Shopping baskets

Children remember which items they are required to buy, put them in their basket and then say what they have bought.

Activity
Memory
Target
  • Client group → Children
  • Cognitive communication → Memory
  • Language → Vocabulary → Simple
  • Language → Grammar → Conjunctions
Abstract
Use toy shopping baskets and a range of toy foods / items that can be bought at the supermarket. Tell each child want you want them to buy, ask them to put the items in their basket and then tell you what they have bought.
portrait Contributor Rhiannan Walton

method

Directions

Give each child in the group a toy shopping basket, or a picture of a basket. Spread out a range of toy foods and things that can be bought from the supermarket, in front of the group. Or use the photos attached. Check the children know the names of all the items.

Give each child an instruction telling them what to buy. Prompt them to listen carefully, then give the instruction once. For example, “Buy an apple, milk and chocolate.”

When each child has their items in their basket, ask them to tell you what they have bought. Encourage the children to use a full sentence, as well as the conjunction “and” (if appropriate.)

Make the task more difficult by increasing the number of items in the instruction. Or ask a child to give the other group members an instruction about what they should buy, using the full sentence and conjunction.

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