muscles needed for writing fine motor skills
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Syringe and pipette
There are many different transfer exercises with pipettes and syringes - they build on each
...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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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(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
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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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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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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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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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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