Picnic with children, especially small, not all perceive as good rest. Kids are tired of new impressions or pine with idleness, adults do not allow to run away far to the forest or to play at a fire. To turn a sortie on the nature into the general holiday, it is enough to prepare games and competitions for younger participants in advance.
For fast and dexterous
It is the simplest to arrange entertainments for children in the forest, all necessary for this purpose literally lies underfoot. Children want adventures? Arrange for a start collecting cones on the clearing chosen for rest. First, it will be so easy to clean it for other games. Secondly, children will well warm up. To add interest, announce a competition. Participants it is possible to divide into teams or to play by the principle "everyone for itself". The leader announces start of a game and notes in advance stipulated time. After a signal the players stop collecting cones and count "harvest". Having summed up the results of the first competition, cones use in next games.
For example, it is possible to draw a circle on the earth and in several meters from it to designate line for which it is impossible to take up. Players in turn throw into cones in a circle. Who from ten or five attempts got more time — that and the winner. It is better to involve adults in other competition and to divide all participants into two or more teams. Children have to gain equal quantity of cones and rise in the circles drawn on the earth. On the leader's signal they begin to throw out for line of a cone, in adult players - to select them. The team where children the first will throw out all cones wins, and adults - will collect.
In advance prepare prizes including consolatory, for participants of competitions. Otherwise the upset children can not derive pleasure from a holiday.
Still all children it is possible to train idle time and the game loved by many generations in "potato". For this purpose take with yourself on the nature a volleyball. All participants of a game get up in a big circle and in turn return the thrown ball (for this purpose the youngest need to be trained in the simplest volleyball receptions). Those who passed a ball - squat in the center of a circle. The remained players can help out them, having returned a ball that it got to sitting. If someone from the center of a circle manages to jump up and intercept the flying ball, all sitting return to a game, and take their place standing around. Though usually play "potato", will not bother yet, it is possible to turn it into a competition also. Those who never sat down in the center in a definite time or "saved" most of all players from a circle are considered as winners.
Creativity inflow
On a picnic it is good to occupy the smallest with quieter games that they were not tired early and did not burst into tears. For example, to offer a competition of hand-made articles from natural materials — little men from cones, lodges and sand , etc. For this purpose it is worth taking a plasticine piece from the house. It is possible to build pyramids of stones - whose higher and steadier. Girls teach to spin wreaths and announce a competition of forest princesses with suits from dandelions and burdocks. It is necessary to hold a children's fashion show until flowers faded. If the sortie on the nature happened in the winter, silent games will not approach — too easy to freeze.
If it was lucky to find in the forest a glade with untouched snow cover, hold a competition of drawings on snow. It is possible to draw lines sticks or to tread legs, and to decorate pictures - berries of a rowan and leaves which did not fall down in the fall.
But it is possible to hold a competition of snowmen or to build small snow fortresses, to divide children into teams and to arrange fights with snowballs.