The Play Square

Number recognition & sequence — pop floating numbers.

1-to-1 correspondence — drag exact amounts of food to a plate.

Logic & sorting by color and size.

Naming feelings from character expressions.

Slow, deep breathing to calm down — Beary is asleep, and his tummy rises and sinks with the breath.

Rhythm and listening — tap the notes as they land; the tune plays on whatever you miss.

Cause and effect in colour — pour two pots and a new one comes out, and it says its own name.

Drawing together from one prompt, each on their own device, then handing out hearts.

The same questions for both of you, half a screen each — and the round waits for everybody.

Keeping your eyes on your own water while somebody else is fishing in theirs.

Choosing without being read — and finding out that varying your hand is the skill, not winning.

Judging force and direction at once, and seeing that things which touch each other change the result.

Reading a number off its dots without counting, and adding what landed in the ring.

Choosing between scoring your own small one and knocking the other end’s nine out.