Role-playing games for children are divided into:
- the interaction of the participants in the game in real time, when the actions of the players are equivalent to the actions of the characters that they beat;
- board-word games based on determining the results of their moves and calculating the prospects of the opponents' moves;
- computer games.
But most often, role-playing games for children are a symbiosis of all the above types.
Children get acquainted with the first type of role-playing games at a very young age. These are all known to us “daughters - mothers”, “to doctors”, “to the store” and others like that. Children imagine themselves as parents, hairdressers, chauffeurs, doctors or sellers, imitating the actions of these real people, bringing to their game accumulated life experience. These games are also called like this: role-playing games for preschoolers, since they have a certain storyline in advance.
This kind can also include those in which participants play fabulous, implausible stories. For example, one plays the role of a flying dragon, while the other is given the role of a little bunny hiding from a pursuer. Children during these games run, hide, dress each other or hang up “products” on the scales. These games allow kids to develop the skill of social behavior, show what duties and professions exist in the world, what is good and what is evil.
Educational board games for children are less dynamic, but much more effective in terms of intellectual development. Such games include “Guess the riddle”, “Journey into a fairy tale” and others. To play, cards with pictures are required. In the first case, these are guessing cards, and in the second, cards on which various episodes from different fairy tales are depicted. Children should determine which card they should put on the question of the leader. Typically, such games involve the participation of an adult who can read.
Board role-playing games for children are of great benefit to the development of babies. It can be games on specially published books for this. Each page of such a publication contains a specific task that a little man must complete in order to be able to go to the next page.
At the very beginning, the plot task is set for the child. For example, it is proposed to get to the treasure, which is "hidden" on the last page. The first page challenges the player to build a vehicle in order to swim across the lake. There are also drawings and patterns that should be cut, glued, painted. On the second page, the task is connected with the writing skill: the preschooler is invited to write straight sticks between two lines. They imitate the steps of a rope ladder. And so on each new page the baby is faced with a new interesting task. And at the end of the book a surprise awaits him: an interesting new disc with a cartoon!
Board role-playing games for children are our favorite “dress-ups” of paper dolls. In them, girls can try their skills in fashion design, as well as consolidate the skills of drawing and cutting. These games are also interesting in that the child can do it "with himself", without interfering with the adults doing their homework.
Role-playing games for children, which boys are more likely to play, are more often based on “war games” and modeling. Playing the “war”, the boys draw a field of operations, “kill” the tanks of an imaginary enemy, depicting explosions or striking out enemy soldiers.
Speaking about computer games, it should be noted that one must be very careful in selecting such games. Children at all will not benefit from the game of "shooter" or "rpg", especially if the prototypes of the participants in these games are zombies, the dead or the mythical forces of evil.
On sale today there are precisely educational or educational computer games for preschoolers. The plot in them are fabulous stories, where the participants are talking animals. They need to help open their store and put the goods on shelves, focusing on a group of products: berries to berries, shampoos - to detergents, notebooks - to stationery. Or to fix the spelling of numbers, it is proposed to “call” a hippo friend by “dialing” his number. And there is still a task - to clean up the room, “removing” the unnecessary: a brush, a plate with ravioli, a coat or a bicycle.