Tray Play

This week's play trays.

Money Bank

 The first is a coffee can covered with paper.

A slit is cut in the lid.

 Metal juice can lids are the coins.

I wrote numbers on one side of each lid

and the corresponding amount of dots on the other.

Some of the families played a game by asking for a certain number

to drop in the can.

 After filling the 'bank' they can take the lid off to empty.

 Then fill it again.

 The second tray consisted of this interesting wire piece.

By the end of the week the consensus was that it is an old curtain tie back.

But it worked well for a weaving frame.

 Good for eye-hand coordination

and fine motor development.

The third tray didn't hold much interest for the children.

 They could spoon the glitter sequins from one container 

to the other.

 This last tray was the most popular.

There's something about pony beads that attracts the children.

 Six colours of beads and six pipe cleaners of the same colours.

 They could match and stack the beads

on to the pipe cleaners.

Closer to the end of the week I found these coloured sticks

at a dollar store.

They must be a little warped because the beads would go on the top

but not slide all the way to the bottom.