A muffin tin transfer (yes, that is Little Lady's green pail and yup, he has just as much, if not more, fun with those than she does!).
It's fun to do chunky puzzles with tongs!
Mini Me likes to do our initial sound search-and-find with tongs, too.
Tongs for our colored pasta play? Okay!
We recently started using tongs with our pool noodle lacing box. Mini Me loses patience after stringing about four or five noodles with the tongs, but he does continue just using his hands, and has fun making patterns!
One day he wanted the tongs as we were playing the wooden letter game. He picked up the word tiles and the individual letters themselves! There was much concentration involved.
I almost need to get a play pair just for him and in order to ensure I always have a set ready in the kitchen. It seems that tongs make everything a bit more interesting.
I love your ideas!!! My kids use tongs sometimes, but I hadn't thought to use them for some of the things you did. I think my kids would enjoy challenging themselves more with the tongs.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think I might also lose my patience with lacing the noodles too (with tongs)--That sounds tricky!
Yes! The pasta was tricky, too. Using the tongs can be hit or miss so I just keep them around a lot.
ReplyDeleteWhat amazing way to use tongs! Threading would be really challenging.
ReplyDeleteThese are such wonderful ideas! My daughter needs occupational therapy for fine motor due to a medical issue and this would be GREAT for her! This also would be a great activity to share at my new Thrifty Thursday Linky Party- I hope you can stop by! http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2011/11/thrifty-thursday-linky-party-1/
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