Healthy Habits Game: Roll the Dice and Practice Good Manners!
This dice-based board game teaches children ages 3-5 healthy habits and polite social language by combining movement, counting, and speaking practice in one activity. Rolling the dice and counting spaces builds number recognition and one-to-one counting, while landing on speaker icons gives structured practice saying polite phrases like 'please' and 'thank you' out loud. Coloring a smiley or sad face based on the habit shown also reinforces the idea that choices have positive or negative consequences.
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Month 10: Learning & Development | Ages Up to 4Curriculum
How to use this worksheet
Take turns rolling the dice and counting the dots to determine how many spaces to move along the game path. When your child lands on a space with a speaker icon, have them say the polite words shown out loud before continuing. When they land on a space showing a habit, ask them to decide if it's a good or bad habit and color the matching smiley or sad face. Keep playing until everyone reaches the end of the path.
Materials needed
- Dice
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- •Create a poster at home listing the polite words practiced in the game.
- •Role-play everyday scenarios — like asking for a toy or bumping into someone — using the polite words from the game.
- •Make your own dice game path with new habits and polite phrases your family wants to practice.
- •Practice counting dice dots without moving pieces, just to build number fluency.
- •Keep a sticker chart at home for real-life moments your child uses the polite words.
Tips for parents and teachers
Model the polite phrases yourself during the game rather than only prompting your child to say them, since children pick up language fastest through repeated example. If your child colors a habit incorrectly as good or bad, talk through the scenario together rather than simply correcting the color choice. Praise both the counting accuracy and the habit reasoning, since the game is really teaching two skills at once.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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