Toddler
My child is a toddler. He or she is more than one year old and starts to walk or is able to. He or she wants to discover the world in her way and in her pace.
Thing you can offer your toddler:
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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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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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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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In and out
Opportunities for the smallest to practise filling and emptying things - and very often, the
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Colors Filling and pouring
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincergrip Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of play: Peg game
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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
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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
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Two part puzzles
Two parts make one - Search for the fitting halves.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Shapes
- Skills: Concentration Fine motor skills
- Art des Spiels: Jigsaw puzzle
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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
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Rainbow rings
Colourful rings in the colours of the rainbow and lots of possiblities to loop them - all mixed
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors
- Skills: Fine motor skills Hand-eye-coordination
- Type of play: Sorting game Peg game
- Sensitiv period: Sensitivity for Order Sensitivity for Movement
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Toddler puzzles
First simple puzzles for toddlers - discover sequenzes, fruit, vegetables and rainbows -
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Colors Shapes
- Skills: Concentration Fine motor skills Hand-eye-coordination
- Type of play: Jigsaw puzzle
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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
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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
...Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- senses used: Sense of smell Sense of sight Sense of touch
- Skills: Fine motor skills Pincer grip
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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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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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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
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Life cycle of a snowdrop
The growth stages of a snowdrop as a layered puzzle.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Plants Vocabulary
- Skills: Concentration fine motor skills Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of Play: Jigsaw puzzle
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Language
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Life cycle of a bean
The growth stages of a bean plant as a layered puzzle.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Plants Vocabulary
- Skills: Concentration fine motor skills Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of Play: Jigsaw puzzle
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Language
Life cycle of a painted lady
The life cycle of a painted lady as a layered puzzle.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Plants Vocabulary
- Skills: Concentration fine motor skills Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of Play: Jigsaw puzzle
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Language
Life cycle of a tree frog
The life cycle of a tree frog as a layered puzzle.
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
- Interests: Plants Vocabulary
- Skills: Concentration fine motor skills Hand-Eye-Coordination
- Type of Play: Jigsaw puzzle
- Sensitive Period: Sensitivity for Language