Skill: Visual Discrimination

This game gives children practice in seeing details.

Being able to see details is very important, especially in avoiding careless errors.

 

 


Materials Needed:

-Yarn with a wide variety of colors
-Crochet hook, size # 2
-Fabric with varied patterns
-Felt

 

 


Creating the Game:

Crochet 24 granny squares with altering colors. The border color should be the same in each square. In the illustrations below, black is the border color. MAKE A DUPLICATE OF EACH GRANNY SQUARE.

Sew six squares into each of four mats. If you wish to have 9 squares in each mat, make 36 squares, and duplicates of each square.

 

To increase perception difficulty, make some of the granny squares with the same colors in alternating positions.

Look carefully to see the differences. In both cases the second and third colors change position being the second color to the third and vice versa.

NOTE: for very young children, two colors can be used, with a background instead of three. The center can be the main color taking up the space of two colors; or, the second and third color can be the same color. Example: red center, second row, red, third row blue, last row black/ red center, second row blue, third row blue, last row black. Another square could have center red, second and third rows yellow. etc.

 


Playing the Game

Each child selects a mat. If four children play the game, each child
gets one mat. If two children play, each child gets two mats etc.

Place the individual squares in a bag. A pillow case would work.

Have each child pick one square in turn.

 

If the square matches one of the squares in his or her mat, the child then places the individual square over the matching one
in the mat. If the square the child has picked does NOT match,
it is placed on the table.

The next child then gets a chance to pick a square from the pillow case. OR...he / she is allowed to choose the square on the table (previously picked by the first child) if that square matches one in his / her mat.

 

 

 

The game is over when one child covers all the squares in his or her mat.

 

 

 

 

 

An Alternative Match-up Game

On the reverse side of the mats and individual duplicates, other designs can be created for matching.

In this sample, different fabric patterns with felt shapes are used for the game.

Another possibility is to have fabric only as illustrated in the red circle below.

NOTE:

for the youngest children first learning their shapes and colors, solid backgrounds could be used. ( example:
green circle on a red background; green circle on a yellow background; green circle on blue background; red square on yellow background etc.

 

 

 

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