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A Hole & A Box – Fine Motor Exercise

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DIY Montessori Toys for Babies - Hole in a Box

We order lots of Peter Rabbit puree pouches. For my two-year-old. For my 8-month-old. For me (shhh…). I order them in bulk via subscribe and save on Amazon. The cool thing is that these pouches come in a fun box. The box has a hole on the top perfect for a fine motor skill exercise.

Easy Montessori Activity for Babies

I cut up pipe cleaners, straws, pulled out a few dozen cloth pins and small animal figurines for objects to drop into the hole of the box. This activity works fine motor development but you can integrate vocabulary with animals and basic concepts of color, counting, and opposites of big/small/wide/narrow/long/short, etc.

So simple.

Of course, you can make a box very easily with a normal cardboard box and a hoe punch. You could even go a little bit more nuts by adding sticker paper and other miscellaneous items to decorate the box.  Thanks for reading,

Marnie

 

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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