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Wooden Balancing Toy
https://www.tts-group.co.uk/wooden-balancing-toy/1007949.html Product Code: EY06383Product Actions
Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Interactive Design
This resource features interchangeable cylindrical weights of various heights, allowing children to experiment with balance and stability.
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Supports EYFS Goals
This resource aligns with the Early Years Foundation Stage to help children explore how things work through play, enhancing their understanding of the world.
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Enhances Motor Skills
This wooden toy encourages the development of motor skills through activities that involve physical movement and coordination.
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Mathematical Development
Encourages early math skills in children by teaching comparisons of size, length, weight, and capacity.
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Curriculum Match: Understanding the World
Ideally supports the EYFS curriculum by helping children understand their world through balanced play, promoting investigative and explorative skills.
Wooden Balancing Toy
A beautifully crafted wooden toy designed to introduce balance with interchangeable weights.
Overview
This wooden balancing toy captivates children's interest and integrates learning with play, ideal for educators enhancing their teaching resources. Children explore balance and stability through practical experimentation with different weight combinations, intuitively understanding physical properties.
The toy effectively supports the EYFS curriculum, making it valuable for early years settings. It promotes free play with objects, boosting mathematical thinking through comparison of sizes and weights, and enhances both fine and gross motor skills with hands-on activities.
Made from durable wood, the toy withstands classroom use and offers teachers a versatile resource to develop core skills interactively. Its dimensions (H15 x L37 x D8cm) suit individual or small group activities.
Supports the National Curriculum
EYFS, Understanding the World
Explore and investigate how things work.
EYFS, Mathematics
Encourages young children to play freely with a wide range of objects e.g., stacking and combining.
EYFS, Mathematics
Make comparisons between objects relating to size, length, weight and capacity.
Technical Summary
Overview
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Single
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Wood
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Suitable for age 10 months and up
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Material
Age Range
Size and measurements
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15 cm
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37 cm
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8 cm
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Length
Depth
