This is how Kendi learned her numbers. We started playing this game a few years ago. It's called Ripple and you play it with Skip Bo cards. I can't find the original rules anywhere and we've been playing a simplified version with the kids for so long that I don't remember all the correct rules.

We start by mixing all the cards in the middle of the table. Then we each make two rows of five cards. We line them up because the object is to find matching numbers on the top row and the bottom row. When we first started Kendi didn't know names of numbers or what they looked like, but it only took a few games for her start learning them.

Each player turns over two of their cards. Make sure they are not two that are supposed to match. Then you just take turns picking cards from the pile. If a card you pick up matches one of your numbers you put it on the corresponding spot and turn over the card that has been sitting there. If that card you just turned over matches another card then you keep going, like a ripple effect. If you pick a card that you don't have then you decide to either keep it in a spot that doesn't have either top or bottom card turned over yet (possibly starting another ripple) or you put it in your own discard pile and then your turn is over. You can take cards off the top of others' discard piles if they match one of your cards instead of drawing from the middle. Someone wins when they have matched up all their cards.

Sorry about the silly faces. Pictures always look so good on the camera phone. By the time I see it blown up on the computer screen its too late to take another one.