Age 3-5 Sense of sight
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Pouring activities
There are many different pouring activities - they build on each other in terms of difficulty
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Filling and pouring
- Skills: Hand-Eye-Coordination Perception Independence
- Type of play: Practical life
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Movement
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Syringe and pipette
There are many different transfer exercises with pipettes and syringes - they build on each
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Filling and pouring
- Skills: Hand-Eye-Coordination Perception Independence
- Type of play: Practical life
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Movement
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Tongs
There are many different activities with tongs - they build on each in difficulty level and
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Filling and pouring
- Skills: Hand-Eye-Coordination Perception Independence
- Type of play: Practical life
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Movement
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Spooning
There are many different activities with spoons - they build on each other in levels of
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Filling and pouring
- Skills: Hand-Eye-Coordination Perception Independence
- Type of play: Practical life
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Movement
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Binomial cube
The binomial cube is a sensomotor experience, that supports the development of spatial
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Rechnen Geometrie
- Skills: Auge-Hand-Koordination Abstraktion
- Type of Play: Konstruieren
- Sensitive Period: Sinn für Ordnung
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Trinomial cube
The trinomial cube is a sensomotor experience, that supports the development of spatial
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Rechnen Geometrie
- Skills: Auge-Hand-Koordination Abstraktion
- Type of play: Konstruieren
- Sensitive Period: Sinn für Ordnung
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Sound cylinders
Shaking and exact listening - train the sense of hearing with the sound cylinders.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: hearing
- Skills: concentration categorization
- Type of Play: Sorting game
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Language
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The 5 vertebrae puzzles
The 5 animal puzzles with one animal each from the five animal kingdoms. The children look for
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Animals Vocabulary
- Skills: Conzentration Fine motor skills Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Jigsaw puzzle
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Language
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The invertebrae puzzles
The missing animal puzzles with some animals of the invertebrate animal classes.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Animals Vocabulary
- Skills: Conzentration Fine motor skills Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Jigsaw puzzle
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Language
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Colormatching with clothes pins
Colors from yellow to purple and from light to dark.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: colors shading
- Skills: Fein motor skills Pincergrip Muscles needed for writing
- Type of play: Matching game
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Pasta in a bag
Pasta in all colors and shapes make the most beautiful necklaces.
Put
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors Patterns
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Lacing
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Felt tangram
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Animal Letters Numbers
- Skills: Persistence Concentration Abstraction
- Type of play: Puzzle
Felt loops
Making long lines or chaplets out of felt bands - practising opening and closing buttons, snaps
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Latches
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Practical life
Pinch me
Attaching paperclips to tippy-toes.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Peg game
Patterns with foam shapes
Laying free or given patterns with foam shapes.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: patterns symmetry
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip
- Type of play: Tile-based game
Sorting sticks
Putting sticks into bags, and out, and in again...
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors Filling and pouring
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Sorting game
Solar system - quietbookpage
The planets in our solar system - a quiet book following the sewing pattern of
Lacing blocks
Lacing smooth silk ribbon through different sized thread eyes - training fine motor skills and
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Lacing
- Skills: Conzentration Fine motor skills Hand-eye-coordination
- Art des Spiels: Skill based game
Shades sorting game
'ligther than... and darker than' in the colours of the rainbow
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Shades Colors
- Skills: Fine motor skills Hand-eye-coordination
- Type of play: Peg game
- Sensitiv period: Sensitivity for Order
Fishing game or counting fishies
Colourful glittery fish made from felt - a classic fishing game or as an exersice for
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Numbers Magnetism
- Skills: Fine motor skills Hand-eye-coordination
- Type of play: Skill based game
Everything about puzzles
Is there a order for puzzles, that is good to follow? My childs puzzles provide no challenge -
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Cube-mosaic
100 cubes in 20 colours offer endless possibilities for patterns and constructions.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Building Patterns
- Skills: Fine motor skills
- Type of play: Constructing Tile-based game
Patterns on the light table
Lay out and explore exciting luminous patterns.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Patterns Symmetry
- Skills: Pincer grip Persistance Concentration
- Type of play: Free open-ended play
Plant windows
Preserve and explore natural treasures from a walk through the woods.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Plants
- Skills: Persistance Concentration
- Type of play: Free open-ended-play
Rainbow Peg dolls
Replay family, friends or the nursery group - with these peg dolls anything the fantasy
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Vocabulary
- Skills: Pincer grip
- Type of play: free open-ended play
- Sensitiv period: Sensitivity for Language
(Tile-based) puzzle with three basic forms
Triangles, squares and rhombuses in rainbow colours invite to create new shapes and figures and
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Shapes Patterns Geometry Symmetry
- Skills: Fine motor skills Categorization
- Type of play: Tile-based-game
Counting blocks in Montessori colors
1, 2, 3... - Counting and building all in one.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Quantity Building Numbers
- Skills: Control of the Wrist Concentration
- Type of Play: Construction
Couting with stones
Make a game with pepples to assign numbers and quantities. With more oblong stones you can make
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Numbers Quantity
- Skills: Categorization
- Type of play: Matching game
Our Wunderwerkstatt
Invitation to an exploration of the senses in the wonder workshop: highly concentrated and
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Shapes Colors Patterns
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip
- Type of play: free open-ended play
DIY Spielgaben - endless opportunities to play
Triangles, squares and rhombi in all the colours of the rainbow invite to make ever new
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
DIY Light table - IKEA hack
A table with chairs from Ikea, an acrylic sheet and LED-light strips can make an affordable
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors
- Skills: Hand-eye-coordination Pincer grip
- Type of play: Free open-ended play
Rainbow-Window-Blocks
Glowing blocks in the colours of the rainbow to stack or to explore colours and how they are
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Building
- Skills: Fine motor skills Persistence
- Type of play: Constructing
Mirror corner
mirror, mirror in the corner... - experience and investigate symetry, geometry and
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Geometry Symmetry
- Skills: Persistence Pincer grip Concentration
- Type of play: free open-ended play
Sorting - the good ones go into the pod
Sorting exercises can be so different. You can sort into colours, shapes, properties ect.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Formen Colors Magnetism
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip Categorization
- Type of play: Sorting game
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Order
The easiest and quickest playdough
This play dough has many different variaties and only needs very simple ingredients - no
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Window paint - quick to mix
Do you want to paint on your windows with brushes or fingers and have the paint come of
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Magnetic, glowing stones
Glowing, mysterious discs in all the colours of the rainbow, which can either be caught with a
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Magnetism
- Skills: Fine motor skills
- Type of Play: Free open-ended play
Simple, everyday tasks
Simple everyday tasks - children want to investigate and exercise tasks, they see us do, in
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Skills: Fine motor skills Motion sequence
- Type of play: Practical life
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Movement
Matching games
Every child enjoys matching games - the difficulty level can be varied.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Vocabulary
- Skills: Categorization Abstraction Memory concentration
- Type of play: Matching game
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Language
Matching fruits
Match fruits made from felt with the corresponding photographs
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Vocabulary
- Skills: Categorization Abstraction Memory Concentration
- Type of play: Matching game
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Language
Water is alwasy fun - easy sensory bins with water
Water is probably the simplest filling material for a sensory bin.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Used senses: Sense of smell Sense of touch
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip
(Ant)Arctica - Snow, pinguins and icebears
A little bit of water, instant-snow, a few animals and here we are in the polar regions!
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Used senses: Sense of touch
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip
Cloud dough
Cloud dough is soft, slightly sticky sand you can easily make yourself. Furthermore it is safe
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Slimy slime
Slimy slime - made of only two ingredients!
It feels like the slime that
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Kinetic sand
Kinetic sand has different flow properties than regular sand or moon sand.
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Winter bird-food-balls
Easy homemade bird food balls
Do it yourself watercolor
Do you want to make your own brilliant watercolors?
You can with this
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Oobleck
Ooblek - non-Newtonian fluid
Our alternative for "magical water" is
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Which seeds are these?
What grows from these little seeds - and what do carrot seeds look like?
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Vocabulary plants
- Skills: Problem solving Concentration
- Type of Play: Zuordnungsspiel
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Language
Trays for little household helpers
Explore and practice everyday domestic tasks.
Here Marie form
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Skills: Fine motor skills Motion sequence
- Type of play: Practical life
- Sensitive period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Motion