The one I'll write about in this post (the snap game) was easy. It's also timely as Hari Raya is just a few days away! Just download from this website, print, cut and paste on cardboard.
http://www.disneychannel-asia.com/DisneyChannel/playhouse/grownups/media/celebrationcenter/pdfs/hariraya/HARI_RAYA_ACT_RAYA_SNAP.pdf
There are other activities & crafts from Playhouse Disney - just get to their main website, then click on the "celebration centre" icon and choose the festival you want e.g. christmas, hari raya.
This game helps in:
- fine motor (picking up one card at a time from a pile of cards; putting it on the central pile)- turn taking (waiting for his turn to flip a card over)
- memory (he has to remember what was the immediate past card)
- concentration (depending on age, he may lose concentration quite fast, so keep the game short)
- reflexes (has to be fast to shout 'snap')
Variations of the game can be made yourself at home:
- use the game to reinforce concepts that you're teaching e.g. shapes, colours, alphabets, numbers, sight words
- use the game to reinforce themes or subjects that you introduced e.g. a set for ocean animals contains 2 octopuses, 2 starfishes etc; a set for farm animals
- use the cards for a classic memory game by placing them face down in a row & having him turn two cards at a time to find matching pairs.
I find that powerpoint is very useful. Photos can be obtained from various professional online photo catalogues like http://www.fotosearch.com/ and http://www.corbis.com/ and http://www.gettyimages.com/
For some of them you may have to register before being able to download. You dont have to pay for the photos unless you want them without the company's watermark. For home use (& not commercial use), my son didnt mind having the watermark.
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