which tangle toy best for 2 year old? - help develop fine motor skills

[hazeyjane]

I want to buy a tangle toy for my ds, and another as a 2nd birthday present for my friend's ds, who has similar issues to ds. They are both having help at nursery with developing their fine motor skills, and I thought one of these might help.

On Amazon there are 2 sizes

this one

and this smaller

one

does anyone have any idea which would be the best one for a 2 year old?
oh and ds is a big chewer!

thankyou.

Tbf we have not had much success with these. My ds is a bit younger than yours but they are quite difficult to twist and kind of get stuck needing someone to sort of unwind them. Ds gets cross with this.

We have had success with the manhatten toys bead toy and there is a similar heimess one we like too. I depends how good your ds fine motor skills are but we found both of these good to encourage, we also have a brilliant tomy toy with pegs on elastic that lift out of a base but this was a toy from my eldest and I am not sure you can get them any more. I am going to attempt to do links now but it may all go very wrong!

www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Toy-Beads-Rattle-Orbit/dp/B002LARAOQ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

www.amazon.co.uk/Heimess-H734230-Touch-Elastic-Rainbow/dp/B001EU2HFQ/ref=pd_cp_by_3

Meant these

www.amazon.co.uk/Manhattan-Toy-Classic-Baby-Beads/dp/B002LARAOG/ref=pd_cp_by_0

Thankyou, they both look great too - aagh more dilemnas!!

I'm just not sure of the size with the tangle toy, I guess I can always return it if too big/small.

DD also found the tangle toys hard to manipulate at that age. She liked the beads that tooloudhere suggested and also good for helping build up the strength in her hands (DD has low tone in her hands and fingers to add to fine motor coordination issues).

For fine motor we did lots of posting things through toy letter boxes, playing playdoh (making pinch pots) playing with small beads and coins (supervised of course!) and writing in flour, sand etc.

I used stacking cups a lot too and we had something like this www.whoozit-toys.eu/manhattan_toys/manhattan_toy_skwinkle.php