Moral values show your children how to live their life the right way. By teaching values from the start, you can mould them with positive character traits. Therefore, it is a golden chance to develop their good character. But teaching values to your kids requires tact and patience. The lessons have to be engaging and not dull. If you use a preachy or nagging tone, they will tune you out. 

The best way to teach values to your kids is through games and fun tasks. Your kids have to feel invested in the process. While having fun they realise they are making a difference and learning something worthwhile. This has a greater impact on them with a better learning arc. Here are some of the games and fun tasks you can use to teach different values to your kids. 

1. Who Wants to Win? 

This game is about teaching values of working together, sharing and learning to cooperate. Gather all your kids or students for a puzzle game. The puzzle needs to be a bit complex to drive home the point. Your kids can either complete the puzzle by themselves or can work together. There is a prize, say a box of candies for those who win the game first. But if they work together, then they have to share the prize. Give your kids a time limit of 5 to 10 minutes to complete the puzzle. 

If your kids work together, they will finish the puzzle quickly and share the prize. At the end of the game, ask your kids what they learned and  teach them the value of working together. When your kids cooperate, they win and become successful. They strengthen their bonds and are happier together. 

2. Green Fingers Anyone?

This task is about teaching values of hard work and nurturing. It also teaches about how to persevere in all situations and develop a love of nature in them. This task will develop a new hobby too that you and your children can enjoy together. The task is to plant some flowers or a small garden. If you do not have a backyard or much open space, then utilise your terrace or balcony. Get some pots, some easy-to-grow flower & veggie seeds, and some fertile mud. Flowers like Cosmos, Zinnia, Sunflowers, and Marigolds are easy to grow. For veggies, go for peas, carrots, pole beans, and beets that are easier to grow. Ask your children to care for the pots and then the plants when they start to grow. Ask your kids to water the plants, and weed and prune them. 

When the flowers blossom, let your children decorate them around the house. This task helps boost their creative skills. Let your children harvest the veggies and clean them. With this, you solve two issues at the same time. Most children avoid eating veggies at some point when growing up. But, since they grew the veggies, your children will be excited and more prone to eating them. Secondly, your children learn to become more self-reliant. They also learn that hard work pays and gives amazing results. 

3. Reading Books and Stories Together

Teaching values to your kids through reading books and stories is fun. You spend time with each other, enjoy, and learn something new. With books and stories, you can teach your kids good values and also caution them against bad habits. Read simple-to-understand fables and fairy tales to younger children. Never cry wolf, The lion & the mouse, and Crow & the pitcher are some popular fables. These fables teach about honesty, gratitude, and hard work. Other Aesop’s fables also teach important life lessons and values to your kids. 

For older kids and teens, you can get them books and novels with more complex storylines. This is an engaging way of teaching values and good character traits to your children. After they have finished the books, discuss the storylines and characters in the books. Find out by asking them what motivates these characters and the values they have. Discuss the bad traits and values of the negative characters as well. Ask your kids to imagine different endings of the books. and also to suggest ways where bad characters are redeemed by endowing them with good values. By reading books, your kids realise the importance of good values. By thinking of alternate endings, they become more creative as well. 

4. Future Stars in the Making 

Kids like to act, imitate, and role play and be the centre of attention. Use this fact for teaching values to your kids. Create short sketches about values based messages, also you can take stories from different  fables and books. Have your children role-play the characters in these stories. This is a sort of quasi-practical act that teaches your children about moral values you want them to learn. Along with that, it improves their learning and speaking skills. Your kids also become confident, creative, and assertive. We say it is not a bad way to learn good values along with essential life skills. 

5. Secret Santa for Kids

This task is about teaching values of caring for others and being selfless. Write the names of all your family members in small chits and fold them. Ask your kids to pick any one chit. For the full day, they have to do good things to the person whose name they picked without the person knowing. These can be helping with their chores or getting their favourite food items among others. Ask your children to observe how happy that person becomes. This task strengthens the bonds between your kids and the family members. They also learn that being selfless brings happiness. 

Final Thoughts

These are some of the ways of teaching values to your children. Your children enjoy these tasks and develop good moral values. Along with these, check out some other tips for building positive character traits as well. Positive character traits and moral values work in tandem. So, start teaching these together to create a good and strong character in your children.

Moral values show your children how to live their life the right way. By teaching values from the start, you can mould them with positive character traits. Therefore, it is a golden chance to develop their good character. But teaching values to your kids requires tact and patience. The lessons have to be engaging and not dull. If you use a preachy or nagging tone, they will tune you out. 

The best way to teach values to your kids is through games and fun tasks. Your kids have to feel invested in the process. While having fun they realise they are making a difference and learning something worthwhile. This has a greater impact on them with a better learning arc. Here are some of the games and fun tasks you can use to teach different values to your kids. 

1. Who Wants to Win? 

This game is about teaching values of working together, sharing and learning to cooperate. Gather all your kids or students for a puzzle game. The puzzle needs to be a bit complex to drive home the point. Your kids can either complete the puzzle by themselves or can work together. There is a prize, say a box of candies for those who win the game first. But if they work together, then they have to share the prize. Give your kids a time limit of 5 to 10 minutes to complete the puzzle. 

If your kids work together, they will finish the puzzle quickly and share the prize. At the end of the game, ask your kids what they learned and  teach them the value of working together. When your kids cooperate, they win and become successful. They strengthen their bonds and are happier together. 

2. Green Fingers Anyone?

This task is about teaching values of hard work and nurturing. It also teaches about how to persevere in all situations and develop a love of nature in them. This task will develop a new hobby too that you and your children can enjoy together. The task is to plant some flowers or a small garden. If you do not have a backyard or much open space, then utilise your terrace or balcony. Get some pots, some easy-to-grow flower & veggie seeds, and some fertile mud. Flowers like Cosmos, Zinnia, Sunflowers, and Marigolds are easy to grow. For veggies, go for peas, carrots, pole beans, and beets that are easier to grow. Ask your children to care for the pots and then the plants when they start to grow. Ask your kids to water the plants, and weed and prune them. 

When the flowers blossom, let your children decorate them around the house. This task helps boost their creative skills. Let your children harvest the veggies and clean them. With this, you solve two issues at the same time. Most children avoid eating veggies at some point when growing up. But, since they grew the veggies, your children will be excited and more prone to eating them. Secondly, your children learn to become more self-reliant. They also learn that hard work pays and gives amazing results. 

3. Reading Books and Stories Together

Teaching values to your kids through reading books and stories is fun. You spend time with each other, enjoy, and learn something new. With books and stories, you can teach your kids good values and also caution them against bad habits. Read simple-to-understand fables and fairy tales to younger children. Never cry wolf, The lion & the mouse, and Crow & the pitcher are some popular fables. These fables teach about honesty, gratitude, and hard work. Other Aesop’s fables also teach important life lessons and values to your kids. 

For older kids and teens, you can get them books and novels* with more complex storylines. This is an engaging way of teaching values and good character traits to your children. After they have finished the books, discuss the storylines and characters in the books. Find out by asking them what motivates these characters and the values they have. Discuss the bad traits and values of the negative characters as well. Ask your kids to imagine different endings of the books. and also to suggest ways where bad characters are redeemed by endowing them with good values. By reading books, your kids realise the importance of good values. By thinking of alternate endings, they become more creative as well. 

4. Future Stars in the Making 

Kids like to act, imitate, and role play and be the centre of attention. Use this fact for teaching values to your kids. Create short sketches about values based messages, also you can take stories from different  fables and books. Have your children role-play the characters in these stories. This is a sort of quasi-practical act that teaches your children about moral values you want them to learn. Along with that, it improves their learning and speaking skills. Your kids also become confident, creative, and assertive. We say it is not a bad way to learn good values along with essential life skills. 

5. Secret Santa for Kids

This task is about teaching values of caring for others and being selfless. Write the names of all your family members in small chits and fold them. Ask your kids to pick any one chit. For the full day, they have to do good things to the person whose name they picked without the person knowing. These can be helping with their chores or getting their favourite food items among others. Ask your children to observe how happy that person becomes. This task strengthens the bonds between your kids and the family members. They also learn that being selfless brings happiness. 

Final Thoughts

These are some of the ways of teaching values to your children. Your children enjoy these tasks and develop good moral values. Along with these, check out some other tips for building positive character traits as well. Positive character traits and moral values work in tandem. So, start teaching these together to create a good and strong character in your children.