Mystery sock

From the house

• A sock or cloth bag
• 4–5 familiar things: spoon, ball, toy car, banana, brush

How to play

1. Put one thing in the sock without them seeing.
2. They feel it through the sock. “What is it?”
3. They pull it out to check.
4. Talk about how it felt: soft, hard, bumpy, round.

Fit it to your child

• Easier: Use two very different things, like a ball and a spoon, and let them peek if they get stuck.
• Harder: Swap: they feel something and describe it without saying its name, and you guess.

Words to use

• soft
• hard
• bumpy
• round
• smooth

Why it helps

Without looking, they have to reach for words like soft, bumpy and round, and those describing words make their sentences richer.