fine motor skills Age 5-6
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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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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
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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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Two part puzzles
Two parts make one.
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Shades sorting game
'ligther than... and darker than' in the colours of the rainbow
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Rainbow rings
Colourful rings in the colours of the rainbow.
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Toddler puzzles
First simple puzzles for toddlers
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Our Wunderwerkstatt
Invitation to an exploration of the senses in the wonder workshop
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Sorting - the good ones go into the pod
Sorting exercises can be so different.
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Simple, everyday tasks
Children want to investigate and exercise tasks, they see us do.
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Trays for little household helpers
Explore and practice everyday domestic tasks.
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Syringe and pipette
There are many different transfer exercises with pipettes and syringes - they build on each
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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
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Felt tangram
Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests:
- Interests: Animal Letters Numbers
- Skills: Persistence Concentration Abstraction
- Type of play: Puzzle
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
Everything about puzzles
Is there a order for puzzles, that is good to follow? My childs puzzles provide no challenge -
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Patterns on the light table
Lay out and explore exciting luminous patterns.
Plant windows
Preserve and explore natural treasures from a walk through the woods.
Rainbow Peg dolls
Replay family, friends or the nursery group.
Counting blocks in Montessori colors
1, 2, 3... - Counting and building all in one.
Couting with stones
Make a game with pepples to assign numbers and quantities.
DIY Light table - IKEA hack
A table, an acrylic sheet and LED-light strips.
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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Matching games
Every child enjoys matching games.
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?
Telling stories with story-stones
How do I tell a good story? What do I need for it?
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.
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
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
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
Lacing blocks
Lacing smooth silk ribbon through different sized thread eyes.
Fishing game or counting fishies
Colourful glittery fish made from felt.
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
Cube-mosaic
100 cubes in 20 colours.
(Tile-based) puzzle with three basic forms
Triangles, squares and rhombuses in rainbow colours invite to create new shapes.
DIY Spielgaben - endless opportunities to play
Triangles, squares and rhombi in all the colours of the rainbow
Rainbow-Window-Blocks
Glowing blocks in the colours of the rainbow
Mirror corner
mirror, mirror in the corner...
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