Therapeutic Toys and Games March 17, 2020

Donna Logue, Rebecca Jurow and Jennifer Cohen

Recommended Toys and Games

Visual Perceptual Fine Motor

Ages 7/8 and Up Ages 7/8 and Up Blokus Rainbow Loom Spot It! Kanoodle Ages 5/6 and Up Swish Kerplunk Ticket to Ride Mancala On the Dot Operation Perfection Ages 5/6 and Up Perler Beads Blink Trouble Blokus Jr. Weaving Loom Color Code Labyrinth Spot It, Jr.! Jenga Swish, Jr. Set Ages 4 and Up K’Nex Ages 4 and Up Lite Brite Bunny Peek-A-Boo Wok and Roll Day and Night Get a Grip on Patterns Zingo Hi Ho Cherry-O Matching games Memory games

All Ages Puzzles Highlights Hidden Pictures

Language Reasoning

Ages 7/8 and Up Ages 7/8 and Up Apples to Apples Kids (describing, Battleship comparisons, vocabulary) Labyrinth (interactive mazes) Bop It (following directions) Mastermind for Kids Don’t Say It (listening, describing, Mastermind Towers vocabulary) (similar to Taboo) Rush Hour (visual-spatial problem Rory’s Story Cubes (story-telling, listening, solving) retelling, sequence) Rush Hour Shift Scatter gories Jr. (categories) Spy Alley (like Clue) Simon (auditory sequencing and memory) Terzetto Word Around (reading, visual-perceptual) Quoridor Pickles to Penguins Cranium Cadoo

Ages 5/6 and Up Ages 5/6 and Up Clue Jr. (inferencing) Brick by Brick Go Fish (listening, describing, vocabulary) Connect 4 Guess Who? (asking questions, listening, Rush Hour Jr. reasoning) Shape by Shape Hedbanz (describing, defining, listening) Spy Alley Jr. Mystery Garden (asking questions, Labyrinth Jr. vocabulary, categorization) Qwirkle (visual reasoning) Race to the Roof (categorization, word Animal Mastermind Towers association, vocabulary) Color Code Animal Mastermind Towers Pentago Race to the Treasure Ages 4 and Up The Memory Palace Cat in the Hat Game I Can Do That! Pattern Play (following directions) Flip Over (vocabulary) Ages 3/4 Maisy Game Don’t Break the Ice Smatch (categories) Castle Logix (visual reasoning) Zingo games Mr. Mighty Mind (whole to part Memory games (vocabulary) relationships) Hullabaloo Snack Attack (memory concentration) Raccoon Rumpus All Ages Hoot Owl Hoot BarrierRebecca games (giving Jurow and following Skippity directions) Dress Up -- silks, masks Doll Houses/Figurines/Playskool/Littlest Construction Pet Shop All Ages Hand Puppets Tinker Toys I Spy (describing, listening) Keva Contraptions Puzzles (vocabulary) Quadrilla Five Second Rule Equilibrio (Architecto, Tangramino)