Create towers by following your own homemade guidelines. This helps with pattern recognition and counting.
Design your own cards
What you need:
• Paper cards
• Coloured pencils
• LEGO blocks
What to do:
1. Prepare some suggestion cards by drawing
and colouring LEGO block towers on
pieces of card with specific colour patterns.
2. Leave them by your LEGO resources, and
encourage children to try and recreate
the patters with their own real-life LEGO
block towers.
3. Great for pattern recognition and counting,
you can get the children to help
make the cards to begin with too.
Got access to a dead old computer or keyboard?
Whatever it is, tinkering with real-life tech is a fabulous
thing for your curious children. When you allow your child to take something apart, put items back together and figure out how things work it encourages them to problem solve, try another strategy or use different materials or tools.
What you need:
• An old computer
• Different kinds of screwdrivers is the best
thing for your curious preschoolers.
What to do:
1. For children of this age, an adult will most
likely need to remove the larger components
from the computer.
2. Once you’ve got some smaller components
out, allow your children a bit of free
reign with the screwdrivers.
3. The focus that you’ll see in children with
tasks like this is like nothing else, and
there’s nothing more fascinating for a
curious tinkerer than to get to see the
inside workings of a giant computer.
Children love nothing better than mixing various materials, creating potions or experimenting with water. Some great science experiments on the link below.
A different version of hide and seek!
Hide words, letters and numbers around the room or house and have your wee ones find them. They could try copying the ones they find.
