Mittens with Faces

A nice, easy, visual perception game for beginning card players. Change the rules and structure according to your game.

Objectives

Children participating will be able to participate in the card game and children ages 3-4 years when shown two objects will be able to tell how they are the same or not the same Cog. IIIA
Children age 2 will be able to match the identical objects Cog. IIIA

 

Materials

Twenty Mittens (or Easter eggs, valentine heats, etc.) cut from construction paper of the same color. Draw 10 pairs of faces on mittens, each pair slightly different from the other 9 pairs, e.g. eye blinking, no nose, etc. Some extra blank mittens; felt tip pens.

Procedures

1. Have children sit around table. Tell them they are going to play a game called “Pairs”. Give each child one mitten of a pair and keep the match yourself. Ask each child to describe their mitten. If necessary, help by questioning, “Is anything missing? Is it happy or sad?” etc.

2. After the children have described their faces, show them a mitten. “Who has this mitten?” The child should say, “I do” or “It’s mine.” Younger children should repeat the phrase.

3. As each child make a match, take it and give him another mitten. If child matches easily, give him a face with more subtle deviations or multiple deviations, e.g., having both a winking eye and no nose.

4. Have some blank mittens so that, on completion of that group game, each child may draw a face on a mitten and take it home.