Online opposite games for toddlers

Make learning about opposites exciting, using interactive activities, games and art projects that help to reinforce the concept. Start out with basic movements that your toddler knows, such as moving her arms up and down. Put your arms up and say "arms up" to your toddler, then "arms down. Open a drawer saying "open," and then "close" as she closes it. Do several other opposite movements, such as sit and stand, step up and step down and clap loudly and clap quietly.

Repeat until she has the hang of it and automatically does the opposite of what you are doing. Create flashcards with pictures of opposite items for an opposites matching game. For example, on one flash card, draw a picture of an oven with the word "Hot," and on another a picture of melting ice with the word "Cold.

Mix up the flashcards and have your toddler match up the opposites. For another activity, sing and do the movements for the Hokey Pokey, which is all about opposites. Set up bowls with a variety of opposite pairs that your toddler can touch or even taste for a better understanding.

Tell them that some dinosaurs were even longer than this yarn! Invisible Germs by Judith Anne Rice. This is a great way to talk about the Teeny Tiny part of your opposites theme and discuss the importance of hand washing, sneezing into your elbow and using tissues!

Materials: Have cards with words and pictures for the children to act out, such as:. Show the children the cards discuss them. Hand each child a card and have them find the friend who has the opposite of their card. You may need to do this one child at a time at first before having the entire group do this at once. It will give them more practice understanding each action. Variation: Write down actions on pieces of paper and place them in a box or decorative bag. Each child has a turn reaching in the bag to choose an action for the group to act out.

Clap hands encourage them to clap fast then slow; with their hands high and then low. Materials needed: pictures of items that are hot and cold. Put Velcro on the back. Give each child one card. Each child takes a turn placing their card on the correct side of the board.

Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation!

Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific Space theme questions while making these fun snacks! Make hot cocoa for the children ok, well WARM and then discuss the temperature warm. Add COLD whipped cream! Set up a pretend store in your dramatic play area with different sizes of shoes, hats and clothes for children to wear and try.

If you don't have a parachute, you can find them pretty inexpensively on Amazon. Below is the 10' parachute. You can also find 6' and 12', depending on how many children are in your group. We have 16, so we go with a 12' parachute. Once they are all in the bus, go on a pretend adventure! Be sure to drive your bus on a bumpy and a smooth road, go up and down a hill, etc! Book Suggestions for the Library. I LOVE Amazon, and if you choose to get yours there, they do send me a few cents--which supports my coffee habit!

This is the cup game! Place all the items in a bag. The children sort the items into 2 bowls or boxes by the textures: Soft and Rough. Teeny Tiny Circles. Here's a way to encourage the development of those hand muscles and compare sizes! Fill your sensory table with different sized circles. Provide hole punchers. The children will make small holes circles in the larger ones!

Bugs--Large and Small! Add sand to your sand table this week. Add plastic bugs and critters of different sizes. Provide sand sifters, spoons and plastic tweezers!

Fill about 5 cups with different scents vanilla, vinegar, spices, etc. Cover with a paper towel and rubber band or wax paper with holes poked on the top and a rubber band. Bring magnet wands and other magnets to the science table. Show them how each magnet has a north and south pole and that one side will attract metal and make it stick and the other side will repel metal and push it away!

Provide a balance scale and items of different weight. In the grammar section, students will practice using adjectives as noun modifiers. The exercises use "be" in the singular to help students focus on using the adjectives and not verb conjugation. The writing exercise will accept some answers using the adjectives as subject complements.

However, those are limited and teachers should instruct students to use the adjectives as noun modifiers. For a full list of the vocabulary for this game, see the flashcard link below in the teaching materials sections. More activities and games to learn English:.