Chain-an-inchworm- Description
- Stage 1(6 - 18M)
- Stage 2(9 - 18M)
- Stage 3(12 - 30M)
- Stage 4(18 - 36M)
- Stage 5(24 - 36M+)
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1 Inchworm head + 12 beads/set
Head: 6cm(W) x 6cm(H) x 5cm(D)
Bead(Diameter): 4.9cm
Chain-an-inchworm is a set of colorful and educational beads. Children can train their fine motor and logic skills as they link the pieces together to build inchworms of different lengths and color sequences. But they don't have to stop at inchworms. Children can let their imaginations run wild by building all sorts of 2D and 3D configurations, at the same time developing their creativity and aesthetic skills.
Sensory
The fundamental senses of seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling & feeling encourage a child's curiosity and activate his mind to discover the things around his world. Toys with strong stimuli in this category are tremendously important for the early stages of child development.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are those smaller actions like picking things up between the thumb and finger or using the toes to wriggle or the lips and tongue to taste and feel objects.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body - toys that enhance kicking, crawling, running, and jumping are meant to train a child's gross motor skills.
Logical Intelligence
Logical training enables babies to make connections between pieces of information. Toys like puzzles and building blocks can strengthen a child's intelligence of logic, sequence, conceptualization, reasoning and problem solving.
Creative Intelligence
Creativity is fostered in the early stages of a child's development. Colors, shapes, learning how to draw, getting familiar with music and rhythm, all goes to aid the growth of a child's creativity.
Linguistic Intelligence
Linguistic Intelligence is the ability to use sound and language to express himself and to understand other people while a child grows up. Toys that enhance sensitivity to the meaning of words, sounds, rhythms and inflections are good for linguistic development.
Emotional
A healthy child should be able to control and express his emotion. Feeling being loved and protected develops his sense of security. Toys that can become a child's pal and help him express emotion are very important for a child to learn how to interact effectively with others with mutual trust.
Communication Skills
Communication Skills is the ability to interact appropriately with others. Good communication skills lead a child to perform cooperative tasks and become productive team members.
Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem is an overall sense of achievement a child feels from the important people around him, particularly parents and peers. When a child can complete the task offered by a toy, he feels good of himself. It helps build up a stronger self-esteem with a better judgment about his own worth.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
*These are recommendations made under normal circumstances. Parents can determine which activities are most suitable depending on the progress of individual children.
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Stage 1
Objective:To train the fine motor skills
Method:The colorful balls are designed for young children to grasp. Parents should help and encourage children to grasp the balls with both their right and left hands.
Objective:To recognize facial features
Method:Parents can use the inchworm's head as a teaching aid to teach children to recognize facial features such as the head, eyes, nose, and mouth etc.
Objective:To teach children to point out specific facial features
Method:As parents say out loud specific facial features, such as “head”, “eyes”, “nose”, and “mouth”, they can encourage children to point to the corresponding facial feature on the inchworm's head.
Stage 2
Objective:To recognize and identify colors
Method:Parents can use the colored balls to teach children to recognize colors such as red, yellow, blue, green etc.
Objective:To recognize and identify shapes
Method:Parents can use the shapes on the colored balls to teach children to recognize shapes such as circle, triangle, star etc.
Objective:To differentiate between a protrusion and a cavity
Method:Parents can use the linking sections of the balls to teach children to differentiate between a protrusion and a cavity.
Stage 3
Objective:To assemble inchworms of different lengths and shapes
Method:Children can recreate the inchworms shown in the following diagrams, starting from the simple combinations and progressing to the complex ones.
Objective:To develop creativity
Method:Using techniques and concepts from activity 3.1, children can create their own inchworms and bring out their creativity.
Stage 4
Objective:To learn color and shape sequences
Method:Children can recreate the inchworms shown in the diagrams below, with parents making sure that the color sequences are correct.
Objective:To deduce the missing color and shape in a sequence
Method:Children can deduce the missing color and shape in the following sequences, then recreate the inchworms.
Stage 5
Objective:To develop 3 dimensional and spatial concepts
Method:Children can recreate the 3D configurations shown in the following diagrams.
Objective:To create their own 3D configurations
Method:Using techniques and concepts from activity 5.1, children can create their own 3D configurations and bring out their creativity.
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We also believe that every child is unique and full of creativity.
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