Montessori Fine Motor Skill Tweezer Transferring Activity

Now, I’ve always loved the principles of Montessori (after all, anything that gets your child wanting to do stuff for themselves is good, right?!), and I will do a more in-depth post soon about what it’s all about, and why I like it.

The other day, I needed to have half hour to concentrate and get a few things done online, which can be tricky as Freddie in particular can be quite demanding of my time (“Mummy, come and play, dooooooooo something with me”). And I do do stuff with both children a heck of a lot of the time, but sometimes, you just need to get shit done. Enter: The Montessori Tweezer Transferring Activity.

I set up a couple of bowls at the kitchen table, one of which was filled with craft pom-poms, and gave Freddie his giant tweezers (a £2 stocking filler last Christmas from Amazon!) to sort and transfer them with from bowl-to-bowl, and off he went!

I’m often surprised by what both children are interested in and what holds their attention- don’t ever think anything is too boring! Freddie really enjoyed this for a good 20 minutes, transferring each pom-pom to the next bowl and sorting them into colour groups. Sasha was fascinated, watching all the time! Transferring activities are great for developing good concentration, and F got real satisfaction from mastering his tweezers. So much so that he’s been ‘transferring’ stuff ever since- small dinosaurs, wooden bricks, you name it, it gets tweezed!

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. – Maria Montessori 

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