Ingredients

You will need a tray with a variety of objects arranged on it. The number of objects needed, will vary depending on your grandchild’s age:

• Age 1-2: 3 objects
• Age 3-5: 6 objects
• Age 7-10:10-15 objects

Description

You have probably played this at some time yourself. See if you remember!

Explain to your grandchildren that you are going to show them a tray full of objects which they are going to have to remember.

Let the children look at the tray for 1 minute and then remove or cover the tray.

Who can remember the most objects that were on the tray?

Your grandchildren can verbally recall the objects, draw pictures of them or write them down in list form.

Bring back the tray and work out who the winner is!

An alternative is to show the tray of objects and then secretly remove one of them. Now your grandchildren have to guess which object is missing.

Age

• 18 months + 

Duration

• 30 mins + 

Cost

• Varies dependant upon the value of the treats, but realistically the maqin cost is your time in preparing for it. 

Educational Value

• This game is great fun but can also aide concentration- something that a lot of children struggle with.
• Use this activity to teach your grandchildren more about your own past by placing objects on the tray that you grew up with but that might not be familiar to children today.

Granny Rating

• 4/5