This comprehensive guide offers a collection of hands-on activities for our four picture comprehension cards. Each card focuses on a different theme—sea, road, seaport, and park—to teach essential concepts like pre-math, comparisons, measurement, and positional words through engaging “find and point” games.

Activities for Picture Comprehension Cards

1. Pre-Math: Sea Theme

This card features a sea-themed scene that helps children understand foundational pre-math concepts.

• Concepts: Float-sink, tall-short, in-out, on-under, big-small, empty-full, open-close.

Activities

1. “Find and Point”: Call out a concept (“Find something that is tall!”) and have the child point to the correct object on the card (e.g., a tall lighthouse).
2. Opposite Concepts: Point to an object on the card and have the child find its opposite. For example, point to the big fish and have the child find the small fish.
3. Concept Storytelling: Use the card as a visual aid to tell a story incorporating the concepts, like “The empty treasure chest is next to the full one.”
4. Action and Word: For concepts like “open-close,” have the child find the object and then act out the action themselves.

2. Comparisons: Road Theme

This card uses a road-themed scene to help children understand and identify various comparison concepts.

• Concepts: Big-small, near-far, on-under, in-out, top-bottom, above-below.

Activities

1. “Who is Closer?”: Ask the child to look at the card and find two objects. Then ask a comparison question, like “Is the school bus or the bus nearer to the bus stop?”
2. Point to the Opposite: Point to one object on the card and have the child find the opposite. For example, point to the vehicle that is far, and have them find the one that is near.
3. “Tell Me What You See”: Ask the child to find an object and describe its position using a comparison word. For example, “The house is big and the bakery is small.”
4. Positional Challenge: Call out a positional comparison and have the child find the objects that fit. For example, “Find the object that is on the table.”

3. Measurement: Sea Port Theme

This card features a sea port theme to help children grasp measurement and comparison concepts.

• Concepts: Long-short, tall-short, thin, thick, full-empty, light-heavy.

Activities

1. “Find the Opposite”: Say a word like “long.” Have the child find an object that is long (e.g., a long cargo ship) and then find the object that is short (e.g., a small boat).
2. Comparison Sentences: Ask the child to make a sentence using two objects on the card and a measurement word. For example, “The lighthouse is tall, and the crane is short.”
3. “Which One?”: Describe a measurement concept and have the child point to the correct object. For example, “Find the object that is thick.”
4. “Full or Empty?”: Ask the child to find the truck that is full and those that are empty and talk about the difference.

4. Positional Words: Park Theme

This card helps children understand positional words through a fun, park-themed scene and includes simple sentences for guidance.

• Concepts: Here-there, near-far, front-behind, on-under, over-under, in-out, up-down.

Activities

1. “Read and Find”: Read one of the simple sentences on the card aloud (e.g., “The rooster is near the chick.”). Have the child point to the rooster and the chick on the card.
2. “Where is it?”: Ask the child a question about the position of an object (e.g., “Where is the white cow in the see-saw?”). The child must answer using a positional word from the card (e.g., “The cow is up in the see-saw”).
3. Act it Out: After finding the positional relationship on the card, have the child act out the words with their own body or with toys.
4. Make a Sentence: Point to a pair of objects on the card and have the child create a sentence using a positional word. For example, point to the cow and the slide and they might say, “The cow is under the slide.”