Activities in Mouse Click
The menu screen shows an icon for each activity. Descriptions of each activity
in this suite are given below. Click the icon for your chosen activity before
giving the mouse to the child.
Suggestion: Put a coloured sticker on the left mouse button. This will help to explain what
to click.
Click on the box. What happens when you click on the box?
The first time this activity is tried, try holding the mouse pointer
over the box so the child can focus on click. While the
animations and rewards are shown the arrow is taken away to
discourage random clicking. This happens throughout the activities.
Wake me up. Oh dear, Blob is asleep upside down. Can you
wake him up?
Introduce the vocabulary of upside down and right way up.
Animals 1. Click on the animals.
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 animals are introduced on successive screens.
At the stage of learning numbers you could count the animals
as they move into the scene.
Animals 2. Who is going to move?
Animals are already in their scene and clicking causes them to
animate away.
Reveal click. Click on the shadows to see what’s there.
The silhouettes are a different colour from those used in Mouse
Move and new vocabulary has been included. When they have
all been selected an animated scene is revealed.
Waking up and coming home. Can you wake Bouncer up?
Four hard-working characters need help getting up. Click to
wake them. They work so hard that they also need waking up
to get to bed. This activity introduces more precise positioning
of the mouse. You can weave a story around this extended activity.
Tiles. Click on the red stars.
Clicking on the tiles removes them to reveal a scene. The tiles
have a star to focus the mouse position for the click and to
distinguish them from the tiles used in Mouse Move. More tiles
must be removed on each successive screen.
Where’s Blob 1. Where’s Blob hiding?
There are three identical objects in the scene. A character is
hiding behind one of them. An exercise in visual perception as
well as mouse skills.
Where’s Blob 2. Can you find somebody hiding here?
This is similar to Where’s Blob 1, but the character is harder to
find, and there is a smaller target area.
Where’s Blob 3. Who is hiding here?
Somebody is hiding in different places in a more complex
scene. Click on them to make them appear fully. There are four
hiding places which are shown one by one in a random order.
Magic picture 1. What happens when you click on the pictures?
Use this to start talking about difference between the images if
the child is ready, but it is fine to just find the magic picture by
trying each one.
Magic picture 2. Which one is the magic picture?
More magic pictures with a range of differences to talk about.
Listening. Click on the picture - what can you hear?
Clockwise from the top:
Screen 1: Double bassoon, trumpet, violin, flute, cello.
Screen 2: French horn, xylophone, tuba, clarinet, oboe.
Screen 3: Timpani, piano, trombone, bassoon, snare drum.
Click on the arrow to move to the next screen.
Find a match. Who’s in the picture? Can you find another one
the same?
Click on the one that matches to put it into the second picture
frame. This activity introduces the idea of matching.