Montessori Activity: Placing Elastic Bands on Peg Board

Idea from Sugar and Spices...

Age: From 2.5 years old

Objectives:

1. To train fine motor skills.
2. To teach shapes

Materials:

1. Fanta Colour peg board pegged and turned inverted
2. 1 bowl with rubber bands
3. 1 tray

Directions:

1. Show your child how to place the elastic bands onto the peg board.
2. As you show, talk about the shape of the elastic bands you have made.
3. Invite your child to try.

Additional Information:

I am planning the Montessori activities for the coming week and came across this idea from Sugar and Spices. J has been fascinated by rubber bands recently, thus this activity would be ideal. Sugar and Spices used a geoboard, but since I have a fanta colour peg board, I use this instead. Looking forward to let J try it :-)

You can buy peg board from Amazon:

http://amzn.to/1VYTqJc

Montessori Activity: Inserting Fanta Color Pegs

Age: From 2 years 3 months

Activity Duration: 5-15 minutes

Preparation Time: 3 minutes

Objective(s):

1. To train the child’s fine motor skills.
2. To train the child's hand-to-eye coordination.

Materials:

Fantacolour plastic pegs and pegboard

Directions:

1. Show your child how to create beautiful mosaics by inserting the pegs into the pegboard.

2. Encourage your child to try.

3. Show your child how to undo by turning the pegboard over and pushing the pegs directly into the case.

4. Encourage your child to try.

Total Cost: 10 DKK (2.40 SGD) from the Flea market

Additional Information:

J tried this yesterday (2Y2M25D) and today. He enjoyed it very much. I actually wanted to wait until the weekend to introduce this toy, but he discovered this new toy on the shelf yesterday morning and pointed at it. As seen in the picture, J loves orange colour and he picked all the orange pegs for this activity.