shapes on dowels
what is this?
Spheres, cubes and prisms to place on a dowel that challenges your baby to mentally manipulate shapes and visualize patterns before creating them
how to do this?
why do this?
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This activity gives your baby the opportunity of practicing different finger grasps based on the object being inserted in the dowel and an experience in crossing the mid line
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The colour and number of solids in the material are constant, isolating shape. Initially your baby will put the shapes in a random order, but eventually she will be able to sort it by shape
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As your baby places each shape on the dowel she further develops her hand eye coordination
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Placing each shape on the dowel encourages spatial reasoning with 9 geometric solids
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It develops basic logic skills and the ability of matching
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Your baby can make different patterns using the different shapes and dowels, encouraging imagination and creative thinking
