Memory boosting activities are essential for a child to develop concentration, focus, and attention, help in enhancing visual recognition, improving brain functions, critical thinking, etc.
Playing Memory games helps a child’s brain to hold information for long time and use it when it is necessary.
Weak memory drives a kid to face difficulties in learning, thinking and making decision as they grow up.
“The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.”
― Haruki Murakami
As parents, we tend to do some memory-boosting activities with our kids knowingly or unknowingly. Just imagine if we have a clear idea to implement strategies to boost memory skills, we can create wonders.
We face a situation where sometimes we need to force our kids to do a specific task or activity related to school works or home works. The consequences we see in them can be irritability, lack of interest and concentration, etc.
Many questions arise when our child is not getting involved in doing a task.
Why my child don’t concentrate on anything for a longer time?
What could I do to enhance my child’s memory power?
Do these questions pop into your mind over and over?
Just relax! as it is common for children to have a distraction. But we can help them attain focus by implementing some strategies and activities on day to day basis.
Let me walk you through topics one by one
- Memory boosting strategies
- 17 memory-boosting activities should try with kids
- How to avoid common distractions?
Memory boosting strategies
There are 2 strategies that helps you in getting precise idea on why concentration in kids is significant and how to follow in your kids routine.
Attention to details:
Attention to detail for kids helps them have a focus on the particular thing without any distraction. It plays a significant role in their academic or sports.
It is crucial not only for kids but as adults attention to detail is necessary for our day-to-day life.
Many of us face the issue of lacking attention in our house chores, office work, and much more. When we skip giving priority to these skills, then we end up messing with things around.
We can support our children by implementing this skill at a young age as they need not face any difficulty as grown-ups.
Focus on distraction:
Although attention to detail and focus on distraction seem to look the same but have some minute difference in them.
Attention to detail is when a kid can focus on a particular task or activity with mindfulness and observing things in detailing manner.
Focus on distraction is where a kid can concentrate on a particular thing or object, in an environment filled out with distractions, the focus of a child remains perfect without any issue.
You can take the kid out for a walk and explore many things with them. Hence their mind at this age tries to grab attention on many things surrounding them.
17 activities for Memory-boosting in kids
- Coloring helps a child enhancing focus and concentration. Though looking like a simple activity, however, it can make lots of difference in the child.
- Scissor activity helps in improving focus by cutting a line drawn on paper(ensure kid safety scissors).
- Flashcards game played in multiple ways like matching, sorting helps in focusing and concentrating.
- Sorting the coins, but ensure it’s played only under the monitoring of parents or caregivers.
- Puzzle game or jigsaw puzzle game encourages kids to learn more.
- Storytelling improves concentrating and listening skills when it is played by asking a child to tell a story.
- Pasta necklace can be a fun activity, where the kids can paint the pasta and do threading which involves hand-eye coordination to make a necklace.
- Building blocks help improving concentration in kids.
- Playing tongue twister game.
An example “Red lorry, yellow lorry”
“Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?”
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?”
- Copying the picture, draw a simple picture, and ask the kid to draw near it.
- Paying attention to your child is important in play, for Instance in our childhood, we have played games pretending a teacher, (here a child as a teacher teaching the parents, helps us know their perception of different things at the same time improves their concentration skills)which helps them in learning how they should behave, while you or their teacher teaches them.
- Giving small and big objects differentiating between them.
- Take 4 to 5 small objects in your home that the kids know about, show them, and then hide 1 object from it, ask them to find the missing one.
- You can give a woolen thread and beads or take a chart paper making some holes ask them to sew the thread through the hole in sequential order.
- Asking a kid to watch out of the window, which obviously will be their favorite one, inquiring the child about the bird, car, color of their choice they are looking out of the window.
- If the kid is interested in numbers, ask them to seek a particular number on the car number plate when you are out with them and give them points or stickers when they find them as a token of encouragement.
- Spot the difference game.
How to avoid common distractions?
- Reduce the screen time in kids, which helps them to gain attention in task they are doing.
- Reducing background noise, which aids them betterment in task like writing, reading, etc
- Avoid the mobile phone ringing, which is quite important as they get easily distracted.
- Set a peaceful ambiance while they are engaged in some activities.
- Make the environment clean, eliminate toys often they play with.
- Schedule a routine and make it a practice.
Though the above memory boosting skills may look simple, it is crucial in life for education, work, and lifestyle. Never ignore these skills, instead start implementing them without any delay.
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