Motor skills smart game Shooting Star
Author: Marian Bulk-de Ridder
Remedial Teaching and Mother
Don't you know them yet? Then it's high time to get acquainted with these beautiful, versatile, attractive games.
How does it work?
- Choose a challenge from the booklet. There are 80 different challenges, increasing in difficulty.
- Choose, rotate, and place your blocks so that the 2D example from the booklet is recreated in 3D on the table.
- Check the back of the booklet to see if you've done it correctly.
Motor skills and spatial awareness
In my practice, I often see children whose motor skills and spatial awareness are not ideal. That's why I often look for materials and games that train these skills. This game is perfectly suited for that. You see a 2D construction in a booklet and rebuild it in 3D with the blocks.
Rebuilding
With this SmartGames game, you have to recreate a construction from a booklet. The different parts have different shapes, and the colors within the shapes change when you rotate the block. So it's about finding the right shape and the correct color in the star.
Applicability
Shooting Stars, like most other Smart Games, is a game to be played individually.
Suitable for young and older children, but also for adults there is plenty of challenge.
Also extremely suitable for gifted students who need a challenge.
Executive Functions
Multiple executive functions are addressed.
- Flexible thinking: a construction can be built with multiple combinations, but do the stars and colors still match?
- Planning: what do I need to consider, correct block, correct color?
- Spatial awareness: from 2D to 3D and assembling blocks into a whole.
- Problem-solving thinking: you need to come up with a plan to accurately recreate the construction, where do you start? which block is the beginning? what do you do next? how do I place my block?
- Emotion regulation: staying calm and trying other approaches.
- Perseverance: not giving up and trying another combination.
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