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| S1. Weight Bottles |
| Description |
| Match weight bottles in pairs/Arrange in increasing or decreasing weight |
| Purpose |
| To develop sense of weight |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy |
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| S2. Sound Bottles |
| Description |
| Match sound bottles in pairs |
| Purpose |
| To develop sensitivity of the auditory sense |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (film bottles with rice / salt / pasta ... etc) |
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| S3. Scent Bottles |
| Description |
| Match scent bottles in pairs |
| Purpose |
| To develop olfactory sense & awareness of different & like
smells |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (film bottles with different types of herbs/tea leaves...etc) |
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| S4. Thermal Bottles |
| Description |
| Match thermal bottles in pair |
| Purpose |
| To develop tactile sense & distinguish similar & dis-similar temperatures |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (film bottles, add water with different temperature just before play) |
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| S6. Fabric Basket |
| Description |
| Match textured fabrics |
| Purpose |
| To develop & refine tactile sense |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (pieces of different textured fabrics in pairs) |
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| S7. Rough & Smooth Board |
| Description |
| Feel rough & smooth sandpaper |
| Purpose |
| To refine tactile sense & develop
the light touch necessary to writing |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (Balsa Wood, Cardboard, Sandpaper) |
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| S8. Tower |
| Description |
| Build Tower from largest to smallest cubes |
| Purpose |
| Develop coordination of movement and
visual & tactile perception of dimensions |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy (blocks of gradated size) |
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| S9. Puzzle I |
| Description |
| Recognition of gradation of colors and different dimensions
/ tallness |
| Purpose |
Develop hand-eye coordination and dexterity
Recognition of gradation of colors and different dimensions / tallness |
| Buy/DIY materials |
Buy
Brands:Plantoys |
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| S10. Puzzle II |
| Description |
| Recognition of different shapes / colors / tallness |
| Purpose |
| Develop hand-eye coordination and dexterity. Recognition of different shapes / colors / tallness |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy |
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| S11. Geometric solids |
| Description |
| Introduction to different geometric solids |
| Purpose |
| To learn different geometric solids |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy |
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| S12. Geometric shapes |
| Description |
| Make their own shapes |
| Purpose |
| To learn making different shapes |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy (geoboard, plastic band) |
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| S13. Geometric Insets |
| Description |
| Trace and learn shapes |
| Purpose |
| To learn different shapes |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (cardboard, pins as knobs) |
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| S14. Geometric Shapes |
| Description |
| Present shapes & arrange each shape
from largest to smallest |
| Purpose |
| To learn geometric forms and awareness of gradations |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (balsa wood & cardboard) |
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| S15. Color Tablets |
| Description |
| Color matching & arrange tablets
in gradation of colors |
| Purpose |
| Develop color appreciation and sensitivity to the harmony of color |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (paint color samples, cardboard/any hard backing) |
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| S16. Button Game |
| Description |
| Sort & count colored buttons |
| Purpose |
| Differentiate between colors |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (tray with slots, color buttons) |
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| S17. Naming the color |
| Description |
| Present color circles with name to child |
| Purpose |
| To associate the name with the color it represents |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY (cardboard & labels) |
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| S18. Cylinder Insets |
| Description |
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Block A: same height, different diameter
Block B: same diameter length decreases
Block C: diameter decreases, length decreases
Block D: diameter increases, length decreases
Remove cylinders & replace by blocks, then do 2, 3 & 4 blocks together and eventually do exercise blindfold. |
| Purpose |
| Visual and tactile education of differing
dimensions. |
| Buy/DIY materials |
Buy
Available stores list:
1. Constructive
Playthings US$48.95 search on "cylinder blocks"
2. Dishes&Decor US$41.25(special!) search on "sorting cylinder"
3. ECMD US$24.85 seach on "sorting
cylinder"
Postage cost depends, please check yourself
4. Manfield Montessori Equipment (HK) Knobbed Cylinder (Complete set of 4 blocks) HK$1,240
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| S19. Pink Tower |
| Description |
| Ten solid wooden cubes varying in size from 1 cubic centimeter to 1
cubic decimeter. |
| Purpose |
Visual and muscular perception of dimension
leading to an abstract
understanding of size.
Perfection of hand movements.
Preparation for mathematics.
Preparation for cube root. |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. Made from cardboards & wrap
with pink art paper. However, as the cubes were not exactly cubes, it's
making them harder to stack up towards the top. |
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| S20. Brown Stairs |
| Description |
| Ten, brown, wooden prisms all the same length but varying height and width from 1 centimeter to 10 centimeters (or one decimeter squared). The end faces represent the squares of the numbers one through ten. |
| Purpose |
Visual and muscular perception of dimension.
Demonstrates the relationship and difference between the squares of the numbers 1 to 10. |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. Made from cardboards & wrap with brown art paper. |
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| S21. Geometric Insets |
| Description |
| Ten geometric insets. |
| Purpose |
| To develop good eye-hand coordination and control. |
| Buy/DIY materials |
Buy.
DIY board to fit insets for tracing |
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S22. Object Matching
| Description |
| Match wrench to photocopy of objects |
| Purpose |
| Visual perception of shape/dimension. |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy. |
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| S27. Pressure recognition tubes |
| Description |
| To match the red tube with the blue tube of the same pressure to make up the 6 pairs of tubes |
| Purpose |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy from Gummylump |
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| S28. Cylinder Blocks |
| Description |
| MWEI |
| Purpose |
| MWEI |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy |
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| S29. Knobless Cylinders |
| Description |
| MWEI |
| Purpose |
| MWEI |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| Buy |
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| S30. Rough Gradation Tablets |
| Description |
| MWEI |
| Purpose |
| MWEI |
| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. Snadpaper of different grades
stick on laminated cards. |
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| S31. Knobless Cylinders Extension |
| Description |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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| S32.Knobless Cylinder (red) Extension |
| Description |
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| Purpose |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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| S33. Knobless Cylinder (blue) Extension |
| Description |
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| Purpose |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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| S34. Knobless Cylinder (green) Extension |
| Description |
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| Purpose |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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| S35. Knobless Cylinder (yellow) Extension |
| Description |
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| Purpose |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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| S36. Knobbed Cylinder Extension |
| Description |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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| S37. Beading (blindfolded) |
| Description |
| Beading blindfolded. |
| Purpose |
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| Buy/DIY materials |
| DIY. |
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