This game material is especially suitable for toddlers. With a little preparation you can make a great game material. In addition to the cardboard and paint you need deco apples or small real apples and a small basket to store the apples.
Small children enjoy sorting, laying them down, assigning, counting and distributing them. In doing so, the orientation in the room, the confrontations with quantities and numbers and the concentration are trained. Try it out!
Use a large solid cardboard box and paint a tree with a thick trunk and a large bulbous tree crown.
Then you drill holes into the tree crown with a battery screwdriver with a large branch hole drill.
Attention: An adult should help!
When drilling, make sure that you do not drill through the whole box. It is enough to drill in the top layer of the box.
Spreads the holes over the entire tree crown.
If all holes are drilled, you cut out the tree. An adult should also help, since cardboard can be cut hard.
Now you paint the tree crown with green water color. Leave the trunk in the colour of the box or paint it brown.
Tip: Even crib children can help here. Always put on a paint coat and use a large footprint.
Then let the paint dry.
Then you put all the decorative apples or the real little apples in a small basket or in a bowl.
Now the game can begin.
Every apple gets a place on the tree.
Put the apples on as desired and then reap them again.
At the game you can practice for example wonderful counting:
For this purpose, give orders such as: "pick me three apples" or "give each one an apple".
You can also practice spatial orientation, e.g. with these incentives: "Put an apple in the middle of the tree top" or "... on the trunk/next to the trunk."
Be creative and just let the children play and experiment themselves.