Prepositions with your own pictures
Swap the shapes for your own pictures and the rules turn into sentences: the cat in the box, the dog behind the tree. Children build each one on the board.
When to use it
When a class is learning in, behind, above and below — early years, or anyone new to the language — and the words need real things to be about.
What makes it this
Built on the Spatial reasoning generator with these changed. Everything else is the default.
- Objects in play: Custom object
Free activities play with all eight shapes. A plan lets you take shapes out of play and add objects of your own — any picture, named whatever you like, for players to drag around the board.
In the builder: Exercises & objects
- Hide the colour picker
Every object keeps the first theme colour — avoid colour rules with this on; the notes under them say why.
In the builder: How it plays
- Each object placed only once
A shape already on the board greys out in the tray, so duplicates are off the table.
In the builder: How it plays
Preview
View only — copy it to play.Where is the cat? Prepositions with pictures
Put the pictures where the rules say. Drag them onto the board, make them bigger or smaller with the corner handle, and tap one to bring it to the front. A rule ticks green when it is true.
6 exercises
Why the example is built this way
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Four pictures, one of each.
The tray holds a cat, a dog, a box and a tree, and nothing else: the eight shapes are out of play. Each object placed only once means there is one cat to put in the box, not a spare one to satisfy the next rule.
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The rules are pictures too.
How rules reach the player stays on Pictures, so each rule is drawn as picture, arrow, picture, with the words underneath. A child who can't read yet can still follow it, and one learning English sees the word under the thing it names.
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Use your own photos.
The class pet, the reading corner, the playground slide: any picture can be an object, and its name is the word on the card. A picture can't take a colour, so Hide the colour picker is on — keep colour rules for the built-in shapes.
Build it yourself
- 1 Open the Spatial reasoning builder and fill in the Exercises & objects tab.
- 2 Change the settings under What makes it this. Each one says where it is in the builder.
- 3 Share the link with your players, or embed the activity in your own site.
Or skip the building: copy this example and swap in your own content.