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Practice important sensory skills with a touch and feel guess what’s in the box game. Your child will love playing detective with this DIY Guess What’s in the Box game!
Enjoy exploring with only the sense of touch with this simple activity from Francis.
We’re a fan of sensory activities in this house. My the kids especially love messy sensory activities!
But sensory doesn’t always mean messy and this activity is a great non-messy one.
The sensory box guessing game is good to practice tactile memory and a lot of fun too!
Guess What’s in the Box DIY Game for Kids
My kids think everything to do with cardboard boxes is super exciting.
Items Needed to Make the Touch & Feel Guessing Game:
- Cardboard box (medium size)
- Craft knife
- Scissors
- Tissue paper
- Sticky tape
And of course a variety of mystery items (i.e. different household items) to put in the box to guess!
Create the Touch & Feel Box:
Make sure the box flaps on are open or cut away. This will leave one side of the box as the opening.
On a closed side of the cardboard box, Nathan helped me draw 2 circles. They needed to be large enough to fit his hands through.
Try these cardboard boxes activities to encourage your kid’s creativity!
This part was a bit tricky for him, but he did a good job.
Then, I used the craft knife, or use your trusty box cutter, to cut them out. This is where he’ll poke his arms through the box later for the DIY guess what’s in the box game.
You might want to test them out, just in case. You can always cut them a smidge bigger, if needed.
Next, he cut strips of colored tissue paper so we could decorate the opening of the box.
Nathan loves anything that involves using the scissors! I always love the extra practice with scissor skills!
The tissue paper is totally optional but we loved the effect it gave our guessing box.
Nathan was intrigued, trying to imagine what he would have to touch and guess in the game.
We taped the strips to the opening of the box using the sticky tape. Now he was really getting excited!
What Items to Put in the What’s in the Box
What do you put in a touch and feel box?
Before we made the guessing box, I chose some objects from around the house without him seeing. I tried choosing different sized objects and with different textures too.
These are the items we will us to play our Guess What’s in the Box Game!
Guess What’s in the Box Items We Used:
- stuffed animal
- spoon
- shoe
- banana
- writing utensil / pencil / pen / markers
- toy vehicle
- bowl or dish
What other funny things could you put in what’s in the box?
You could make it a fun activity for whatever time of year it is!
Maybe have some holiday fun around Christmas and use Christmas bows, wrapping paper, a gingerbread man, a coffee mug, and a sprig of evergreen. How fun would that be! Here’s tons of Christmas ideas!
Or maybe make a Halloween mystery box with slime, a pumpkin, toy spider, candy corn, jello or other spooky gross items you have around the house. More Halloween fun?
A spring what’s in the box theme could include items from nature! So many ideas for Spring!
The possibilities are endless on any theme you could think of for this touch and feel game for kids!
You can make your own levels to be harder or easier depending on your child’s age and development level. Or maybe progress harder as they get them correct.
That’s why it’s so fun to make this a homemade guess game.
But you could buy the “What’s in the Box” game on Amazon (affiliate link).
How Do You Play What’s in the Box Game
The instructions to play this box game is pretty simple and straightfoward.
What’s in the Box Rules
- Choose one person to be the “Hider”
- There can be as many guessers as you want!
- The Hider needs to keep the mystery items hidden and out of view of the “guessers”
You can choose to have all guessers work together as teammates, or separate against each other and the guesser with the most right in the end wins.
I hid the mystery items behind my back and asked Nathan to kneel behind the box. Then, I sat in front of the open side with the tissue paper streamers.
Next, I asked him to close his eyes. Then, I placed one of the mystery sensory objects inside the box.
He put his hands through the holes on top and picked the object up. All without opening his eyes.
He had to take a guess what’s in the box just by feeling and touching it.
With the tricky ones, I would ask him a couple of questions to guide him: Was it heavy or light? Did it make any noise? Was it smooth or rough?
He loved guessing them right. Especially when he guessed his favorite fruit: a banana!
This guess what’s in the box game was a success with his big sister, too. In fact, our whole family played together many times!
I love when an activity gets the family together to play and have fun.
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