What sort of materials are appropriate in a manipulative play area in a child care centre?

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What sort of materials are appropriate in a manipulative play area in a child care centre?

Answer 1

It depends on what age the children are. What age are the children you teach and what space do you have for the children to use? Is it a big space so that you can fit a table and a few chairs or is it a small space that you may be able to fit a small table with only one chair or no space to have a table.

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MANIPULATIVE'S (also known as TABLE TOYS)

Fine motor or manipulative activities provide children with the chance to develop their problem-solving skills, to learn to match and sort, to identify parts of a whole, and to improve their eye-hand coordination.

Materials: various table toys for sorting, sequencing, patterning, etc., including puzzles, jumbo beads, peg boards (big and small), Lego (big and small), bristle blocks, lock box or board, dressing vests, lacing shapes, sewing cards, links, tan grams, Lincoln logs, dominoes, buttons, shapes for tracing, nesting toys, connecting toys, etc.