Shared by Mary, The Game Lady This fun game introduces young players to some common birds.
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To Make:
These stickers come for a book on birds. You have probably seen numerous books like these. There are a couple pages of stickers that are to be separated and each square sticker is to be added to the page that talks about that particular bird. This type of book comes in many different topics. The neat thing is that you may find these books in FREE boxes at garage sales because someone has already placed each sticker on its page and so the "fun" is done. However, the stickers are still great to use.
I used one book's worth of stickers and created four LOTTO pages like the one pictured above. Each page has different birds on it.
A second set of stickers makes the LOTTO CARDS, one sticker on each of the cards.
To Play:
Each player selects one of the LOTTO BOARDS. We would take turns drawing one of the LOTTO CARDS and naming the bird. Then each of us would search our playing cards to see if we had that bird. If we did, we took the playing card and placed it directly on our LOTTO BOARD. The first player to fill their LOTTO BOARD was the winner.
While LOTTO is a lot like BINGO, younger children seem more able to play this game as they are making a direct match to their board.
CAN VERY YOUNG CHILDREN LEARN BY PLAYING GAMES?
Most certainly. The above pictured cards was my son Kyle's card. It was the ONLY card he ever wanted to use when we played this game. We never were sure why until one evening when we were watching a TV special on foxes.
All of a sudden, Kyle jumped up and ran to the TV. He was shouting, "It's a kingfisher! It's a kingfisher!" He was right. On a fence where he was pointing sat a kingfisher. His excitement continued. He said, "It's just like the one on my card."
To prove this he ran to find HIS card in the game and show it to each of us, exclaiming, "It is my bestest bird." (I translate that to mean "his favorite bird.")
Kyle was three at this time. I had not been actively teaching him most of these things. He had just been "playing" along with his older sister. But now I realized just how much he was learning and began to make more games that he could participate in. I was amazed at the information he retained.