Kindergarten Activity No. 59 : A Logic Activity

Popsicle stick logic activity

This activity will help children develop visual perceptual skills. Good visual perceptual skills are important for everyday skills such as reading, writing, completing puzzles, cutting, drawing, completing math problems and for dressing.

This activity focuses also on spatial awareness. Spatial awareness is the ability to understand and interact with the environment around you. Examples of tasks that require spatial awareness are avoiding obstacles when walking, reaching out to grab a pencil or determining left from right.

Copying the shapes and patterns from the cards will help children develop:

Logic skills
Reasoning skills
Problem solving skills
Fine motor skills
Pincer grasp

For this activity you need:

Coloured popsicles.

A printed copy of the puzzle cards found here (you can also draw the cards yourself instead of printing them).
2 baskets or 2 plates (one for the popsicles and another one for the printed puzzles, as indicated in the picture).

How to play this game:

Take a puzzle card and show it to your child.

Ask your child to take some popsicles. Encourage him/her to pay attention to the colours of the popsicles on the card, and to choose popsicles of the same colour.