connection schema - ideas please !!

[CaitlinMeringue]

mindee (age 2) has a connection schema - likes breaking breadsticks, apple slices, doing and undoing the clips on high chair and booster diner chairs

I am thinking of getting the Thomas trains back out, the ones with magnets. They are a bit too young for magnetix-type stuff (still puts stuff in mouth so ballbearings not a great idea)

any ideas?

I was thinking of:
dry spaghetti for breaking and then collage it

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heyulp !

I find this website useful for ideas in relation to all the different schema.

Octogons, gears, threading cotton reels?

great stuff, thanks laydees x x x

What about jigsaws / lift in out puzzles do they count?

Or a bag with lots of zips / if you're feeling flush a Montessori unlock box?

Umm train tracks?

zips, of course

train track, yy and no funds for a montessori spenny box

child not interested in puzzles AT ALL

Thanks NEL x

plugs and plug holes e.g. bath
newspaper tearing

poss. tower building and knocking down and building

open and closing a door

some of these depend on how safe/accessible things are

is that not a disconnection schemea

trains sound good,
play dough with kitchen tools to cut it to bits with.
duplo.
K-nex- big bits.
felt pens with lids.
tubs with lids

Have you thought of an old tent pole with the string inside it? My kids have a lovely time connecting and disconnecting them, bending them etc....might be a good boy thing to do! and fairly durable...and good to support fine motor skills! Sam x

building and knocking down towers, spreading out duplo/Mega blocks/sticle bricks, filling up boxes of toys, dressing and undressing,unbuttoning and unzipping (those get the child dressed books are great for that), cutting and ripping media for craft, human train, holding hands, conga lines, ring a ring of roses, hokeykokey, making and smashing sandcastles, connecting things with lines, tubes, lollysticks, pulling orange segments apart!
Hope that helps!

brilliant stuff

thank you all x x x

Ooh and trains, threading, pasta tubes and cheerios onto a bit of wool with selotape around the top of the wool, making paperchains, gathering playdough into a big lump, making a ball run with kitchen roll tubes, ramps etc!

Ooh and trains, threading, pasta tubes and cheerios onto a bit of wool with selotape around the top of the wool, making paperchains, gathering playdough into a big lump, making a ball run with kitchen roll tubes, ramps etc!

some of the smaller connecting parts from a marble run set