Fall Tree Dice Game

As I've said several times on this blog, I like to have some seasonal games on my shelves that can be played by more than one child.  Many times young children want to do something with a friend and many of the traditional Montessori materials are geared for independent work for only one child at a time.  I do feel it's very important for each child to have a balance of individual and "friend" activities during their work period.  On my math shelf this week is a new game that can easily be played by just one child or by two children.

I found and printed this Roll A Fall Tree game from Play2LearnPrintables.  I laminated the dice directions card. I used their tree to make a template that I traced onto brown craft foam and that's how I constructed the tree.  I already had a bunch of small colored fall leaves that were laminated, so I used those instead of the ones available for download.  Small craft foam leaves would also work great.  Below you can see how I set the activity up on the shelf........just a tray with the dice direction card, foam tree, dish of leaves and dish with a die.

To play the child must roll a "6" to get the tree.  Then they add colored leaves as directed by future rolls of the die.  In my little yellow dish I only put 2 of each color of leaf.  As you can see below I rolled a "1" which allowed me to add 2 green leaves to the tree.

Here is what the tree would look like when full of leaves.  As I said above, a child could very well do this work alone.  However, if they choose to, they could take turns rolling the die with a friend and adding the colors of leaves to their tree.

Comments

[Kathleen]

A co-worker sent me this. I like the "more than one" aspect. I have so many parents that ask, "Well, do you have any works that can be for more than one?" (which we do!) Thanks for sharing!

[Julie]

I like this. Thanks. I'm going to try it with my daughter.

[Debbie]

Great activity !