Rocket Dice Game Activity

Numbers can be tricky to learn and so can math. Performing this simple yet interesting rocket dice game activity can however change things for the better for your children:

Suitable For:

This activity is designed for children between four and seven years of age, as they can learn how to add numbers to one another and count.

What You’ll Learn:

1. Number Recognition – When children participate in this activity, they will learn how to recognize numbers and perform basic additions that can help them acquire more advanced knowledge of math in the future.

2. Motor Skills – When kids engage in this activity, their fine motor skills will also automatically improve since they will be involved in physical activity that requires hand-eye coordination and movements such as moving the rocket ships to different numbers according to the end result of their calculations.

3. Creativity and Imagination – As your children engage in this game activity, their imagination will run wild and they will learn how to mentally calculate additions and count numbers.

4. Math Skills – Engaging in the rocket dice game activity can help enhance the mathematical skills of your children as they take baby steps to learn how to count and perform mathematical calculations.

5. Teamwork – Encouraging your kids to participate in this activity and take turns at rolling the dices can help them learn how to work in teams in the future.

Material Required:

1. Cardboard Base: Keep at least one big cardboard sheet ready for preparing the base for this activity.

2. Markers: For writing all the numbers on the cardboard sheet. Also, for coloring its bottom portion to draw the planet Earth on the base of the cardboard sheet for fun.

3. Paper Rocket Ships With Holes At Their Centers: For moving along the respective numbers after throwing each of the dices

4. Glue: For sticking one end of each of the two rocket ships to both the twines and for sticking the ends of the twines to the reverse of the cardboard sheet.

5. Dice: To throw them till they land on the floor and come to a standstill when they hit a particular number.

6. Twines: To serve as railings for the rocket ships to travel along as your children move them across the counting board.

7. Scissors: To cut four separate slots (two each) into the top and bottom parts of the cardboard sheet for inserting the twines into them and sticking them to them.

The Procedure for Preparing:

1. Prepare the cardboard base –

Keep a cardboard sheet ready for use as a cardboard base for this game activity. Make sure to write all the numbers from 0 to 20 on the same.

2. Stick twines to the reverse side of the cardboard sheet –

Cut out two slots on the top of the cardboard sheet and two at the bottom portion of the cardboard sheets and stick the twines that go through them to the reverse side of the cardboard sheet.

3. Keep the dices ready –

Have the two dices ready for this activity.

4. Encourage your children to participate –

Ask your children to roll the two dices separately and take each of the paper rocket ships to the respective numbers that the dice rolls reveal. Then, if the numbers go beyond the first number, ask them to calculate a total of the first number revealed and the second number revealed upon rolling the dices the second time separately and take the paper rocket ships to those numbers. When the numbers go up to 20, stop the activity and ask your children to repeat the game activity together.

5. Review and Repeat –

Review the activity each time your children complete it and make them repeat it until they have mastered it. Every time your children perform this activity, they will have learned how to count and perform addition operations.

The moment your children complete this game activity; their math skills will have improved. Expect your kids to perform higher mathematical calculations better in the future as they participate in this amazing activity time and again.