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Game idea: Free Play
Free play encourages improved motor skills. Children reach out to feel the different shapes; the
game material is especially designed for the small children‘s hands.
Play with your child! Talk about the colors and shapes of the wooden pieces thus
stimulating your child‘s language, auditory and creative skills as well as enhancing
the joy of playing. Encourage your child to act out and role-play.
Tactile game: “What did the sheep eat?“
Place the wooden pieces in the center of the table and take a close look at them.
Take each piece in your hand and feel its shape. There are two copies of each
wooden piece. Place one piece of each pair into the little bag. The other pieces
stay in the center of the table, and next to them, the sheep and the shamrocks.
How to Play
Who of you has already stroked a sheep? You start. If you cannot agree the younger
child starts. While the other player closes his eyes, take the sheep and the little bag.
Select a wooden figure from inside the little bag, then hide it inside the fabric sheep.
Then ask the question „What has the sheep eaten?“
The other player opens his eyes. He takes the sheep into his hands and tries to find
out by using his fingers to feel which wooden piece is hidden in the belly. When he
thinks he has the right solution he takes the corresponding wooden figure from the
center and places it in front of him. Then together you check to see if the solution
correct by removing the wooden piece out of the sheep‘s belly.
Are the wooden pieces identical?
• Yes?
Well done! As a reward for guessing correctly the player may take a shamrock from
the center and keep it in front of him.
• No?
Pity, the player doesn‘t get a shamrock.
Then the wooden piece that was hidden in the sheep‘s belly is returned to the little bag, and
the one chosen from the center is also put back where it was. Now you swap roles and the
other player hides a wooden figure in the belly of the sheep.
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