Snack Sorting Game
Use cereal and snack foods to practice patterns!
Submitted by
Andrey Ragozin
Andrey Ragozin
Sneak some mathematics into your child's playtime! Create a pattern out of different kinds of cereal and challenge her to copy it with this game. She'll have fun while honing her skills for recognizing and making patterns. You'll both have fun eating her educational efforts.
- Cereal:As many different shapes and types as you can muster up: flakes, crunchy frosted squares, grains, O's and so on
- Table
- Plastic or paper bowls
Next time you're at the grocery store, pick up a variety of different cereals (as if you weren't already).
At home, place each type of cereal in a bowl on the dining room table.
Arrange two or three kinds of cereal into a pattern, for example: three O's, two frosted squares, one dried raisin.
Ask your child to repeat the pattern with the cereal, making it longer and longer.
Then switch! Challenge your child's creativity and ask her to make up a pattern. Then you recreate it!
Do it again and again, making the patterns more and more intricate as your child gets the hang of it!
When you're done, eat it all up for snack!
- You can also play this game with snack food: Cheez Doodle, pretzel, soy chip; Cheez Doodle, pretzel, soy chip; or grape, grape, blueberry, raisin; grape, grape, blueberry, raisin.
- Looking for more learning activities for your kid? Nick Jr. has a Preschool Printable Pack that lets kids practice reading, math, geography, science and art skills.
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