Bear Pegging

 

Both my sons have a blanket bear that they sleep with its their comforter. Zac decided to use my pegs to decorate him.

I encouraged him to count and indicate what colour he was putting on.
I though this was fantastic and I am sure this activity would apply to many other cuddly toys.
Zac also finds it amusing sticking them on my clothes.

Zac 2.1

A-Z Math: Peg boat balance

This activity was not really planned, I had the new coloured pegs in the boat dish ready to take outside and my son started playing with them.

So I told him to peg it onto the boat.

He soon realised that you need to put pegs on both sides to balance the boat.

He was very focused and stopped when he could fit anymore on.

He turned it over and said spider, Dylan removed extra pegs so it had eight legs like a spider.


This was good practise of fine motor skills, numeracy counting and colours.

To extend further for a pre-schooler you could:-
give them a sequence to follow
ask them to identify a patter in the colours.
ask them to predict if it will balance or tip.

Zac 2.1
Dylan 4.10