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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
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- 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
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- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
  - Interests: Numbers Quantity
  - Skills: Categorization
  - Type of play: Matching game
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
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
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
Rainbow Peg dolls

Replay family, friends or the nursery group - with these peg dolls anything the fantasy
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- Next step: deepening knowlegde, following interests.
  - Interests: Colors Vocabulary
  - Skills: Pincer grip
  - Type of play: free open-ended play
  - Sensitiv period: Sensitivity for Language