Top Tips For Parents

As well as creating a useful tool allowing children to play and learn independently, we also aim to promote parent and child interaction. You will find below a selection of ideas to encourage mathematical development, creative language, sentence structure and enhanced use of vocabulary.

Mathematical Development

Number

How many spots are on the cow?
Can you find four different animals?
Can you find three different birds?
Can you find the alien with four eyes?
Can you line up the aliens in order of their number of eyes?

Colours / Shapes / Sequences / Patterns

Where is the yellow fish?
Where is the stripy pig?
What shape is the moon?
How many points are there on the starfish?
(Parent: create a picture sequence e.g cow, pig, cow, pig)
What comes next in the pattern?

Measures

Which is taller, the giraffe or the lion?
Can you find an animal that is smaller than a tiger?
Can you find a heavy/light animal?
Which is bigger, Jupiter or Earth?
Which is longer, the lizard or the crocodile?

Sorting / Classifying

(Parent: drag on 5 pigs and 5 ducks and position randomly)
Can you put the cows in the field and the ducks in the pond?
Can you create a scene using just birds?

Language, Literacy and Communication Skills

Personal Expression

What is your favourite animal?
Would you like to visit outer space?
What is your favourite animal noise? Why is this your favourite?

Who? What? Why? When? Where?

Who is that person?
What will happen if the fox meets the chicken?
Why is the hen in the barn?
When will the fox come out?
Where is the best place for the duck to swim?

Prepositions

Put the bird ‘on top’ of the barn door
Place the cabbage ‘behind’ the carrot
Put the astronaut ‘inside’ the rocket
Place the chicken ‘underneath’ the cow
Put the gazelle calf ‘next to’ the gazelle

Listening

Listen to the theme music and tell me what you think is making the sounds?
(Parent: drag on 2 lions and 1 elephant. When on the stage, click them in sequence)
Listen to these sounds. Which sound is the odd one out?
Can you copy this sound?

Body Gestures

Can you wave like the farmer?
Can you beat your chest like the gorilla?
Can you dance like the Mayan man/woman?
Can you pinch like the crab?
Can you curtsey like Snow White?
Can you snap your teeth like the shark?

Letters, Words and Sentences

How many words can you think of to describe the tiger (e.g. orange, stripy, fierce, wild)
Can you finish my sentence? “The spotty cow…”
(Parent: Drag the tractor across the field) Can you tell me what the tractor is doing?
Can you think of a word that rhymes with cat?
Can you make a scene with things beginning with the letter ‘P’?
Can you make up a story with these objects?

Talking / Discussing

What are you doing now?
What are you going to do next?