Page 12 - Perceptual skills development

SPOT THE MISTAKE

• Each child brings their 6 bricks to the play
area.
• Child No. 1 connects the bricks in a vertical
pattern; all placed exactly the same except
for one of the bricks should be differently
placed.
• Child No. 2 inspects the pattern and tries
to find the brick that is out of line, and
physically corrects it / builds his bricks with
the correction in place.
• Swop over so each child has a turn.

Q: Can you trick your partner?

Variations:
• Have more than one brick out of line.
• Try other ways of arranging the bricks to
play this game.

Q: Can children explain their reasoning?

SPOT THE

MISMATCH

• Work in groups of 4. Each child brings their 6 bricks
to the play area.
• No. 1 builds a left to right sequence with his / her 6
bricks.
• Every other child in the group builds the exact same
sequence as No. 1, and then place their sequences
one underneath each other, under No. 1's row.
• All close their eyes, except for No. 1, who makes
a change / changes to any / some / all of their
sequences (do not change the first row).
• Children open their eyes and see who can spot the
changes first.

Q: Which rows do not match the row at
the top?

• Repeat the exercise until all children
in the group have had a turn to be
No. 1.

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