What are the games that improve attention?
Attention performance can be improved through exercises and games. Attention games aim to increase performance in the auditory and visual fields. Exercises such as memorization, copying, matching, and spotting differences can be used in this process. In addition, according to research, engaging in any sport, playing instruments such as the piano, and participating in educational games are among the activities that improve attention. Here are some attention games and exercises:
- “Which Item Did I Hide?” game: Choose any room in your house. Tell your child to examine the room carefully and look at the furniture. Take your child out of the room and hide an item. Call it back and ask it to name the item you hid.
- Remembering game: Show your child a picture for one minute and close the picture after one minute. Then ask questions about the picture. ‘What color was the child's clothes?’, ‘What color was the child's hair?’ etc.
- “Which Picture Is Different?” game: Ask your child to find the one that is different from the others in the pictures shown to him and explain why it is different. For example, pictures of animals and geometric shapes can be placed side by side, and pictures of plants such as flowers can be placed next to photographs of inanimate objects such as tables and chairs in their room.
- Remembering shapes: Draw some geometric shapes on a piece of paper and ask your child to look at them for a minute. Then, cover the picture and ask your child to draw what he remembers.
- Finding the differences between two similar pictures: Show your child picture cards that are similar to each other but have small differences between them and ask him to find the differences.
- Tell him what he read: Give your child a short reading text (story/fable). Ask him to read it. Then practice concentration and memory by asking what is told in the story/fable.
- Finding the word from the last letter: You can play this game with more than one person. People try to find a new word with the last letter of the word spoken before them. In this way, your child has to focus his attention on the "word finding" process.
- Table tennis: Playing table tennis improves selective attention and decision-making strategies.
- Golf: According to research, it has been observed that the focus of attention of individuals who start playing golf at a young age develops positively and their attention is continuous and strong.
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