BGPF065 | Stacking Game 1
By Dr. Rajeev Tamhankar
This engaging stacking game is designed to stimulate different brain areas while teaching size, spatial awareness, and problem-solving concepts. Children build towers using bowls, plates, or stacking objects and place animal toys on each layer. Through this, they learn size differentiation (big vs. small), visual recognition, and motor skills in an enjoyable and interactive way.
- Preparation:
- Gather stainless steel or plastic bowls, cups, plates, and small animal toys.
- Arrange the items in a way that they can easily stack from largest to smallest.
- Activity Execution:
- Explain that the animals are building a tower to reach their treehouse.
- Begin stacking the largest item at the bottom and progressively smaller ones on top.
- Encourage the child to place an animal on each stacked layer, naming each as they go (e.g., “Elephant goes on the bottom because it’s big, and the monkey goes on top because it’s small”).
- Keep the activity interactive by asking the child to identify the biggest and smallest items.
- Concept Reinforcement:
- Introduce songs like “Stack up high, don’t let it fall” to make the activity lively.
- Highlight concepts of “big and small” and “tall and short” through examples during the activity.
- Let the child take turns leading or experimenting to solve the stacking challenge.
- Enhances motor skills (fine and gross).
- Develops problem-solving and decision-making abilities by stimulating the prefrontal cortex.
- Improves spatial awareness and visual processing by engaging the parietal and occipital lobes.
- Strengthens understanding of size differentiation and basic geometry concepts.
- Encourages language development by associating words like “big,” “small,” “tall,” and “short” with visual cues.
- Tailor the theme (e.g., animals, fruits, or cars) based on what the child finds exciting to maintain interest.
- Use bright and colorful objects to attract attention and aid in color recognition.
- Keep the language simple and avoid jargon to ensure focus on the activity rather than vocabulary.
- Offer gentle encouragement and guidance to build confidence.
- If the child loses interest, switch up the scenario (e.g., building a town or a zoo).
- Stainless steel/plastic bowls, plates, or cups of varying sizes.
- Small stuffed animals, plastic toys, or flashcards.
- Flat trays (optional) for added creativity.
- Songs or rhymes related to stacking and building.
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