Lumios

Fine Motor Skills

Fine Motor Skills

By manipulating pieces and fitting them together, children improve their dexterity, which prepares them to perform actions requiring more precise movements. A variety of activities help develop dexterity. Threading, drawing, cutting and manipulating various modelling clays gradually helps acquire the skills needed to master everyday gestures such as buttoning, lacing and zipping up and prepares children for writing. Preschoolers who do these types of activities will find it easier to trace letters.

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Space-Time

Space-Time

Space and time are at the heart of children's daily activities: drawing, writing, moving a piece on a game board, putting together a puzzle or building a building, as well as identifying landmarks to get from one point to another. All of these call for spatial organization and orientation. Furthermore, telling a story, correctly ordering a sequence of events, learning the time, and carrying out an activity in a set amount of time all call for temporal organization and orientation. All of these concepts are gradually developed through various motor and cognitive skills. This is easily observed in the development of children's language when they use the words inside, outside, next to, behind, before, after, yesterday and tomorrow. In short, skills related to spatial and temporal organization impact several areas of children's development.

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Concentration

Concentration

Concentration is the ability to focus attention on a single subject. Whether with work, reading or play, the process is always the same, and it is essential for learning. However, the ability to concentrate varies greatly depending on age and neurological development. Play is a natural ally of concentration. Anyone who has observed a child playing can attest to this. Many things can stimulate concentration. First, it is important to provide the child with a favourable learning environment: limit noise, have adequate physical and material organization, and fit the task duration as well as the challenge level to the child's abilities. Encouraging the child to follow a path with their finger, closing their eyes so that they listen to sounds, and reminding them of some of the characteristics of the task are strategies that help develop concentration. Finally, asking the child what they did to complete a task allows them to apply their strategies in other contexts.

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Discover Lumios, an original and fun skill game that combines precision, speed, and strategy to offer dynamic games for children ages 4 and up… and parents too!
The principle is simple: change all 5 illuminated balls to your team’s color to win the game. At the beginning of the game, 5 red balls are lined up in the center. Two teams sit facing each other and the game can begin!
On their turn, each player must throw or direct their movement with enough precision to hit a red ball. The ball then randomly changes color, becoming either green or blue, which determines the team’s color. But be careful: the balls can change color each time they are touched! A green ball becomes blue when it is touched, and a blue ball becomes green again.
Players must therefore use precision, observation, and strategy to change all the balls to their team’s color. The first team to get all 5 balls in their color wins the game and must shout “Lumiooos!”
A Fun Game for Developing Skills
Lumios helps children develop their fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, concentration, and precision, while learning to anticipate the consequences of their actions. The game also encourages following rules, patience, decision-making, and teamwork.
With its simple rules and dynamic gameplay, Lumios is ideal for playing with the whole family and sharing fun moments together while developing everyone’s reflexes and skills.
2 to 6 players
Approximately 10 minutes