Case Study: Learn Spanish, Primary School Game

Learn Spanish words with this fruit and vegetables game.

Designed for a class of primary school children aged 5 and 6. The brief was to create a fun and engaging game to help teach some basic Spanish words based on the term's theme of healthy eating. 

Children of this age are starting to read so producing something legible, using clear typography and sensible size text, would encourage the children to read both Spanish and English words confidently.

The games followed a standard pack of cards style, consisting of 13 different types of fruit and vegetables repeated 4 times to give a pack of 52 cards. There were two possible games to play -- 'Snap' (sharing the cards between players and taking it in turns to put a card down, when the same card is placed the child can put there hand down on the pile while shouting 'SNAP' the winner has all the cards at the end); and 'Match the Card' by laying them face down on a flat surface and trying to locate pairs, the winner has the most pairs.

I was lucky enough to attend the class when they had this lesson and the children engaged with the game as well as learning the words in a different language, so much so that it naturally developed into naming the colours on the cards in Spanish and English too.

The drawings of the fruits and vegetables are vectors which meant they could be transposed into the next games of cutting out and matching the names to the fruits or vegetables. The versatility of my illustrations means one project lead to many other possibilities. The flowers and foliage are made from watercolour drawings to provide interest and further exploration of the cards.

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