Title: Cheeseball Puzzle
Age: 0-1 Year Old (11 - 12 month old)
Subject Area: PreWriting (Knowledge Standard: PHD 1)
Length of time for activity: 90 seconds
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The goal of this activity is to place an object into the single opening on the top of the Cheese ball container. This is a problem-solving skill that is an early pre-puzzle activity. This exercise is also good for eye hand coordination. Your child has grasped a simple object then learns how to let go at the appropriate time once it enters the single opening of the lid to drop into the container.
Material Needed:
- Empty cleaned canister with a plastic lid
- Decorative Contact Paper
- Knife (to cut slit in plastic lid)
- Miscellaneous items: Blocks, spools, or round metal baby jar lids
What to do:
- With an empty cleaned canister like a Planter’s Cheese ball container (or round Oatmeal container) we will make a fun inexpensive toy using thigs around your home.
- Cut a strip of colorful contact paper the height and width of the container. Cover the Container.
- With a sharp knife, cut the desired shape in the lid of the container.
- Show your child how they can drop the shape inside the container through the slit in the lid.
- Model for them how to pull off the lid and dump out the contents so that it can be played again.
In the Comment Post below:
Please share your child’s age and if they are a boy or girl. What container did you use? What were the shapes you used for them to drop through the opening cut in the lid? Share how you played the activity.
