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Giant Pegboard

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#1562 GIANT PEGBOARD™ Toy
Fine Motor, Thinking & Problem Solving

This bestseller offers years of learning play. 25 bright, shapes in 5 different colors and clear star shapes with colored beads inside.

When you purchase the #1564  GIANT PEGBOARD™ Activity Pack. Extend play through school years with additional round pegs in all five colors and develop addition, multiplication and graphing concepts. String pegs to increase fine motor skills. Includes 25 round pegs and one lace. From 4 Years - Elementary School

To learn effectively, a child must feel they have some control over their environment and believe they are capable of creating changes in the world.  It is a parent’s role to be sensitive to a child’s abilities and frustration levels. Please choose activities accordingly.

Here are many ideas to introduce you to the Giant Pegboard. You and your child will discover more. More importantly, you will discover each other, which is the greatest gift you can share!

COUNTING

Count each peg as you place it in the child’s hand, on the board, or in a stack.  Encourage them to count along by pausing or asking, “what comes next?”  At the end say, “Wow!  Look how many you have.  You have…”

COLORS

When handing a child one of the pegs, name the color.  Say, “Look Timmy, this is yellow.  Can you find another yellow one?”  Help him/her find it if needed.

SHAPES

Similar to the game above but with shapes.  “I see a circle, do you see a circle?”  Help them find the circle if needed.  Find all the other circles. 

LET’S SORT

Start sorting the pegs by color or shape and saying, “Look, I found a red peg.  Oh!  And here’s another one, let’s put it with the first one we found.  Here is a blue one, and let’s put the green ones here…”  See if they start helping you sort.  If not, encourage them to do so.  Pick out one and hand it to them and say, “where does this one go?”

TALLER/SMALLER

Make two towers.  Have them different hights.  Say, “which one of these is taller?”  You can then count each and determine the answer.  Make sure at the beginning to put the towers right beside each other.  Make it obvious at first too.

LONGER/SHORTER

The same game as above, but instead of stacking the pegs you would string them on a string.  Lay them next to each other and determine length by counting.

WHO HAS MORE?

Make a tower for yourself and encourage your child to make one too.  Then ask, “who has more?”  Count each tower and announce who has more.  To extend this later, you can ask the child to make them the same.  At first give them the appropriate number of pegs to do this, and later let them choose.

NAME THAT LETTER

This game would be easiest with the activity pack so all pegs are the same shape.  Make a letter on the pegboard with the pegs.  For example, put pegs all the way across the top row and down the middle column to make a T.  Have your child name that letter. 

LETTER SWITCH-UP

This game only works for some letters.  After making a letter such as N, turn the board on it’s side and ask, what letter is it now?  (Z). 

WHAT’S MISSING

Logical thinking is important to the understanding of math concepts. To help your child develop logical thinking skills, play this simple game. Hide all but a couple of pegs.  At first start with very different pegs.  Name the pegs you have out, “here is a red circle, and next is a blue square….”  Have your child close their eyes and remove one peg.  See if they remember which one is missing.  Show it to them and play again and again. 

TOWER TOPPLE

What’s more exciting than building a tower!!  See how high you can make a tower before it falls down or they knock it down. 

COPY ME

Make a short pattern and have your child copy your pattern.  This works best with the activity set so you can stick with all circles in your pattern and not worry about the shapes as well as the colors.  Look, my tower has blue, red, and then green.  Can you make one just like mine? 

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Start a simple pattern with two colors like red, blue, red, blue, red.  Ask the child, what comes next?   Have available a red peg and a blue peg only.  As they improve, add other colors in too, make the pattern more complex  and add more colors. 

PATTERN ME

Make a pattern either up in a tower or across in a row.  Show the child your pattern and then ask, “Can you make a pattern too?”  Make sure you have played the above patterning game lots so they know what a pattern is.  At first stick to giving them only 2 colors and then expand.

SINK OR FLOAT?

Have your child predict if the pegs will sink or float.  Test out their prediction.  See if other pegs have the same results. 

GEOBOARD SHAPES

The back of our giant pegboard is a geoboard.  Use this with colored rubber bands for extra fun.  Hook a rubber band around 4 pegs to make a square.  Ask the child what shape you have made.  See if they can make a square too!  What other shapes can you make? 

BIG TRIANGLE LITTLE

Using the pegboard side, make a triangle, square, or rectangle.  Make another as big as you can.  Remember to use the vocabulary.  I am making a big triangle.  Here is a little triangle. 

PERIMETER

Using the geoboard side, make a square around 4 pegs.  What is the perimeter of this square?  Perimeter is the way around.  So you count from peg to peg (one peg to another is 1 unit) around and you get 4.  Make larger squares, rectangles, triangles, etc.

AREA

Older students will be able to use the geoboard in geometry.  Make a square using only of the pegs and 1 rubber band.  What is the area of this square?  (1)  Then remove the rubber band on one side and stretch it over the next two pegs (it should be around 6 pegs now).  What is the area now?  (2) Use this to help with the formula for area= length x height.  This square is 1 unit high and 1 unit long.  1x1=1. 

MAKING MUSIC

Using the geoboard side, stretch rubber bands around all the pegs in a row.  On the next row stretch a rubber band around all but one peg.  Continue so you have a couple of rubber bands at varying lengths.  Show your child how to strum or pluck the rubber bands making music.  Notice how the sound is different when the length of the rubber band is different.  What happens when you make them wider?  What happens when you change the color?  (Nothing, but they need to verify this for themselves), also try different widths of rubber bands.

RAINBOW

Find a rainbow in a book or look at one in the sky.  Notice the colors are always in the same order.  ROYGBIV.  Arrange the pegs in the color sequence of a rainbow.  Even nicer if you also arrange the pieces in an arch. 

LET’S SEE ADDITION

Hand your child a peg.  Here is 1 peg.  How many do you have?  Count them.  Here is another peg.  How many do you have now?  Count again.  Start over and give start with 2 and add one.  Etc.

LET’S SEE SUBTRACTION

Same as above but take away pegs instead of adding them.  You can extend this activity by having a piece of paper under your pegs.  Write the numbers in.  So if you had 3 pegs, write the number 3 under them.  Then you’d write the subtraction sign and the number of pegs to subtract, and equals and the answer.  It’s easier if you talk about it in terms of what they have and what you are giving or taking away. 

TRACE and FIND

On a large sheet of paper, trace the different shapes.  Have the child match the correct shape to it’s traced copy on the paper.  A beginner puzzle!  To make this easier/harder, just trace more or less shapes.  For a beginner, I would trace a circle and a aquare.  Using only those two pegs, show them how the circle fits right on the circle drawing. 

STRING ALONG

Have your child string the pegs on a large shoestring.  They can make necklaces ( adult supervision only), snakes to pull around the room, use them as a belt, or an animal tail.

PEG JUMP GAME

Remove the center peg and play “Hi-O”.  Jump the pegs to get to one peg remaining.  The fewer pegs remaining after do all the jumps, the better. 

REMEMBER

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