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Sequence Games for Preschoolers

Sequencing is the ability to place things and events into the right order. For children, learning to sequence is an important skill as it helps their ability to understand their surroundings and the actions that take place there. Playing sequency games will make education fun for children, as well as enhance their comprehension and thinking skills.

Story Books
- Everyday activities and story books offer simple and cheap opportunities to train sequencing skills in preschoolers. Tell your child a story or read from a book with a simple storyline, then ask her to retell the story. Alternatively, ask the child to make her own picture book based on the story she just heard where she draws the action in the order it happened. Upon your return home from a day in the park, ask your child what you did today, and in what order you performed the individual actions.
Cards
- Make your own flashcards and ask your child to place them into the right order. Prepare cards with numbers, or use a set of traditional playing cards and ask your child to lay them out with the numbers in sequence. To teach your child a sequence of events, prepare cards with cutouts from comic magazines where a cartoon character performs a series of actions. Actions can include getting into a car and driving away, or going shopping and walking home. Ask your child to find the right order when looking at the cards. Free sequencing cards featuring stories and nursery rhymes can also be downloaded from the Internet and be used by the child to retell a story.
Sound and Rythm
- Teach your child a sound and how it can develop into a melody by sequencing noises. Use homemade musical instruments including plastic containers filled with rice or beans, wooden spoons, metal lids and porcelain or glassware. Make a sound followed by another and ask your child to repeat it. Increase the number of sounds for each round, each of which has to be repeated by your child. Instead of using instruments, clap your hands to a rhythm and ask your child to help you with the game by doing as you do.
Online
- Many educational online resources offer sequencing games for preschool children and toddlers. In the games, children are asked to find the days of the week or months before placing them in the right order. Other activities include learning the time by placing clock faces into order and ABC games where players have to find or insert missing letters to complete the alphabet. In online games similar to flashcards, preschoolers have to sort pictures to complete a story and animated birds singing a tune encourage preschoolers to repeat their melody by clicking on the animation in the right order.

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