Educational games with Pop It for toddlers and schoolchildren

For kids of all ages, Pop It toys have grown in popularity. Despite their apparent simplicity as fidget toys, these vibrant bubbles have educational uses as well. Pop Its can be used creatively to teach toddlers and schoolchildren valuable skills while having fun.

Pop It games help improve hand-eye coordination, early counting, and fine motor skills in toddlers. Young children can practice basic counting exercises, learn to recognize colors, and sharpen their focus by pressing the bubbles.

Pop It toys can be used by older kids, including school-age children, in more complex games that require math, spelling, or problem-solving. Pop Its offer an entertaining and engaging approach to reinforce learning, whether it be through word spelling or addition and subtraction exercises.

In order to make learning fun and interesting for everyone, we’ll look at a variety of educational games that you can try with Pop It toys for both toddlers and schoolchildren in this post.

Game Description
Color Sorting Ask toddlers to press Pop It bubbles by matching colors. This helps them learn color recognition and improve fine motor skills.
Counting Bubbles Schoolchildren can press a specific number of bubbles as they count aloud, reinforcing their counting and basic math skills.
Alphabet Pop Call out letters and have children pop the corresponding bubbles, which helps with letter recognition and early literacy skills.
Spelling Words For school-aged kids, call out simple words, and they can spell them by popping the bubbles in the correct sequence.

Games with Pop It for toddlers and not only

  1. Copy the pattern from the sample. This way the child will learn to look carefully and understand the logic underlying the pattern. I am attaching templates for a hexagonal pop it: filled and empty, so that you can draw your own patterns.

  • Memory. Farewell any pattern on pop it. Let the child look and remember. Change the pattern. And the child must restore it from memory.
  • Who is the fastest? Time the child with a stopwatch. Press all the bubbles in turn. Who is the fastest? Let the children come up with their own rules: can they use more than one finger? Can they pop bubbles with both hands at the same time? Will the score still be counted if one of the bubbles pops back out on its own after pressing?
  • Filling with round objects. Small balls, pom-poms, large buttons fit perfectly in pop it. This is a great opportunity to practice fine motor skills! You can lay out patterns – independently or using a sample, fill in by colors, use tweezers, etc..
  • Ball path. This is a fun game – throw the ball to the free adjacent space. To do this, you need to press the bubble below the ball. You can turn this game into a competition: who will be the first to cross the entire space of the toy with their ball? The task is quite difficult, start with one row.
  • Listen and clap. Developmental game for practicing listening and counting skills. Clap your hands several times. The child listens, counts in his head and says out loud how many times you clapped your hands. This is the correct answer? Ask the child to pop the same number of bubbles, counting out loud. That was too difficult? Clap your hands again and let the child count out loud, clapping his hands or counting on his own.
  • Counting rhyme. Simply say the number and let the child pop the correct number of bubbles, counting out loud.
  • By syllables. Slowly say the word and let the child count the number of syllables, and then pop the required number of bubbles.
  • Relay race. The popper is designed for finger movements. But why not use it to let the children run around a bit? Create teams. Take turns running to the toy and press pop it.
  • Logical competition

    1. Player 1 chooses a row and bursts as many bubbles as he wants (only in this row). Pop it is ideally square: you need to use and vertical and horizontal rows.
    2. Player 2 chooses another row in which there are still unopened bubbles, and bursts as many bubbles in it as he wants.
    3. This continues until the player is forced to burst the very last bubble. This player loses this round.
    4. Turn Pop-SIT and play again!

    By adding an extra rule that only allows you to pop bubbles that are adjacent to one another in a row, you can further complicate the game.

    Math game with Pop It + free templates

    Acquire the ability to count to 20! Number cards can be printed on thick paper and laminated. Combine them and arrange them in a pile.

    A game for one or a baby with mom

    1. Take a card from the stack and say the number on it.
    2. Burst the number of bubbles indicated on the card.
    3. Count out loud when you press: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5…"
    4. Harder challenge: turn the pop it over and count backwards to pop the bubbles again: "…5, 4, 3, 2, 1"

    A game for two

    1. Take turns drawing a card from the pile. Say a number and pop the number of bubbles indicated on the card. Count out loud when you press.
    2. The first player who can no longer press the required number of times loses this round.
    3. Play again. The winner is the first player to win three (or five) rounds.

    The composition of the number 10

    We use cards with numbers arranged above, ranging from 1 to 9.

    • Play according to the rules given above, but now it is not about counting, but about adding up to 10.
    • Press the required number of bubbles to get 10 together with the number shown on the card.

    Pop It games for multiplication and division

    Create cards by printing them! They are beneficial because they go a little beyond the standard multiplication table and can be utilized by students in higher grades in addition to those in second grade.

    Sort the cards into piles after cutting them out. Which cards to practice is up to you.

    Practice is the key to mastering the multiplication table! And using a well-liked and trendy toy is the best approach.

    Team game for 2 players

    1. Player 1 draws a card and reads the example.
    2. Player 2 solves it out loud.
    3. If player 1 thinks the result is correct, player 2 can burst the required number of bubbles.

    Game for two

    1. Take turns drawing a card from the pile. Calculate the division result and burst the required number of bubbles.
    2. Carefully check the correctness of your opponent"s answer.
    3. And so on in turn.
    4. The first player who does not have enough bubbles to “click” the correct answer loses the round.
    5. The winner is the player who is the first to win three (or five) rounds.

    Pop It toys provide kids with an entertaining and imaginative way to learn while having a good time. These straightforward toys can aid in children’s development in a fun setting, whether they are in school and practicing more difficult problems or are just beginning to learn basic skills like counting and color recognition.

    Pop’s adaptability It facilitates transitioning between diverse educational games for a range of age groups and skill levels. This adaptability keeps kids engaged and eager to learn new things without making them feel stressed or overwhelmed.

    Parents and educators can enhance the interactive and enjoyable nature of education by incorporating Pop It into their lesson plans. It’s an entertaining tool that can be used in conjunction with conventional teaching strategies to give kids a practical way to learn new ideas.

    Pop It toys can be used to create entertaining and instructive games for kids of all ages thanks to their straightforward, tactile design. In an entertaining and lighthearted manner, these games aid in the development of fine motor skills, color recognition, counting, and even basic math. Parents and teachers can encourage children’s creativity and engagement in learning by introducing Pop It into educational activities. This will make learning feel more like a game.

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