Nursery World - Feely bags

Try a game that will challenge children's tactile senses, concentration, memory and matching abilities. Planned learning intention

Planned learning intention

To investigate objects and materials using the sense of touch

Resources

Home-made material bags a range of pairs of everyday items that are non-perishable (for example, keys, marbles, coins, sharpeners, fir cones, Lego bricks, mussel shells, small bars of soap, whistles, nuts and bolts)

Step by step

* Buy a piece of remnant material. Use the material to make small bags about 10cm by 10cm.

* Place each of the everyday items gathered into a separate small bag.

* Sew up the fourth side of the bag.

* Mix the bags up. Encourage the children to find the matching bags that contain the pair of similar items.

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