Cognitive6 mo–2 yrsAt home

Lids and pots

The Tupperware drawer, finally useful.

Prep

3 min

Mess

None

How to play

Spread the pots on one side, the lids on the other, all jumbled. His job is to find the right lid for each pot and click it on.

  1. two pots below and two jumbled lids above
    1

    Spread the pots on one side, the lids on the other.

  2. a lid being lowered onto the pot that matches it
    2

    Find the lid that fits each pot.

  3. each pot closed with its own lid
    3

    Click it on. Then try the next one.

What you need

Four or five containers of different sizes, with their lids.

What it secretly builds

Cognitive

Matching by size and shape is early problem-solving — and clicking a lid shut is a two-handed job that needs both sides of his body cooperating.

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