Game manual
Target
This is a card play where all the cards needs to be turned upside down with the image down. Every turn there needs to be two cards turned with the image to the top. When the cards are equal, they can be hold by the person who turned them and this person can play again. When they aren’t equal they have to be turned again upside down with the image down. This game needs to be played until every card has been turned and every pair has been found.
Variant: The memory between the parents and the toddler is a memory with cards that present a lot of different activities that they can do together. There are cards with kids playing, cooking, swimming, singing, dancing, learning ... . When a pair had been turned, every member of the family needs to tell how much they would like to do that activity together and how much they want to do that activity. They can show this by holding fingers in the air. Ten fingers presents very fun and one finger presents not fun at all.
The intention of this activity is to find every pair, but mostly that the parents gets an idea of the interests of the toddler so that they can do this at home. When parents sees that the kid doesn’t like to dance, but loves to cook, than they can focus on cooking together and not dancing around. The parents can fulfill the needs of the toddler by knowing the interests.
Position on the wire
This activity can be put on the “a loop in the wire” position because of the fact that the toddler wants to do things on his own and wants to figure the memory out on his own. But beside that the toddler also needs the parents during this memory game on moments that he can’t fix it on his own. He needs the parents to help him figure it out. During this game the toddler is also learning some rules that he needs to accomplish.
Part of the parent
Part of the toddler
It’s the intention that the parents are going to play with their toddler and that they will find the pairs. The parents needs to give attention to the number that their kid is giving to an activity and they need to remember this. The parents can’t be mad or disappointed because of the number that the toddler is giving. When the toddler gives a low number to something that the parents likes to do or when the toddler gives a high number to something that the parents doesn’t like to do. The parents needs to open up for the interests of their kid.
Because of the fact that the parents will know what the toddler likes to do, they can give more attention on the needs of their child and this will lead till a feeling of sensitivity, involvement and tuning.
It’s the intention that the toddler is going to think together with the parents to get all the pairs. The toddler needs to get the opportunity to find the pairs, so the toddler needs to cooperate and think with the parents. Because of this the toddler is practicing his cognitive brain.
Accept that, it is important that the toddler gives a fair number to every activity. The toddler doesn’t need to watch what the parents like or doesn’t like to do. But it is also important that the toddler sees which number the parents are giving.
Necessities
Evaluation
- Memory game (PDF file)
At the end of the activity there is going to be a moment of evaluation. During this evaluation there are going to be asked some questions like “Which activity doesn’t the toddler likes?”, “Which activity does the toddler like?”, “Which activity doesn’t like mommy to do?”, “Which activity likes mommy to do?”, “Which activity do you both like to do?” ... . It’s the intention that every member holds the right cards in the air to see if they were listening to each other.
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