Games, competitions, quizzes at summer camp. Ecological scenarios for summer camp Interesting quizzes for squad camps

STORY-ROLE-PLAYING GAME “IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE”

(The idea of ​​the game was suggested by the camp program of the Oryol regional pioneer organization “Eaglets”.)

The game is directed to teach the child to make decisions in a non-standard situation, analyze the development of the situation, and find a way out of the current situation. In addition, the game is aimed at activating cognitive activity and realizing the child’s interest in adventure.

The game can be divided into two stages.

The first stage is mobile. Teams compete in agility, dexterity, physical strength, and the ability to help each other. These can be various fights: climbing a rope, throwing a rope for accuracy, pushing a stone at a distance, untying a tied comrade for a while, etc.

The second stage is the role-playing stage. Participants are conditionally assigned to the heroes of books and films:

· "Seventeen Moments of Spring";

· "Robinson Crusoe";

· "Robin Hood";

· "Mowgli";

· "The Count of Monte Cristo";

· "Three Musketeers";

· "Treasure Island".

But they end up not just with the heroes, but with the plot of the book or film itself, or in the place of this or that hero. It is possible that the development of events is conjectured or invented by the participants in the game. The main thing is that the era, the essence of what is happening in the book or film and the adventures, or at least the preparation for them, remain unchanged.

Each hero must be dressed according to his role, must greet the game participants with a certain monologue, introduce them to what is happening, ask for help, etc. In short, the hero must simulate a situation from the film, and the game participants must demonstrate a way out of it. Or the hero must check how prepared the players are for a particular situation.

Possible options are:

"Seventeen Moments of Spring"

Heroes - Stirlitz, Gestapo and others.

You can simulate the capture of all players or one of them. In the first case, everyone composes a legend for their liberation, or prepares an escape plan, or comes up with something else. In the second case, they come up with a plan to free a comrade. If the hero is Stirlitz, then, fearing failure, he asks to replace him on some task, and to do this, he checks which of the players is ready to become a scout, and conducts tests on attentiveness, ability to compose a “legend,” and dressing up.

"Robinson Crusoe"

The hero is Robinson.

He offers to help him build a home from available materials, to make something useful for life on the island from the proposed set of various things, to come up with and demonstrate a way to protect himself from wild animals. Or perhaps he will accept the players as natives and try to teach them his language, and the players will have to faithfully play this role and talk about their tribe.

"Robin Hood"

Heroes - Robin Hood and one of his archer friends.

They can try to capture the players, mistaking them for rich feudal lords, then the players must prove that this is not so, and having proven it, they can be accepted into the Robin Hood squad, but having passed certain tests for this - archery, swordplay, the ability to hide in forest, etc.

"Mowgli"

Hero - Mowgli.

He offers to come up with and demonstrate a way to fight monkeys, overcome an obstacle using a bungee, and test the players’ ability to live in the wild forest with various tasks: both practical and theoretical. It can also accept those playing as Shere Khan's messengers and demand them to prove that this is not so.

"The Count of Monte Cristo"

The heroes are the Count of Monte Cristo, still a prisoner of the Chateau d'If, and the castle guard.

The hero is surprised that more prisoners of the castle appear in his cell, and invites them to escape in the same way; like him, hiding in bags. There may even be a small competition, all participants take turns hiding in a bag, and nearby there are bags filled with something else, and the guard guesses which of the bags the person is in. This way you will find out who can escape from the castle and who cannot. He may also suggest coming up with another option for escaping from prison. He may also offer to help decipher the note about hidden treasures.

"Treasure Island"

Heroes - Silver, Ben Gunn, Captain Smollett and others.

It all depends on your imagination and the location of the game. You can be captured by pirates and transport treasures to a ship under their leadership, you can develop a plan to capture the fort, decipher the map, or you can become a participant in the assault on the fort on one side or another, you can also look for treasures using conventional signs or notes, getting caught in the process on a variety of adventures.

"Three Musketeers"

The heroes are musketeers, the cardinal's guards.

The musketeers may offer to go over to their side to fight the guards, but to do this, arrange an exam on sword skills - putting out candles with a sword, hitting a target with a sword with your eyes closed, etc.

At the end of the game, you can choose the best scout, archer, writer, native, Robinson, musketeer, etc. You can finish the game with a quiz for the best film expert.

FLORAL ORIENTATION

To play, you need to prepare pens, paper, markers or pencils. Several variations of the game can be played.

For example:

Participants are given sheets of paper with a rough sketch of the area where the game is being played, and the names of the plants are given. Each participant must, in the shortest possible time, find in the area the places with the greatest concentration of these plants and put these places on a schematic map.

Another variant:

The diagram map indicates the place where some plants grow, and participants must find this place and find out what kind of plants they are. You can also give children drawings of plants instead of names and give them the task of plotting their location on a diagram map.

There may be other options, it all depends on the imagination of the person running the game. The main thing is to determine the territory in which the game is being played, taking into account that the children do not get lost.

ECO RELAY

Participants in the game receive a route on which the following stages await them:

2. The world of insects.

3. Red Book (protected plants).

4. Giant trees.

5. Forest cafe (edible plants).

Walking along the route, participants complete tasks at each stage:

· find insects and either identify them or sketch them;

· write down the edible or protected plants and mushrooms (edible and inedible) they encountered;

· write down the names and approximate size of large trees.

The relay can take place in stages. Where mushrooms grow or there are clusters of insects, there is a stage manager who gives the teams a task and evaluates their performance. Or you can make it more interesting - give the teams all the tasks at the beginning of the relay, tell them the route they must take, and complete these tasks independently along the entire route. This will help children develop their powers of observation.

YOUNG ECOLOGISTS

The game can be played by 5 to 10 people. All players stand in a round dance. The place of each player is some kind of profession: car driver, doctor, librarian, salesman, etc. Each participant must say what kind of help he can provide to nature in his place. After all players name their option for help, they take a step in a circle and thus change places, and therefore professions, and again must do the same thing, but not repeat what the previous player said. Anyone who fails to name a new option for helping nature is eliminated from the game along with “his profession.” The last one standing wins. And the presenter or other children make sure that there are no repetitions - they can be different “representatives” of nature.

Possible career options and how they help nature.

Driver: do not wash your car on the banks of rivers and lakes; do not exceed the speed limit if the road passes through the forest, so as not to run over any of the animals; Make sure that gasoline and oil do not leak from the car.

Librarian: organize an exhibition of books about nature conservation, endangered plants and animals; recycle old newspapers and magazines; encourage readers to do so.

Publishing director: publish articles about nature conservation; print your publication only on paper made from recycled paper.

Salesman: trade only environmentally friendly goods; Consign packaging paper and cardboard to waste paper.

A kindergarten teacher: tell children about nature and why it should be protected; When walking with children in the forest, park, meadow, do not allow trees and bushes to be broken, or flowers to be trampled.

ENDEMICS AND RELICS

Reference ( encyclopedic Dictionary): Relics - these are species of plants and animals as relics of floras and faunas of past eras. Endemics - species of plants and animals characteristic of a relatively small area.

At the beginning of the game, you need to explain to children what endemics and relics are. The game is a team game, 2 teams of 5-10 people take part in it. It can also be carried out in an ecology lesson, an environmental circle, etc.

Teams consist of representatives of endemics and relicts, one team is plants, the second is animals. Each team member has certain type- blueberries, muskrat, etc. The presenter reads out the description of the species one by one, first of all for plants, then for animals. And the team members addressed by the presenter must recognize “themselves.” If the team the host is addressing has not guessed which participant was named, the opposing team can answer. For a correct answer, 1 point is given, for no answer - 0.

The game continues until descriptions of each team member are heard. The team with the most points wins.

ZOOGEOGRAPHY

Up to 10 people participate in the game. Chairs are placed in a circle according to the number of participants. The presenter places cards with a picture or the name of an animal under or on chairs and announces that the participants are going on a journey across countries and continents. Participants run around the chairs to the music; as soon as the music ends, they sit down and thus choose their animal. Each participant, having recognized his animal, must tell as much as possible about it. When all the participants talk about their animals, the participants themselves or the audience determine the continent or country through which they walked. The participant who spoke less than others about his animal or incorrectly named the continent or country is eliminated from the game along with his chair. The presenter continues the game, changing cards. Each stage of the game is dedicated to one country or continent. The winner is one or more participants who complete all stages, i.e. continents games. Music for participants can also be selected based on geography.

TRIAL

Humanity, carried away by scientific and technological progress, has completely forgotten that each of its achievements hurts nature. Pollution of the environment and the destruction of birds, plants, and animals entail dangerous consequences for humans. Unfortunately, people do not think about the consequences of their activities. The proposed option for environmental activities with children will help focus their attention on current natural problems. The lesson is conducted in the form of a trial of a person. Of course it is required preliminary preparation. It is necessary to select a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, the accused, witnesses on both sides, a judge and jurors.

Responsibilities of participants: judge - conducts the trial, gives the floor to the defense and prosecution in turn.

Accused - This is a collective image of a person destroying nature. He can not only make excuses and listen to accusations, but also make proposals to eliminate the causes of the accusation.

Prosecutor- nature, prepares in advance and presents facts of harm to nature by humans. Depending on what facts the prosecutor presents, the defense attorney prepares witnesses for the prosecution.

Defender- it can be just a person, it can be a collective image - civilization, progress, etc. He prepares witnesses for the defense, depending on the facts that nature presents. Of course, the prosecution and defense witnesses must be prepared in advance.

Witnesses for the prosecution- inform the court of specific facts of harm to nature.

Witnesses for the defense- deny or justify the accusations.

Jurors- make a decision at the end of the trial, always giving reasons for it.

The process, for example, could go like this:

The accuser - nature - says that a person does not have the right to life, because... he poisoned the rivers wastewater, pollutes the air with car exhaust fumes, smoke from burning fuel oil, kills animals for fur, etc.

Witnesses for the prosecution speak. The fish talk about how they die. Plants, birds - about the inability to breathe air contaminated with toxic substances. Animals talk about being killed for their fur.

Defense witnesses defend themselves. For example: a writer, a newspaper journalist talk about the impossibility of living without paper; the director of the thermal power plant - about the need for heat for people; car owner - about the need for transport as a means of human transportation; hunter - about the need for warm clothes in winter.

After the witnesses speak, the person is given the floor. He can simply agree and admit guilt, he can confirm the necessity of the actions being taken, but he can say what he is already doing and what he is ready to do to protect nature. Immediately in the courtroom he can, for example:

· make the hunter the director of a fur farm - he will not kill wild animals in the forest, but will breed them for his own needs.

· propose to the director of the thermal power plant to switch to other energy - solar, wind.

· car owner switch to gas, etc.

Nature accepts or does not accept proposals, justifying its refusal. May ask the accused why this was not done earlier, etc.

The jury then renders a verdict. The judge can agree with them or not, but must indicate the reason for his decision.

Certainly, this lesson will be effective with serious preparation for it, with a sufficient amount of environmental knowledge among the participants in the “trial”. The presentations of prosecution witnesses can be supplemented with video material, which can be ordered from the Russian branch of Greenpeace at the address: 101428, Moscow, GSP-4, Greenpeace Russia.

ECOLOGICAL SERPENTINE

Preparing for the game: It is necessary to divide the children into teams. The optimal number of teams is 4-5, children in teams - up to 8 people.

Material support: green, red and blue tokens, route map, prizes.

Game description

The game is played on any suitable terrain. All teams receive a route map, which shows the location of only one station (and all teams have their own). Upon arrival at the station, the team receives a multiple-choice task.

If the answer is correct, the team receives a green token and the judge at that station shows the direction of the path to the next station.

If the answer is incorrect, the team receives a red token and is shown another (incorrect) direction, where they are met by goblins, kikimors, etc. They take the route map from the team and demand a payoff: either give up the green token, or work for the good of the Earth. A blue token is given for the work, and a card is redeemed for it.

Various forms of work are prepared in advance: garbage collection, tree planting, etc. Several groups are assigned fairy tale characters so that they are in different places.

Having returned the route map, the evil spirit invites the team to return to the station where they failed and try their hand again. At the end of the game, the teams hand over their tokens and the winner is determined.

Station and task options

(correct answers are marked with an asterisk)

Station "Birds"

The science that studies birds is called?

1. Cynology
2. Ornithology*
3. Entomology

What bird breeds chicks in winter?

1. Owl
2. Crossbill*
3. Swift
4. Siberian Crane

What bird flies at an altitude of up to 4500 meters?

1. Crow
2. Crane*
3. Pigeon
4. 4. Eagle

What bird can run underwater?

1. Gull
2. Loon
3. Dipper*
4. Kingfisher

Station "Insects"

Name the largest spider.

1. Tarantula*
2. Karakurt
3. Tarantula

Who hears with their feet?

1. Cricket
2. Cockroach
3. Grasshopper*

Which of these butterflies is the smallest?

1. Mole*
2. Glassware
3. Silkworm

Station "Mushrooms"

Name the most poisonous mushroom.

1. fly agaric
2. Death cap*
3. Bile mushroom
4. Satanic mushroom

Which of these mushrooms is a lamellar?

1. Ryzhik*
2. Porcini
3. boletus

What fungus decomposes useful wood and is considered harmful?

1. boletus
2. Honey fungus*
3. Gruzd

Station "Air"

If this gas increases in the air, can you die from suffocation?

1. Oxygen
2. Carbon dioxide*

Station "Les"

Around major cities it is necessary a large number of forests, for what?

1. For beauty
2. To purify the air*
3. For birds and animals to settle
4. For firewood

Which tree lives the longest?

1. Birch
2. Aspen

In clearings it grows earlier than anyone else

1. Birch*
2. Pine

Station "Water"

Most polluted lake?

1. Deaf
2. Yalchik *
3. Conan-er

Which sea is drying up due to human activity?

1. Caspian
2. Azovskoe
3. Aral*

Which animal can be used to determine the cleanliness of lakes and rivers?

1. Frog

Station "Animals"

Which animal's eyes rotate 360 ​​degrees?

1. Chameleon*
2. Crocodile
3. Turtle

The largest animal of the Republic of Mari El?

1. Boar
2. Bear
3. Elk*

What animal sleeps upside down all winter?

1. Bat*
2. Badger

Station "Earth"

Gullies spoil the land. How to prevent them from increasing?

1. Cover with earth
2. Plant trees on the slopes*
3. Make dumps in them

Nitrates in vegetables are formed due to the fact that there is a lot of

1. Mineral fertilizers*
2. Organic fertilizers

When is Earth Day?

1. May 19
2. March 8
3. April 22*
4. 1st of May

BOOK OF NATURE'S COMPLAINTS

This game gives children the opportunity to find forms and methods of environmental work in one direction or another, to expand their knowledge in the field of biology and ecology.

The game is a team game, teams consist of 4-6 people, 2-4 teams can play at the same time. The jury may consist of fairy-tale characters, animals (of course, these are adults or high school students in disguise), or there may also be serious people - biologists, foresters, etc.

During the game, teams transform: they become birds, then plants, then people again. The children's imagination, the validity of the answer, and the non-standard approach are assessed.

Exercise 1

Teams are asked to defend themselves. The presenter says that the teams have received complaints, having previously announced who each of the teams will become. For example:

· first team - owls,

· second team - foxes,

· third team - mice,

· fourth team - bears.

The following complaints:

· Mice complain about owls: the feathered predators attack them at night.

· Mice complain about foxes: foxes dig them out of the snow and destroy them.

· People complain about mice: mice spoil food.

· Wild bees complain about bears: bears eat their honey.

Teams must justify their behavior in 2-3 minutes.

Task 2

The teams themselves complain. You can leave the teams in their roles, or you can change them. For example: the first team, as owls, must prove that mice are harmful and they are doing the right thing. Of course, repetitions of the answer from 1 task are undesirable.

There may be the following tasks:

Team 1 - people complain about mosquitoes, mice, etc.

Team 2 - sheep complain about people, wolves, dogs.

Team 3 - bears complain about bees that don’t give them honey, about people, etc.

Task 3

Teams complain about each other with preconceived complaints. For example, 1 team complains about 2, 3, 4. Each team that received a complaint defends itself, then the teams change places.

Task 4

Teams are given an animal representative or flora, and team members list who and what they can complain about.

For example:

· mosquitoes - against people, fish, frogs, birds (for destruction), against various animals for not allowing them to drink blood;

· wildflowers - for people, herbivores, bees (for collecting nectar), etc.

Task 5

Complaint about people. All teams become human and naturally receive complaints about certain actions. Teams must figure out how to ensure that such complaints do not occur, how they can correct the situation.

For example:

The forests are complaining that they are being cut down. People, I can suggest the following actions: planting forests, collecting waste paper, using plastics instead of wood, etc.

Fish complain about river pollution and fishing. Teams can offer to fight poachers, build sewage treatment plants, and rescue juvenile fish from drying up reservoirs.

Task 6

Teams are asked to imagine that a complaint made by a species of animal or plant was not heard and it disappeared. It is necessary to think: who will suffer from this and how. First, you can talk about how all sparrows were destroyed in China, etc.

During the game, the presenter complements the participants’ answers and leads them to the conclusion that everything in nature is interconnected and the disappearance of one species will affect the entire animal world.

And of course, you need to think about what the pauses will be like while the teams are preparing. This could be showing slides about the nature of the native land, videos about nature conservation, reading poems about nature, etc.

I WANT TO BE A BERENDEY!

At the beginning of the game, you need to tell the children about who the Berendeys are. About the fact that only a person who loves and protects nature can bear this title, about the need to live in harmony with nature, not to disturb the natural balance.

Teams of 5-6 people take part in the game; there can be 2-3 teams.

To play, you need a top with an arrow - a pointer, around which there are cards in the form of tree leaves with categories of tasks and questions, there can be 6-8 of them.

Possible options for these categories:

1. Birds.
2. Animals.
3. Medicinal herbs.
4. Poachers.
5. Mushrooms.
6. Insects.
7. Do no harm.

Team representatives take turns spinning the top and thus choose a category of tasks, and the leader asks questions or gives a task. The team must answer a question or complete a task in a minute. One point is given for a correct answer or a correctly completed task. The game goes up to 6 points.

At the end of the game, the winners are awarded prizes. These could be Berendey certificates, diplomas in the form of leaves, and much more that you can imagine. Sample tasks and questions:

Birds

1. What can be prepared in the forest to feed birds in winter? (Burdock seeds, quinoa brooms, rowan berries, hawthorn, ash seeds, horse sorrel.)
2. The children are offered various objects, and they must show how to make feeders out of them.
3. You can offer the children drawings of birds and bird nests, and they must place them one after another correctly.

1. A few paper cut-out tree leaves are given, cut into several pieces, and the children must collect them and name the trees.
2. What does the forest protect the field from? (From ravines and dry winds.)
3. Why can’t seeds from diseased trees be used to plant forests? (Only healthy seeds will grow into healthy trees.)

Animals

1. Why can’t we take hares, hedgehogs, and other animals home from the forest? (Because their home is the forest, and the animals get used to humans, learn to get food on their own, hide from enemies, and if they are then released into the wild, they will die.)
2. How can you help animals in winter? (You can feed moose, deer, and roe deer with hay and brooms stored in the summer.
3. You can suggest identifying the animals based on the patterns of the tracks.

Medicinal herbs

1. What plants can be used for colds? (Linden blossom, oregano, rosehip, coltsfoot, raspberry.)
2. What poisonous plants are used to make medicines? (Belena, datura, belladonna, raven's eye.)
3. What plant is used to treat small wounds? (Plantain.)

Poacher

1. Why can't you fish in the spring? (She is spawning.)
2. Where can't you hunt? (In nature reserves and other specially protected places.)
3. What harm do poachers with axes do? (They do unauthorized deforestation.)

Mushrooms

1. Why can't you trample fly agarics? (Animals are treated with them.)
2. What animal stores mushrooms for the winter? (Squirrel.)
3. Why are there no mushrooms in the forest in dry weather, but there are a lot of them after rains? (Mushrooms feed on decaying organic matter, and these substances only rot when there is a lot of moisture in the forest.)

Insects

1. What benefits do ants bring? (Destroy insect pests.)
2. How can you tell by the behavior of ants that rain is coming? (The ants hide in the anthill and close the entrances to it.)
3. Why should we protect bumblebees? (They are the most beneficial wild plant pollinators.)
4. Why can't you catch stag beetles? (They have become rare insects.)

Do no harm

1. Why can't you take eggs from a bird's nest? (The bird may leave the nest.)
2. Why can’t you pick primroses - snowdrops, lilies of the valley, etc.? (Many of them have become rare and are listed in the Red Book.)
3. Why can’t you collect medicinal herbs in one place for several years in a row? (So ​​that they do not disappear, but have time to recover.)

RAINBOW

Game participants

2 teams of 5-6 people from students in grades 5-7.

Game description

The presenters are fairy-tale characters and forest inhabitants: Old Forest Man, Snowdrop, Doctor Aibolit, Vodyanoy or Mermaid, Mole, Butterfly, Woodpecker.

These same heroes act as a jury and for completing the task they give the teams an object - a pine cone, a leaf of a tree, etc.

The presenters appear one by one and assign their tasks to the teams.

1. Old Lesovichok. Asks to draw environmental signs. For example, on the topics: “Caution, primroses!”, “Attention, anthill!”, “Cutting down trees is prohibited,” etc.
2. Snowdrop. He asks to come up with the text of a leaflet - an appeal to protect primroses.
3. Dr. Aibolit. He asks to make a recipe of medicinal herbs for colds, cuts, indigestion, etc.
4. Mermaid or Merman. Hands out cards to the teams with the names of fishing gear: they need to determine which gear is poaching gear.
5. Mole. Offers to identify tree branches by touch.
6. Butterfly. Shows drawings of flowers and asks to see rare ones listed in the Red Book.
7. Woodpecker. He suggests making birdhouses or feeders from the blanks.

Of course, each of the presenters first introduces himself, talks about himself and

about their friends: Butterfly about flowers, Woodpecker about birds, Merman about fish, etc. While the team is preparing tasks, the presenters ask riddles or ask questions about the forest, flowers, birds, animals.

Sample questions

1. Which flower blooms first? (Coltsfoot.)
2. Which mushroom is the most poisonous? (Death cap.)
3. Which bird is named after the dance? (Tap dance.)
4. Which coniferous plant loses its needles in the fall? (Larch.)
5. How many years does lingonberry live? (300 years.)
6. What bird can run along the bottom of a pond? (Dipper.)
7. Is a whale a fish? (No, a mammal.)
8. What kind of fish builds a nest? (Stickleback.)
9. What plant is used to treat minor wounds? (Plantain.)
10. Does a tree grow in winter? (No.)

And the game ends with an auction of songs. Teams take turns singing one verse of the song, which contains words about the forest, flowers, trees. For example: “A Christmas tree was born in the forest...”, “Why are you standing, swaying, a thin rowan tree...”, “There was a birch tree in the field...”

Mizulin S.,

PhD student, Department of Theory and History of Pedagogy. G. Kostroma

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Berendey.
Oh my forest, my wonderful forest,
Full of fairy tales and miracles!
My life passes in worries and labors,
I hope that you recognize me.
Protector of the forest, friend of animals,
I am a king from a fairy tale...
Children. Berendey.
Berendey.
Well done my friends!
I invite everyone to visit...

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Presenter 1.
June 5 is World Environment Day.
Every flower and every blade of grass,
Birds that fly into the blue sky
All the nature that surrounds us,
Our protection, my friend, is expected.
The sound of an alarm bell sounds in the background of alarming music.
Reader 1.
What...

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Ecological cleanup “Picnic in a forest clearing”

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Ecological fairy tale "Clean City"

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On the banks of the great Volga
The city was built big.
It was called Astrakhan.
All in green spaces!
Oh, what a pleasure!
Walk along wonderful streets,
Breathe clean air.
They say that Astrakhan is a clean city!
But there is a lot of garbage here too...

"This Fragile Planet"

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We are talking about
That the whole Earth is our common home -
Our good home, spacious home,
We all live in it from birth.
We are also talking about this,
That we must take care of our home.
Let's prove that it's not in vain
The Earth hopes for us.
Presenter 1. Our...

Ecological game "Happy Anthill"

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Sometimes being at summer camp can be frightening for a child, as they find themselves in an unfamiliar environment, away from friends and family. School Day Camp – good alternative for children and their parents who would like to attend summer camp, but for some reason are not yet ready to stay overnight. Camps day stay give children the opportunity to engage in various activities, communicate with peers, learn the world and explore the natural world. Competitions and games at day camp will help develop children's communication skills, foster a sense of camaraderie, develop team spirit and will be a good intellectual, creative or sports workout.

Keeping children occupied so that they have fun is not an easy task for teachers, so activities for children should be carefully thought out and varied as much as possible. summer camp. Involve children in wild survival skills training, self-discovery exercises, orienteering, dancing, horse riding, swimming, arts and crafts, hiking and, of course, intellectual and active games.

To ensure your kids have a great time, you can make up your own games and try some of the most popular camp games that have become “classics.” Experiment by organizing all kinds of activities at camp, be it a creative competition or a survival course. emergency situations, the main thing is that the children find it interesting and fun.

Fun games for kids at day camp

"Water Attack"

An interesting event for the Water Attack camp can be an active and exciting competition in hot weather for a group of four people or more.

Draw the start and finish line at a distance of 15-20 meters - this is the optimal distance for children aged 7 to 10 years. You can make the lines further or closer friend from each other, depending on the age of the participants. There should be enough obstacles between the lines, such as trees, wooden barriers and the like, for runners to hide behind them. One obstacle measuring three to five meters is ideal for younger children school age.

Choose two participants - they will be “bombers”. One will stand three meters from the finish line, and the other will be about one and a half meters away, closer to the middle and to the right. Give them some washcloths and buckets of water.

The runners' goal: to cover the distance from start to finish, hiding behind obstacles so as not to get wet under the aimed fire of the "bombers". The "bomber" in the middle can only attack when the runner has passed the middle, and the "bomber" at the finish can only attack in his "zone". The player who reaches the finish line clean wins.

"Pass the parcel"

This camp event can be used as a game for getting to know each other and bringing children together. The optimal number of participants is three or more people.

On the outside of the bag, write something like:

Place this bag with other bags with other funny activities written on the outside, such as “buzz the alphabet like a bee.” Make a lot of bags with different tasks written on them and put all the bags in a big bag.

All day campers sit in a circle close to each other, and as music plays, each person takes turns passing a bag to their neighbor on the right. When the music stops, the participant who still has the bag in his hands takes the bag out of it and reads the task out loud. Then the player stands in the center of the circle, says his name and performs the action specified in the task. The music starts again when the participant completes the task and returns to his seat.

The game continues until every last task is completed. Then the winner is determined and the main prize is awarded.

"Artist, Model and Clay"

This is another one fun game in a camp for children of primary school age and older, in which observation skills are developed.

Divide the children into teams of three. Distribute roles, each group should have:

• "artist",
• "model",
• "clay".

The “artist” is blindfolded, and the “model” poses as a funny statue. The "artist", without seeing her, must make a statue out of the "clay" participant, very similar to the "model", by moving the hands, feet and head of the "clay". When the “artist” finishes the work, the blindfold is removed from his eyes. The team with the most similar model receives a small prize and leaves the game. The competition continues until each group is awarded prizes.

"Alien Invasion"

Group recreational activities are the most commonly used at summer camp. Alien Invasion is a competitive game for a large group of children divided into several teams.

The main storyline is that all the children have been captured by aliens, and they will be freed if they can lower the alien eggs to the surface of Mars without breaking them. The aliens took away the speech or hearing of some children and paralyzed others. Divide each team into three groups.

• One group of children cannot speak or help protect the eggs, but they can communicate their suggestions with body language.
• The other group cannot move, but can express their thoughts out loud.
• The third group on each team will be blindfolded, but they can talk, move and protect the egg.

To play the game, each team must complete tasks that you provide to protect the egg from breaking when dropped (these can be written on a piece of paper given to players who cannot speak but can sign). After 30 minutes of play, all teams lower the defended eggs onto the stairs or onto the roof.

Give time at the end for children to discuss what they have learned, identify and reward the most coherent and friendly team.

Interesting activities at an outdoor day camp

"Nature Hunt"

Search games in the camp are especially popular with children, one of them is “Nature Hunt”. Encourage children to explore wildlife and pay attention to what they see and feel in environment. Create criteria for items they will need to find to get children interested in exploring aspects of the natural world.

Include adjectives such as beautiful, smooth, rough and scary, and:

• animal tracks,
• three types of leaves,
• something you can feel but not see,
• something with a strong smell
• good place to hide
• something old
• elements of a certain color,
• shells,
• mushrooms,
• clover,
• seeds,
• other items appropriate to the wilderness area you plan to explore during your “backcountry hunt.”

Print out a list of “outdoor hunts” for each team or child.

A walk and an hour in nature

Take day campers on a three- to four-hour picnic to a park or forest for a walk and quiet time alone with nature.

Spend a few minutes before the walk discussing the importance of remaining quiet throughout the activity, explaining that children will have an opportunity to discuss what they saw at the end.

Choose a route that allows you to walk for about an hour to a place suitable for an hour alone with nature. Try to ensure that your route passes through a clearing, meadow, valley, hill or lake.

When you arrive at your destination, instruct the children to find appropriate place to be alone and contemplate the natural world for an hour. After the hour has passed, gather together and discuss the experience before heading back.

Don't forget to take water, food and a first aid kit with you on this trip.

Outdoor adventures

Spend the day teaching children how to survive in the wild. This will help day campers learn useful skills in a relaxed and safe environment.

Start with first aid lessons, showing how to clean a wound and apply a bandage, and provide basic knowledge of a first aid kit. Next, teach the kids how to use a map and compass, and how to make a fire. Tell us how to set up camp in natural conditions, how to set up a tent.

A good end to the day will be conversations or songs around the fire.

Creative Activities for Day Camp

"We are looking for talent"

Public speaking sparks creativity in children and improves self-esteem. Many of the activities at camp can be based on the performances of the children themselves.

Help your introverted child open up by starting the morning with a performing arts activity. This could be singing, dancing, or any other similar activity.

A massive climax successful season could be a creative competition. Day camp participants will be required to perform on stage in front of parents, counselors, and other children.

Participation in creative competition will help your child understand the importance of practice, planning, organization and many other skills and qualities.

T-shirt design

Add a little fashion to your everyday life day camps . Invite all the kids so everyone can create a T-shirt that expresses their personality or favorite activity. Order enough white t-shirts for all campers.

Purchase a sufficient number of art supplies: glue, markers, glitter, ribbons and other decoration elements.

Free the rest of the day from organized activities: let the children have time to write wishes on each other's T-shirts. So, the T-shirt will become a memory of the time spent at summer camp, as well as new friends.

This is a camp event perfect for ending a shift.

Event at the camp "We choose life!"

The quiz is held on the site (outdoors) during the summer recreation period.

Tasks: creation of an emotional joyful mood, development of logic, consolidation of knowledge of the seasons, weather conditions, names of colors, development of voluntary attention, speed of reaction, ability to work in a team, development of the emotional sphere, communication skills.

Material:

• Badges for teams “daisy”, “strawberry” (Appendix 1)
• Prizes (I used colorful butterflies folded using the origami technique)
• Easel boards – 2 pcs., chalk or markers – 2 pcs.
• 2 scarves (blindfold)
• Chips (to keep track of points scored)
• Chamomile petals and center – 2 sets

Preliminary work: conversations about the seasons, learning poems about summer, flowers, looking at illustrations.

(Children come to the site where the quiz will be held.Stand in a circle)

Leading:

I'm glad you came to play with me.

I suggest you organize a competition, hold a “Summer” quiz. Today we find out who knows the most about summer.

We will have 2 teams: the “daisies” team and the “strawberry” team.

I will now attach a badge to each of you, a card with a picture of a chamomile or strawberry.

(Divide the children into 2 teams, attach badges, choose captains)

Leading:

Take a seat on the benches.

(Children sit on benches according to the icon)

Leading:

Is everyone seated? I will give each team a task, for each correct answer the teams will receive a chip. Whichever team scores the most points by the end of the competition wins. Begin!

1. WARM UP. Riddles about the seasons

Leading:

That's right, it's summer!
How much morning light
Behind the open window!
Summer is walking across the earth,
Summer is walking barefoot!

- Guys, do you like summer? Why is it wonderful?

Children's answers

(Flowers are blooming, you can swim and sunbathe, fish, you can see various insects: butterflies, bees, beetles, dragonflies, grasshoppers; in the summer there is a lot of greenery, you can go to the forest to pick berries.)

Leading:

What poems about summer and flowers do you know?

2. POEMS ABOUT SUMMER, FLOWERS…

Presenter: in Our second task is whose team knows more poems about summer, about summer games, entertainment.

(Children recite poems, teams receive chips-points)

3. COMPETITION “SUMMER SIGNS”

Leading: Now let’s find out what summer signs you know.

(Teams answer in turn, for each answer - a point chip)

• There are a lot of midges - prepare more baskets for the berries!
• Lots of mosquitoes - stock up on mushroom boxes!
• Whatever you collect in the summer, you will spend the winter with!
• If bindweed flowers are collected in a tube, it will rain.
• If the dandelion does not fly around when you blow, it will rain.
• If the grass is dry in the morning, expect rain by night
• Honeysuckle smells good - for rain
• In the morning the grass smells stronger than usual - it means rain
• Sparrows are cheerful, active, pugnacious - for good weather
• If there are a lot of ants around the anthill - good weather

Leading: Well done! We've been sitting here too long. It's time to play. Get up.

Game "Listen to the Claps"

1 cotton – weeping willow

2 cottons – poplar

3 claps – frog

4. COMPETITION “RIDDLES ABOUT FLOWERS”

Daisies	Strawberries
What is my name, tell me? I often hide in the rye. A humble wildflower, Blue-eyed... (cornflower)	Here is a clearing, all in flowers, Like light blue dots. I’ll collect it here for Anyutka Blue... (forget-me-nots)
Oh, the bells are blue, With a tongue, but no ringing. (bell)	On a green cord White bells. (lily of the valley)
Who lives in spring With a yellow head? The sun is warming brighter, The head turns white. The wind blows and tears the fluff off of him. (dandelion)	Long-legged sisters They went out into the meadow in a flock. They have eyelashes like snow And, like the sun, a peephole. (chamomile)

5. RELAY RACES

Leading:

Here are the daisies, look
Lost petals.
You quickly run here
And collect daisies.

(Relay races are held)

• "COLLECT CHAMOMILE"
  At some distance from the teams on the track there is a yellow circle (the core of a daisy). Each participant holds a flower petal. At the signal, the children take turns running up to the circle and placing their petal on it. The team that collects the flower first wins and receives a point (chip).

• "BUTTERFLIES"
  (Flowers are painted on the asphalt)

Leading: Imagine that you are butterflies and moths, flying (jumping on two legs) from flower to flower, “flying” to a landmark and quickly flying home (running back to the team).

Physical exercise. Breathing exercise (according to B.S. Tolkachev’s method)

(Children stand up. Stretch their whole bodies. Take an energetic breath)

Let's blow on your shoulder
Let's think about something else.
The sun is hot on us
It bakes during the day.
Let's blow on our stomachs
How the pipe becomes a mouth,
And now to the clouds
And let's stop for now.

(Zh. Firilyova, E. Saikina)

(Sit down)

6. RIDDLES ABOUT WEATHER CONDITIONS

Exercise "Thunderstorm""(emotional release)

Leading: Imagine that a thunderstorm is coming... Have your palms ready.

The grass rustled. rub your palms
A light rain began to fall. hit the fingers of one handpalm of the other
The rain began to intensify. clap your hands faster and faster
Thunder rumbled. Hail fell. we continue to clap and stomp often
It was pouring rain. feet.

A light rain began to fall. the claps become less frequent.
The storm has ended. and subside

7. CAPTAINS COMPETITION “DRAW THE SUN”

Leading: And now there will be a competition for team captains. Come out. I give each of you an envelope containing drawings. Now look at what is drawn there. Don't tell anyone anything. Take markers and draw the same thing on the board, only make the drawing big. And to make it more interesting, I will blindfold you.

(At a signal, children draw the sun blindfolded.)

Leading: A difficult task, but the captains did it well. Look, guys, and guess what the captains of your teams drew? (Sun)

Leading:

In summer the sun shines,
In summer the flowers bloom,
In summer the birds sing -
You and I are called to sing and dance!

(Children dancing)

Leading: The time has come to sum up whose team scored more points, let's do the math.

(Summing up the results of the quiz. Scoring. Distributing prizes)

1. Why do they say: “Water is off a duck’s back”? (The feathers of a goose are always covered with fat, so water does not attract the feathers and rolls off them in drops)

2. Why does a dog stick out its tongue when it’s hot, but a horse doesn’t? (A dog does not have sweat glands on its body like a horse. It sticks out its tongue to cool its surface so that it does not get hot)

3. Why does a bee die after stinging someone? (The bee’s sting has barbs inclined towards its body. The sting enters the victim’s body easily, but the bee cannot pull it back out. This is how part of the bee’s abdomen comes off along with the sting, and it dies)

4. Why does a tailed cow live better than a tailless cow? (Because the cow’s tail drives away blood-sucking insects - horse flies, ticks, mosquitoes - and feeds more calmly)

5. Why shouldn’t you touch bird eggs in nests? (Because the bird abandons the nest if you touch it with your hands, and the chicks may die)

6. Why are all cats (domestic and wild) much cleaner than dogs, wolves and foxes? (Because cats catch prey when hunting from ambush, by jumping. They must be very clean so that they do not smell, otherwise those they hunt will smell them from afar and will not come close to the ambush)

7. Why do starlings and jackdaws ride cows, sheep and horses? (They pluck animal hair to insulate their nests and peck insects from livestock skins for their food)

8. Why do domestic ducks and geese suddenly begin to cry sadly in the fall and become very excited? (Because the ancestors of our domestic geese and ducks were migratory birds. In the autumn, when their wild relatives fly away, domestic ducks and geese are sad: they, too, are drawn to fly somewhere)

9. Why is the red heron - bittern - called the “water bull”? (Because the male bittern makes a sound similar to the roar of a bull)

11. Why do chickens pluck their feathers with their beaks before it rains? (Anticipating rain, chickens lubricate their feathers with fat so that water drains better from them. They take this fat from the coccygeal gland, which is located under their tail)

12. Why do swifts and swallows fly high in good weather, but low above the ground in damp weather? (When flying, swallows and swifts catch midges, mosquitoes, flies and other winged insects. In clear weather, the air is dry, and these insects rise high above the ground. In wet weather, the air is heavy, humid, and this prevents insects from rising upward on wet wings)

13. Why was the wood grouse called that? (Because during the current, when he sings the "love song", he is so concentrated that he does not hear anything around him and can become very easy prey hunter)

14. Why, when frightened by something, does a horse begin to snort? (She has a very keen sense of smell. By snorting, she clears her nose and can quickly determine what is threatening her and from which side)

15. Why can moose run relatively easily through swamps where any other animal of their weight would get stuck? (An elk has two hooves on each leg, between which a membrane is stretched. When it runs, the hooves move apart, the membrane is stretched, the pressure of the animal’s body is distributed over a relatively large area of ​​support, and the elk does not get stuck)

16. Why can fish breathe oxygen dissolved in water? (Any gas rushes from where there is high pressure to where there is less pressure. In the blood of a fish, the oxygen pressure is less than its pressure in the water, so oxygen passes from the water into the blood flowing through the blood capillaries of the gills)

17. Why don’t swifts land either on the ground, or on the water, or on branches? (Because their wings are much longer than their body and legs. If they land somewhere, they may damage their wings and will not be able to take off)

18. Why does the US flag have thirteen white stripes? (Because it was thirteen states that united to form a new state - the United States of America)

19. Why can’t plants be watered when the sun’s rays fall on them? (When the sun is shining, droplets of water left after watering on the stems and leaves of plants collect its rays like small magnifying glasses, and the plant can get burned)

20. Why do many desert plants have spines and thorns instead of leaves? (The spines and thorns that replace leaves in many desert plants are “devices” that allow these plants to use moisture more economically)

21. Why do skates glide on the ice, but not on the floor? (When the skate rubs against the ice, the temperature increases and the ice melts. Water is a lubricant, and the skate slides. This does not happen on the floor)

22. Why are old moose called “elks”? (Sokhatiy - from the word “plow” - a tool used to loosen the earth. The antlers of an old elk look like a branched plow)

23. Why is the track of a running hare’s hind legs in front of the track of its front legs? (A hare's hind legs are longer than its front ones. When it runs, it throws its long hind legs forward)

24. Why does a hare have very thin skin? (Even if a predator that has caught up with a hare grabs the “oblique” one by the side, jerking, you can escape from the predator’s mouth, sacrificing your skin)

25. Hunters happen to kill hares with the paws of owls and hawks stuck in their backs. Why does this happen? (A hawk or an owl, when they attack a hare, clings to its back with one paw, and with the other they try to grab the branches of trees or bushes. The frightened hare rushes with such force that it sometimes tears the hawk in half, clinging to the branch with a death grip)

27. Why is firewood harvested in winter more valuable than that harvested in summer? (In winter, trees freeze and do not absorb water; firewood from trees cut down in winter is drier)

28. Why do living aspen trees in the forest burn poorly, but matches are still made from aspen? (Aspen wood is very porous. In a living tree, all the pores are filled with moisture, so the wood does not burn well. But if you dry it well, the porous wood will be filled with air and will burn well)

29. Why does snow in the city begin to melt earlier than snow in the forest? (Because in the city the snow is dirty, and dark colors attract more sunlight. In addition, the city is warmer due to heating mains, cars, factories)

30. The basilisk iguana runs on water and does not drown. Why? (She moves her webbed feet so fast that she doesn't have time to dive into the water)

31. Camels eat sharp and hard thorns and are not injured. Why? (The palate, tongue and cheeks of camels are covered, like armor, with hard bumps)

32. Why do moths and butterflies fly into fire that is fatal to them? (Their flight to the deadly candle is simply a reaction to a stimulus. Long before artificial light sources appeared on Earth, butterflies and other insects were guided by the sun and moon. A butterfly will fly in a straight line if it holds itself so that the rays of light fall on its eyes all the time at the same angle. But if the light source is close (as in the case of a candle), its rays form a diverging beam, the butterfly has to constantly change its course in relation to the light source. It turns out a spiral that gradually leads the butterfly straight. into the fire)

33. Why do insects sleep with their eyes open? (They can't close them, they don't have eyelids)

34. Why was Sable Island (which means “sandy” in English) called “the island of death” or “ship devourer” by sailors? (The island is located in the North Atlantic. Its height does not exceed thirty-two meters. Due to the thick fogs it is difficult to see. Many ships here ran aground and sank in quicksand after one or two months. Any object that falls into these sands sinks in them, like in water, though not as quickly)

35. Why is a cat’s tongue rough? (There are many keratinized projections on the surface of a cat’s tongue. They serve as a kind of file, with the help of which it is easier to remove meat from prey, lap up milk, clean the skin and remove fallen hairs from it)

36. Why is a liter called that? (The French winemaker Claude-Emile-Jean Baptiste Liter, who lived in the eighteenth century, was the first to use a glass cylindrical vessel with marks on the outside to measure the volume of liquid. However, its capacity was larger than the current liter)

31. Why is China called that? (For more than two thousand years, its inhabitants themselves have been calling their country “Zhongguo,” which means “middle state.” The British remade this word into “China.” But when Russian explorers first penetrated the Amur River, they met first of all with a small nationality who called themselves “Khitans.” This word changed over time in accordance with the norms of the Russian language and began to designate the entire huge country - China)

38. The name of the strange grapefruit is very similar to the English word “grape” (“grapes”). Meanwhile, grapefruit looks more like an orange. Why was he called that? (Grapefruit fruits grow on trees in heavy clusters, just like grapes)

39. Why does the parrot have such a name? (The first parrots came to Europe from India. They were brought by the soldiers of Alexander the Great. In the Middle Ages, the Vatican began to specially breed parrots for the popes. Then they called them “papagals,” which means “papal roosters”)

40. Why liquid soap called "shampoo"? (Many people believe that the word is French. In fact, it comes from India, where the word “champo” means “to rub the head”)

41. Why did a pillar appear on the coat of arms of the city of Kolomna, Moscow Region? (The people of Kolomens came up with a beautiful legend that the noble Italian Karl Columna traveled through Russia and founded the city. “Columna” - translated from Italian - column. So, in a curious way, the pillar ended up on the city coat of arms. Under Tsar Peter the Great, they decided to measure the length Russian Empire. They began to erect pillars from the Moscow Kremlin to the Kolomna Kremlin - “versts”)

42. Why is nonsense called nonsense? (Once upon a time there lived a doctor named Galli Mathieu in Paris. He treated patients in a rather unusual way - instead of medicines, he told all sorts of things funny stories and jokes. And, imagine, this helped many. Over time, his number of patients increased, and often, instead of a personal visit, he sent a servant to the sick with a note containing witticisms and puns. But over time, either the doctor’s wit dried up, or on patients deprived of personal contact, this kind of medicine ceased to work, such notes began to be perceived as complete nonsense and were called nonsense. And over time, this word came to us from the French language)

43. Why do Scottish surnames begin with the prefix “Mac”? (This prefix indicates the most common way of forming surnames - by the name of the father. In the ancient Gaelic language, still widespread in northern Scotland, “Mac” means “son”. Therefore, the surname MacLeod can be translated literally into Russian as Laydov. Many Irish surnames starting with the prefix “O” are also surprising - for example: O"Toole, O"Hara, O"Neil, and so on. But the very method of forming surnames is the same. In in this case the prefix means "whom" or "whose". In ancient times, Peter O'Toole meant Peter, son of Toole, and over time the combination O'Toole became a surname)

44. Why is “tank” called that? (Translated from English, “tank” means nothing more than a tank for fuel. Therefore, the origin of the word “tanker” is easy to explain - after all, these huge ships for transporting oil or gasoline, in fact, are nothing more than huge floating tanks. But why was the combat vehicle called that in the summer of 1916? world war The British delivered the first fifty armored tracked vehicles equipped with cannons and machine guns to the front. This was a fundamentally new weapon, and therefore they tried to keep it as secret as possible. The armored giants, placed on railway platforms, were boarded up with boards on which “Tank” was written in English. In a word, combat vehicles were given out as fuel tanks. And then this name stuck with them in many countries)

45. Why are some satirical poems called parodies? (This mocking poetic genre originated in Ancient Greece. Its name comes from a combination of two Greek words - “para” and “ode”, which can literally be translated as “against odes”, and in other words - against pompous poems. Thus, already in In ancient times, parodists ridiculed pomp, embellishment, and flattery. In Russia, parodies appeared in the eighteenth century, and in 1821, in a literary dictionary, they were first given a detailed explanation as a way of “causticly but rightly ridiculing something primitive or boring from loud but empty words. "Later, Kozma Prutkov became famous in this genre - a group of talented poets was hiding behind this pseudonym: A.K. Tolstoy and cousins ​​A.V. and A.M.

46. ​​Why does a person sneeze? (Surprisingly, for a long time there was no answer to this question. And doctors figured out the nature of comparative sneezing recently. It turns out that when we have a cold, mucus appears in the sinuses of the nose - the body’s protective reaction to harmful microbes gathering there. The mucus acts on the nerve endings, “signaling” the body to empty the nostrils. So a powerful “a-a-pchhi!” is heard, and a pulse of air throws out everything unnecessary from the nasal passages. In the same way, you and I sneeze when dust, smoke particles or some other irritants accumulate in the nose)

47. Why is Greenland called the “green country”? (The story here is old. In the early Middle Ages, robbery in Iceland, inhabited by the Norwegians, was punishable by expulsion from the country. Thus, the leader of a Viking detachment, nicknamed Erius the Red, was expelled. He boarded a sailing ship and went west to look for land where he could settle. Through After several weeks of wandering across the sea, his team saw land, and a sailboat entered the bay. It was spring, and the narrow strip of shore turned out to be green because of the grass that had woken up after winter sleep, which gave Eric a reason to name the island Greenland)

48. Why mobile phone called a cell phone? (Radiotelephones use ultrashort waves that travel in a straight line, almost like light. For such a phone to work well, you cannot move a long distance away from the subscriber. And here a network of repeaters helps. If they are optimally placed, their operating zones form regular hexagons, similar to honeycombs The microcomputer in the phone tracks the position relative to the repeaters and switches from one to another without the user noticing)

49. Why can hummingbirds hover over a flower? (A tiny bird actually sometimes resembles a helicopter and hovers in the air. At first, this was explained by the ability of a small bird to evenly flap its wings up and down. However, in reality, the physics of the process here is somewhat different... If the flapping of the hummingbird was uniform, it would slowly fall down under the influence its own weight, even though it is only a few grams. So, in fact, the bird most energetically flaps its wings downwards, pushing off from the air. At the same time, in order to stay in one place, precise calculation is necessary: ​​after all, the hummingbird makes dozens. strokes per second)

50. Why is the toad’s tongue attached “back to front”? (And in fact, the toad’s tongue is attached to the mouth of this amphibian not by the back, like in all animals and humans, but by the front. Therefore, it is able to throw it far forward and catch flies and mosquitoes. A sticky “lubricant” helps send them into the mouth "in the language. By the way, despite its not very attractive appearance, the toad is a faithful assistant to man. She lives in vegetable gardens and gardens and destroys many pests)

51. Why was the hero of “The Minor” called Mitrofanushka? (The author of the famous comedy Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin chose his name not by chance. The fact is that Mitrofan in Greek means “obedient to mother.” But, remember, Mitrofanushka obeyed his absurd and unreasonable parent, the landowner Prostakova, in everything. At the end of the eighteenth century, when the playwright wrote his play, ridiculing the nobles who did not want to learn anything, they still well remembered the meaning of the Greek names that came to Russia from Byzantium. And after Fonvizin’s comedy, the name Mitrofanushka became a household name, denoting the lazy, ignorant hero. changed his mind, began to study and reached heights - became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

52. Scientists from the University of Lyon in France, having examined over a hundred men, came to an interesting conclusion: the larger the beard, the faster baldness occurs. Why? (The explanation for this relationship is very simple. It is known that when body temperature rises, thermoregulatory processes accelerate blood circulation in the skin and thus release excess heat. This is done in order to protect the brain from overheating. Meanwhile, the beard represents thermal insulation, making it difficult for heat to transfer through the skin. It is hypothesized that in many men, baldness is a manifestation of the body’s adaptation, which protects the brain from overheating)

53. Why is it that on many exhibits presented at exhibitions by Western companies you no longer see the familiar signs with the appeal to all of us: “Do not touch!” Moreover, some companies do their best to encourage curious visitors who want to try out computing or some other technology for themselves. Why do they do this? (Operation in extreme conditions allows you to properly test the reliability of new machines)

54. Why is water hard? (Because it contains a lot of salts)

55. Why is the Red Sea the saltiest on Earth? (Not a single river flows into it. And it is not surprising: on one bank lie the hot African deserts, on the other - the sands of the Arabian Peninsula)

56. Why is the Red Sea called that? (Usually the water in it is blue or green, and very pure tones. But occasionally, special microscopic algae turn red. That’s when the water in the sea becomes unusually red)

57. Why are elephants the first to leave the area where an earthquake will soon occur, and after them zebras, rhinoceroses, and giraffes go to another place? (Elephants have wide and flat feet. The area of ​​contact with the ground is quite enough to perceive the slightest vibrations of the soil. The huge animal, as it were, becomes a living seismograph)

58. They say “sleeps like a groundhog.” Why is the groundhog considered an extraordinary dormouse? (The marmot's winter sleep lasts from seven to nine months. During this time, the animal completely uses up its accumulated reserves of subcutaneous fat and wakes up thin and hungry. The marmot sleeps not only for a very long time, but also so soundly that nothing can wake you up. In a word, it is known to everyone The saying comparing the dormouse to a marmot is surprisingly accurate)

59. Why is ufology called that? (In our country, “flying saucers”, scientifically called UFOs, are unidentified flying objects. If you translate this phrase into English and take the initial letters, you get UFO. This is how “flying saucers” are called in English-speaking countries. When did the science that studies these extraordinary phenomena, it began to be called ufology)

60. Why do flowers smell? (This is because their petals secrete certain aromatic oils - complex chemical compounds. The production of these oils is an integral part of the growth of any plant. When exposed to light or at a certain temperature, the chemical compounds decompose - and a volatile, quickly evaporating substance is formed. That's when we we feel a subtle floral aroma)

61. Why do animals have different tails? (They all lead different lifestyles, and the tail should help in life. For the squirrel, it helps to maintain balance, serving as a kind of rudder, and to slow down, serving as a parachute. In monkeys, it is a grasping organ. The tail can act as a support, like a kangaroo; a fan, like for a horse, it helps birds soar, for fish it is a rudder. In short, in living nature, different tails are needed, all kinds of tails are important)

62. Why do crocodiles cry? (They cry not out of pity for their prey or from hypocrisy: when devouring large pieces of meat or laying eggs, the animal tenses up, and excess fluid is squeezed out of the tear ducts. In addition, crocodiles living in brackish water, through the tear ducts, like sea turtles remove salts)

63. Why did Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy choose the name Tortila for the turtle? (Tortuga is the Spanish name for turtle. And the name Tortila means “little turtle”)

64. Why do floods most often occur on hot days? (Because snow and ice melt in the mountains, and all this water flows into the rivers, overflowing them)

65. Why does Easter Island have this name? (It was discovered by Dutch sailors on Easter in 1722)

66. Why does someone living in one of south seas was the crab called a “junk picker”? (Crawling along the bottom, he searches for and puts on his back everything that comes in his way. And when he is in danger, he exposes his “treasures” to the enemy. And while he feasts on edible things, the “ragpicker” escapes from the enemy)

67. Why is the coot bird in Astrakhan region called "official"? (The bird's plumage is as black as the uniform of officials in Tsarist Russia. And she walks lazily and importantly. And there’s also a plaque on her head - just like the badge on an official’s cap)

68. Why do we say “ all year round”, rather than “square” or “quadrangular”? (All four seasons gradually transform into each other. Year after year, circle after circle - this is how life moves)

69. Why do people who eat sea turtle meat suffer from abdominal pain and sometimes even die? (This happens because turtles eat poisonous sea animals without harming themselves, and their poison is concentrated in the fat of the turtles)

70. Why are guinea pigs called that, since they have nothing to do with the seas, are purely land animals and belong to the order of rodents? (The homeland of these calm and affectionate animals is South America. They were brought from there to Europe in the sixteenth century. At first, the rare animals were called overseas pigs, and then the prefix “for” disappeared and they became guinea pigs)

71. Why did pancakes become a symbol of Maslenitsa? (The pancake is round, fried, taken “out of the heat, out of the heat”, very reminiscent of the sun. And Maslenitsa is a welcoming of spring, worship of the bright sun and its god Yaril)

72. Why in Belgium and the Netherlands was Saint Martin always depicted on icons with a goose? (This bird once seriously angered the bishop. He delivered a hot sermon, and the geese cackled loudly. Without thinking twice, Saint Martin ordered the offenders to be made into roast meat. Since then, on the holiday dedicated to Saint Martin, it has been customary to put roast geese on the table)

73. Why do fish have no eyelids? (They don’t need eyelids because water constantly washes away foreign particles from fish eyes)

74. In the Hawaiian Islands there is a mountain called Mauna Kea, which is 1,300 meters higher than Everest. Why is it not considered the highest peak in the world? (Because most of it is hidden under water)

75. Why don’t chamois fall from steep mountain slopes? (It’s all about her hooves. The chamois’s hooves are large, and they can also move apart very widely, and on the front and side along the edge they have a protrusion - a welt. Thanks to this, the chamois easily clings to the slightest irregularities on a steep slope and does not slip when running on an icy surface )

76. Why did the elephant have a trunk? (Not only the elephant, but also some species of large dinosaurs, which had a short neck and a large, heavy head, had the first trunks. After all, they somehow had to reach the lush grass and branches with green leaves. Gradually, those animals survived whose lips were larger and more mobile)

77. Why did dormouse get such a name? (Dormice are funny animals, somewhat similar to mice, only with a fluffy tail, like a squirrel. And they got their name because they lead an exclusively nocturnal lifestyle. During the day, they sleep sweetly in a hollow tree)

78. In the eighteenth century, Italian violinists had a custom of bringing frogs in the cases of their violins to concerts. The violinists affectionately stroked the pop-eyed frogs. Why did they do this? (It turns out that frogs of many species secrete substances that dry out human skin. After this, hands do not sweat for a long time)

80. Why, usually at the end of summer and autumn, do squirrels suddenly leave their homes and go, as they say, wherever they look, covering enormous distances (up to three hundred kilometers), swimming across large rivers? (These migrations are caused by a shortage of pine feed, unfavorable natural conditions: droughts, forest fires. Seasonal migrations are also associated with the successive maturation of feed)

81. Why was the otter called that? (This name comes from the method of dressing its fur, when the hard spine is torn out, leaving only a thick down)

82. The definition of “oblique” is firmly attached to the hare. Why? (A hare's eyes are located on the sides of his head, and he cannot look straight, like a cross-eyed person. To see an object, he needs to turn his eye in its direction. But what kind of vision gives him greater coverage - he sees everything on the sides and even behind)

83. In the fight for the female, wild boars rush at each other with lightning speed and strike with sharp, long and powerful fangs. Why do these fights rarely end in the death of one of the opponents? (Nature took care of the wild boars and covered the front part of their body with a thick leather apron - Kalkan. On the sides of the chest and shoulder blades it reaches a thickness of four centimeters)

84. Why are people grateful to the fox? (Firstly, she eats a lot of mice, and secondly, she takes part in the destruction of locusts)

85. Why does a bear suck its paw during hibernation? (Around February, the old, rough skin on the bear’s paw pads begins to peel off. This process causes itching, in addition, young skin freezes. So the bear licks its paws, relieving the itching and warming the feet with its breath)

86. Why do you often see abandoned deer antlers and dry animal bones near Arctic fox minks? (These are toys for puppies that Arctic foxes collect and bring from the tundra. Sometimes children's balls and even dolls come across among them. Arctic foxes steal these gifts from the tents of the indigenous inhabitants of the tundra, when they sometimes climb there in search of food)

87. Why, if you cut the tassels from a lynx’s ears, its hearing becomes dull^ (The tassels on a lynx’s ears are like antennas. They allow the animal to catch the slightest sounds)

88. Why does the cuckoo throw its eggs into other people's nests? (She is very gluttonous. She eats for many hours in a row. If pests appear in the forest, the cuckoos eat them until they eat them all. Such gluttony is also characteristic of the cuckoo: if it does not throw other chicks out of the nest, the parents simply will not be able to feed them all. It is also difficult for a cuckoo to feed a chick - it itself needs a lot of food. But in order to preserve the species, there must be more than one chick, but when the cuckoo grows up, it will kill more dangerous insects than all its dead brothers combined. him more benefit- this is the inexorable logic of nature)

89. Why does an owl turn its head 180 degrees? (The owl's eyes are so large that there is simply not enough space in the sockets to allow them to move. Therefore, the bird has to turn its head 180, or even 240 degrees!)

90. The heron is always in sight, swims poorly, runs even worse - its long toes get in the way, flies slowly and clumsily. Why are there no willing predators to eat it? (The heron has no enemies because everyone is afraid of its beak. In its normal state, the heron’s neck is folded almost three times, but when struck, instantly, like a spring, it straightens to a half-meter length. It is not recommended to approach the heron closely - this threatens a serious injury, otherwise and the loss of an eye. The heron controls its weapon perfectly, the tip of its beak hits with sniper precision the point at which the bird’s gaze is directed. Only the young sometimes miss, the adult bird never)

91. In the evening, hippos come ashore and graze in lush meadows all night, like cows. And at dawn they jog to a river or lake and lie down in the water. Why do they do this? (The fact is that their delicate skin cannot stand the scorching rays of the sun, and if there were no water nearby, hippos would die)

92. Why was the frog called that? (This creature does not bite, does not scratch with its nails, does not scream. It kicks with its hind legs and therefore easily escapes from the hands)

93. Why does planet Earth appear blue from space? (Because almost three quarters of its surface is covered by seas and oceans)

94. Why didn’t the first locks need a key? (Because the doors were not locked, but tied with a rope)

95. Why didn’t ancient people throw away large and strong fish bones? (They made needles out of them to sew skins and make clothes for themselves)

96. Than leap year different from other years? (It has not 365 days, but 366)

97. The larger and stronger the animals, the fewer cubs they have. Why? (Because a strong father and mother can better protect their babies, which means that the baby will not die and, having matured, will continue the family)

98. Why does the parrot fish have 8-10 rows of strong teeth on each jaw? (Because the favorite dish of parrot fish is coral polyps. Having bitten off a piece of coral with its beak, the stone-eater fish grinds it on its lips for a long time and carefully)

99. If you look after a swimming parrot fish, you can see a stream of sand trailing behind it. Why? (This is the chewed calcareous skeleton of the coral that is thrown away as unnecessary)

100. Why were very large seals living in the Arctic seas called elephant seals? (Their body length is more than five meters, and they weigh more than two and a half tons. But the animals did not get their name at all from their size. Elephant seals have a special leathery bag on their heads. As soon as the seal gets angry, the bag begins to swell and becomes like a small proboscis)

101. Why are there so many emperors in Antarctica that it’s impossible to even count them? (The largest penguins, of which there are a great many in Antarctica, are called emperors)

102. Translated from Italian, the word “tomato” means “golden apple”. Previously, many round fruits were called apples. But why “golden”, because the tomato is red, brown, pink or green? (The fact is that there are yellow tomatoes in nature. And it so happened that the first tomatoes brought from America to Europe were just golden yellow in color)

103. Pizza has been popular among poor people for a long time. It was even called “the food of the poor.” But representatives of high society considered pizza to be base and coarse food. Why? (Because in those days they kneaded dough with their feet)

104. An amazing plant with tall green stems and golden ears is called “maize” by the American Indians, where it was brought from. Maize received its modern name “corn” later. It came from Romania and means “fir cone.” Why? (Yes, because an ear of corn really does look like a fir cone)

105. Why are Finnish sweets the most unusual in the world? (Because the Finns make them sour, salty and even taste like oil)

106. Why do boiling eggs blow bubbles? (When air is heated, it expands. Inside each egg there is a small sac filled with air. When boiling water heats the egg, the air heats up. It expands and finds its way out through the tiny holes in the eggshell. This is what causes bubbles)

107. Why does a boiled egg, if you spin it on the table, spin like a top, while a raw egg lazily sways from side to side? (A raw egg contains liquid white and yolk inside. They dangle and prevent the egg from unwinding. A boiled egg is solid inside. So it rotates easily)

108. Tigers live for about fifty years. But few live to old age. This strong animal, which has no enemies in nature, is on the verge of extinction. Why? (People hunt tigers not only because of their beautiful skin. In the East, they believe in the healing properties of everything that can be borrowed from a defeated animal. Folk legends even endow its claws and whiskers with magical powers. By the 1970s, there were no more than six thousand tigers. Therefore, the animal was included in the Red Book)

109. You won’t find fish ears, no matter how hard you look. But even if you sneak up to the aquarium very quietly, the fish will quickly swim away to the far corner. Why? (Because no matter how hard you try, the fish heard you, it turns out that fish hear with their bodies: firstly, with the help of the inner ears that are located inside the head. And the second auditory system of fish is the lateral line organs located along the body on both sides )

110. Why do birds have small feathers and down on their bodies, but large feathers on their wings and tails? (Large feathers of wings and tails keep birds in the air. The material from which bird feathers are “made” is perfectly suited for this - they are light, durable and also elastic)

111. Why does a hare have such long ears? (It turns out, not in order to hear better, but in order to... sweat with them)

112. Why are tigers striped? (This animal lives in thickets of reeds, bushes, among tall grasses. There, the play of light and shadows makes the striped giant invisible even at close range)

113. Why do sea turtles have a drop-shaped shell? (This shell allows them to move very quickly in water)

114. According to Western traditions, Santa Claus must have a white beard, a red hat and a jacket of the same color. But in Australia, Santa Claus is dressed in a bathing suit. Why? (Comes New Year to this continent, when it is at its hottest, that is why Australian Santa Claus travels not on a sleigh, but on windsurfing - this is a special board with a sail mast attached to it)