Primitive school game for kids. The life of an ancient man, the dwelling of an ancient man. The game "Who needs what for work?"
How did the first man appear? This question worries scientists around the world and excites the imagination of our children. We will take as a basis the theory of Charles Darwin that people are descended from monkeys and go to a distant and mysterious primitive world to feel like a representative of the Stone Age. We will build a cave, create for ourselves the image of a primitive man, learn how to make fire and create weapons. We will meet shamans and become the first artists. We will catch our first mammoth and learn all about the spirits that dwell among us.
We will find out:
- From whom did the first people originate (according to Darwin's theory)
- Where lived primitive
- How did you get your food
- What did primitive men and women do (I wonder if something has changed over millions of years? 😉)
- What did primitive people believe in?
- What animals inhabited the primitive world
- What did early man learn?
You'll get:
- theoretical material (on the basis of which you can tell the child how people lived in the Stone Age)
- thematic games that allow you to penetrate the world of primitive people and immerse yourself in the topic
- cards with logic games and tasks that you will need during thematic games
- Educational cards with drawings and information about animals, primitive weapons and tools
Age 4+
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Marina Purina
MKDOU kindergarten№77 Novosibirsk
Role-playing game«»
Held during the theme week “Gen. Furniture, household appliances».
Members: children 6-7 years old
Compiled: teacher Purina Marina Gennadievna
Target: introducing children to life primitive man
Tasks:
Cultivate interest in the history of development human;
Develop curiosity;
To expand the search and cognitive activity of children;
Develop cognitive activity, enrich vocabulary. Arouse a desire to actively participate in a general conversation and game.
Cultivate friendships and mutual assistance.
Develop memory, logical thinking, speech, interest in independent solving cognitive problems.
To consolidate the acquired knowledge with children, to bring joy and pleasure to children from role-playing game.
Dictionary activation: dwelling, cave, tribe, sacred fire, ritual dance, rock paintings.
Material and equipment: cave, animal skins, "bonfire", stones and sticks for "breeding" campfire, "spears", silhouettes of animals, sheets of paper, "river", skewers, crayons.
Musical arrangement: "Sounds of Africa", "Sound of Drums".
preliminary work:
Reading books and encyclopedias on the topic « Ancient world» , "Journey to the Ancient World", watching video. Making a layout « Prehistoric site»
Game progress:
Guys, do you want to go with me to the stone age? I really want to see how people lived in the ancient world! Who is with me? And suddenly the journey will be dangerous: we may meet a wild beast, hostile tribes - are you not afraid? Those who are ready to go on a journey through the Ancient World, come closer to get into the field of action of the time machine. Get ready! Get in the circle closer, we will start the time machine! Prepared hands (start engine) "R-r-r-r!",put your hands on each other's shoulders: “We want to go to the Stone Age! We want to go to the stone age! We want to go to the Stone Age!” Hands up. Let's fly!
Once primitive people
let's go to primeval forest.
AND primeval sun
Looked at them from heaven.
Then these people decided
Live in a deep cave
They got the fire
They began to cook food on it.
And they ate with their hands
And drank water from the stream
Dressed differently than you and me
They had skin.
Let's build a cave! (from blocks and bedspreads)
Guys, what do you think you are wearing? primitive people? (animal skins)
How primitive people made fire? (getting fire).
Let's sit around the fire, warm our hands!
You know, primitive people barely spoke. Mostly they communicated with gestures. We will also try to convey some information to each other with the help of gestures without words.
One child shows, the rest guess. For example,
I want to eat.
I saw a big mammoth over the mountain!
It's time to go hunting!
I am tired and want to sleep.
Yes, it was not so easy for our ancestors to communicate.
In ancient times, people did not live alone, but in large groups - tribes. Imagine that we are a tribe.
What was the most important occupation of ancient people? (hunting, getting food)
How are we going to hunt animals? What will be our weapon? Ancient people made weapons for hunting from sticks and stones. We will also make spears.
What did ancient people do to hunt successfully?
(They performed a ritual dance.)
Yes, our ancestors believed that hunting would be successful if before forthcoming desire to perform a ritual dance in which people showed how brave they are.
Do you want to do this dance?
A ritual dance is performed to the sound of drums
Men take spears and go hunting and fishing, and women make sure that the fire does not go out and watch the kids, collect fruits.
Audio recording sounds "Animal Sounds". The children go hunting.
It is necessary to go silently so as not to frighten off the prey.
summed up: The children name who they shot down.
Well hunted, rich prey.
What shall we do with our prey, shall we eat it raw or roast it on fire?
(We sit around the fire and "fry" figured marmalade on skewers).
Guys, do you like our trip to the Ancient World? Tell me what do you like here?
I think the food is ready. Who wants to try?
How did ancient people decorate the walls of their caves?
Our ancestors on the walls of the cave captured the most important and interesting moments of their lives.
We have embers from the fire. Let's use them to draw what we saw today, what we liked the most.
Children draw with crayons.
After a while it buzzes "Time Machine".
Guys, do you hear? I think it's time for us to go back. Or maybe someone wants to stay here a little longer?
Children decide who comes back and who wants to stay.
Related publications:
Dear Colleagues! Last academic year, our kindergarten hosted a project competition on the topic " Story game as a cultural practice.
How does the independent plot-role-playing game of older preschoolers change under the influence of the systematic formation of new game ones in them.
Project "In the footsteps of primitive man" INFORMATION MAP OF THE PROJECT Author of the project: Shumkova AV Project duration: short-term (1 week). Project type: information and creative.
Julia Maznina
Recently, bored with small and big travels, my sons and nephews and I decided to arrange time travel at home. we have already searched, the next point of our travels in the past was the Stone Age. It is interesting to see how primitive people lived. But it so happened that we didn’t just look at the life of prehistoric people, but due to an error in the time machine, we turned into hominids - the ancestors of man, and we had to go through the whole evolutionary path together with primitive people in order to become Homo sapiens again - a reasonable person. The game took us about two hours. The scenario is suitable for children from 3 years old.
Leading: If you and I were on our planet Earth 3 million years ago, everything around us would be a little different. And we would be the only people on it. Yes, don't be surprised. At that time, there were no humans on Earth. Accounting believe that the first man appeared on our planet 2.4 million years ago. It happened in Northeast Africa.
On the map (physical or political), find the northeast of Africa, you can put some kind of mark there or stick a flag.
Leading: Then primitive people went to Asia and Europe. Here development ancient man went faster. The first civilizations appeared in Asia.
Show Asia and Europe on the map. You can indicate the movement of primitive people with arrows (If your map is laminated, the arrows can be drawn or cut out of paper).
Leading: Want to see how primitive people lived and what they did? Then you and I need to get to the Stone Age, or rather, to its very beginning - in the Paleolithic era, when prehistoric people learned to use stone tools.
The facilitator looks around the participants thoughtfully.
Leading: In order for primitive people to accept us as their own, you and I need to change our appearance. How did prehistoric people dress? They did not know how to make fabrics; the skins of animals that were scraped and dried in the sun replaced the fabric. Primitive people preferred to leave their feet bare, but you and I can make special shoes - pistons, by collecting a piece of leather around the ankle.
Participants dress like primitive people. Instead of leather, you can use, for example, fabric Brown. We fixed the pistons around the ankles with bank elastic bands.
Leading: Is everyone ready for time travel? Turn on the time machine, let's go! Our goal is the Stone Age, the Paleolithic era.
Children start the time machine, all participants move to a place marked with a sign "Paleolith" (the presenter himself or participants who can read can read). Any box, remote control, children's steering wheel can act as a time machine. You can even just imagine that you have it and, for example, lies in the palm of your hand. We use a board with switches, latches and other handle developments.
Leading: So-so. Looks like our time machine is a little off today. We were not in the Paleolithic era, but a little earlier, when human ancestors lived on Earth - hominids. Now hominids are called the ancestors of man and large great apes.
Well, you and I, guys, will have to go through the same path that a person went through in the process of his evolution - from a skilled man (Homo Habilis), still very similar to great apes, to a reasonable man (Homo sapiens), like us you. Forward!
1 stop. Human ancestors - hominids
Our first stop is the time of the hominids, the great ape-like ancestors of man, such as chimpanzees and orangutans. What do you think human ancestors were able to do? And what did they eat?
Leading: Quite right! Most likely, they still moved on four legs, could easily climb trees and ate what they could find around them: bananas and other fruits, roots dug out of the ground. Shall we try?
Participants walk on all fours, looking for something to eat. They can climb onto the sports complex, a sofa or a bed on all fours. Hang some bananas on the gym or on the doorknob and let the participants try to eat them without their hands. If you decide to eat root vegetables dug out of the ground (for example, carrots or turnips), they, of course, need to be cleaned.
2 stop. skillful man(Homo h abilis)
Leading: Are we going further? Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of a skilled man - Homo habilis (homo habilis). He was still very bent, with long arms and a big head. The growth of a skilled adult was like the growth of a current 12-year-old boy.
Participants depict what a skilled person was. They try to bend so as to reach the knees with the fingertips of straightened arms, then to the ankles, then to the floor.
Leading: A skilled man was the first to learn how to process stone and make tools out of it. That is why scientists call this time in the history of our planet stone age. What do you think a skilled man could do with his stone tools?
Participants give their guesses. Try pebbles to split the bones from an apricot or plum, chop crackers, dig up the ground in a pot with a houseplant.
Leading: And where did the skilled man live? He still did not know how to build houses, and for housing he used those stone structures that nature provided him. Guess what?
Participants give their guesses.
Leading: Quite right. A skilled man used caves for habitation. Let's make our own.
Make a cave using a table, chairs and bedspreads.
Leading: A skilled man obtained food for himself by collecting foxes, the fruits of plants, digging out the roots of plants. Bird nests were a great success for the ancient man.
Make a bird's nest out of paper or newspaper in advance. Fill it with a few chocolate eggs or Kinder Surprise capsules with small edible surprises inside. Move the nest up high for the participants to find it.
3 stop. Homo erectus (Homo erectus)
Leading: Our next stop with you is the Paleolithic era, the time of Homo erectus - Homo Erectus (homo erectus). An adult Homo erectus was slightly shorter than modern man, but his arms were longer than yours and mine. He invented the ax and hunted small game. A hand ax is a piece of stone, sharpened at one end, which the ancient people clamped in their fist and used as a knife, ax or pick. He also learned how to sustain fire. Where do you think fire came from in prehistoric man?
Participants give their guesses.
Leading: Yes, ancient people could meet fire during a thunderstorm, when lightning struck a dry tree and it caught fire. The ancient man himself did not yet know how to receive fire, so the fire had to be protected. What could put out the fire? And how could fire be transferred to other people?
Participants give their guesses. You can conduct experiments: extinguish a candle with water from a spray bottle, blowing it out, blocking the access of air, closing it with a jar or filling it with sand or salt. Light one candle from another - this is how ancient people could transfer fire to each other.
Leading: So, primitive man had to protect the fire from rain and wind, to make sure that the smoldering fire was not covered up and trampled down, so that the fire had access to air all the time and there was something to burn. In the caves, ancient people made a hearth, lined it with stones, regularly threw brushwood (dry branches) into the fire so that it would not go out. Let's make a hearth in our cave.
Participants choose a place in the cave for a hearth, surround it with stones. We had real ones, but you can cut stones out of cardboard. They collect brushwood (simple pencils can become them) and light a fire (you can roll tubes of paper or napkins). We had brown cubes as brushwood, and we made fire from red, yellow and orange cubes.
Leading: How do you think fire changed the life of ancient man?
Participants give their guesses.
Leading: Quite right. Fire changed the diet of ancient man: if earlier he ate food only raw, now it could be cooked on a fire: fry meat, bake vegetables. The fire allowed the ancient man to live in a cooler climate, because the fire was warmer. Fire made the life of primitive people safer: the light and smell of a fire scared away wild animals, which is probably why people still like to look at fire so much.
In advance, prepare small pieces of sausage, cheese, cucumber, fruit or marmalade (children especially like this option) and wooden barbecue sticks. If there are no long sticks, you can use toothpicks. Let the participants make their own kebabs and “roast” them over a fire. This game can be inserted into any quest and carried out at any holiday - it is always a success. It gives the participants the opportunity to relax a little, and also those who have not participated much before are immediately attracted to the game.
4th stop: Heidelberg man (Homo heidelbergensis)
Leading: Are we going further? Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of the Heidelberg man - Homo heidelbergensis (homo heidelbergensis). He was even taller than Homo erectus, strong and sturdy. Do athletes train with dumbbells now? And what could the Heidelberg man use?
Do some rock exercises. Instead of real stones, you can take bags of cereal (preferably fabric ones) or thick books that are comfortable to hold.
Leading: The Heidelberg man invented the spear and was already hunting large animals. Which one do you think?
Leading: Not all types of animals hunted by prehistoric man exist in our time. Most of them died out. Died out:
Need a script for a children's party?
- a big-horned deer (its horns reached 4 meters in scope, with such horns you can’t get through the forest);
- mammoth (a close relative of the elephant, but much larger, the legs were short, and the body was covered with thick hair, so he was not afraid of the cold; mammoth tusks reached a length of 4 m);
- woolly rhinoceros (it looked like the rhinoceros that lives on our planet now, but its body was covered with thick hair, like that of a mammoth);
- cave bear (was larger and stronger than an ordinary brown; scientists believe that he did not hibernate).
Here are bison - huge wild bulls - still live in America. Only the front part of the body is covered with thick hair, there is a hump on the back, and short and thick horns on the head.
Participants can portray the animals that the facilitator is talking about.
Leading: I think you and I should also get a spear and go hunting. And before the invention of the spear, ancient people hunted by throwing stones at the animal.
A spear can be made from a stick by tying to it or attaching with tape a tip made of cardboard or other material. If a stick is not available, a spear can be cut from a large piece of thick cardboard. In this case, it is better to take soft or rag balls as stones.
Arrange a hunt for a mammoth or an elephant. Mammoth can be made like this: put two chairs or put two large pillows on the floor and cover them with a large piece of cloth. Throwing spears, try throwing the covers off the chairs. Or maybe an older brother or dad will agree to become a mammoth. Let the fitball be a woolly rhinoceros - throw the fitball over the line by throwing spears or stones.
Leading: The Heidelberg man also learned to build a dwelling out of branches and skins. What do we call these dwellings now?
Participants express their options.
Leading: Right. We call a dwelling made of branches a hut, and if a rigid frame made of branches is covered with animal skins, we get yaranga, chum, wigwam or tipi. Can you and I build such a dwelling?
Build a model hut. You will need: a small piece of a tourist rug, foam rubber or just plasticine, toothpicks, a few crumpled foil wrappers or chocolate bar foil cut into pieces (wrappers should be crumpled so that they can be straightened later). First, hunt animals: lay crumpled candy wrappers on the table, let the participants try to hit them with spears - toothpicks. Whoever hit the "beast" takes the wrapper for himself. On a piece of tourist rug, make the base for the wigwam from toothpicks. Then, with your fingers or with the help of a stack, take care of dressing skins(spread the candy wrappers) and cover the base of the wigwam with them. Secure the wrappers with glue or toothpicks. Ready!
5 stop. Neanderthal (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis)
Leading: It is time to go further along the path of human evolution. Our next stop is the Paleolithic era, the time of the Neanderthals - Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (Homo sapiens neanderthalEnsis). He had massive bones and a muscular torso, and he was stooped. The Neanderthal learned to build dugouts and make fire. The dugout is a dwelling
Make a dugout out of plasticine. Housing of a Heidelberg man made of skins and a dugout, you can put all the dugouts in an empty box, add dry grass, leaves, buckwheat or other cereals, trees from the designer, you can make a fire from plasticine, an ancient man can also be molded from plasticine or taken from the designer. You will succeed.
Leading: How did the Neanderthal manage to get fire? Rub your palms together hard, do you feel warm? Friction is the main ally in getting fire.
Participants warm their cheeks, foreheads, noses, heels, knees, etc.: rub their palms together, and then apply them to different places.
Leading: Mastered the Neanderthal and arrow and bow.
If you have a bow, arrange figurines (pictures of animals) on the floor, let the participants go hunting. We used a slingshot instead of a bow.
Leading: The Neanderthal also knew how to fish. I think you and I also need to learn how to fish the Neanderthal way - stunning the fish with a well-aimed hit of a pointed stick.
You will need some inflated balloons. Before inflating them, hide the “teeth” inside. Teeth can be picked up among oblong buttons, designer parts (they should have a through hole) or simply cut out of cardboard. Scatter the balloons around the room, give each participant a toothpick. The task of the participants is to catch the ball with one or both feet without the help of hands, and then pierce the ball with a toothpick (pierce balloon, just throwing a toothpick at it - almost impossible, checked). Participants take the items inside the ball for themselves.
know-it-all: From the bones and teeth of animals and from the shells of sea and river mollusks, the Neanderthal learned to make jewelry. We also have trophies. Let's collect the decorations.
Participants receive a long thick thread and collect decorations.
6 stop. Cro-Magnon, he is a reasonable person (Homo sapiens sapiens)
Leading: We move on. Our last stop with you is the Mesolithic and Neolithic era, the time of the Cro-Magnons, or Homo sapiens sapiens (homo sapiens sapiens). The Cro-Magnon man already knew how to do almost everything: speak, process stone, wood and bone, hunt and fish, sail on a raft, draw, sing, dance and even fight.
The Cro-Magnons lived in clans - in small groups consisting of relatives. Clans united in communities that lived and hunted in the same territory. When several clans and communities had to unite to repel the attack of enemies, tribes appeared with a leader - the most powerful and wise hunter at the head.
Primitive people believed that each tribe has its own patron - an animal, a totem, from which the tribe originated. Let's invent a totem for our tribe. And since the Cro-Magnon man already knew how to speak, we should come up with names for ourselves.
Participants choose a totem animal for the tribe and names for themselves. And they try to identify the totemic animals of other tribes (from the pictures of the shadows of animals).
Leading: Turning to a totem animal with a request for something, ancient people performed various rituals: they sang, danced. He conducted these rituals and kept the tradition - the shaman, that is, the sorcerer, of the tribe. Many rituals were performed to primitive music. Of course, it was not like ours, the main thing in it was not the melody, but the rhythm. The first musical instruments were ... what? How do you think?
Participants give their guesses.
Leading: Processing a stone, knocking stones against each other, the Cro-Magnons noticed sounds. Therefore, the first musical instruments were drums, they beat on them with hands, sticks, and large animal bones. Then came rattles filled with seeds or dried berries, then other instruments. Let's find musical instruments and dance?
Participants find suitable instruments (drums, wooden sticks, spoons, noise boxes, flutes) and dance to primitive music (you can use sounds African drums) or to the funny “Song of Things” performed by M. Boyarsky. Instead of drums, you can use upturned pots, cardboard boxes, plastic containers, or simply bang on a stool or table.
Leading: Cro-Magnons learned not only to hunt, but also to fight. For protection, they surrounded their camps with a palisade of logs, branches, and even mammoth bones.
Leading: Cro-Magnons learned how to make traps for wild animals. But we need to get around them.
Place sheets of paper, pieces of a floor mat, cubes from the designer on the floor. Have the participants carefully walk around them without hitting anything.
Leading: Cro-Magnons could also prepare food.
Distribute several pieces of thick thread to the participants. Let them lay out the snails - on sheets of white paper, imagining that it is snow. You can lay out the snails on the floor and shower them with "snow" (cotton wool or cotton pads).
Leading: Cro-Magnon people told about important events in their lives - successful hunts or attacks by enemies - by drawing on the walls of the cave. Some of these drawings (petroglyphs) can be seen in caves around the world today. Petroglyphs are like letters from the past to the future. Then writing emerged from these petroglyphs. At this point, prehistoric time ends, scientists study further history from written sources. And what would you tell from here, from the end of prehistoric time to those people who live now.
Participants make rock paintings. For the base, it is better to take cardboard, and draw - beetroot juice, charred sticks or crayons. We painted with charred sushi sticks.
Leading: While the men hunted, the women took care of gathering and their dwellings. They met a lot interesting plants. We are also lucky with you. What plant is this, do you think?
The facilitator leads the participants to a hanging brown piñata - the fruit of the cocoa tree. Participants break the piñata, find chocolate candies and conclude that it is a cocoa tree. At our festive table, the children carried sweets on the skin, taking it by two ends.
Instead of a conclusion
Leading: Today you go to kindergarten, study, your moms and dads work. And what did primitive man do? A skilled man lived by gathering - he ate what he could find (plants, animals, their eggs), a man erectus began to hunt. Gradually, the ancient man domesticated animals: his first companion was the dog. The ancient man had few things, he could easily move from place to place, so in the Neolithic era nomads appeared - people who were engaged in cattle breeding and constantly moved from place to place. Then the ancient man learned to grow plants himself, and not just to collect them. So there was agriculture - the occupation of settled tribes. Thanks to him, a person was able to provide himself with everything necessary. Gradually, the first settlements arose, then cities, and civilization began to emerge. But more on that in the next trip.
Participants say goodbye to the leader.
In preparing this game, the encyclopedia for children “We live in the Stone Age” from the series “Walking into History” (a book in the Labyrinth) and a board game helped me a lot. card game"Once Upon a Time in the Stone Age" from the same series (a game in the Labyrinth).
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Lena Berezhnaya on the day "Stone Age"
Our day today was very interesting and fun! At first we built the dwelling of ancient people from stones. It turned out something like a cave, near the entrance of which you can see the primitive people themselves.
And this is a stone path of primitive people.
I told how primitive people made fire. The kids tried long and hard to strike fire from the stone. Of course, we didn’t succeed in this, but we liked the activity of knocking stone on stone.
Then we tested for skill. They drew a circle and the kids tried to push each other out of the circle without using their hands. Kids always love these games!
Then we took arrows and went hunting for a mammoth. Bogdanchik immediately remembered the protective function of amulets, and said: “Mom, let's put on these little things that we sculpted!”. We put amulets around our necks and arms and went hunting! I was in the role of a mammoth and hid behind the bushes, and the kids carefully sneaked up, and then ran away from me with merry squeals!
We played this game for a long time until we got tired!
They played for accuracy. I built a tower of pebbles, and the kids knocked it down with pebbles.
Then we started collecting. The kids were handed a bucket each and went to collect nuts (pebbles).
While the kids were collecting food for primitive people, I hid nuts in the cave. After a job well done, I offered to refresh myself. She said that primitive people hid a surprise in a cave. The kids are happy to go looking!
We ate nuts, drank kompatik and decided to go in for rock painting. We chose a pebble, took out paints and began to paint the stones!
Here's what we got:
And it was Bogdanchik who put his handprint on the pavement.
After the rock art, we went to look for fossils, which the kids found very quickly!
This is how much fun we played today! Lena and Oksana, thank you so much for such cool game ideas!
Camp report
Thank you so much for such a huge number of new games and ideas that were at the training! The training is just amazing!
Firstly, I immediately liked that the training will be held in the form of a thematic Internet camp! I myself used to go to camps all the time as a child, and I really liked everything there! And then Lena and Oksana offered to organize such a camp for little kids! And it's themed too!
And when I found out the theme of the camp... History! Before, I could not even imagine how it is possible to give the theme of the story to small children in the game! Now I have enough ideas and games on this topic for a long time to come!
To be honest, we did not have time to play all the proposed games! Just physically there was not enough time! But we will definitely play them! And how not to play now! The kids themselves every day now ask: “Where are we going to travel today in a time machine?”
All the games offered at the training were just wonderful. Some of them seem to be simple, but terribly interesting! And some games required some preparation for them (costumes, props)!
The kids remember a lot of games that they now either play on their own or ask me to play with them!
During the training, fantasy begins to work so that various games are invented just on the fly out of nothing! And most importantly, on the street and other kids are connected to interesting game! And from a cheerful company of kids, the game becomes even more interesting! The ideas of Lena and Oksana, the reports of the other participants of the training, help stir up the imagination!
Moms on the street began to ask when I have time to do everything: to invent interesting games, and make props for them, and it’s so fun to play with the kids, and much more! To this, I advised Lenina and Oksana to go through trainings! The main thing should be desire! And there's a lot to be done!
Thank you so much for the idea to keep the album of games! In general, it’s always difficult for me to engage in design activities (I can’t finish what I started, because there are a lot of different ideas that I don’t have time to write down). Here everything is completely different!