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Active Games
Find
a Face (BG)
(Each player gets a blank head and shoulder picture. Then
they answer questions about their eyes, ears, nose and mouth.
Then find pictures of facial features and build a face and color
it.)
Carry A Number
(Players carry number sheets across the
room using a paper tube.)
Skip to a Shape (SG) 
(Shape and X cards are placed on the outskirts of the room.
The moderator picks and action card and players do that action as
they walk towards the cards. They pick one card and bring it
back to center of room. First player to find 4 shape cards
wins. Teaches shapes.)
Slightly
Moving (BG)
(Show players a card with a body part on it. Player has to
slightly move that part and see if the other players can figure
out what part he's moving.)
Active Stories
Farm
Animals on the Loose (AG)
(A story about farm animals that get loose. Players get
pictures of animals and need to bring them up and place them near
the barn when the animals are found in the story.)
A Dog and Frog and a Log (AG)
(A rhyming story about a dog, frog and log. Players hold up
pictures when the words are said in the story. Learn about
rhyming words.)
April's
Adventure
(MG)
(A story about a little girl doing good things around the home to
get a reward from her mom. She has to follow a map to the
reward. Teaches children to draw a line and teaches the concept of
a map.)
I Love
Letters (LG)
(A story about a girl who loves letters.
Listeners interact with the story using their own set of
letters.)
The Fruit Bowl
(MG)
(A boy shops with his mom and the listener helps put the fruit in
the fruit bowl.)
Activities
Finding
Vowels (LG)
(Children write their names on a score sheet and find the vowels
in their names, one letter at a time. They circle the vowels
on the score sheet.)
Letter Strips (LG)
(Print off Giant Letter Sheets and cut blank paper into strips.
Have players use the strips to make the letters on the letter
sheet.)
Healthy Teeth (BG)
(Tell players facts about brushing their teeth. Have them
make a toothbrush out of paper. As questions and if they get
the answer correct they get to use their paper toothbrush to brush
a picture of a tooth.)
Stranger Safety (MG)
(Teach about strangers and what to do when approached by a
stranger. Discuss people in uniform and have them color a
picture with uniformed people in it.)
A Sunny Day (MG)
(The players talk about the sun, color a picture of the sun and
sing a song called A Sunny Day.)
Making
Faces (BG)
(Create a face with different feature pictures.)
Board Games
Life
Cycle of a Butterfly (AG)
(Each player gets a game board and a dice. They learn about
the life cycle of a butterfly, then roll their dice at the same
time and move their game piece around the board, going from egg to
caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly. First player to reach
the butterfly wins.)
Colorful Letters (LG)
(Players get a large picture of a letter with 12 boxes inside the
letter. Players all pick a card at the same time and color
in the number of boxes on the letter that match the number on the
card. Players continue picking cards at the same time and
coloring in the letter picture until one player has colored in his
entire letter.)
Complete the Shape (SG)
(Each player gets a game board with one particular shape on it and
dotted lines to form the shape. They pick cards and follow
instructions by either drawing on the dotted line to create the
shape or coloring in one of the shapes. Teaches shapes and
how to draw them.)
Planting
a Flower
(MG)
(Move around the board collecting items to use to plant a flower.)
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Card Games
Feeling
Shapes (SG)
(Give one player 12 cards of 2 different types of shapes cut out
of cardstock. Have the other player close his eyes and feel
each shape card. If they guess it right they get a point.
Teaches the difference between 2 shapes.)
Higher
or Lower (NG)
(Roll a number dice and higher or lower dice and have players
discard number cards that match what the dice instructions say.
This teaches numbers 1 - 5 and the concept of higher or lower.)
Matching Those Numbers
(NG)
(Players get 5 number cards. Roll a dice and place the
matching number card on the matching square on the game board.
First player out of cards is the winner.)
Five Fingers (NG)
(Players hold a varied number of fingers
out, then they flip over a card.
If the
number of fingers they’re holding up match
the number on the card, they get a point.)
Match and
Tap Shapes (SG)
(2 players flip cards at the same time,
player with green card wins pair.)
Matching Games
Vehicles
in Flight (MG)
(Flip over cards and find their match. All cards have
pictures of vehicles that fly.)
Pair of As (AG)
(Put large cards with pictures of items that start with the letter
A on the floor, up-side-down. Give the first player a card.
That player is to find that match. If they don't, the next
player gets the card and is to try and find the match.
Player with most cards wins. Teaches the letter A)
Matching Dinosaurs
(Turn dinosaur cards over to find the matching
pairs.)
Paper Ball Games
Action
Numbers (NG)
(Players are told to pick up either 1, 2, or 3 paper balls and to
do an action with that ball then throw it back in the pile.
This encourages eye-hand coordination and the concept of numbers.)
Right and Left Moves (BG)
(Players hold a paper ball in their right or left hand, depending
on the instructions, and do actions with the paper ball.
Teaches the concept of right and left.)
Go Go Go ((MG)
(Toss a paper ball onto 4 game boards, follow the instructions on
the board and do activities and run and get Go cards.
It’s an active game.)
Number Toss (NG)
(Players try to knock down number targets with a paper ball.)
Paper Dice Games
You
print the dice and create them yourself.
Got
that Number (NG)
(Each player gets 3 number cards. A dice is
rolled and players are to discard the card that matches the dice.
First player to be out of cards wins. This teaches numbers
1,2 and 3.)
Five Senses (BG)
(Players discuss the 5 senses. Then they roll a dice with a
picture of an eye, nose and mouth on it.)
Guessing
Challenge (MG)
(Guessing game where players take challenges to guess if pictures
on card will be hot or cold, hard or soft etc…)
Please
and Thank You (CHG)
(Roll dice and pass cards around to players.
Fast moving, fun game.)
Puzzles
The
Same Shape (SG)
(Three puzzles, Circle, Square and Rectangle, that have items that
are the same shape inside the shape. Circle has sun, ring,
donut and tomato. Teaches shapes and eye-hand coordination.)
Friendship Puzzle (CHG)
(Discuss what it means to be a good friend. Then color a
friendship picture, cut the picture into strips to make it into a
puzzle and have players put the puzzle back together.)
Stackables
Stacking
the Weather (MG)
(The blocks have a sun, moon, cloud, star, rain and lightning bolt
on them. Discuss facts about each part of the weather.
Players each get a block to color. They take turns rolling
the dice and stacking that many blocks on a pile.)
Four Tubes (NG)
(Create tubes with the numbers 1 -4 on them and have players stack
them by following simple instructions. It teaches them the
numbers 1,2,3 and 4.)
Numbers and Dots (NG)
(Blocks have numbers 1-12 on them and dots that match the
numbers.)
Treasure Hunt Games
Clean-up
Time (MG)
(Place pictures of a kitchen sink, toy chest or laundry basket on
table or floor. Children hunt for picture of clothes, utensils and
toys and place them next to the picture that shows where they
should put those items when cleaning up. This teaches them
to clean-up.)
What Frogs Eat (AG)
(Learn what frogs eat, then hunt for flies and place on frogs.)
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