A set of 10 Pop Lock Stacking Squares can help strengthen fine and gross motor skills and eye-hand coordination. When children pull-apart and pop-together the stacking squares, it helps develop arm and palm muscle. Also, it trains eye-hand coordination when they stack the squares on one another.
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: Sensory stimulation – touch the stacking squares
Method: Toddler touch the concave-convex surface of the soft plastic sqaures
Objective: To train the fine motor skills
Method: The colorful squares are designed for young children to grasp. Parents can help and encourage children to grasp the stacking squares with both their right and left hands.
Objective: Twisting
Method: Link any two of the pieces together. Encourage children to twist them in opposite directions. This trains both their gross and fine motor skills.
Objective: Fine and gross motor training - Pull apart the stacking squares
Method: Encourage children to pull apart the connected blocks. This trains both their gross and fine motor skills.
Objective: Learning Numbers
Method: Teach children to identify the numbers 1-10 using the numbered side of the squares.
Objective: Identify and point the numbers
Method: Say a number and guide your child to point to it on the block.
Objective: Learning Colors
Method: Teach children to identify colors such as red, orange, yellow and blue on the sides of the blocks.
Objective: Identify and point the colors
Method: Say a color and guide your child to point to it on the block.
Objective: Stacking
Method: Stacking Squares can help strengthen fine and gross motor skills and eye-hand coordination
Objective: Building with blocks
Method: Build the following configurations, starting from the simple ones and progressing to the complex ones:
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