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Tonight, we're happy to share another great quiet, thoughtful activity for connecting with our children right before bed. This activity is like a simple, open-ended version of Scattergories® with a lot less rule.
While lying down together, take turns picking new categories and naming as many things as you can think of in that category.
Here are just a few examples:
| vehicals | animals | breakfast foods | sports | fruits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cars, boats, planes, trains | tigers, fish, bears, turtles | eggs, cereal, toast, pancakes | soccer, baseball, cricket, rugby | bananas, oranges, apples, pears |
But you can add some more difficulty to the activity by constraining the categories further, e.g. only red fruits, or only vehicles which ride on land. You can limit it to 10 answers or play a category until one of you can't think of another answer.
We hope you have fun thinking of fun new categories and objects to fill those categories. Share some of your best in the comments below or on Twitter or Facebook!
Further reading
There have been a huge number of academic studies on how, when, and why children categorize object in the world around them. See for example:
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES
- Flexible Categorization in Preschool-Age Children: Comparing Color to Taxonomic Matching Strategies
- The Development of Categorization in the Second Year and Its Relation to Other Cognitive and Linguistic Developments
- How Children Categorize Living Things
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