Compilation of 40 activities

Neeta Khilnani
Ages: 4-8 years
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 HOW IT HELPS?
✓ These activities are designed to boost both the left and right side of your child’s brain.
• Helps in academics
• Aids overall personality development

✓ Brain boosting activities are a fun and an effective teaching medium.

• Puzzles and riddles such as Word Hunt and Spell Fun help expand vocabulary
• Picture reading enhances observation skills and boosts memory
• Logical reasoning helps develop problem solving skills and encourages ‘Out of the
Box’ thinking

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

✓ More than getting to the correct answer, encourage your child to solve these activities
independently.

✓ Start at an early age so that the learning is deeply ingrained

✓ Share you child’s feedback. It will help me immensely in developing activities for them.

“Children learn as they play. More importantly, in play children learn how to learn.”
- O Fred Donaldson, internationally acclaimed play specialist
 SHAPE FUN
Take a paper, pencil and try this:

+ =
Triangle Triangle Square

+ = ?

Square Square

+ = ?
Diamond Diamond
 DID YOU KNOW?
According to science, a fruit grows from the flower of a plant and contains seeds while,
vegetables consists of stems, roots or leaves.

As per this definition, which of the following are fruits?

 LOGICAL REASONING
Complete the number 3 pattern.

1 2 3

4
 HOW MANY?
How many i) circles and ii) ovals are there in the picture?
 CONCEPT

VOLCANO
Did you know? The temperature of the lava can
range between 700 to 1200 degree Celsius – little
lower than the hottest part of a candle flame!

The pressure builds up inside the mountain and finally there is an

explosion of hot lava and rocks

The gas solidifies as the temperature cools down a bit inside the
mountain

Hot gas and rocks escape from an opening in the earth’s surface
into the mountain
No. Answers
1

Rectangle Parallelogram

2. Tomato, Cucumber, Bell Pepper, Eggplant and Pumpkin are fruits

3.

4. 1 Circle and 20 ovals

 CODING

If A= B, B=C, C=D and so on till Z=A, then how will you write the following?

MY = ___ ___ NAME = ___ ___ ___ ___ IS = ___ ___

*YOUR NAME* =
 ODD ONE OUT

Find the odd one out.

 WHO AM I?

• I can go up but never come down. Who am I?

• I am named after an animal. You will find me on the road. What am I?

• I am a root vegetable. I have a sweet brother. Can you name us both?

 SPOT FIVE
DIFFERENCES
Spot five differences in the second picture.
 BODY PARTS

Number the body parts from top to bottom. Take a paper and pencil and label
the topmost part as 1 and so on.
 ANIMAL BABIES

Match the animal babies with their adults.

Cub Foal Tadpole Calf

Horse Frog Reindeer Lion

 CONCEPT
1 Kilogram = 1000 grams

100 grams 500 grams 1000 grams = 1 kilogram

Which scale will go down? Is the vegetable greater or Is the vegetable greater or
lesser than 1 kilogram? lesser than 1 kilogram?
600 grams 900 grams

1 KG
1 KG
No. Answers
1 MY=NZ NAME=OBNF IS=JT
2. Air conditioner because you will not find that in a kitchen.
3. i. Age/height ii. Zebra Crossing iii. Potato and Sweet Potato
4. i. Blue bird ii. Sailing boat iii. Ball iv. Crab v. ‘m’ in Yummy
5. Correct order – i. Hair ii. Eyes iii. Nose iv. Lips v. Hands vi. Knee and
vii. Feet
6. i. Cub with lion ii. Foal with horse iii. Tadpole with frog iv. Calf with
reindeer
7. i. 900 gms scale will go down ii. Vegetable is lesser than 1kg iii.
Vegetable is heavier than 1kg
 PICTURE READING
Look at this picture. There are 5 elements which are not appropriate. Find them.
 LOGICAL REASONING
Observe the pattern and answer the question.

If =

then = ?
 RIDDLES

• Jack’s mother has three sons. Bob, Steve and __________.

• I have teeth but cannot bite. What am I?

• I am a fruit. I am green outside and white inside. There is black

inside my white. Who am I?

• I am common in Mother, Father, Brother, and Feather. What am I?

• I have no shape, no colour and no smell. What am I?

 ODD ONE OUT
Find the odd one out in both the series.
 CODING

If
PLEASE GIVE ME MY BAG = 6 4 2 2 3

Then
I SAW A ROARING LION = ?

And
I LOVE MY FAMILY = ?
 CAN YOU FIND?
Can you find the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10?
 CONCEPT
There are 24 hours in a day divided as
Select the correct answer:
follows:
TIME: 9:00 AM TIME: 9:00 PM
6:00 AM to 6:00 PM -- 12 hours

6:00 PM TIME: 3:00 AM

6:00 AM TIME: 3:00 PM
12:00 PM MID-
DAY

6:00 PM to 6:00 AM -- 12 hours

TIME: 6:00 PM TIME: 6:00 AM

6:00 PM 6:00 AM

12:00 AM MID-
NIGHT
No. Answers
1 i. Duck sitting in grass ii. Horse being fed a bone iii. Bird sitting in the
sky iv. Stars in a sunny sky v. Lion in a farm
2.

3. i. Jack ii. Comb iii. Custard Apple iv. ‘ther’ v. Water

4. i. Hippopotamus because it is not a reptile

ii. because it does not have 4 sides; it has 8 sides

5. Code = Number of letters in the word
i. 1 3 1 7 4
ii. 1 4 2 6
6.

7. i. Time: 9:00 AM ii. Time: 3:00 AM iii. Time: 6:00 PM

 LOGICAL REASONING
Observe the pattern and answer the question.

If =

then = ?
 PICTURE READING
Look at this picture. There are 5 elements which are not appropriate. Find them.
 WORD HUNT
Find the answers to these questions in the grid given.

1. You can find me in your home V E S R A T S M P

and school. I have a back but I
cannot bend. F R O F G Y S A T

R S Z C R A B P Q
2. I have a room in my name but I
M U S H R O O M K
have no room for anyone.
Z X L A N T G E A
3. I am Tadpole. Who is my M V J I V J O S P
mother?
O N E R C B N P R
4. I am the first number to stand G I N E T F R O G
besides zero.
 OUT OF THE BOX
Take 4 matchsticks. How many alphabets can you make using any number of these
four matchsticks?

Select the correct answer:

A] 14 B] 15 C] 16 D] 17
 CONCEPT
3 HANDS OF THE CLOCK
Take a clock in your hand and identify the 3 hands of the clock.

ACTIVITY
Minutes hand moves
at a medium speed

Seconds hand moves

at a fast speed

Draw the above clock on a

Hours hand moves
at a slow speed paper. Draw the missing
hands. Ask your parents to
tell you the time you drew!
 ODD ONE OUT

Observe the pattern and find the odd one out in both the series.

3|5 7|9 1|2 6|8 2|4

10|20 40|30 60|50 80|70 100|90

 RELATIONSHIPS

If = and

then

= ? and ?
No. Answers
1

2. i. Plant with flowers in desert ii. Fish on sand iii. Black clouds in a
sunny sky iv. Monkey in a desert and v. Gum boots on sand
3. i. Chair ii. Mushroom iii. Frog iv. One
V E S R A T S M P
F R O F G Y S A T
R S Z C R A B P Q
M U S H R O O M K
Z X L A N T G E A
M V J I V J O S P
O N E R C B N P R
G I N E T F R O G

4. 15: A, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, T, V, W, X, Y, and Z
6. 1|2 and 10|20
7. Can be curd, ice cream, buttermilk, chocolate or anything else that
you know of.
 SPELL FUN
Add one letter to the below word to make a new word based on the hints given.

AIR + ___ = I sit on top of your head

+ ___ = Seed needs me to grow to a

OIL

+ ___ =
He ran _________.
FAT
 RIDDLE

One day Peter told his mother…

Mom, I want you to make for me something that starts

with the letter my name starts with, is as big as my name
and has no other letters of my name.

What does he want his mother to make?

 LOGICAL REASONING
Complete the number 4 pattern.

1 2 3

4 5
 CONCEPT

The world is round.

ACTIVITY:
Draw a simple world map on paper and answer the question.
Is taking the longest possible
route from Place A to Place B.

Is taking the shortest possible

route from Place A to Place B.

What are the routes of

A
B
and ?
 OPPOSITES GAME
Jack is a very naughty boy. Whenever he is ‘happy’, he says he is ‘sad’. Whenever his
‘stomach is full’, he says he is ‘hungry’.

What would Jack say in the following circumstances?

• When he sets the AC temperature to 16 degrees.

Jack: I am feeling so ______.

• When it is drizzling outside.

Jack: It is raining so _________.

• When he ate a chilly by mistake.

Jack: This is so ________!

• When he hears a lion roar.

Jack: The lion’s roar is so ________.

 PICTURE READING
Observe the picture and answer the following questions.

• Count the number of stars

not in the sky.

• Find three elements not

appropriate in the picture.

• Everything that goes up

comes down because of
GRAVITY. Hence, what is
the one thing in this
picture which is not
possible?

• Which month and which

festival does this picture
depict?
 ODD ONE OUT
Find the odd one out in both the series.
No. Answers
1 H = HAIR , S = SOIL, S = FAST
2. Pizza
3.

4. Join both the ends of the paper to show the longest route; this is
possible because the world is round.
5. i. I am feeling so hot. ii. It is raining so heavily. iii. This is so sweet! iv.
The lion’s roar is so soft.
6. i. 13 ii. Butterfly in snow, deer in snow and apples in Christmas tree
iii. Plaits standing up iv. December/Christmas
7. i. Wrist watch because it is not worn in pairs ii. Onion because it
does not begin with P
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 ABOUT ME
Hi! I am Neeta Khilnani. I have been an equity research analyst since the
start of my career, but taken to my passion of writing since June 2020.

Why am I doing this?

I searched the internet extensively for such brain boosting activities for kids
but found only a few high quality ones. So, I decided to develop some on my
own for my five year old. He enjoys them and hence I am doing this on a
regular basis.

What else do I do?

I have purchased many children’s books till now and I realized that most of
them focus on similar concepts with different designs. There are so many
things we can expose our children to! With this in mind, I started writing
children’s books myself.

I have published two books till now: i) Activity Book for Brain Development and ii) Colour Hunt. You
can check out the sample pages here. My third upcoming book has a compilation of 10 short stories
for kids with a set of activities after each story. More importantly, each story imparts a life lesson to
our children. Also, I’ll soon be launching my own Youtube channel for kids.

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