Rebus - logic game in which you need to guess the answer from the picture. The latter depicts objects, animals and plants, letters and numbers. Their relative position matters. Even for fidgets, puzzles can be an exciting activity if presented in a playful way. For example, you can offer to teach a child how to solve spy ciphers.

And from the simplest puzzle pictures to preschool age get to relatively difficult. We assure you: if your child gets carried away and learns to turn on logical thinking, over time you will already learn from him how to solve riddles in pictures.

Puzzles are invented on a huge variety of topics. The main thing is that every word, letter and object that serves as an answer to the picture should already be familiar to the baby.

How to solve puzzles for children with letters in pictures?

If you are interested in puzzles, then most likely you know the advantages of these logical puzzles. They develop memory, ingenuity, speed of thinking, the ability to navigate the situation and apply the knowledge already gained.

To teach a child of 6-7 years old how to solve tasks correctly, first explain the rules to him. No need to insist that he remember everything at once. Chances are you don't even know them all. It is better to explain one or two a day and reinforce them with thematic tasks. The latter can be printed (more convenient for outdoor activities) or shown from the monitor. In the next lessons, it is also better not to offer too much material. It is important to explain to the child that he first needs to correctly identify and name the object shown in the picture. And only then apply the rules in relation to this word.

So, let's read the basic rules! In particular, we will define what a comma, a strikethrough, an inverted object and other subtleties in pictures mean.

• What does a comma mean at the beginning or end of a rebus?
  A comma at the bottom or at the top before the picture means that one letter at the beginning must be discarded from the name of the depicted object. Accordingly, we see two commas - we discard the first two letters. These icons are very common.
• What does an inverted comma at the beginning or end mean?
  The rules for inverted commas are similar to the rules for regular commas (see previous paragraph).
• What do the crossed out and added letters mean?
  A crossed out letter in the picture means that it must be excluded from the name of the drawn object (and another one should be added, if it is indicated). Added to the left or right of the picture - you need to add it to the word at the beginning and at the end.
• What do the numbers in the puzzles mean?
  The numbers can have two meanings. Are they above the word? To guess the answer, you need to rearrange the letters from place to place in the indicated order. The name of the number can be part of the word (often use "one hundred", "five"). A crossed out number means that a letter with such a serial number must be excluded from the word. It should be remembered that some numbers, as well as objects, can have several names (the unit is “count”, “time”, “one”).
• What does the plus sign mean?
  If there is a plus sign between the words (symbols), then they must be added to each other. Sometimes “+” means the preposition “to”, the right one is chosen according to the meaning. The "equal" sign (for example, A=K) indicates that all the letters "A" in the word should be replaced by the letters "K".
• Vertical or horizontal line in assignments?
  The horizontal line means simultaneously “under”, “above”, “above” and “on”, depending on the context. Used with letters or pictures when one part is drawn below the line, the other is above. Sometimes denotes a fraction (half of something, that is, "half-").
• Arrangement of letters in the picture and prepositions
  It is important to look at the relative position of the letters. If they are placed one inside the other, then the preposition "in" is added to their names. One letter is drawn after another - meaning the preposition "for" or "before".
• The item in the picture is drawn upside down? To get an answer, you need to read the word backwards. short words children 6-7 years old may well turn over in their minds. True, the number of such tasks is quite limited.

Most often, several rules are used simultaneously in puzzles. It is believed that at 6-7 years old children are already familiar with the letters, they clearly know their names. If a younger student has not yet encountered commas, teaching him a new icon will not be particularly difficult.

Examples of puzzles in pictures for children 6-7 years old with answers

Children 6-7 years old and less perceive the material much better in relation to some memorable event. Riddles about animals will be solved with delight if you offer them to your child the day after visiting the zoo. A first-grader girl who is eager to enter a music school will be interested in musical puzzles. And a child, a boy impressed by the planetarium, will like pictures about space.

About animals and birds

When giving children a task about birds or animals, make sure that he has already come across such names of animals, and also understands everything that is shown in the picture.

Rebuses about family, about mother

Who is the sweetest for a child, if not mommy! And who does he happily meet every time, except for mom and dad? Children will love to recognize and guess grandmother, grandfather, sister and other relatives in encrypted pictures. Print or draw colorful pictures and start having fun while teaching your child!

About sports, about health

Puzzles about work, health, sports, professions and many others can be used as thematic game aids. In the graduation group of the kindergarten, the first grades of school or at home, are classes or conversations planned on one of the topics? A riddle in the form of a picture will allow you to learn the material better than an ordinary faceless story. Kids will be interested in non-standard presentation of material.

Fairy tale puzzles

Fairy tales with familiar characters, modern or classic cartoons are an inexhaustible storehouse of inspiration. If the child is not very interested in logical riddles, you can try to captivate him by guessing his favorite characters. There are many more mysteries on this topic than are given as an example. Knowing the interests and favorite fairy tales of your child, you can create puzzles in the form of applications yourself.

Extracurricular activity for elementary school students "Looking for escaped puzzles"

Target: development of attention, non-standard thinking, creative imagination.

Equipment: the teacher has a table for puzzle number 1; students have colored pencils, a notebook in a cage, matches.

Teacher. Guys, a familiar librarian asked me for help. The fact is that a nuisance happened: a book with puzzles escaped from the children's library. She was in a single copy and was in demand. But last summer, none of the readers asked her even once. This is understandable: the summer was hot, and young readers tried to spend all their free time somewhere closer to nature, to water. But it started academic year and they ask for this book again. However, the puzzles were offended, felt themselves useless in the summer and fled, leaving a note. There she is.

The teacher shows a card.

The entry is encrypted, that is, it is a puzzle. Let's try to decipher it. Guess what "key" to use.

Independent work.

Children write down the deciphered text in notebooks. Examination.

Answer."We don't need anyone! We leave for the island of Eternal Summer. Farewell". Read from bottom to top from right to left.

I suggest going to the Isle of Eternal Summer and looking for the escaped puzzles there. Maybe they will agree to return.

To find yourself in a land where the waves of the warm sea are splashing, where palm trees grow, magnolias bloom and where there is a lot of sun, it is enough to use our imagination that never fails us. Close your eyes... Crex-pex-fex!.. Open your eyes. We are on the island of Eternal Summer! The island is surrounded on all sides by the sea. Let's walk along the coast. On the right, the sea is blue, clean and gentle; on the left - wherever you look - palm trees, lianas, coconuts, bananas .... And under your feet there is light warm sand. Ooh, it's hot! Need to swim. And what is that splashing on the waves? Let's swim closer. That's luck! A tiny raft, on it is an open book, and next to it, with their bellies up, are little men with big heads, thin arms and legs, sunbathing. A flag is hoisted on the raft with the inscription:

OOOOLLMKGVI

What's this word? Maybe someone has already guessed?

Answer. PUZZLE. We rearrange the "crumbled" letters.

Ah, that's it! The puzzles were specially encrypted so that those around them puzzled over who was in front of them. Guys, draw at least one puzzle as you imagine it.

Children draw. Exchange of impressions.

Hello puzzles! We specially arrived on the island of Eternal Summer to persuade you to return to the library, because the children miss you so much!

Golovolomkin. Is it really for us? We also miss the guys. We were offended that they forgot about us for the whole summer. And so they decided to escape to this island. Let the readers feel that they feel bad without us.

Teacher. Readers have already felt that life without puzzles is boring. And we are happy to solve them even right now. Come on, open the page harder for us!

PUZZLE 1

We will look at the table

And we'll see faces

Unfamiliar faces -

Sad, funny...

Now take a closer look

Take a look at them my friend.

What pattern

Are they subordinate?

Answer. Each horizontal row has one round, oval and square shape, people of different shapes have hats, different shapes of noses, mouths and eyes.

The teacher covers one of the faces and asks the children to draw a hidden face in a notebook, having previously checked for patterns in their answer.

PUZZLE 2

There is an "extra" concept

Literally every line.

You thought well

Mark it with a dot.

1. Birch, tree, maple, poplar, mountain ash.

2. Addition, multiplication, summand, division, subtraction.

3. Bitter, hot, sour, sweet, salty.

4. Precipitation, rain, snow, frost, hail.

5. Comma, period, colon, union, dash.

PUZZLE 3

Need to lay out of matches

Miscellaneous items.

Matches keep a strict account

It follows this.

Lay out: a) a vase of 8 matches; b) an envelope of 8 matches; c) a Christmas tree of 9 matches; d) a tower of 9 matches.

PUZZLE 4

Proverbs-twins

In the list you will find

From English to Russian

Pass the arrow.

English:

SMARTER ALL SILENCE.

CLOTHING DOES NOT MAKE A MAN.

AND A GOOD SHOOTER CAN

MISS.

FEAR HAS LONG LEGS.

YOU WILL NOT CATCH THE WIND WITH A NET.

Russians:

DO NOT APPLY WATER WITH A SIEVE.

AND THERE IS A MISTAKE ON MASHKA.

WORD IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLD.

A coward and a cockroach mistook for a giant.

BY CLOTHES MEET, BY MIND SEE OFF.

Answer. Silence is the smartest thing. Word is silver, silence is gold.

Clothes don't make a person. They are greeted by clothes, escorted by mind.

And a good shooter can miss. And there is a miss on Masha.

Fear has long legs. Fear has big eyes. You can't catch the wind with a net. Do not apply water with a sieve.

The meaning of proverbs is explained.

PUZZLE 5

So that the words are known

be able to decipher

multiplication table

Great to know.

Clue. In order to insert a letter instead of a number, for example, 4, you need to look into the code and think about how to get 4 by multiplying one of the numbers in the vertical line by one of the numbers in the horizontal line. Only if you multiply 2 by 2. Their intersection is the letter C. And so Further.

Answer. SEVEN SPANS IN THE FOREHEAD. So they say about a very smart, outstanding, talented person.

Puzzle. And you guys are great. Puzzles click like nuts! We agree to return to the library, but on the condition that you will not forget about us, including in the summer.

Teacher. Guys, do you agree with the condition? Then we all together leave the island of Eternal Summer.

Every parent is interested in the development of their child, but not everyone knows how to choose the right key to attract their children to study, reading, arithmetic and other sciences and distract their many social networks, computer games and endless cartoons. A little forgotten, but not losing its effectiveness, a simple way to captivate a child into the world of interesting and mysterious will come to the rescue of parents and teachers. A puzzle-rebus for children is an ideal way to develop attention and perseverance, logic and quick wits in a child of 7, 8, 9 years old. Puzzles for children: With answers, in pictures, we will learn how to compose and solve together.

The history of the origin of the rebus

The term "rebus" comes from the Latin word "res" (thing) and perform the function of showing a certain object, word or expression with a certain set of figures, pictures and compositions of letters.
What you just won’t find in a modern rebus:

• combinations of letters and numbers;
• geometric figures;
• animals and birds;
• plants and trees;
• fruits and vegetables;
• geographical concepts;
• and many many others.

Puzzles first appeared in France in the 15th century and carried a slightly different meaning than today. At that time, farce shows with the participation of jesters, musicians, singers and animals were widespread in Europe. It was these representations, in which the realities of that time were ridiculed, that were called rebuses. What it meant to ridicule without words, using only hints, facial expressions and movements of the hands and body.

After France, puzzles spread throughout Europe and, starting from the 16th century, begin to take on a modern look. The first puzzles appear, depicted in a drawn form, which were drawn by professional artists.

Riddle-rebus for children in Russia

In Russia, the first puzzles appeared in the middle of the 19th century in the magazine Ilyustration. And in the second half of the same century, the Rebus magazine appeared, where you could see modern puzzles, primarily designed to attract the attention of the adult population.

But the first riddles-puzzles, which were colorful and simple, appeared in the same magazine only after 2-3 years, when, together with adults, children of various ages and social classes began to join an interesting and exciting activity.

How to make a puzzle and how to solve them

In the rapidly developing modern society everything remains less time for their own development. For any question, you can find several answers at once in the global network. But what do you do when you demand attention from your parents? Not everyone will be able to buy new magazines with puzzles, rebuses, charades every day, and spending a lot of time in front of a computer screen is not entirely good for children's health.

Each parent can independently compose riddles-puzzles for children of any age. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that there are a number of rules and conditions that you must know when compiling a rebus.

In a rebus, a word, sentence, proverb, saying, quote or aphorism can be guessed. Each word in the rebus is written separately, while the number of words is not limited. Much depends on the age of the child, the level of his development and abilities.

Primary requirements

Since the founding of the rebus in its modern form, certain requirements appeared for its compilation, reduced to a single model around the world:

• Basically, a rebus has only one solution and, accordingly, one answer. In the case of two or more answers, the author of the rebus must necessarily warn about this. Most often, this fact is stipulated in the conditions. For example: you need to find two (three, four) solutions in the specified rebus.
• There is an unspoken rule: if one word is guessed in the rebus, it must be in the singular of the nominative case. Otherwise, the author specifies the task. For example: guess the adjective, verb, etc.
• If it is necessary to guess a proverb, saying or quote, the compiler must indicate this moment.
• The rebus is compiled in accordance with the norms of the language in which he solves it, do not have spelling errors, from left to right (with the exception of certain Eastern languages, Hebrew, etc.).

Types of puzzles

In addition to the requirements for riddles-puzzles, there are a number of the following basic techniques used in their compilation:

• (BOOTS) Use of commas. One of the first and most basic rules when solving a rebus. Commas, as a rule, are placed on the right or left of the top and mean how many initial or final letters of the word indicated in the picture must be removed.

• (TANYA) Replacement of letters. As a rule, such a technique is indicated in the rebus by an equal sign between the letters that the author of the rebus changes in the word.

• (VILLAGE) Adding letters. If the author needs to add several letters for a new word, he places them to the right or left of the picture in the upper corner.

• (SUN) Placing a series of numbers over the picture and manipulating them. This can be either a rearrangement of letters in a word, or their replacement.

• (ROCKER) If the picture is turned upside down, then it should be read backwards.

• (CROW, In the letter O, the word RONA) The words "on, in, in front of, under, behind, etc." they are not written in rebuses, but are depicted depending on the arrangement of letters and drawings.

The above techniques are basic for all types of puzzles and are used in riddles-puzzles for children as younger age as well as for high school students.

There is currently great amount all kinds of riddles-puzzles for children of all age groups. Children of primary and first grades of high school show particular interest in puzzles, riddles and puzzles.

Puzzles for children 7 years old

For students in grades 1-2, the most various puzzles are offered. This is due, first of all, to the simplicity in their creation and increased demand, both among parents and teachers, and among first-graders themselves.

The initial level for puzzles involves in the task, as a rule, one or two simple nouns.

At the beginning of the test of their strength, children of this age learn to subtract or add letters at the beginning and end of a word, replace letters, rearrange them.

Puzzles for children 8 years old

Having mastered after the first year of schooling, children become more liberated, begin to fluently read, count, study natural history and other subjects. At the same time, they actively explore the world on the street, training, children's camps and sanatoriums.

For children of this age, puzzles differ markedly in complexity from the previous level. In this case, the initial or average combination level is used. various kinds rebuses (numbers, prepositions, substitutions).

Puzzles for children 9 years old

At this age, children finish primary school and begin to live an "independent" life. Priorities, hobbies change, older friends appear. It is difficult for these children to sit still, the school load increases.

Those puzzles that they solved in 1- are just nuts for them now. Therefore, teachers and parents offer riddles for them of a completely different level, where there are elements of arithmetic, trigonometric figures, foreign or borrowed words, professions, geographical names, and others.

Of course, everyone is individual. There are no specific age criteria for solving riddles-rebuses.

Meanwhile, at whatever age the child begins to solve puzzles, puzzles and charades, in any case, this hobby will lead only to positive results.

An important stage in the development of a preschooler is improvement logical thinking.

For a student, it will be an additional bonus in the learning process, so you should start developing it long before school. To give impetus to the formation of elementary logic can give puzzles - riddles in the form of drawings. This is a kind of intellectual game during which it happens.

Performing the simplest tasks using logic will allow you not to be afraid of complications with. A rebus is a word encrypted in a picture. In the form of a hint in the cipher, various signs, letters, additional drawings are offered. Solving them requires erudition, ingenuity, and interest from children.

Solving puzzles is a very exciting activity. But you can quickly lose interest in him if the task is not selected according to age.

Puzzles for children 5 years old

represent the simplest options for solving - a set of letters and a picture. Putting them together should eventually form a new word. The birth of a new word causes delight in children. When the technology for solving them is mastered, you can switch to more complex options. For those who don't know the alphabet, the puzzles are made up of fun colored pictures. They depict familiar household items, fairy tale characters, animals, birds.

Puzzles for children 6 years old –

more complex, with the use of signs, the knowledge of which means: commas, equal sign, dots. Pictures and individual letters that an adult can help to read make it possible to compose a word yourself, removing extra letters or replacing one with another.

Puzzles for children 7 years old

are complicated by the fact that numbers appear in them along with signs and pictures. They become longer, may already consist of several words. Some need to be read upside down or right to left.

The puzzles, which can be downloaded on the Preparing for School website, are colorfully designed and very skillfully selected. In addition, there is a detailed guide to action, which describes the technology of solving different types puzzles, and all the answers to the puzzles are on the last page of the collection.

They can be downloaded and then easily printed on a printer.

Adults try to develop children through games and entertainment, using the most various forms. Coloring, a riddle, an outdoor game according to given rules, simple puzzles - all this serves to educate children, prepare them for school.

Of course, a preschool kid does not yet know or does not know letters well, so crosswords and other complex puzzles are not for him. Therefore, at the age of 6-7, he is introduced to puzzles. Usually these are the simplest puzzles with one hidden word. At this age, it is more important that the child understands the very principle of using pictures, syllables that make up right word. I understood and remembered what a letter is and why it is needed.

For elementary school it is already possible to use more complex puzzles that require the ability to read and write, the development of logical thinking, for example, such as crossword puzzles. Rebuses and puzzles for children 9-10 years old with answers in pictures are often used in school lessons. At home, together with their parents, children may well compose a rebus themselves by drawing it, or using coloring books.

Gradually, they become more complex, rebus pictures can already make up whole phrases, or make up special terms. Puzzles in physics, puzzles in chemistry or mathematics are used in the classroom and extracurricular activities to enhance the cognitive activity of children, develop their logical and creative abilities.

The first puzzles appeared in the 15th century in France, where they turned into pictures illustrating a play on words. To us, in Russia, these verbal logic puzzles in the form of pictures came only in the second half of the 19th century. Then this intellectual game found loyal fans of the different ages. Adults fell in love with solving complex puzzles, and then they attracted children to this, starting from preschool age.

Regardless of what age the rebus is addressed to - children of 6 years old or schoolchildren of 16 years old - it must be compiled or solved according to the same rules. If, when solving crossword puzzles, we know the question to which we need to find an answer, then a rebus is a pun where the similarity of the sound of a variety of objects and concepts is used and you need to find the answer by looking at the image.

• The object that we see in the picture of the rebus is always read in the singular, nominative case, but it can have several meanings. For example, if we see an eye on a rebus coloring book, then as a clue it can be denoted by the word “eye”. Or the drawing of an oak, when we solve the problem, can be taken precisely as an "oak", or maybe as a more general concept of a "tree".
• When for the solution it is necessary to use not the whole word, but only part of it, then the discarded letters, if they are at the beginning or end of the word, are indicated by commas. The place and number of commas indicate how many and from where to discard letters. If a letter from the middle of a word is discarded, then this is shown by writing and crossing it out.
• If letters, syllables, pictures are in a certain order or inside each other, this means that when solving, you need to use prepositions: “in”, “on”, “under”, “for”, etc. Often the position "above", "under" is indicated by a horizontal line.
• If another (others) consists of some letters, then while reading, we add “from” (from-b-a). When the letter is drawn according to another letter, then we use the preposition “by” (by-i-s).
• Replacing one letter with another is indicated either by an equal sign, or I cross out the removed letter, and write the desired one next to it.
• When they want to show that for the solution you need to read the word denoting the object in the picture, on the contrary, the picture is placed upside down.

Puzzles for children

Primary school students, children aged 9-10 years old, are beginning to be introduced to puzzles in mathematics. These include those in the compilation of which they use numbers or numerals. Also referred to as mathematical are those in which terms from mathematics are guessed. Rebuses also use the mathematical signs = and +.

1. The = sign means that all given letters in the picture word are replaced by another letter or combination of letters.
2. The plus sign warns that the parts of the rebus between which it stands are one word.
3. The numbers in the rebus indicate the letters that you need to take from the picture word and put them in the same order as they are written.
4. Numerals can be both the guess of the rebus (v-o-seven), and its part. (7th).
5. For a child of 8-9 years old, the mathematical rebus will also be the one where, to solve it, you need to count the number of identical letters (seven-th).
6. The rebus can be solved not in one word, but in a sentence, including on the topic of mathematics.

According to the same rules, complex puzzles in physics and puzzles in chemistry are compiled, in which terms from these sciences are encrypted.

Pets

All children, no matter how old they are, love pets. Therefore, they will be happy to solve puzzles and crossword puzzles, the answers to which will be their four-legged favorites. Crosswords to be completed include tasks in the form of puzzles. The answers fit under the same numbers as the riddle puzzle.

Sports

Children already from preschool age are engaged in physical education, and some even begin to get involved in certain sports. Therefore, it will not be so difficult for them to solve crosswords and other puzzles, where they need to show knowledge of various sports and sports equipment. And if the children think that the tasks are too difficult for them, this is a signal to adults that the topic of sports should be given extra attention by watching sports together on TV, or simply downloading coloring pages about sports.

Professions

Already at the age of 5, children begin to be introduced to the world of professions. Some professions are already familiar to them, they imagine what they do and how a doctor and a hairdresser, a salesman and a driver, an educator and a military man differ. They will tell him about other professions in the classroom, the child learns about them from films and books. Crosswords, coloring pages, puzzles from this section will help you check your knowledge about the world of professions and replenish them.

syllables

Puzzles that only include syllables will be difficult for preschoolers. They are designed for children over 8 who can read and write with confidence. When guessing puzzles with syllables, you need to take into account the location of syllables and letters among themselves and use the appropriate prepositions - “in”, “y”, “above”, “on”, “under”, “by”, “for”, etc.