Help!!!

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  sandy

  <div>Hi all you creative people out there. I have an assignment due soon and I have no idea what to do.
  
  I have to make a homemade game for preschool age children, ages 3-5. It should challenge a child both cognitively and physically.
  
  Any ideas? I'd be forever grateful.
  
  We are encouraged to use cheap, inexpesive but safe and durable materials.</div>
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  Double Edge

  hmmmm, how about something along the lines of shoe-tying. That's a challenge to 3-5 year olds, and it's around the time they start learning.
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  carla

  Here is a game I made for my kids when little, it didn't have the physical aspect but we can add that too.

  Take a large sheet of paper and block off in squares for the letters of the Alphabet, include Aa, Bb, Cc and so on. Leave a few squares for at and it, and depending on how many kids, you could leave one with their name. Use colorful markers for the letters. Now make a duplicate copy and cut them out. To play the game, first it is just to recognize the letters of the alphabet, using the ones you cut out as 'playing cards' they take turns and have to find the correct letter. Later when they find the letter, can they think of a word that begins with their playing card and they must still put that card on the 'main board'. Later, can they think of a word that ends with that letter? think up a silly word? for the squares with it, and at, see what happens when you add a C or B? and so on.

  To add a physical aspect you could have them think up an animal or make believe animal, monster, etc.. and show us how that animal would act. Use your imagination.

  Sounds kind of dumb on paper, but my kids loved it when they were really little. They were reading by age 4.

  carla
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  carla

  to learn shoe tying, I made a 'shoelace box'. I think there is even a childrens book about that if memory serves. To make one, use a shoe box, decorate with outline of a shoe, poke holes, lace up and there you go.Decorate the box as much as you want. It is easier sometimes for them to practice on something that isn't actually on their foot! and the box can hold some of their junk!

  carla
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  sandy

  <div>I love the ideas. I am going to ask if the shoe tying game will be acceptable. I remember my instructor saying something about shoe tying that I thought was not encouraged.
  
  About the alphabet, she doesn't want a game fully focussed on the alphabet or numbers. I should of said that in my first post.
  
  Thanks for the ideas. Keep them coming, please.</div>
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  stevenyc

  How about this.

  A game for two or more:

  This is per contestant: Get 4 pairs of things; shoes, gloves, etc...

  The kids are going to run between their station and you.

  Take one item from each pair and keep them with you. Three of the four items you have, place inside different shoes boxes where you are stationed. The fourth item hide completely from view.

  The kids take one of their items, run to your station, choose a shoe box to open. You open the shoe box. If its a match place their item on top of the shoe box. If not, close the box, and they have to run back to their station, with the item, and choose again.

  The first kid to have three items correctly choosen wins.

  steve
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  lawrence

  Create an obstacle course - that has both cognitive and pysical areas and each child is timed as they go through the course, then they can compare their averages, plan courses and stations, reflect on best/worst, and if the courses are gettting easier. Each station of the room is a distance across the room, or through a few gates, around blankets, furniture, whatever?

  Stations can be changed to relevance and each day.

  Station # 1 - 20 situps and dial a number on the paper given (cellphone in the room).

  Station #2 - 10 pushups, find a word on the paper in the book (named ...) on the table (which, that, who)

  Station #3 - Run in place for a minute - solve the riddle hidden under ...

  Station #4 - Free throw 5 nerf balls into the waste basket and guess...

  Child writes statistics on stats board as recited by another child (in minutes, not nanoseconds). Change Stations each day. Get class feedback as to the course, and the different station requirements.