Hide and Seek: Read-and-Move

Hide and Seek is a great game for children to play.

• You can play it anywhere.

• It can be a short game, or a long game.

• 2 people can play, but also 10 people can play.

• Children develop their visual processing skills by looking for a place to hide. It also takes visual processing to be the seeker looking for the people that are hiding.

• Children work on self control by being still and quiet.

• Also children grow in taking someone else’s perspective when thinking about where someone else would hide, or where someone else would look for them.

• Most importantly, hide and seek is fun!

Books To Read Before Or After Playing Hide and Seek

“Can’t Catch Me Constanze von Kitzing: The lion cub tries to catch animals, but the animals keep hiding. A twist on hide and seek.

“Where’s Baby” Anne Hunter: Mama Fox and Papa Fox are looking for Baby Fox. This is a great book for letting children show you where baby fox is.

“Run!” Guilherme Karsten: The jungle animals are all running to find a place to hide.

“Have You Seen Elephant?” David Barrow: If you read only one book from this list, make it this one. It is sweet, funny and charming as elephant plays hide and seek with a boy.

“Where Did Bunny Go?” Nancy Tafuri: The forest animals play hide and seek together in the snow.

“Yoo-Hoo, Lady Bug!” Mem Fox: This book is a great beginners “search and find” book. After reading it, your child could pretend to be a lady bug. When they hide you can call out “Yoo-hoo, lady bug! Where are you?”

“Hide And Seek” Anthony Browne: Two children play hide and seek in the woods.

“Hide And Seek, An Around-the World Animal Search” Charlene Man: This is a search and find book with animals from around the world. This search is more difficult than “Yoo-Hoo, Lady Bug!”.