Tips for Knock Down Games:

Teach children to knock down one toy at a time. Placing the toys farther apart makes it easier. You may help by using hand-over-hand support. Once a child can knock down just one, a Knock Down Game can grow into into a language learning game. You tell the child which toy to knock down or the child tell you which one to knock down. Start with using a single word to identify the toy. Example: KNOCK DOWN COW! then the DUCK then the TIGER and so with the child learning the names of animals. Later, it can be descriptive language, e.g. GREEN ANIMAL, then the PINK ANIMAL, then the ORANGE ANIMAL and so on. Or, it can be a game where the child knocks down THE ANIMAL THAT SAYS "RIBBIT" then THE ANIMAL THAT SAYS "OINK, OINK!" and so on. In other words, the child can learn to comprehend and follow increasingly complex language. If you and the child both have a set of animals to knock down, then the child can take turns telling you what to drop as well.