Page 17 - Perceptual skills development

TRICKY TOWER

• Children place their 6 bricks randomly on their desk.
• The teacher builds a tower of bricks (click studs to
make the tower).
• The children must copy the model, then take their
hands off the model.
• Teacher now asks the children to close their eyes.
• While the children are not looking the teacher
changes 1 / 2 / 3 bricks on the model, e.g. take the
bottom two bricks and move them to the top.
• Ask the children to open their eyes but not touch
their models.
• They must then look at the teacher’s model and
compare it to theirs to work out what has changed.
• Now they rearrange theirs accordingly.

Variations:
• Change more bricks in the model.
• Make the model more complicated by changing the
orientation of the bricks.

MIRROR

• Each child brings their 6 bricks to the play
space.
• Child No. 1 builds any arrangement using 3
bricks.
• Child No. 2 builds the mirror image of that
model. (Use a mirror to help you.)
• Swop over.

Variations:
• Increase the number of bricks in the model.

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