Activities

8 games to stimulate learning

May 20, 2014
Hedbanz

By Kroeger

Recommended age: 8 to 11 years old

A fun game of quick questions where you never know who you are until you start to ask funny questions like « Am I a chicken? » or « Am I a bike? » and to discover if the character that is on your head band is an animal, a household item or something else? Everyone will know but the person who is trying to guess!

Comments by Anick Pelletier, Special educator
Hedbanz develops the receptive language skills (listening and understanding) as well as expression (explanation and description) through vocabulary, formulating questions, memory retrieval of images and words and the association of ideas.
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