Fine motor2–3½ yrsAt home

Muffin tin transfer

Twelve little holes that need filling.

Prep

4 min

Mess

Low

How to play

Pile everything in a bowl. He spoons one scoop into each hole until every cup is filled. Then tip it all back and go again.

  1. a muffin tin beside a spoon and a bowl of pompoms
    1

    A muffin tin, a spoon, and a bowl of pompoms.

  2. a spoonful of pompoms dropping into a hole
    2

    One scoop into each hole.

  3. every hole in the tin filled with a pompom
    3

    Keep going until every cup is full.

What you need

A muffin tin, a spoon, and something to move (cereal, pom-poms, dry beans).

What it secretly builds

Fine motor

Controlling a loaded spoon without spilling is the exact skill that ends the mess at dinner — practised somewhere the mess doesn't matter.

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