Rebus is a logic game in which you have to guess the answer from a picture. The latter depicts objects, animals and plants, letters and numbers. Their relative position matters. Even for fidgets, puzzles can be a fun activity if presented in a playful way. For example, you can offer to teach your child how to solve spy codes.
And from the simplest picture puzzles for preschool age to relatively complex ones. We assure you: if your child gets carried away and learns to use logical thinking, over time you will learn from him how to solve riddles in pictures.
Puzzles have been 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 is already 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 benefits of these logic puzzles. They develop memory, intelligence, speed of thinking, the ability to navigate a situation and apply the knowledge already acquired.
To teach a 6-7 year old child how to solve problems correctly, first explain to him the rules. There is no need to insist that he remember everything at once. Most likely, you don’t know them all yourself. It’s better to explain one or two things a day and support them with thematic tasks. The latter can be printed (more convenient for outdoor activities) or shown from the monitor. In subsequent classes, it is also better not to offer too much material. It is important to explain to the child that first he 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 determine what a comma, a strikethrough, an inverted object and other subtleties mean in pictures.
- 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 dropped 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 needs to be excluded from the name of the drawn object (and another one must be added, if 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?
Numbers can have two meanings. Do they stand above the word? To guess the answer, you need to rearrange the letters from place to place in the indicated order. The name of a number can be part of a word (often “one hundred”, “five” are used). A crossed out number means that the letter with that serial number must be excluded from the word. It should be remembered that some numbers, as well as objects, can have several names (unit - “count”, “one”, “one”). - What does the plus sign and the equal sign mean?
If there is a plus sign between words (symbols), then they need to be added to each other. Sometimes “+” means the preposition “to”; the necessary 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 with the letters “K”.
- Vertical or horizontal line in tasks?
A horizontal line means “under”, “over”, “above” and “on” at the same time, depending on the context. Used with letters or pictures, when one part is drawn below the line, the other 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, it means that the preposition “in” is added to their names. One letter is drawn after another - meaning the preposition “behind” or “before”.
- The object in the picture is drawn upside down? To get the answer, you need to read the word backwards. Children 6-7 years old can easily turn short words in their minds. True, the number of such tasks is quite limited.
Most often, puzzles use several rules simultaneously. It is believed that at the age of 6-7 years, children are already familiar with letters and clearly know their names. If a younger student has not yet encountered commas, teaching him a new symbol will not be particularly difficult.
Examples of puzzles in pictures for children 6-7 years old with answers
Children 6-7 years old and younger perceive material much better in connection with some memorable event. Puzzles about animals will be solved with delight if you offer them to your child the next day after visiting the zoo. A first-grader girl who is eager to enroll in 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 they have already encountered such animal names and also understand everything that is shown in the picture.
Puzzles about family, about mother
Who is the sweetest for a child, if not mommy! And who does he happily meet every time, except mom and dad? Children will really enjoy recognizing and guessing their grandparents, sisters and other relatives in the encrypted pictures. Print or draw brighter pictures and start having fun while teaching your child at the same time!
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About sports, about health
Puzzles about work, health, sports, professions and many others can be used as thematic game aids. Is there a lesson or conversation planned on one of the topics in the graduating group of kindergarten, first grades of school or at home? 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 the non-standard presentation of the material.
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Puzzles based on fairy tales
Fairy tales with familiar characters, modern or classic cartoons are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. If your child is not very interested in logical riddles, you can try to get him interested in guessing his favorite characters. There are many more mysteries on this topic than are given as an example. Knowing your child’s interests and favorite fairy tales, you can create puzzles in the form of applications yourself.
A preschooler is at an age when the child is actively developing mentally. And the task of parents is to guide the inquisitive child’s mind along the path of desire to shape it further. Funny riddles for 6-7 year olds are lifesavers for children, which themselves suggest interesting questions. By learning the answers, the baby grows in his own eyes and will strive to know even more. A A cheerful, funny presentation of riddles, which children really like, will make it easier for adults to develop their child.
Memory and attention will help in school
Many years of experience of teachers and educators shows that riddles can develop children's memory, teach them to do comparative analysis, and establish common characteristics of objects and phenomena, which has a beneficial effect on logic and thinking. Mental tension, accurate perception of information, speech development, and increased vocabulary complexity - all this is gained without much effort by a child while playing puzzles.
Instructive and simple
Children's riddles for 6-8 years old assess the capabilities of children. If things don’t work out very well, the child is interested in looking for the answer himself, gaining new knowledge, and seeing the unknown in books. National folklore in the genre of riddles is good because it is imbued with folk wisdom, refined instructiveness and at the same time simplicity and wit.
Riddles for children 6-7-8 years old vary in theme and presentation. In terms of content, they can be about:
- seasons;
- natural phenomena;
- festive, fairy-tale characters;
- vegetables, fruits;
- plants, flowers;
- fauna;
- professions;
- household items, toys.
Without wings, but flies. As soon as he cries, he disappears.
(Cloud) 
Fruit ripening on a tree
And it tastes good.
Yellow, green,
Looks like a light bulb.
(Pear) 
Loves milk very much
It's not easy to nurse him.
He is dressed in a vest,
Sleeping quietly in the cradle...
(wrong: grandfather. Correct: brother) 
The blanket is white,
Not sewn, not woven.
fell from the sky
The whole earth was covered.
(Snow) 
Everyone is waiting for him, calling him, but when he comes, everyone runs away.
(Rain) 
Sitting under the tree
Trembling with fear.
If necessary, he runs.
Writes loops in the snow:
“I’ll run away from the fox!”
(Hare) 
He lies or plays
If he wants, he eats, but if he wants, he drinks.
He doesn't welcome mice
Striped important...
(cat) 
Can jump and fly.
Accidentally take off at a gallop
And run through the gate
Maybe a quick round...
(ball) 
His granddaughter Dunyasha
Grandmother Aglasha asks
Radishes with sour cream
Eat at least a little...
(wrong answer: porridge. Correct: salad) 
I arrived at the store.
To choose a limousine.
But I was able to buy myself
Two mittens for...
(wrong: for legs. It should be said: for arms) 
No one will please her
Willful and stubborn.
“I don’t want to go to kindergarten!” –
Stomping his foot...
(mother is the wrong answer. The correct answer is: daughter) 
Vasya loves her very much,
He will kiss and caress.
She is about two hundred years old -
Vasina...
(not to the bride, but to the turtle) 
For dolls, a dress, pants,
Berets, mittens, shirtfronts
Always sew and knit
(not boys, but girls) 
To the tomboyish students
Bravely goes to class
Not a timid dozen
Brave …
(not a bun, but a teacher) 
To iron the hooded robe,
Mom goes to the outlet with...
(with a phone? No, with an iron) 
Kings of all times
In your portraits
It is important to look through the centuries
In gold...
(in berets? Wrong, in crowns) 
We'll pick some in the meadow
Dandelion bag
And we will weave them together
Floral…
(not a pot, but a wreath) 
To the little sisters,
For girly little ones
Bought for summer
Beautiful...
(not boots, but sandals) 
It will be summer soon
Hot days.
And then we will be happy
Let's stand on...
(not on skates, but on roller skates) 
The bunny went out to frolic
Jumping in the grass.
One nose and one tail,
Well, paws...
(not two, but 4) 
The teacher explained to Kira:
5 plus 2 is...
(not 4, but 7) 
If in class
Will you yawn
You'll get it in your diary
You estimate...
(not 5, but 2) 
Improving logical thinking for children 7-8 years old is an extremely important stage of development. By primary school age, children are already able to think logically, and the task of teachers and parents during this period is to give impetus to the development of logical thinking.
For this purpose, special tasks are selected, consisting of logical problems and puzzles. Rebuses occupy a special place among such tasks. On our website you can download and print for free simple puzzles for children 7-8 years old in pictures with answers.
What is a rebus?
This is a word encrypted in pictures. In the names of a series of drawn objects or actions, the specified number of letters is taken from the beginning or end of the words and the searched word is composed. Puzzles require from children 7-8 years old not only logic, but also a certain amount of erudition and ingenuity. Without knowing the name of the picture shown, it is unlikely that you will be able to guess the word. Sometimes you can guess the answer to a rebus, but this requires a certain mindset.
How and where can you use picture puzzles when working with children?
Teachers and observant parents probably know that puzzles for children 7-8 years old are even given in textbooks.
However, in addition to the proposed tasks, puzzles can be offered to children 7-8 years old as creative work, at the beginning of the lesson as a warm-up, or in the form of homework. At first these should be the simplest puzzles so that the children get used to this form of work.
They can be downloaded for free on this website, printed and used in your work. Next, the puzzles should be complicated without the children noticing: this way, thinking will develop unnoticed by the children. Parents, in turn, can offer their children puzzles in pictures as a way to spend their leisure time together.
Tasks with answers can be downloaded for free on this website and then printed. Invite the kids to solve the puzzle with you. Even if you know the answer in advance: don’t show it and offer your own answer options.
Children really like to win. Make them feel important: let them guess the correct answer, and you, like wise parents, quietly lead them to it.
How else can you “play” with a rebus?
When the children learn to solve puzzles well and understand the principle of constructing such tasks, invite them to encrypt some word in the puzzle themselves.
You can download the puzzles you like for free on this site, give the kids just the beginning and invite them to continue on their own. Compare the rebus compiled by the child with those originally proposed by the authors, analyze whose version is better and more understandable.
Subsequently, the child will be able to create interesting problems on his own, without your prompting.
Since puzzles, as a rule, are created in the form of pictures, the question arises: what to do for those who cannot draw or do it poorly. No problem. Convince the guys: there is no need to be afraid that your pictures will not be understood.
On our website you can download several puzzles for free and focus the children’s attention on the fact that in the puzzles everything is drawn schematically, in general terms. Nobody requires you to be a professional artist. If you understand the drawing yourself, then others will understand it too.
So, solving and composing puzzles yourself is a very useful activity for the development of logical thinking. Give your children more tasks like this: let them develop while playing, unnoticed by themselves.
Puzzles for children
Click on the pictures to download and print the puzzles:
Extracurricular activity for elementary school students “In search of escaped puzzles”
Target: development of attention, innovative thinking, creative imagination.
Equipment: the teacher has a table for puzzle No. 1; Students have colored pencils, a squared notebook, and matches.
Teacher. Guys, a librarian I know came to me asking for help. The fact is that trouble happened: a book with puzzles escaped from the children's library. It was in a single copy and was in demand. But last summer, none of the readers took an interest in 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 the school year has begun, and they are asking for this book again. However, the puzzles were offended, felt unwanted in the summer and ran away, leaving a note. Here she is.
The teacher shows the card.
The recording is encrypted, that is, it is a puzzle. Let's try to decipher it. Guess which “key” you need to use.
Independent work.
Children write down the deciphered text in notebooks. Examination.
Answer.“Nobody needs us! Let's go to the Island of Eternal Summer. Farewell". We read from bottom to top from right to left.
I suggest going to the Island of Eternal Summer and finding the escaped puzzles there. Maybe they will agree to return.
To find yourself in a land where the waves of the warm sea splash, where palm trees grow, magnolias bloom and where there is lots and lots of sun, it is enough to use our imagination, which never fails us. We close our eyes... Kreks-pex-fex!.. We open our 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, vines, coconuts, bananas... And under your feet there is light, warm sand. Wow, it's hot! Need a swim. What is that splashing on the waves there? Let's swim closer. What a success! A tiny raft, on it is an open book, and next to it, with their bellies up, lie little men with large heads, thin arms and legs, sunbathing. On the raft stands a flag with the inscription:
OOOOLLMKGVI
What is this word? Maybe someone has already guessed?
Answer. PUZZLES. We rearrange the “scattered” letters.
Oh, that's it! The puzzles specially encrypted themselves so that those around them would puzzle 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!
Puzzle. Is it really for us? We miss the boys too. We were offended that they forgot about us for the whole summer. And so we 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 right now. Come on, turn us to a more difficult page!
PUZZLE 1
We'll look at the table
And we will see faces on it,
Unfamiliar faces -
Sad, happy...
Now take a closer look
Look at them, my friend.
What pattern
Are they subordinate?
Answer. Each horizontal row has one round, oval and square shaped face, the faces have different shaped headdresses, different shaped noses, mouths and eyes.
The teacher covers one of the faces and asks the children to draw the hidden face in their notebook, after checking for a pattern in their answer.
PUZZLE 2
There is an “extra” concept
Literally in every line.
You, having thought well,
Mark it with a dot.
1. Birch, wood, maple, poplar, rowan.
2. Addition, multiplication, addend, division, subtraction.
3. Bitter, hot, sour, sweet, salty.
4. Precipitation, rain, snow, frost, hail.
5. Comma, period, colon, union, dash.
PUZZLE 3
Needs to be made out of matches
Various items.
Keep a strict count of matches
It follows this.
Lay out: a) a vase of 8 matches; b) an envelope of 8 matches; c) a Christmas tree made of 9 matches; d) a tower of 9 matches.
PUZZLE 4
Twin proverbs
In the list you will find,
From English to Russian
Draw an arrow.
English:
THE SMARTEST THING IS SILENCE.
CLOTHES DO NOT MAKE THE MAN.
AND A GOOD SHOOTER CAN
MISS.
FEAR HAS LONG LEGS.
YOU CAN'T CAPTURE THE WIND WITH A NET.
Russians:
DO NOT APPLY WATER WITH THE SIEVE.
AND THERE IS A MISSION.
THE WORD IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLD.
A COWARD MISTAKES A COCKROACH FOR A GIANT.
THEY MEET BY CLOTHES, THEY SEE AWAY BY MIND.
Answer. Silence is the smartest thing. The word is silver, silence is gold.
Clothes don't make a man. They meet you by their clothes, they see them off by their intelligence.
And a good shooter can miss. And Masha sometimes makes a mistake.
Fear has long legs. Fear has big eyes. You can't catch the wind with a net. You don't 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.
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Clue. To insert a letter instead of a number, for example, 4, you need to look at 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 SPANDS IN THE FOREHEAD. This is what they say about a very smart, outstanding, talented person.
Puzzles. And you guys are great. You crack the puzzles like nuts! We agree to return to the library, but on the condition: you will not forget about us, including in the summer.
Teacher. Guys, do you agree with the condition? Then we all leave the Island of Eternal Summer together.
All adults know that through play a child learns and gets to know the world around him and himself. But which games are the most useful for development? When creating an activity program for your baby or even just buying new toys, you need to focus on the child’s age. What puzzles are most useful for children 5-6 years old?
Board games
Puzzles are recommended by child psychologists for all children over the age of three. The game “assemble a whole from pieces” develops perseverance, imaginative and In addition to the classic mosaic sets, which ask you to put together a picture from elements of the same shape, you can purchase a figured puzzle. In such a game, a picture must be composed of elements that are complex in shape. For example, if it’s a car, the body, wheels, windows and other small parts will be separate. Useful - also lotto and dominoes with pictures. In the assortment of board games for preschoolers, you can find no less interesting “associations”, in which you need to collect pictures according to some general principle.
We come up with a game ourselves
A popular question among parents is: “What puzzle games can you make yourself at home?” To develop spatial thinking, it is incredibly useful to draw all kinds of plans and diagrams. Improve the game with the constructor: draw the future building on paper in advance (carefully depicting each of its elements), and then offer to assemble the structure according to the “drawing”. You can also draw a plan of the room, hide a toy or other interesting object in some place and invite the child to find the “treasure” on the map. Useful 5-6 years do not have to be prepared in advance by an adult. Ask your child to draw a map of his room, yard, or maybe even the route to kindergarten. You can make an interesting board game with your own hands from several sheets of cardboard. Cut the material into cards of the same size. And draw some symbols on them. You can use letters and numbers, stars, geometric shapes or simple designs. It is important that your set contains at least two identical cards with each image. It’s not at all difficult to play - an adult chooses several different drawings and puts them in a row. The child must look at the sample, remember it, and then (the sample is covered with a sheet of paper) repeat the number of cards and the sequence.
Timely preparation for school is the key to successful studies
Which ones will help you prepare for school? If your child already knows how to form words from letters and reads at least a little, you can try asking him to solve simple crossword puzzles. It's not difficult to make them yourself. Instead of complex questions, use pictures and choose the simplest words possible. Puzzles will also help you prepare for school. These are tasks with pictures and symbols in which words or phrases are encrypted. Very useful educational puzzles for children can also be found in collections of first copybooks. Workbooks for little ones usually contain various exercises, the solution of which requires thinking, drawing a little, and even writing something.
