Age 5-6 concentration

Pouring activities

There are many different pouring activities - they build on each other in terms of difficulty
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Tongs

There are many different activities with tongs - they build on each in difficulty level and
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Sound cylinders

Shaking and exact listening - train the sense of hearing with the sound cylinders.
Two part puzzles

Two parts make one.
Toddler puzzles

First simple puzzles for toddlers
Matching fruits

Match fruits made from felt with the corresponding photographs
Binomial cube

The binomial cube is a sensomotor experience, that supports the development of spatial
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Trinomial cube

The trinomial cube is a sensomotor experience, that supports the development of spatial
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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
Pasta in a bag

Pasta in all colors and shapes make the most beautiful necklaces.

Put
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- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
  - Interests: Colors Patterns
  - Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
  - Type of play: Lacing
Felt loops

Making long lines or chaplets out of felt bands - practising opening and closing buttons, snaps
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- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
  - Interests: Latches
  - Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
  - Type of play: Practical life
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
Letters in a box

Building words - in the car or on the train!
- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
  - Interests: Letters
  - Skills: Reading
  - Type of play: Tile-based game
Solar system - quietbookpage
The planets in our solar system - a quiet book following the sewing pattern of ...
- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
  - Skills Planets Numbers Latches
Fishing game or counting fishies

Colourful glittery fish made from felt.
Everything about puzzles

Is there a order for puzzles, that is good to follow? My childs puzzles provide no challenge -
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Sensory tray - a small sensorybin

A tray of bits and bobs and a little bit of rice - the sensory bin in small size can also be a
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- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
  - senses used: Sense of smell Sense of sight Sense of touch
  - Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip
Cube-mosaic

100 cubes in 20 colours.
Rainbow Peg dolls

Replay family, friends or the nursery group.
(Tile-based) puzzle with three basic forms

Triangles, squares and rhombuses in rainbow colours invite to create new shapes.
Couting with stones

Make a game with pepples to assign numbers and quantities.
DIY Spielgaben - endless opportunities to play

Triangles, squares and rhombi in all the colours of the rainbow
DIY Light table - IKEA hack

A table, an acrylic sheet and LED-light strips.
Rainbow-Window-Blocks

Glowing blocks in the colours of the rainbow
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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Rainbow-Sensory bins

Rainbows are fascinating for all ages.
- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
  - used senses: Sense of sight Sense of touch
  - skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip Categorization
Magnetic, glowing stones

Glowing, mysterious discs in all the colours of the rainbow
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
Treasure bins for sorting and digging

Digging-Sorting-Decorating-Hiding-Finding
- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
  - Used senses: Sense of smell Sense of touch Sense of sight
  - 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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Telling stories with story-stones

How do I tell a good story? What do I need for it?
Syringe and pipette

There are many different transfer exercises with pipettes and syringes - they build on each
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The 5 vertebrae puzzles

The 5 animal puzzles with one animal each from the five animal kingdoms.
The invertebrae puzzles

The missing animal puzzles with some animals of the invertebrate animal classes.
Felt tangram
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Animal Letters Numbers
- Skills: Persistence Concentration Abstraction
- Type of play: Puzzle