Children really like to solve puzzles. About transport today there are many short poems in which allegory trams, buses, subways are described. The task is set for the child - to correctly name the encrypted item.
Preliminary work before making riddles about transport
Before offering this fascinating activity to children, you should have a conversation. Toddlers need to understand that transport can be air, water, land and underground.
You should also teach them to distinguish types of vehicles by their functionality. Freight transport carries goods, public - a large number of people and walks along a certain route.
A separate category is personal transport. This group includes cars, motorcycles, scooters, ATVs and others.
During the conversation, children should be invited to consider pictures and photographs with different types of vehicles. Then play the game “What is it called?” When the kids determine the transport from the photo. And after all this, you can offer children riddles about transport.
It should be noted that this type of activity develops and trains the logic of children. Riddles also broaden their horizons and enrich their vocabulary. But the most important thing is that they develop figurative thinking, learn to see the general in completely different subjects, compare signs and note the main ones.
For example, in a riddle about a truck, the roar of a motor is compared to the roar of a lion, and the power of a motor is compared to horsepower. But the main signs that distinguish the truck from all other modes of transport are the presence of a body in which the cargo is transported.
I have a big cabin
And more power than a horse!
Roaring like a lion, my powerful motor
And the body for the load? Such is the space there!
Mysteries about public transport
In addition to all the well-known trucks and cars, there are other means of transportation. From early childhood, urban children are familiar with many types of public transport. But for children living in rural areas, it can be quite difficult to navigate in it. And they need to explain that in cities there is transport that moves with the help of electricity. These are the metro, trams and trolleybuses. They definitely need wires through which current flows to the working mechanism. But then they do not need gasoline and diesel fuel at all.
The metro differs from all modes of transport powered by electricity in that it is mostly underground. But the functional difference between trams and trolleybuses is that the latter do not require rails at all. It is these features that reflect the riddles about transport that offer young children.
Trolley bus
Puzzling about transport for kids, adults should use thematic pictures. And here you should definitely remember about the trolley bus.
Not on rails - on the road
Rides - rolls a two-horned house.
Holding on to wires
Horns that house always.
I'm not afraid to ride in it -
I’ll ride with a breeze!
Tram
When inventing puzzles about transport for children, it is imperative to reflect in them the main differences of this type of vehicle.
For example, a tram differs from all other land transport in that it needs rails and wires.
A house hurries on wheels on rails
But no one lives in that house.
It is important for everyone! He has a concern:
On it people go to kindergarten, to work.
By the horns he holds on to the wires
And he carries people here and there.
Underground
The most modern form of public transport today is underground. Metro is not in every city. Therefore, before making a riddle about him, preparatory work should be done. Be sure to tell the children why people are building the underground underground, why trains need rails.
But if the authors create puzzles about transport for children of 3 years, then they often resort to such a deliberately winning option as a rhymed answer. Even if the kids do not know the exact guess, the poems themselves will give a hint.
It’s cozy and warm,
It's always, always bright!
There is no snow, no rain -
Just a paradise for all people!
The whole city is underground!
Will take to the area any
Passenger train in an instant -
The path is clear at rush hour.
We will talk a lot about
Our station ...
The answer suggests itself, because it rhymes with the penultimate line of the poem. Of course, we are talking about the subway!
Every adult knows that children learn new things best through fairy tales and games. The riddle just combines both that and the other. Therefore, it is indispensable in the development of children.