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You can easily “grow” lots of learning just by spending time with your child in the garden. After all, when you know what to notice, wonder abounds!
And, with a few well-crafted open-ended questions, you can instantly boost your child’s vocabulary and observational skills focusing on colours, shapes, textures, sounds, gardening, nature, and much more. Matching the shapes will take some sideways thinking in some cases, so there’s a bit of creativity and the beginnings of ‘challenging received wisdom’.
You’ll need:
• Preschool child eager for attention
• Copy paper (or scrap paper) cut into different basic shapes (e.g., circle, square, triangle, rectangles [different sizes], diamond, etc.)
• Paper bag or shoebox
To do:
Place the cut paper shapes into a container, such as a bag or box.
Go into the garden with your child. Choose one shape at a time from your container.
Note a garden delight that matches (or near-matches) the shape you chose.
Hand the paper to your child. Name the paper shape for your child. Have your child search the garden to find one or more shapes that match the one he or she is holding.
Help your child name the shape (the plant or animal, etc.) in the garden that matches the paper shape.
Repeat the game until all the paper shapes have been matched to things in the garden.
Eye-Spy Garden Game download
1 A4 sheet to download and print out (PDF file approx 1MB)
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