animals categorization
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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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Felt tangram
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Animal Letters Numbers
- Skills: Persistence Concentration Abstraction
- Type of play: Puzzle

(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

Winter bird-food-balls
Easy homemade bird food balls

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

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
(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

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

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.

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

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

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