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Musical Stack & Ball Game - Hen

Musical Stack & Ball Game - Hen
A unique stacking and ball game that develops multiple skills such as stacking, sorting, threading, opening and closing. Rattling balls and feedback music will entice baby to come back to it again and again.
Developmental Values
The Senses
  • The multicolored Musical Stack & Ball Game with the hen, fabric rings and clear plastic ring filled with beads and colored balls, stimulates vision.
  • The range of sounds – musical hen, rattling balls, crinkling fabric rings, clanging as the balls fall – develop hearing.
  • The combination of fabric and other materials (various textures, smooth and rough plastic) provides a variety of experiences and different sensations, stimulating the sense of touch.
  • As your baby plays with the parts of the toy, exploring it with her hands and mouth, she develops her senses and the coordination between them.
Fine Motor Skills
  • The Musical Stack & Ball Game provides diverse exercises for the hands: grasping the rings and balls with the whole hand or with some of the fingers.
  • The toy develops hand coordination in various ways:
  • Banging the balls together.
  • Opening the orange ring with both hands.
  • Threading the rings together to form a chain.
  • The toy develops hand-eye coordination in various ways:
  • Threading the rings onto the cone.
  • Dropping the balls through the funnel-like opening in the hen.
  • Dropping the balls directly into the smaller opening of the cone.
  • The toy encourages exercising the deliberate releasing of objects (dropping the ball into the hen).
Cognition
  • The Musical Stack & Ball Game provides a range of options for understanding cause & effect, such as receiving sound feedback when dropping the ball through the hen.
  • Basic experience with the concept of size – threading the rings by size.
  • Understanding that when the ball is dropped from the top it will be found at the bottom.
  • The toy encourages learning the differences between dropping the ball through the large hole (the body of the hen) or the small hole (directly into the cone).
Object Permanence

  • The toy enables baby to learn about the disappearance-reappearance of objects: when the balls are dropped through the cone with the rings, they disappear and reappear at the bottom of the base. But, when the balls are dropped through the cone without the rings they can be seen and followed until they reach the bottom of the base.






 
Age Tips
Age tips
  • Baby plays with the balls, holding them in her hand and shaking them to hear the fun rattling sound, exploring them with her mouth, holding a ball in each hand and banging them together.
  • Towards the end of this period, baby will manage to throw the balls deliberately and will do so often.
  • Baby explores the parts made of fabric, the various textures of the rings, the hen and the crinkly parts.
  • Baby enjoys holding the clear plastic ring and shaking it to see the beads move around and hear the rattling sound. She passes it from one hand to the other and explores it with her mouth.
Playing with this toy
  • Hold one ball in each hand and bang them together. Hand your baby the balls and encourage her to do the same.
  • Drop a ball through the hole and ask: Where is the ball? And as the ball reappears, say: Here is the ball.
  • Give your baby the rings, one at a time, so that she can explore them with her hands and mouth.

 

   
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