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Lets get physical with the Tower Pounding toy by Plan Toys! its fun to endlessly bang a ball up the tower and watch it roll down the circular path. This toy enhances childrens eye-hand coordination. Age: 2 Years Up.
Special Features
- Feel good skill toy
- Rewarding
- Repetitive
- Improves concentration
- Sensory toy: feel, bright, colourful, sound, tactile
- Good hammer (progression in hammer design), thick handle to hold on hammer
- Effective design of secure rubber holding grips
- Independent toy
- Progression from Miracle Pounding
- Indirect action required (hammer hits see-saw, not ball)
- Well built and robust toy
Applications:
- Manipulative skills: gripping, grasping
- Hand/eye coordination: aligning, slotting, aiming, placing ball on see-saw
- Force and accuracy of hitting target results in progression in coordination skills
- Visual discrimination: colour recognition
- Descriptive vocabulary eg. Colours, Spiral, Helter Skelter, See-saw, up and down (rising and falling), round and round
- Finding and classifying pairs of colours
- Develops knowledge/curiosity about gravity: ball rolling down the spiral, amount of force needed to ‘lift’ the ball to the top of the tower
- Properties of materials: talk about and use wood, rubber
- Observe and use hinge
- Discuss cause and effect eg force needed for ball to return
Benefits:
Physical Development – Gross and fine motor skills
Your child begins life as a being with little control of movement and progresses to one who can run, jump, laugh, sing, write with a pencil, button his shirt and control his own small and large muscles and eye and hand coordination with growing confidence.
Language & Communication
Includes developing the ability to listen, to understand what is said, and to speak to others. He eventually develops the ability to see and understand the use of written language and to write and read.
Mathematic Development
Includes developing a child's mental thinking, for example mathematics which involves learning about size, color, shapes, balance and counting.
Logical Thinking
Is the development of the thinking and organizing systems of the brain. It involves reasoning, thinking, problem solving, language, mental imaginary and memory development.
Schema (child’s preferred learning style)
- Rotational and up/down trajectories
Special Needs
Colourful, robust toy which would encourage repetition of movement with reward of watching the ball roll down the spiral - Strengthens muscle control and tone
Product Size :
21 x 20 x 26 cm 8.3 x 7.9 x 10.2 inch
Package Size :
18.8 x 23 x 18.8 cm 7.4 x 9 x 7.4 inch
AWARDS:
Reddot Design Award - Germany German Design Prize - Germany |
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