Game: which one does not belong? (18 stripes)

This is a set with 18 stripes. Ready for printing and cutting.

Each stripe has 3 related objects and 1 unrelated.

The child has to find the unrelated object and attach a peg to it.

Game: What are they for?

This is a set with 18 cards. Ready for printing and cutting.

Each card shows a big picture and three small ones.

The object in the larger picture has the same use than one of the objects in the small pictures.
 The child has to find the small related object and attach a peg to it.

Games: Seasons. Which one does not belong?

Another game with clothes and weather.

This time we will use a very simple "Which one does not belong?" game, that will be the basis for making more difficult ones in the future.

We can make our own with the cards and pictures below.

Games: Seasons. Winter and Summer game (clothes / weather)

We need to print the material and cut out the cards and pictures.
The child needs to select which cards belong to the summer slide and which ones to the winter slide.
We can ask the child to say "In summer I put.... on"

We can ask the child to select which pictures are summer pictures and which ones are winter pictures.

Games: Symbolic games / Pretended play

They are extremely important for development and language.

The first step is for your child to have objects act out pretend actions 

A few ideas for symbolic playing:

• Dollhouses / Castles. We can work the daily routines, if the person living in the house gets visits, goes to work, etc.
• Animal farms. We can imagine how is the day for the animal, if the animal has friends, eats, sleeps. What noises an animal does. If the farmer is taking care of the animal, etc.
• Tea parties. Enjoying a good cup of imaginary tea!
• Shopping game. With maybe a basket and plastic food

We can help the games with pictures, songs, etc.

Games: The phone game

This is one of the games that helps them to have and improve a conversation.

You can use two toy phones.

It is important to help the child to open up and to listen.
Do not be judgemental.
You can ask about their interests and friends, for example.
You can ask them to sing for you or telling you a story or about a film...
Reflect back what they are saying, that way they will know you understand, and then listen again (so they can continue speaking).



Remember that small talk can be difficult for kids.

Games: Drawing faces (Feelings)

I post two slides to draw faces.

They can help us to understand how children feel, or for example, that they tell us how other people feel, maybe the main character of a tale we have just read.
 

Game: Groups. What are they? How do we use them?

We use different sets of cards (cards that we have been already working with)

We make groups with the cards, for example, a group with furniture, another with food, another with animals.

We ask the child what are the groups, why the items are related.

We can play further and ask how we use each of the items (furniture), in what room we can find them (furniture) what food the child likes and what animal its her/his favourite and why.

We can mix the cards and ask the child to create groups again.

I add some slides with cards that could be used (they are not new sets, I have posted them before).

 

Games: card games with professions, where they work, what they use

Cards for preparing games related to professions

We cut the cards and we can organize different games

• We take the places where the professionals work and we ask the child to look for the people that works there.
• We take the professionals and we ask the child to look for the products that he/she makes or the tools than the professionals need.
• ....

Games: Find the sentences mistakes

We play to find the sentences mistakes.

We say, for example,

• Cats can fly.
• Cats say "ruff ruff".
• Dogs say "meow"
• Zebras have horns.
• I can see with my knees.
• I switch off the light when it is dark.
• I switch on the heater when it is hot.

Games: Tongue-twisters

Some of them...

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
Where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

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Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

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Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is hot, 
we have to put up with the weather whether we like it or not. 

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If two witches watched two watches,
which witch would watch which watch?

Games: Similarities and Differences

We show the child two pictures and the child must try to explain the similarities and differences.

We can use pictures with:

• People (to talk about how they look like and the clothing)
• Seasons (Winter and Summer)
• Games
• Cartoons
• Animals
• Any other thing that the child is interested in...

Games: Find the tale mistakes

We retell a tale that the child already knows well.

We make mistakes on purpose. For example, we say that it was Red Riding Hood who ate the wolf.

The child must try to identify the mistakes.

Games: Pragmatic Intervention Games

These games (among others) help to improve the interpersonal communication

• Puppets
• TV Interviews
• Finishing a drawing
• Making a drawing and tell a story about it.

Games: surprise bag

We take into a bag related items.
We can use kitchen toys or real kitchenware, animal toys, transport toys, etc.

We take them out one by one.

Every time we take one out we ask the child if he/she knows the name and what it is for.

Games: contextual support of events

We can help the child to:

- Learn how to develop an activity
- Suggest to imagine how an activity could be developed.

We can use have a slide with the main meaning, and progressively learn step by step about the events.

We can use cliparts, pecs or photographs.

Game: "I spy" (colour-based variation)

"I spy" is a guessing game.

The Spy says "I spy with my little eye something beginning with..."

For pre-schoolers and children that cannot read, we can play the colour-based variation.

We will start with "I spy with my little eye something that is... blue" (or any other colour).

Game: guess what I want

We take some cards and we make statements about the one we want , so the child discards the "wrong" ones.

For example, we take 12 cards food related.

And we give clues to the child. For example:

- I want something sweet.
- I want scomething from the bakery.
- One of its ingredients is chocolate.


We can repeat the game with the same cards, or we can use other cards (with animals, clothing, professions,...)

Games: Picture sequences

These are sets of cards, so the child tries to find the right order.

Games: Easter Bingo!

Let's play bingo!