The link I found requires you to purchase printable sight word stickers that fit onto the game cubes. I found a fun idea for using this game to learn sight words. Check out this bang the box activity for learning colors or letters. Of course toddlers just like activity that involves banging anyway. Point to a cube, name the color, bang it out. To modify this for toddlers, you could use the colored stickers or animal stickers. My toddler girl wanted to try this game too. This last time we played, my daughter said, “I think we should find all the numbers that have a one in them.” Go with your child! If they suggest a way to group or explore the numbers, go for it. ( You can give this to your child as a center or busy bag type activity when you need to get some housework done too!)Īfter all the cubes fall out, we put the numbers in order. Taking turns, we each choose one number, point to it, bang it out, and then the other takes her turn. She learns each number just from the set up of the game each time we play. She places as many as she can in each row and I put the tough ones in when space gets tight. With an almost 5 year old, I pour the cubes out of the box and let my preschooler flip them all over and find each number in order. The game moves so fast the cubes will often fall before all the numbers are identified. Your child will scan and identify which numbers they know. I found that it didn’t really matter what order the cubes were placed into the frame. Place the number cubes in the frame in reverse order.Place the number cubes in the frame out of order.
Place the number cubes into the frame in order.There are a variety of ways you can set up the game.
I like to challenge my preschooler and also make sure I am exposing her to numbers larger than 10 to encourage as much recognition as possible before she heads to Kindergarten. You can start with 1 and write up to 32, or stick with 1-10 and repeat them depending on what you would like to teach your child. Or you can use number stickers and just apply one per cube. I used a silver Sharpie marker to keep that icy feel. Write a number on each pretend ice cube with the permanent marker. Take the game out of the box and set up the frame.