Riddles about swallows - we develop the horizon

Riddles are the first independent tasks for children in kindergarten. They help to develop the child's ingenuity, help to think, reason and evaluate the various characteristics of the characters in the riddles. They cause interest in nature, in the properties of things, they learn to navigate in a world where they have come very recently. Knowledge, which came through mysteries, fairy tales, signs and so on, are firmly entrenched in children's heads, help enrich the vocabulary

Puzzles. What are they needed for?

Riddles help to develop intelligence, deductive and inductive thinking, logic, everything that is useful for a child in the further adult life.

Especially enrichment with various information develops in children, when they come up with riddles themselves, comparing the qualities and properties of objects, connecting them with each other.

Mysteries about animals and birds

Very much like children riddles about animals and birds. They learn a lot about their life, habits, character. In Russian folklore, there are riddles about bears, dogs and cats, wolves, sparrows and crows, riddles and so on.

For example, you can note such riddles about swallows, like:

1. Comes to us in the spring, builds a nest so cleverly, before the rain low flies, everyone, of course, knows him.
2. The tail is like a scissors, the beak is small, flat, very black in color. Who are they, guys?
3. In its habits, you can find out the weather: it flies low - to the rain, high - to clear weather.
4. Nest of its builds of saliva, clay and sand, feeds on various insects, the tail is divided into two parts.

There is a riddle about a swallow - a short one, but according to her description, a child can immediately guess who she is: a small horse, looks like a swift. Smart baby immediately realizes that a swallow looks like a little swallow.

Wealth of Russian Folklore

But in folklore there are not only riddles about swallows, but also omens, and fairy tales, and poems that also help the child understand the future life.

Previously, people believed that swallows for the winter pluck all their feathers and hide under the bark of a tree, that they dive into the water and overwinter there before the thaw. They believed that only young and healthy birds are selected from the water, and old and sick people remain there croaking frogs.

According to ancient signs, whoever sees the swallow first will be happy and successful throughout the year.

Thanks to many years of observations, people have learned that after all the swallows do not burrow into the mud in the pond, waiting for the end of frosts, and fly south.

Therefore, riddles about swallows and other birds and animals are necessary for the further development of the horizon of the child.