What Is Missing From the Tray
Ten small things sit on a tray for one minute, then the tray goes under a towel and one thing quietly disappears. Your child has to work out which one.
What you need
- A tray or large plate
- Ten small household objects
- A tea towel
How to play
- Collect ten small objects: a spoon, a key, a peg, a walnut, a hair clip.
- Lay them out on the tray and look at them together for one minute.
- Cover the tray with the tea towel and send your child out of the room.
- Take one object away and hide it in your pocket.
- Uncover the tray and let your child name what is missing.
- Swap roles and let your child take something away while you look.
