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HOW TO PLAY
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BENEFITS
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- Insert felt balls into the cutouts.
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- Helps to build concentration skills.
- Develops hand eye coordination.
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- Use tongs to pick up objects to insert into the holes.
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- Builds and strengthens small muscles in the hands that are required for things such as holding a pencil and writing.
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- Provide different sensory materials such as our sensory bases, beans, rice or natural items (e.g. gum nuts, mini pebbles) and allow children to scoop, transfer and pour into the cutouts.
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- Develops, improves, and refines motor skills.
- Exposes children to a variety of tactile elements which is important to help them tolerate different sensory sensations.
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- Use the insert as a stimulus to explore different topics. For example the life-cycle of a sunflower or air transport.
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- Introduces research skills.
- Allows children to make real world connections.
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- Use the inserts as a base to enhance small world play by adding props such as figurines, dolls, blocks etc.
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- Encourages imagination.
- Promotes language development by describing their creations for example, what’s happening or what they can see.
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- Allocate numbers to each cut out and challenge children to insert the required amount of objects.
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- Introduces mathematical concepts.
- Improves and reinforces counting skills by using one to one number correspondence.
- Builds an understanding that numbers (word/symbol) represent a quantity.
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