Hands-On Sensorial Activities at Home

Before children can understand numbers and letters, they need to understand the world through their senses. educators call this "sensorial education", and it needs almost no special equipment.

The classics

• The pink tower — ten pink cubes from 1 cm to 10 cm. Children build them from biggest to smallest, learning size, order and careful movement.
• The brown stairs — ten brown prisms, each a little thinner than the last. A stair for the hands.
• Knobbed cylinders — cylinders of different sizes that only fit in their own holes. Mistakes are visible and fixable.
• Color tablets — matching and grading colours from light to dark.

Home versions (free!)

1. Stacking cups — build a tower biggest to smallest, then nest them back. That is the pink tower!
2. Sock matching — pair socks by colour and size, then line them up light to dark. That is the color tablets!
3. Kitchen cylinders — sort jars and lids, match each lid to its jar. That is the knobbed cylinders!
4. The silence game — sit very still for one minute and listen. What do you hear?

Say the words

Use rich size words as you play: big, bigger, biggest · small, smaller, smallest · heavy, light · rough, smooth. Language and senses grow together.

Play on EduManual

Continue the sensorial fun with the Shape Matching game, the Color Matching game, and the Big and Small quiz.