Seed & Harvest: a remember-tomorrow memory game for kids

🌙 Long-term memory Strong evidence

Plant today, harvest tomorrow!

▶ Play Seed & Harvest

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

  1. Watch where each seed is planted.
  2. Tap the spot where each picture was planted.
  3. Come back tomorrow and find them again!

Why it helps

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.

▶ Play Seed & Harvest

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