NAME OF MONTESSORI ACTIVITY | Tweezing |
AREA | Practical Life |
AGE | 3 – 3.5 Years |
MATERIALS |  Soap pad, tweezer, small cotton beads in a container |
DIRECT AIM | Tweezing beads from container onto suckers of a soap pad. |
INDIRECT AIM | Eye hand co-ordination, develop pincer grip, patience and concentration, dexterity, strengthen fingers |
PRESENTATION | - Invite the child to begin Work Cycle.
- The child places the tray on the mat in front of the adult.
- The adult pushes the tray to the top edge of the mat.
- Remove the container and place on the left of the mat, the soap pad on the right and the tweezers to the front of the mat.
- Grasp tweezers in a pincer grip with thumb on left grip and index finger on the right grip.
- Position tweezer over the bowl and tweeze one bead securing by applying gentle pressure on right and left grips.
- Move hand over to the first sucker on soap pad and lower tweezer. Place bead on sucker by gently releasing pressure on the grips.
- Repeat procedure moving from left to right until the suckers on soap pad have been filled.
- To return the beads to the container, tweeze the beads one at a time from each of the suckers into the container working from left to right.
- Replace the container on the left of the tray, the soap dish to the right and the tweezers in front.
- Bring tray to the centre of the mat.
- Invite the child to have a turn.
- End the work cycle.
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CONTROL OF ERROR | Spilling beads Picking up (with fingers) spilt beads |
EXTENSIONS | Tweezing smaller articles such as rice |
VARIATIONS | Tweezing different articles onto different surfaces/containers |
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