Hand Toys
Hand toys offer many opportunities for children to experiment with construction and invention. As they build with table blocks or make designs with pattern blocks and parquetry blocks, children use creative problem solving skills. Table toys offer extensive opportunities for children to work on emerging math skills such as seriation, matching, and classification. 
Physical development is enhanced as children practice eye hand coordination while completing puzzles or placing pegs in a pegboard. As children string beads or construct with interlocking cubes, they refine small muscle skills.

*Objecitves for Socio-Emotional Development
   #Develop self-control (sharing toys and waiting for a turn with a desired toy).
   #Demonstrate perseverance and self-discipline (working with a puzzle until it has been completed).

*Objectives for Cognitive Development
   #Sort and match objects by attributes such as color, size, texture, and shape (using collections such as buttons, shells, or bottle caps).
   #Demonstrate an understanding of number concepts related to sequencing, seriation, and classification (using table blocks, parquetry, and attribute blocks).
   #Develop emergent reading skills such as directionality, figure-ground discrimination, matching like objects (using table toys such as pegboards, puzzles, dominoes, and collectibles).

*Objectives for Physical Development
   #Develop fine motor control (placing pegs in holes, stringing beads, piecing together puzzles, and manipulating buttons, marbles, or shells).


Scarlett and Austin are having fun.
 


Matthew playing with a doll house.
 


Scarlett and Austin play with busy beads.
 


Hagan builds a tower.
 


Austin and Alison share legos.