Learning games for ages 3–4

Math GardenAges 4+

Numbers only mean something once a child can see them, so here adding is dropping fruit into a basket and taking away is lifting it out.

ABC ZooAges 4+

The letters learnt properly from day one — the name and the sound kept apart, as the classroom teaches them — with a picture to remember each one by.

Little TalkerAges 4+

Practice in meeting English by ear and mouth first — listening, saying it back, chanting and answering a small conversation — on the words of the programme the child follows at school.

Logic GardenAges 4+

Reasoning need not wait for reading — children work things out with their eyes and hands, and understand it best when they explain it to someone else.

Key DanceAges 4+

A first go on a real keyboard should be pure fun, so here there is no such thing as a wrong key.

Tiny WorldAges 3+

Every five right answers add something to a world your child is building, and the questions keep pace with them as they go.

Little PuzzleAges 3+

The jigsaw a small child loves most has Mum, Grandma and themselves in it — and while they fit it together, they pick up the words their teacher uses for where things go.

Picture HuntAges 3+

Practice in looking carefully at a busy picture and naming what is in it, with the everyday words a child hears at home.

Tiny BandAges 3+

Your child is a musician from the very first tap and learns to listen once they already love playing, rather than sitting through notes before they are allowed to play.

Little PainterAges 3+

Somewhere to colour, draw and show off a picture with nobody correcting it and no right answer — every picture a child makes is a good one.