DIY: Practical Life Exercise

PLE Exercises that use the "whole hand" (5) Large Tongs

Materials:
2 baskets
Pair of tongs
Medium to large pom poms






Presentation:
1. Invite the child or group of children.
2. Go over to where the work is kept and take it to a table.
3. Put the basket with pom pom on the right and the empty basket on the left.

4. Pick up the tongs and examine them. Open and close them.
4. Pick up a pom pom with the tongs.
5. Place the pom pom into the empty basket.
6. Admire your work.
7. Reverse the process and remove the pom poms with the tongs.
8. Return the work to the shelf.
9. Invite a child.

Variations and Extensions:
1. Use different objects to tong
2. Use a different separated container to tong into
3. Use different sized objects to tong

Points of Interest:
1. Seeing the tong open and close on an object.
2. Seeing the tray full of pom poms.

Control of Error:
1. No pom poms transfered.
2. Can’t make the tongs work

Aims:
Eye hand coordination, order, concentration, preparation for cutting and writing, etc.


Age:
2 ½ and up

Language:
Tongs, grasp, release, inside, compartments, etc.