By painting some long wrapping paper tubes in rainbow colours and left them to dry. When they were ready we stuck them to the inside of a large, under-bed storage box using sticky tape.
Then we filled the tub with lots of plain and sparkly, colourful pom poms to match the colours of the tubes, and added some large tweezers for easy grabbing.
Toddlers play and loved using the tweezers to drop the coordinated colours down the tubes and count them as they piled out of the bottom.This would be very easy to extend for other learning intentions such as counting, matching the correct number of pom poms to the numerals, addition and subtraction. Follow your child’s lead and interests to see how the activity could progress.
What they are learning as they play:
maths: sorting by one criteria, matching, recognising and naming colours
physical: fine motor skills and coordination, using one-handed tools (with two hands initially, then one), dropping and posting, pincer grasp and release
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