Fabric Box

Product ID:

SE115

Recommended Age:

Catalog:

$25.99

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Product Description

Fabric box contains 6 pairs of fabrics with different textures to help the child to discriminate between different fabrics. The different types of fabrics are cotton, wool, leather, jute, synthetic and silk and they are organized in a wooden box.

Purpose

To help the child to discriminate between different fabrics.
To help the child to understand his/ her environment better.
To help the child to grow with confidence and self esteem.
To enhance a child's tactile sense, and improve concentration, coordination, independence, and problem solving skills.
To help a child to learns to work with touch fabrics and pair them.

Exercise

Demonstrate, by first removing the lid of the wooden box and placing all the fabrics on the mat and closing the box
Show the child by feeling the fabric using the three dominant fingers and allow the child to try once in front of you.
Encourage and invite the child to place all the fabrics on the table or mat in random order.
Wear the blindfold and pick the extreme left fabric and place it at the center of the table or mat. (Note: Blindfold is optional for this activity. But, the fabrics should be changed on a regular basis to maintain the interest of the child and to offer him/ her a greater first hand experience)
Feel the fabric using the right hand and start searching for its pair. Do the same activity using left hand. Interchanging helps coordination and concentration. Now, keep feeling the fabric with the left hand and search for its pair with the right hand. Keep searching till you find the matching fabrics.
Repeat the same activity with the rest of the pairs of fabrics.
Remove the blindfold, confirm each pair visually.
Encourage the child to perform this activity under your guidance and supervision.

Related Exercises

Child at least needs one sense to rely upon in certain situations such as during power cut, when it is dark. Child’s tactile senses geared up in such a situation. Child is able to identify objects and people through touch and feel, but in such situations child is not aware of the skill but only concentrates upon the security.

This activity enhances the child’s tactile sense with the conscious effort towards understanding the concept. Child to work with this should have worked with touch board 1,2 and 3 and also touch tablets.

Post related activities such as thermic tablets, stereognostic bags, baric tablets act as reinforcement to the child in enhancing muscular memory.

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