NewAges 7–10Memory & Focus
Hand Sign Hexagons
The big one. Six signs, twelve colours.
Crossing the MidlineTwo-Hand Coordination
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Working Memory Games for Kids
Working memory is the brain's sticky note: holding a rule or a few pieces of information in mind while you use them. Remembering 'blue means thumbs-up' while your eyes search for the next colour is a perfect example.
Children rely on working memory for mental maths, following instructions and reading comprehension, which is why parents and teachers love games that stretch it gently.
Where children use it every day
- Mental maths
- Following multi-step instructions
- Remembering what they just read
- Keeping track of rules in board games
Easy ways to practise at home
- Colour-to-hand-sign codes that change each round
- Going around a ring of colours and copying each colour's sign
- Saying the colour out loud while signing
- Repeating a short pattern from memory
Activities
Working Memory activity sheets
Screen-free, about 10 minutes each, as a printable PDF or a printed laminated sheet.
Questions
Parents ask
What is a good working memory game for a 7 year old?
Hand Sign Hexagons: six colours, six hand signs. Your child points around a ring of colours and has to remember and copy each colour's sign.
How do I make it harder as my child improves?
Go faster, swap hands, go anticlockwise, or cover the key so they have to remember the colour-to-sign rules.