Hide-and-Seek Teams
What you need
- cushions and a blanket to hide behind
How to do it
- Split into two teams: your child and a friend, a cousin or a grown-up in one, everyone else in the other.
- One team covers their eyes and counts to ten out loud while the other team finds one hiding place to share.
- If the two hiders want different places, they'll need to agree on one, or find a place big enough for both.
- Seekers find them, then swap. Let the children make up a new rule each round, like hiding only behind cushions.
Why it matters
Two hiders with one hiding place have to agree before the counting stops, and counting out loud is the rule that keeps it fair.
What they're learning
- Agreeing a plan
- Two hiders, one hiding place.
- Counting to ten
- Out loud, eyes covered, all the way to ten.
- Taking turns to seek
- Hiding, then seeking, then hiding again.
What to look for
Notice them whispering a plan to their teammate.
A tip
Agree before you start that nobody hides behind a closed door, inside a cupboard or anywhere high.
Make it easier or harder
Easier: hide together as one team with you, and let them choose the spot
Harder: add a rule that the seekers have to find everyone before a song ends
