Materials: a ball (a soft one, not too large), a “magic” wand, stickers Age: 4-7 y.o. Instructions: The children all stand in a circle. They start throwing a ball from one to another. If a child drops the ball, he has to pun one knee on the ground, and continue playing like that. If he…
Police Officer, Thief
Age: 3-10 y.o. Number of players: more than 5. The kids sit down in a circle, with one exception. One child is the thief. She walks around the circle (on the outside, clockwise direction), touching each child on the back/head and saying either “police officer” or “thief”. The first child who is called a police…
Coloured Rice Math Game
Materials: rice, food colouring, a spoon of vinegar, ½ lemon or lemon juice, a deep tray, kitchen tweezers (from IKEA kids), foam or cardboard letters/numbers Age: any. Instructions: Put a spoon of vinegar, the amount of food colouring you want and then the rice. The vinegar will help keep the rice more colourful. You can…
Addition Machine
Materials: 2 kitchen towel rolls, wrapping paper, coloured paper (for the background), 2 plastic/paper cups, 1 basket, pompoms (or other small objects that can fit through the rolls), scotch tape. Age: kindergarten and primary school kids Instructions: The photo is probably clear enough…you don’t even need to cover the rolls, but I wanted them to…
Math Pipe Cleaner Game
Materials: polystyrene, pipe cleaners (different colours), straws, scissors, beads (the same colours as the pipe cleaners), dice. Instructions: This game can be used as a number game – Roll the die and put as many straws/beads as the number indicates – or as a sorting game – place the beads of a certain colour over…
An Easy Shape Game
I had some popsicle sticks around, so I made these easy 2 piece puzzles. We will use the game during our morning circle routine, to practice shape recognition.