29 Apr spot it! collection
SPOT IT!
Spot It! Collection
Tonina Llull
Excellent tool for the clinical and academic settings, as well as tutoring sessions. Use this game to facilitate visual perceptual skills, ocular motor skills, simple game play, socialization, motor control for tagging targets, hand skills for game set-up, visual attention, and joint attention.
Meets Expectations
Durability
Versatility
Engagement
The Essentials
There are five (5) different games to choose from when you play Spot It! Players use their visual scanning and visual perceptual skills to quickly match a symbol/character on their card to the target card. Speed is a key component yet the challenge level is mild enough for new players and very young children; and for older children who like to ramp up the speed challenge as they gain mastery of the game.
Spot It! is contains 55 cards with 8 random symbols on each. Each card is round which is a novelty the children react well to. There are over 50 symbols used in the game. The cards feel like regular a regular deck of cards and are durable. For children who tend to use excessive force when playing, I recommend laminating each card.
Having 5 games in one is an excellent feature and the versatility does not stop there — I have had the pleasure of watching kids create their own versions that either made it harder or easier depending on their needs. All 5 versions consistently challenge the ability to visually discriminate regardless of size and orientation (form constancy and visual spatial perception can be facilitated with this game). Manipulation of the cards and the different ways they have to be sorted, per game variation, challenges various levels of hand skills, coordination, and speed-precision. The games are different enough that they feel fresh and keep the engagement going with seamless switching between different games. The demands of games are easily graded, based on your patients’ or students’ needs.
There are nine (9) versions of the Spot It game in the collection, that we have worked with. The game play is essentially the same, but each version has a different focus category and are recommended for different ages. The list below indicates each variation and the recommended age groups.
Spot It – Alphabet (3+), Spot It – Animals (4 – 15 years), Spot It – Basic English (6+), Spot It – Camping (7 – 15 years), Spot It – Hip (13 – 30 years), Spot It – Numbers and Shapes (3 – 15 years), Spot It – On the Road (7 – adult), Spot It – Splash (7 – 15 years) water proof, Spot It – Sports (6 – 50 years)
Fun Factor
Parents, kids, and the panel of experts greatly enjoy this game. It is active, engaging, and elicits many laughs. Spot It! is an excellent tool to use in the clinical setting by therapists and just as beneficial for tutors and students. Repeat requests to play was consistently reported. Kids love that it is easy to set-up, play, and switch the rules and play again. Parents love the social aspect and that their younger kids can play too, at a slower pace. The fun factor, makes it an excellent tool for home exercise programs and to have available for students to play on their breaks.
The panel of experts and kid consultants give this game two thumbs up for high interaction and repeat playing – this makes it an excellent therapy tool to use in session and to recommend as part of a home exercise program, if appropriate. This game is also socially appropriate to play with older children struggling with visual perception, ocular motor skills, and attention, as a wide range of ages enjoy this game.
Set-Up and Clean-Up
Set-up the game can be accomplished in one (1) minute. All the cards and instructions for the 5 mini-games all fit into a cute, light, and durable round tin. This game is portable and easily stored making it easy to travel with and to have easy access to at home. The durability is great for a card game.
The IF-THEN’S and the BUT’S
No if-then’s or but’s on this game, other that the earlier suggestion to laminate the cards if your child tends to manipulate things too forcefully.
HOW TO AUGMENT THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT
Depending on the toy or game, as therapists and educators, it is typical that we vary the way we use the game and its components to facilitate underlying skills that may be required to play the game for children who are differently abled.
We can increase general learning and target specific learning areas, further enhance creativity and imagination, foster problem solving and memory, target additional physical skills (gross and fine motor) social skills, communication; and foster sensory processing and modulation.
Through activity analysis, we learn how to maximize the use of the toys and games we use with our clients/students/patients. Here you will find some suggestions that may help you maximize the versatility in every product.
NOTE: Not all games lend to a wide variety of alternate strategies. The level and amount of suggestions will vary from game to game and may be added to from time to time.
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