"What is Missing"

Materials: bag or tray with a variety of fun objects; large piece of paper or a blanket

Objectives: This is a fun game that helps children to recognize and recall, they interact with peers, follow directions, practice using expressive vocabulary, problem solving, classification skills and understanding spatial relationships.

Directions: Have your child pick out a variety of objects, tell them that you are going to play a memory game. Have them look over each object and talk about what they are, what they are used for and maybe where you found them. Next tell them you are going to put them on a tray or on the floor and cover them with a blanket/towel. Carefully remove one or two objects from the tray. Uncover the remaining objects and ask the children to tell you what is missing. After playing a couple of times the Foxies found it fun to take turns removing an object from the tray. Sometimes we would remove on object and sometimes we would remove three! Have fun with it!

“Stay at Home” Extension: This is a game that can be played with others over skype, zoom, or facetime. Get a family member or friend that doesn’t live with you to play along. You can each create your own tray of favorite items, share what they are, and then play the what is missing game together.