Sticker Hearts - Preschool Card Game

by Kelly Pfeiffer
Filled with fine motor fitness development Sticker Hearts is an educational preschool game that combines math concepts and fine motor skill practice.

Preschoolers will improve fine motor skills as they turn playing cards and place stickers during this fun learning game. In addition, Sticker Hearts requires preschoolers to develop math knowledge such as number recognition and counting skills. The rules are simple for the game of Sticker Hearts and this hands-on card game has plenty of visual learning to reinforce math concepts.

What You Need

1. A deck of regular playing cards – only use the numbered cards, cards with 2 through 10. For younger preschoolers, start with only cards 2 - 6 and add higher number cards in later games as preschoolers increase their number knowledge.

2. A sheet of paper for each player’s score sheet

3. Stickers – Use any kind of stickers you have. Circle dot stickers work well.

4. A pen or marker

Game Preparation

1. Remember to use only the numbered cards from the playing deck. Only use cards with numbers 2 – 10 or the numbers that your preschooler can recognize.

2. Draw a heart shape on each piece of paper. This will be the score sheet for each player so try to make all of the drawn hearts the same size.

3. Give each player the same assortment of stickers. If you are using a sheet of stickers on which the stickers are different sizes, then try to give each player the same sheet of stickers.

How to Play

1. Shuffle the cards and place them face down the table.

2. Players lay their score sheets in front of them.

3. On each turn, a player draws a card from the deck and turns it over face up in front of them. The number on the card determines the number of stickers that players stick onto their score sheet. Stickers must be placed on the outline of the heart.

Example – If a player turns over a 5 card, the player places five stickers on the heart outline of their score sheet.

4. A player is finished when the heart outline is completely covered on the player's score sheet. No lines must be showing through the stickers.

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