Seed & Harvest: a remember-tomorrow memory game for kids
🌙 Long-term memory Strong evidence
Plant today, harvest tomorrow!
Your child plants 3 to 8 picture seeds in a garden grid and then recalls where each one went. A day or more later — up to a week — they come back to harvest by finding the seeds again.
This practises long-term memory. Recalling after a delay, with spacing and a night’s sleep in between, is one of the best-supported ways to make memories last.
Harder levels add more seeds, a bigger grid, a shorter look, look-alike pictures and a short distraction before recall.
- Skill
- Long-term memory
- Ages
- 6–12 years
- Levels
- 20 levels, adapts automatically
- What grown-ups can track
- Remembered days later
How to play
- Watch where each seed is planted.
- Tap the spot where each picture was planted.
- Come back tomorrow and find them again!
Why it helps
- Practises recalling after a delay
- Uses spacing and sleep to help memories last
- Builds a daily “come back tomorrow” habit
- Grown-ups see next-day recall
Based on retrieval practice, spacing and sleep-dependent memory consolidation (Wilhelm et al. 2013; Zigterman et al. 2015). Grown-ups can see the next-day recall percentage.
💡 At breakfast, ask what your child planted yesterday before they open the game. Saying it out loud is extra recall practice.
Frequently asked questions
Why do we have to wait to harvest?
Recalling after a delay, with sleep in between, is what helps memories last. The harvest shows how much was remembered days later.
What if we forget to come back the next day?
That is fine. The harvest can happen from one to seven days later.
What does Seed & Harvest practise?
Long-term memory for where things are. It mainly improves remembering similar things, not IQ or grades.
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- Working memory Memory Garden Remember which flowers bloomed!
- Self-control Color Clash Tap the ink, not the word!
- Flexible thinking Sort Switch Sort cards — but the rule keeps changing!
- Listening memory Music Echo Listen to the tune, play it back!
- Focus & stop Firefly Catch Catch fireflies, let the bees go!
- Visual attention Odd One Out Spot the one that is different!
- Spatial thinking Mirror Magic Copy, mirror and turn the pattern!
- Number sense Dot Dash Which side has more dots?
- Planning ahead Fruit Tower Move the fruit to match the picture!
- Memory updating Bunny Hop Remember where the bunny hopped!
- Logical reasoning What Comes Next? Find the pattern, pick the next piece!
- Mental rotation Same or Mirror? Is it turned, or flipped like a mirror?
- Switching speed Trail Race Connect the circles in order — fast!
- Divided attention Fish Tracker Keep your eyes on the ⭐ fish!
- Rhythm & timing Beat Keeper Tap the drum on the beat!
- Number estimation Number Line Find where the number lives!
- Body & brain Move & Think Run, freeze, dance — and think!
- Counting & numbers Number Race Race along the numbers, counting each step!