Light Box Activity Guide Level Two, Large Print (7-08680-00)

Goal: Matching and Sorting ( continued)Activity 15: Colored shape cardsBegin working with the child on picture-to-picture matching –matching the various colored shape cards to one another.You may want to make up cards of your own using acetateand felt tip markers. This way, you can have many moreduplicates of a particular shape than are provided. Onceagain, select distinctly different shapes for the first exercise,and gradually increase the difficulty of the exercises until thechild is able to match all the various pictured shapes. (Sheshould, by now, be able to match by shape and ignore colordifferences.)Activity 16: Colored shape cardsPlay Lotto using the colored shape cards. Spread severalshape cards on the Light Box for the child and several foryourself. Place the shape cards which match the ones youhave selected in a pile. Take turns with the child drawingfrom the pile. If you or he draws a card for which you havethe match, place it over the matching card. If you do nothave a match, return the card to the bottom of the pile.Whoever is first to find matches for all his cards is the winnerof this game.54