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Four cups and a handful of bottle caps: first logic lesson.

Prep

3 min

Mess

Low

How to play

One cup per color. The game is dropping each object into its matching cup. Say the color out loud every time one lands.

  1. three coloured cups with objects waiting above
    1

    Set out one cup for each color.

  2. a pompom, a bottle cap and a block dropping into matching cups
    2

    Drop each object into the cup that matches.

  3. each cup filled with its own colour of objects
    3

    Say the color out loud every time one lands.

What you need

3 or 4 cups and colorful objects (pom-poms, bottle caps, blocks).

What it secretly builds

Cognitive

Grouping by a rule is the start of logical thinking — and the first step toward counting.

Safety first
Bottle caps and pom-poms are a choking size. Use blocks or larger objects if he still mouths things.
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