A toolkit full of resources designed to support learning through play for children aged 3 to 6 attending kindergarten. This resource offers a variety of engaging activities aimed at strengthening key pre-reading, pre-writing, and early numeracy skills, while also developing important executive functions such as attention, memory, and planning.

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The box contents

6 decks of cards

3 dice

Paper sheets for activities

“10 Feet” Game Board

“Story Mountain” Game Board

Tokens

How to play

Inside the kit, you’ll find four main games themed around the seasons, which can be adapted to suit different ages and ability levels:

The morphosyntactic bingo

Each child receives a board with pictures; the adult reads out sentences describing the images, and the children must identify and cover the corresponding image on their own board.
Objective: to stimulate listening skills and language comprehension.

The 10Feet Game

Children roll a die and must build the number shown using coloured feet pieces.
Objective: to support counting skills and the understanding of quantity–number correspondence.

The Invent-a-Dish Kitchen

Children draw cards with ingredients, actions, and utensils, then invent their own recipe.
Objective: to stimulate storytelling and enrich language skills.

The Treasure Hunt

Following clues, children search for objects or complete small challenges.
Objective: to develop memory, attention, and problem-solving skills.

Each game can be easily included in teaching plans. For each game, the following details are provided:

• The main objectives
• The type of activity
• The level of engagement with skills and prerequisites
• The materials needed
• Guidance on how to introduce the activity
• A step-by-step description of how to carry it out

For every game, alternative activities are also suggested, using the materials provided in the kit.

Leaf through some selected pages from the instruction book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

The Authors

Viola Ravaldini, Psychologist and Psychotherapist. She focuses on cognitive processes and neurodevelopmental disorders, with particular attention to the role of individual and environmental factors in developmental trajectories during childhood and adolescence.

Benedetta Peri, Psychologist, specialises in learning processes and disorders, with a specific focus on numerical cognition in both typical and atypical development.

Veronica Gandolfi, Psychologist, works in the field of child development, serves as a school psychologist, and carries out psychodiagnostic assessments.

Paola Bonifacci, Psychologist and Psychotherapist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bologna.