Activity 1: Surprise Bag Copy

Now, once your child had completed the first activity, let’s play this game!

Materials Needed

Let’s follow the step-by-step guide for you to play this game with your child.

Fill the bag with different items that have different textures. You need to put two same items inside the bag. ( E.g.: 2 sponges, 2 feathers, 2 pencils, 2 sandpapers)
Show the surprise bag to your child.
With an air of drama, look into the bag. Then, look at your child and say, “I have a surprise in this bag. Can you put your hand in and guess what is in there?”
Let your child put his/her hand into the bag and attempt to describe the object that he or she is touching to you.
Then, ask your child, “Based on the characteristics you have described, can you guess what the object is?”.
Let your child takes the object out from the bag to see whether he/she has guessed it correctly. Let him/her look for a similar thing in the bag.
Now, scatter all the objects from the surprise bag onto a flat surface and guide your child to understand that different objects have different textures.
This is a great place for the use of adjectives and allows your child’s language learning to take place implicitly. You can encourage your child by asking questions such as: