One of my favorite activities I do with young children (2-3 y/o) is that simple game that everybody’s uncle used to play with them when they were a kid. Simply take an object (beanbags work well) and hide it behind your back in one of your hands and have the students guess which one.

Even the youngest children will make an effort at saying, “this one” in activities where there is some reward at the end. In this case the reward being finding the object.

You can build on the activity by using several objects of different colors and make it a color activity or use stuffed animals and make it an animal vocab activity.

I always try and make it obvious which hand I put it in, at least a few times, to build up some confidence in the activity.

Then have the studens try and ask the question, “Which one?” to each other. They almost never fail to switch it to the other hand though. Yes, even two year olds have a sense of humor!