Research published in the JAMA Pediatrics journal – an American Medical Association magazine – pointed out that children between 2 and 3 spend 17 to 25 hours a week in front of electronic devices.

To develop skills such as creativity, teamwork, proactivity, and attention, for example, it is necessary that they experience more healthy, outdoors, and group activities.

Focusing on stimulating and promoting children’s quality of life, the movement “Kids Need to Play” chose six activities to cheer them up.

1 – Clown Day 

How it is done: with non-toxic paints, paint the children’s face and let yourself be painted 

What it develops: closeness, affection, tact, and knowledge

2 – What’s the word? 

How it is done: say a word, and the kids need to sing a song that contains that word

What it develops: memory

3 – Skilled foot 

How it is done: ask a child to walk guiding a ball with one foot, then with the other. They pass and get the ball back using only one foot. Or they can guide the ball along a line drawn on the floor 

What it develops: motor coordination

4 – Chore-Time

How it is done: invite the kids to make cookies or do the dishes, the youngest ones love to help 

What it develops: creativity, hand skill, and finger dexterity

5 – Puppeteering 

How it is done: help the children make puppets out of socks and tell them to tell stories using the puppets

What it develops: conflict relief

6 – Recycling 

How it is made: keep used metal scraps, cardboard boxes, cans, and plastic packages, and have the children inventing playful objects What it develops: creativity, intelligence, and spatial concepts