These are no ordinary stacking cups…animals, numbers, ABCs, K’s Kids characters and their favorite objects live in this tower of cups! Children can learn as they stack, twisting cups to match the graphics. Then they can twist the lids off and drop the rattling egg down the tower. Children can even take them into the bath! The lids have holes in them which are great for pouring water!
Senses
The fundamental senses of seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling & feeling encourage a child's curiosity.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are those smaller actions between the thumb and fingers or using the toes to wriggle and feel the objects.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills are larger movements involving the arm, leg, or feet muscles or the entire body.
Logic
Logical training enables babies to make connections between pieces of information.
Creativity
Colors, shapes, learning how to draw, getting familiar with music and rhythm, all goes to aid the growth of a child's creativity.
Linguistics
Linguistic Intelligence is the ability to use sound and language for expression and comprehension of others while a child is developing.
Emotion
A healthy child should be able to control and express his emotion, and interact effectively with others with mutual trust.
Communication Skills
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. Task basis activities could help children to build up a stronger self-esteem with a better judgment about their own worth.
*These are recommendations made under normal circumstances. Parents can determine which activities are most suitable depending on the progress of individual children.
Objective: Sense stimulation - touching and feeling different textures
Method: The lids are bumpy and the cups are smooth. Encourage children to touch and feel the different textures.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - grasping
Method: Encourage children to grasp the cups with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - stacking two cups
Method: Have your child hold one cup in each hand, and then encourage her to stack the right cup onto the left cup, and vice versa.
Objective: Fine and gross motor skills training - twisting
Method: Stack two cups. Encourage your child to to twist them in opposite directions.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - right side stacking on a flat surface
Method: Encourage your child to stack the 5 cups, one on top of the other, on a flat surface and in any order.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - upside down stacking on a flat surface
Method: The cups can also be stacked upside down. Encourage your child to stack the 5 cups, one on top of the other, on a flat surface and in any order.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - placing the egg in the hole
Method: Stack all 5 cups to create a tower. Encourage your child to place the egg into the hole at the top of the tower, and listen to the sound as it drops to the bottom. This also stimulates children’s hearing.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - transferring the egg from one cup to the other
Method: Have your child hold one cup in each hand, with the egg in one of the cups. Encourage her to “pour” the egg from one cup to the other, transferring the egg both ways.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - passing the egg
Method: Have at least two people (children, adults, or both) for this activity, with each person holding a cup in their hand. Pass the egg around by “pouring” it from one cup to another. You can have up to 5 people sitting in a circle for this.
Objective: Watching water trickle - in the bath and at the beach
Method: Twist the lids on the cups. Your child can then use the cup to scoop water and watch the water trickle out the small holes on the lids. This is great for playing in the bath or at the beach.
Objective: Creativity training - building sandcastles
Method: Children can use the cups to scoop sand or as molds for building sandcastles.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning colors
Method: Use the different colored cups to teach children to recognize colors.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding colors
Method: Name a color and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning familiar cartoon characters
Method: Teach your child the names of the cartoon characters and who they are.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding characters
Method: Name a character and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning letters
Method: Teach your child the letters A, B, C, D and E in upper and lower case.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding letters
Method: Name a letter and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning everyday objects
Method: Teach children the names of animals and everyday objects using the printed graphics.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding objects
Method: Name an object and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Cognitive training - recognizing silhouettes
Method: The black shapes are silhouettes of different objects. Point to a silhouette and encourage your child to say what it represents.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning numbers
Method: Teach your child to recognize numbers and to count using the graphics on the cups.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding numbers
Method: Say a number and encourage your child to find it.
Objective: Cognitive training - learning the names of sea creatures
Method: Teach your child to recognize sea creatures using the lids.
Objective: Cognitive training - finding sea creatures
Method: Say a sea creature and encourage your child to child to find it.
Objective: Eye-hand coordination training - holding and stacking cups
Method: Encourage your child to hold one of the cups and then stack the other 4 cups on top. This trains their hand muscles and eye-hand coordination.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - twisting
Method: After stacking the cups on a flat surface, encourage your child to twist the cups to align the letters, numbers, objects and characters.
Objective: Fine motor skills training - shaking to make sounds
Method: Encourage your child to twist the lids on two cups and place the egg between the cups. Then she can then shake the cups to hear the egg rattle. Stack more cups to increase the difficulty.
Objective: Memory and motor skills training - stacking according to color
Method: Encourage your child to stack the cups in a specific color sequence. eg 1: red, yellow, blue eg 2: blue, green, red, purple, yellow
Objective: Memory and motor skills training - stacking according to numbers
Method: Encourage your child to stack the cups in a specific number sequence. ( eg 1: 1,3,5 ) ( eg 2: 4,1,3,2,5 )
Objective: Memory and motor skills training - stacking according to letters
Method: Encourage your child to stack the cups in a specific letter sequence. ( eg 1: A, E, C ) ( eg 2: C,D,A,E,B )
Objective: English training - learning phonics and names of objects
Method: Teach your child the sounds of A, B, C, D and E. Then use the graphics to teach her simple words that start with those letters.
Objective: Cognitive and motor skills training - twisting on lids
Method: Encourage your child to twist the lids onto the cups.
Objective: Creativity training - stacking different configurations
Method: Encourage children to recreate the following configurations. This helps develop their three dimensional and spatial concepts.
Objective: Developing eye-hand coordination and a sense of distance - throwing the egg in the cups
Method: Place the cups at different distances on the lawn or on a carpet. Encourage your child to throw the egg in the cups.
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