🥤 Cup Tower Challenge
Stack every cup in the cupboard into the tallest tower you can manage.
📚 Learn·10 min·Free·Ages 1–4·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Sturdy cups, no cracked or chipped plastic.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Sequencing
- ✓Balance
What you need
6–10 plastic cups
How to do it
- 1.Line up the cups on the floor.
- 2.Build the tallest tower you can together.
- 3.Count the cups as it falls, then rebuild.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put 6–10 plastic cups on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Line things up, count out loud, and notice what's the same.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 1–2 they'll tip it out and put nothing back. That's the work — emptying comes long before filling.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Count it, then ask how many there'd be with one more.