Tonging Set (18 months up)

Tonging was the very first activity I set up for M and it has since become her all time favourite!
Tonging is an important practical skill to help a young child refine her pincer grip and develop those fine muscles in the fingers. This prepare the child for fine motorskills such as writing in time to come.

Our tonging set looks like this:
I set up my 3-section plastic tray to feature 3 levels of difficulty. It is best to start your toddler with the largest pompom (green) to allow her to experience success with handling a pair of tongs. When you see that your child is proficient in using the tongs, proceed to give her the smaller pompoms (yellow). I also included ping-pong balls for variation of textures.

The tonging set (as pictured above) is available for sale at SGD15. Tongs may vary from picture.

M often revisits her tonging set and conjure all sorts of games with her tongs and pompoms and ping-pong balls. I had left M to her own device and she discovered 1-1 correspondance and sorted out the pompoms.

M also surprised me when she sorted out 1 small pompom + 1 big pompom into each of the 4-section tray.

Watch This Space !

I have a compulsive need to take pictures of everything, especially when it comes to activities with my daughter (I will refer to my daughter as M in my blog). Friends have been asking me about what I do with M ever since I decide to leave my teaching job. I wanted to focus on raising and teaching my firstborn (instead of teaching 30 other children). I have another blog which I write about stuff we do together and other random things. But it is really not focused and does not give credit to all the learning we have enjoyed together.

Hence, I created this blog specifically to share about what Mommy teaches M, and how you could do the same too. I will be uploading pictures of the materials I have developed for teaching M (and hopefully make some of them available for sale).