Russian sundress in a flower,
And inside there are surprises:
Maybe three, maybe six.
World famous souvenir
People anywhere in the world instantly recognize Russia by hearing the familiar words: “balalaika”, “felt boots” and “nesting doll”. Along with snowstorms, snowdrifts, frosts and other features of our country, a funny toy has become a Russian symbol. A wooden nesting doll painted with bright patterns is a welcome souvenir for every foreigner.
It can be unpleasant for a Russian person to associate their homeland with vodka and bears roaming the streets of cities. But the love of the original doll "with a secret", pride in folk art inspires. With the help of puzzles, these feelings need to be raised in children from an early age:
So blush, chubby!
Hiding one in another
Very friendly sisters.
What kind of surprise is this?
Riddle in riddle
The love of our people for the original doll does not cease to amaze foreigners. They chuckle and repeat about the mystery of the Russian soul when they think of a nested doll. The toy really has a certain magic, understandable only to a person born in Russia or brought up in Russian traditions. Where does this attachment come from?
The Western model of the world is a pyramid, on top of which live the elect of this world, rich and omnipotent. For Russia, the most important thing is justice and spirituality, the prevalence of these values over the power of money and power. The Russian world is arranged on the principle of a nesting doll. All that exists is God (a big matryoshka), there is a galaxy in it, then a universe, then our planet, in which humanity is enclosed, inside people, a deeper family. And in the center of the doll is the man himself, surrounded by peace and God, as if by a mother's embrace. This in no way speaks of Russian exclusivity, since it is only a feature of attitude and a consequence of education. The model of the world that is familiar to us is reflected by all riddles about the nesting doll for children:
In the red-cheeked youth
Sisters hid.
Or:
Multi-colored toys
They cleverly hid in each other.
One other less.
Positive riddles about healthy fun
An inspiring view of a very kind toy, well known to all kids since childhood, will set the child up for positive. It would be wise to choose a matryoshka, offering puzzles for children 5 years old or younger. Confidence that the answer to the question is simple and means a toy well-known to him will help the preschooler not to get confused. Riddles themselves, especially those based on the use of personal names, relax the baby, caressing his hearing. For example, this:
In a wooden doll Masha
Sister Natasha is hiding.
If you open Natasha,
You can find Glasha.
Matryoshka is not only a favorite toy, it is also useful. With its help, the child learns to navigate in values, to compare objects, determining which is larger and which is smaller, by their height, width and volume. The knowledge of these parameters helps to understand and solve a riddle:
Girlfriend met mouse
And hid in each other.
And which remained
Most of all scared (author V. Berestov).
There are puzzles that have an educational goal, which is exactly what the Russian doll will help:
They sit in one another
They don’t want to show up.
Suddenly the baby scatters them,
Or lose somewhere?
Riddle about a nesting doll for kids
Memory, logic, thinking, the ability to associate,
analytical thinking and much more makes it possible to train a simple riddle. In combination with the gaming moment, such classes are especially useful for hanging out kids from two years old. But it would be a mistake to demand from the child answers to complex tasks that require logical conclusions. For educators and parents, for starters, it is better to choose simple poetic puzzles:
Bbw dolls
Hiding in each other.
And one sister
For another - a dungeon.
The missing answer word at the end of the rhyme, rhyming with the last word of the previous line, is another successful puzzle:
In wooden Natasha
A cute doll is sitting.
There are other crumbs in the doll.
And the name is sisters ... (nesting dolls)
Rhyming questions, training memory, teach children to quickly memorize new poems and songs.
And what is interesting for schoolchildren?
Despite the fact that the riddles about the nesting doll for schoolchildren may already be less interesting, because now this doll has been replaced by other toys appropriate for age, they do not lose relevance. The use of the puzzle for teenagers remains the same, the same as for preschool children. This is the development of creative abilities, fantasies, logic, training of speed of thinking. The fact is that the nesting doll has bright distinctive features that you can focus on, solving word problems and creating them yourself. For instance,
This toy is first broken in half, and then dolls are played with it.
Wooden things are collected in one pile.
Bright as a butterfly. Merry, like a holiday. Folk, but not a song.
For students, you need to find or come up with more complex puzzles. In addition to listing the properties of the item to be predicted, they must contain elements of various puzzles, puzzles:
Three sisters, treshka toy,
It starts with "ma" ... (matryoshka)
The task of riddles for a teenager is not to know the world around him, he already knows how to successfully do it on his own. The goal is to prepare him for life situations, when the ability to think quickly and accurately, as well as the ability to switch attention, will become very important. Such a training in the future will prove itself during the participation of the student and the future student at various Olympiads, in the process of passing the exam and in making vital decisions throughout life.