Age range
3 years old
Development benefits
- Cognitive Development: Builds number concept.
- Physical Development: Strengthens sorting and fine motor.
Take place in
Indoors (table).
How to play
- Explain simply that some numbers "pair up" and some don't.
- Let your child group pieces into pairs.
- Sort the numbers into odd and even together.
- Repeat with a new set of pieces.
Perfect for
- Cognitive: number patterns
- Motor: sorting
Expert tip
Pairing objects physically - before naming "odd" and "even" - makes an abstract math concept something a three-year-old can actually see.