Matching Objects With Pictures
children will learn to identify each object with a picture. This will improve language, concentration, order, math skills and memory.
The children take each picture card and match it with the correct object, some pictures are more challenging than others because some of the shells are similar in size and shape. They really have to concentrate on the differences and similarities of each shell.
There are so many different things you can do with this activity because it stimulates the child’s senses – touch, smell, site, sound and builds language and math development.
Example:
Touch for tactile sensory. Each child can feel how different each shells texture feels. Some are smooth and others have rough or prickly surfaces to them.
Visual for site sensory. Each child can see similarities and differences in each shells size, shape, color and texture.
Sound for audio sensory. Every child loves to put a shell up to their ear and listen to what they might hear. This can build a child’s vocabulary and language development by asking the child open ended questions on what they hear in the shell. What do you hear? The child’s reply may be, “I hear the ocean”. There is no right or wrong answers; it’s just what ever the child is thinking.
Smell can be very important to a child, even if the object has no smell at all. The child still needs to explore all their senses. This is especially important to children who have sensory processing disorder where they need to take in everything in their environment.
Math is a very important skill and this activity can help the child learn how to put the shells in order by size (small medium large) and by categorizing each shell in its specific groups by their smooth to rough surfaces, or by their shape and size. They also can count the shells in each group or count all the shells. This helps with Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying or Dividing.
As you can see this activity can be unlimitless to what it can teach your child.
