Touch tour

From the house

• Nothing. The house is the material.

How to play

1. Walk around the house hand in hand.
2. Touch things and say how they feel: the soft blanket, the cold fridge, the bumpy towel.
3. Find two things that feel the same.
4. They lead the way to the next thing to touch.

Fit it to your child

• Easier: Carry them, touch one thing at a time and repeat one word: “Soft. So soft.”
• Harder: Hunt for opposites: something soft, then something hard; something warm, then something cold.

Words to use

• soft
• cold
• warm
• bumpy
• smooth
• rough

Why it helps

Hearing a word while their hand feels it makes the word stick, and one walk adds lots of describing words at once.