Let’s Play Categories!
30 min
2 participantsDevelop vocabulary through a well-known game, by finding and giving lists of foods, countries, animals....
Let's play!
Players taking turns:
Pick a brick from the box
Count the number of dots on it
The number of dots indicates the category:
1 dot: countries
2 dots: vegetables
3 dots: fruits
4 dots: animals
5 dots: famous characters
6 dots (if you have 6-dot bricks in your set): first names
Name 6 things in your category
How to prepare
All bricks
Facilitation tips
Discuss with the child, collaborate to choose categories.
Repeat the list of categories as needed.
Possible variations
Change the categories, depending on child’s knowledge
Change the number of things to name
Play with more peers
Download & print
Children will develop these holistic skills
cognitive skills
- Stabilize knowledge of small numbers: Count quantities up to ten
emotional skills
- Discuss personal likes and dislikes
creative skills
- Put into words procedures in peer-to-peer exchanges
physical skills
- Recognize and discriminate SHAPES by touch
social skills
- Engage in game, pretend play activities, verbal play with peers
Did you know?
Well-designed games can lead to literacy and numeracy skills.
Despite literacy being serious business, it can be learned in playful ways.
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