Improve listening skills using fun group games

Description:

Variety of fun games to target listening and attention skills.

Early years skill:	Understanding
Early years typical range:	40-60+m
P-scales/Curriculum skill:	English Listening
P-scales/Curriculum level:	P8
TAP skill:	Understanding of Language/Comprehension
TAP level:	TAP48
Pre/Nat. Curriculum Area:	not specified
Pre/Nat. Curiculum Standard:	not specified

Section: Early Years (0-5yrs) info; Primary (5-11yrs) info

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Includes:	Activities
Suitable for:	Individual; Small group
Contributors:	anonymous contributors; Neil Thompson
Date last changed:	December 8, 2015

Activity/strategy name and materials required	How to do the activity	Key principles for doing the activity and comments
Dragon's Egg Chair Blindfold Toy Egg Group of Children	Have all the children sit in a circle on the mat; Put the chair in the middle of the circle with one child ( 'the dragon') sitting on the chair wearing the blindfold. Put the egg under the chair; Choose another child to quietly creep forward and steal the dragon's egg; Get all the children to put their hands behind their backs and the dragon to remove the blindfold and guess who has the egg; Allow the dragon to have 3 guesses.	Prompt all the children to be very quiet so the dragon can try to identify where the egg stealer is coming from.
Fish and Chips None	Login or register to see the instructions for this activity.	To make the task more challenging, get children to try to disguise their voices (give examples of making voice high pitched, low, monotone etc).
Farmer find your Animals Hoops Blindfold Large space (e.g. a hall)	Login or register to see the instructions for this activity.	It's best to play this game with 10 to 13 children otherwise it is very noisy and difficult for the farmer to locate where the sounds are coming from. Could also play this game with zoo animals/ zoo keeper or a police man/ different types of transport (e.g. ambulance, motor bike, helicopter, train).

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