Activities and Games To Exercise Cognitive Flexibility
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1. Jenga: Building and tearing down pieces game. They require players to ask themselves the same questions: What
will happen if I remove this block from this tower? Will the entire structure wobble if I remove this piece? How
will it affect the structure if I remove a block quickly? Therefore, it requires players to be focused, have different
options before moving a block, and watch their movements throughout the action. (cognitive flexibility when
looking for different options to move the pieces)
2. Distraction: This game of cunning seeks to confuse in a fun way the participants who begin by taking cards one
by one from a pile. All cards have numbers. Every time a player draws a new card, they must say the numbers that
were drawn before, plus the new one. As the game progresses, they can change the initial prompt, for example,
saying the initial number instead of the new one. It can also be made with sheet objects. (cognitive flexibility when
changing setpoints)
3. Role Cards: Each turn, a player draws a 'role' card. This tells them which character should act: rock stars, clowns,
doctors, etc. The other players must guess based on the performance which character represents. (cognitive
flexibility by changing roles and readjusting your response to identify appropriately based on interpretation)
4. Form words: with tokens that represent letters they will have to make different words with the same letters.
(cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to form words)
5. Order the story: They will have to order stories with pictures of situations and then give another possible order by
telling a different story. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to create a coherent story)
6. Sea and land: The leader of the game orders which side they should jump to, whether forward or backward
depends on the command. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to move the pieces)
7. The king rules: The leader of the game will give orders that the other players must follow only when he says "the
king rules." (cognitive flexibility to change order instructions)
8. Dice to create stories: Cardboard dice are created and a situation is placed on each side, the children throw the
dice and create a story with what comes out. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different stories)
9. Poor workers: Two groups are created, one of them must guess the representation that the other group makes,
these representations can be TV shows and movies, whichever group guesses will catch the opposing team.
(cognitive flexibility when looking for different response options and readjusting them)
10. Hanged Man: You must guess the correct word, for each error a doll is drawn and when it is completed you will
lose your turn. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to complete the correct word)
11. Puzzle. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to properly place the pieces)
12. Stop : All players must quickly capture their name, surname, city, color, animal, object, the first one to finish
shouts stop. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to complete the boxes correctly)
13. Scrambled Images : In this activity you must move the blocks in an orderly manner until you get the desired
image. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to organize the image.)
14. The ship is going to sail: a round is made where it is said "a ship is going to sail that carries in its cargo animals,
kitchen objects, color, clothing, among others" they cannot repeat. (cognitive flexibility when looking for different
options to name correctly according to the instructions provided)
15. True or false: A statement is given, children must say if it is true or false. Example: cows eat grass: true, pigs fly:
false. (cognitive flexibility to process information, adapting to changes in setpoint)
16. Mazes (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to get out of the maze)
17. Rubix cube (cognitive flexibility when looking for different options to correctly assemble the cube) .
18. Matching games (for young children) (cognitive flexibility by looking for different ways to fit the pieces and
understanding that they are not all the same )
