Fine motor2½–4 yrsAt home

Peg the rim

A bowl, some pegs, and a surprisingly hard challenge.

Prep

2 min

Mess

None

How to play

Clip the pegs around the rim of the bowl until it looks like a sun. Then take them all off. Colour-match them to dots if he wants it harder.

  1. a bowl beside three clothes pegs
    1

    Get a bowl and a handful of clothes pegs.

  2. a peg being clipped onto the bowl's rim
    2

    Clip a peg onto the rim.

  3. pegs clipped all around the rim like sun rays
    3

    Keep going until it looks like a sun.

What you need

A handful of clothes pegs and a bowl or piece of cardboard.

What it secretly builds

Fine motor

Squeezing a peg open uses exactly the three fingers that later grip a pencil — and it's one of the few ways to strengthen them that feels like play.

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