02/04/2026
🎉 Play of the Week Wednesday 🧠✏️
Build Visual Skills While You Play!🔎
⛏️ Did you know that I SPY Dig In is more than just a fun digging game? It’s an engaging, hands-on way to strengthen visual processing, attention, coordination, and problem-solving skills—all through fast-paced, sensory-rich play.
In this exciting “search-and-find” game, players race against the timer to dig through the bowl and locate objects that match the images on their cards. With bright colors, small details, and lots of visual distractions, I SPY Dig In challenges kids to look carefully, think quickly, and stay focused—all while having fun!
Here’s what it helps develop:
🔷 Form Constancy – Recognizing objects despite changes in orientation, color, or position.
🟠 Visual Memory – Remembering which objects to search for and where they may be located.
🔺 Processing Speed – Quickly locating and identifying matching objects under time pressure.
🟣 Figure–Ground Perception – Finding specific items within a visually busy background.
🟩 Visual Scanning – Systematically searching through the bowl to locate targets.
🟨 Eye–Hand Coordination & Fine Motor Skills – Digging, grasping, and placing objects accurately.
✨ Need to simplify the game?
• Remove the timer and focus on accuracy
• Use fewer objects in the bowl
• Search for one item at a time
• Provide verbal cues or model how to scan
• Allow extra time for younger players
✨ Want to make it more challenging?
• Add a strict time limit
• Require players to name the object before grabbing it
• Increase the number of objects in the bowl
• Play memory mode: look at the card, then flip it over before searching
• Add sequencing rules (find items in a specific order)
• Use two cards at once to increase visual load
💡 Visual scanning, attention, memory, and motor skills all come together in this fast-paced, screen-free favorite.
Perfect for kids, families, classrooms, and therapy sessions looking to build strong visual-perceptual skills through play.
🎯 Dig deep. Look closely. Find it fast.
