Between 3 and 6 years old

From the age of 3, children begin to relate more with their peers, to do tasks together and to share games in their peer group. They begin to internalize the rules and acquire new learning and group values. In this age period, children progress more quickly in the complete acquisition of language and new knowledge. Also in their psychomotor and psychosocial development.

At this age the game is their way of learning and acquiring the skills, values and ideas necessary for their proper development. That's why the game should encourage them to work as a team, help them to experience new sensations and above all to develop their imagination.

The following games and materials for children ages 3 to 6 will help you learn while having fun. Discover them all!

Games for 3 - 6 year olds | Akros Educational
Spin the roulette wheel and play at inventing mathematical problems! Helps children to understand how problems are structured and to learn how to solve them, according to each child’s level of knowledge. Stimulates emotions, creativity, reasoning and calculation skills, the foundations for developing logical and mathematical thinking. Developed by José...
Cards to develop the mathematical sense and to understand the numbers up to 10.  To work intuitively: composition, decomposition, equality, equivalence, addition and subtraction.  Developed by José Antonio Fernández Bravo.
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Stamps featuring numbers based on the decimal system for representing amounts and quantities. Includes four stamps representing ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. Can be used with any ink.
Skills Development Games

Robocoding: coordinates and early coding

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Coding without a computer? It’s the best way to start! Spin the roulette wheels and put the robots on the board. Learn about coordinates and first concepts of early coding. Discover how any challenge can be divided into a sequence of smaller steps. Create these sequences of movements with your friends in a cooperative way, and you will find out that there...
Skills Development Games

Guess what they're thinking

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Observe the different pictures, put yourself in the character’s shoes, and try to guess what they’re thinking. Helps to improve social skills, communication and empathy. Includes 54 photographs and 22 dialogue balloons to express what the characters are thinking.
Skills Development Games

Tactile letter cards with punctuation signs

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Tactile pre-writing cards for working with letters and punctuation signs using touch to identify tactile surfaces. Includes capital and lower-case letters, differentiating in each case the vowels from the consonants. Inspired by the Montessori methodology. (Includes letters: - ç - l·l - ñ)
Language

The pre-reading roulette

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Spin the roulette and search for images that start with a specific letter or phoneme, that contain that letter or phoneme, or that have a specific number of syllables! A game containing photographs to help you to mentally segment words into syllables and identify phonemes and letters in a progressive way. Phonological awareness is essential for creating a...
Skills Development Games

Tactile number cards for pre-writing

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Tactile pre-writing cards for working with numbers and different routes to pre-writing using touch to identify tactile surfaces. Inspired by the Montessori methodology.
Skills Development Games

Tactile cards for lacing paths

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Create fun routes by lacing the cards according to colour and texture. Helps to improve visual and tactile discrimination, and fine psychomotor skills. Set of 36 tactile cards and 10 ergonomic laces for linking them.
Skills Development Games

Linking professions

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Set of 24 wooden figures for linking up, representing different professions and their related elements. Children can link each profession with its respective elements and play with the characters, which are also free-standing. Includes eight coloured laces.
Skills Development Games

Linking families of the world

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Set of 24 wooden figures for linking up, representing different families of the world. Children can link up their own family and play with the characters, which are also freestanding. Includes six coloured laces. 
Fine motor skills

Ergonomic laces for lacing (10 units)

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Set of ergonomic laces for little hands to practice lacing and linking objects. The 2'5 cm tips of the laces make them easy to handle. Facilitates hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and manual dexterity. Includes 10 laces (100 cm) of different colors.
Fine motor skills

Ergonomic laces for lacing (30 units)

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Set of ergonomic laces for little hands to practice lacing and linking objects. The 2'5 cm tips of the laces make them easy to handle. Facilitates hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and manual dexterity. Includes 30 laces (100 cm) of different colors.
Values education

Let’s play on equal terms!

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Two-piece puzzles to promote inclusive and non-sexist development in young children, with girls and boys doing different activities equally. Starting out from the principle of equality, these puzzles contribute to transmitting values of respect and tolerance, promoting co-education from a very early age.
Skills Development Games

Maxi-memory equality

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A modern memory game for working on equality values, by matching pairs of professions that are done by both men and women equally. A fun way of exercising memory skills and developing attention while instilling values. A memory game with large and real-life images. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Sustainability and environment

My planet and its energy

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Discover the origin of energy and how it is transformed to reach our houses and cities. Learn about the different sources of energy, both renewable and non-renewable, on our planet.
Values education

Self-esteem roulette

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Discover your skills and strengths by playing in group! The self-esteem roulette increases the self-concept of both girls and boys in a dynamic, fun, positive and enriching way.
Skills Development Games

Set of puzzles the 10 emotions

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Set of 10 puzzles featuring the basic emotions that guide our behaviour, plus 10 matching icons to help identify them: happiness, self-confidence, admiration, curiosity, surprise, anger, disgust, sadness, fear and guilty. Progressive puzzles of 3, 4 and 6 pieces. Made from large pieces of thick, strong, top quality cardboard, for children aged two and...
Emotional Intelligence

Give life to your emotions!

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The robots want to learn emotions and we are going to help them! Express basic emotions by representing them in different ways through the senses. A different way of finding out about emotions, providing a more complete view of each of them.
Skills Development Games

Recognize and guide the emotions

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A game for describing emotions is the first step to starting to develop an emotional conscience, achieving greater self-control and managing to regulate emotions properly.  It helps to identify our own individual emotions, recognize them in other people, and take decisions about our behaviour.
Skills Development Games

Maxi-stamps of the 10 emotions

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Set of 10 large stamps for representing and playing with the 10 basic emotions that guide our behaviour: happiness, self-confidence, admiration, curiosity, surprise, anger, disgust, sadness, fear and guilty.  Helps children to identify and express their emotions and to develop their social and emotional skills. Can be used with any ink.
Skills Development Games

Learning about food allergies and intolerances

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Do we know what we’re eating? This game lets you discover the most common food, allergies and intolerances, which foods cause them, and what symptoms they can cause. Developed in collaboration with CGD-NE (General Council of Dieticians-Nutritionists of Spain). It helps to generate empathy towards fellow students with food intolerances and encourages their...
Healthy Food

The superpowers of healthy food

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Discover the "superpowers" hidden in foods and become a "superhero" of healthy eating! This game helps to promote healthy eating habits and teaches the importance of consuming a wide variety of nutritious foods. In addition, it promotes their classification according to the main nutrients they contain and the food group to which they belong. This game has...
A fun way of learning how much energy is provided by food, and how much energy you expend doing different activities. Find out how much energy you need! Use the scales to discover whether there is a balance between the energy of the food you eat and the energy you expend during exercise.  Also learn that not all the energy provided by foods is of the same...
Skills Development Games

Maxi-memory inventions

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Travel back in time, and in each pair of pictures discover the progress of the inventions that have changed history. An amazing memory game with large, real-life images for exercising memory skills and working on attention issues. Travel back in time through inventions!
Skills Development Games

Maxi-memory cultures

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This game allows you to exercise memory with real images on large cards. It promotes the development of observation and concentration. Through the attention is improved visual and spatial memory. The wide variety of images helps to expand vocabulary. It also allows you to make phrases and establish associations between the images of the tabs according to...
Skills Development Games

Maxi-memory places of the world

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This game allows you to exercise memory with real images on large cards. It promotes the development of observation and concentration. Through the attention is improved visual and spatial memory. The wide variety of images helps to expand vocabulary. It also allows you to make phrases and establish associations between the images of the tabs according to...
Skills Development Games

Put yourself in my shoes

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Observe the different situations, put yourself in the shoes of the characters, and describe how they feel. This encourages the development of social skills such as empathy, the identification of emotions, and helps to develop an emotional conscience.
Skills Development Games

Learning to prevent bullying

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Set of five sequences for teaching children how to prevent situations of bullying before they even happen and equipping them with the strategies to tackle it.
Values education

Anti-bullying posters

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Anti-bullying posters for underlining a zero-tolerance attitude against bullying in schools and helping to prevent it. They show different situations of school bullying: physical, mental or psychological, social exclusion, trolling or cyber bullying. Designed to be hung on the wall. Posters are washable and made of high quality materials.
Improving speech and pronunciation

Blowing adventures

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Go through obstacles, direct the ball and reach your goal! Two fun scenes that help to exercise intensity, strength and directional blowing skills to develop optimum breathing patterns. You can play alone or in pairs.



In this age range, children are able to remain still longer. They already have a self-concept and recognize their individuality to the rest of the world. They understand the small assignments that adults ask them for and are able to carry them out.

Characteristics of children between 3 and 6 years old

Their fine motor skills are developed enough to lift and lower zippers, use pencils, cutlery and scissors without assistance, or brush their teeth. They start reading and writing, integrate it into their lives and improve it over time.

These small successes build their self-esteem. In these years they evolve from an egocentric thinking, based on the immediate satisfaction of their needs, to an understanding of other people's points of view.

Another consequence of maturation is that children gain independence and need parents less. Since she already knows how to hold her pencil and turn through pages of books, she can paint stories with more complex characters. At the age of 3 he is already able to scribble letters of the alphabet and his own name. These findings serve to strengthen their self-esteem.

Also at the age of 3, children discover their genitals. They begin to appreciate the anatomical differentiation between the two sexes, and seek to reaffirm their identity by imitating the behaviour of their gender's relative. They may imitate the daily activity of the mother or father respectively.

Games for children between 3 and 6 years old

The main feature of this era is the development of symbolic games, where children play different roles or situations in the real world. It is one of the ages where parents' play with their children is most important. When he was 3 years old, he used onomatopoeias to refer to animals.

In the games they do not seek the approval of the elders and only use them in case of need. They begin to attach importance to details such as clothes or make-up.

Regarding his character, the child knows how to show how he feels and how to increase his sociability. Their games are conditioned by the participation of other children. The selfishness of 2 years old is now behind them and part of them is the idea of sharing their toys with other children.

Each age has its own specific needs and that is why in the Akros shop you can find games adapted for children from 2 years old, special toys from 6 to 8 years old and even games for the elderly.

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