Quick gestures is a fun and engaging game to practice the executive functions of children aged 5 and up: carrying out double tasks, self-regulating movement, recalling instructions in working memory, enhancing the speed of information processing and visual exploration. 

Not only that, the game also helps develop the fine motor skills of the little ones.

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What are executive functions?

Executive functions are the set of mental processes that supervise our thoughts and behaviors. They incorporate several neurologically based operations that serve to direct and coordinate our actions.

The box contents

60 cards divided into three difficulty levels

4 mats

14 tokens

8 discs for the table version

Teaching objectives

• Attention
• Working memory
• Motor skills
• Self-regulation

How to play

At the start, the children have to turn the card over, carefully observe the figures and colors and identify those that correspond to the previously memorized number on the back of the card. The color corresponds to a location to reach and the figure to a gesture to perform: only those who manage to carry out the two actions quickly (and correctly) will be the champion of Quick Gestures.

“Special” cards:

NUMBER ZERO
When the player encounters the card depicting the number 0, he/she will have to understand which figure and color are missing on the card. Then, he/she will have to run to the missing color and perform the gesture attributed to the absent shape.

THE WILD CARDS
Wild cards are those cards in which the number does not correspond to the quantity of figures and colors: the player will have to carry out the previous color and gesture combination.

Leaf through the instructions translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHOR

Donatella Colina, graduated in Neurotherapy and Psychomotor Therapy of the Developmental Age, she is a member of the team of the Boggiano Pico Center, a center specialized in the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders of the Opera Don Orione Genoa. She is a teacher at the degree course in Neurotherapy and Psychomotricity of the Developmental Age at the Gaslini Hospital in Genoa and at the S.E.F. Editing.