Practical Life works- Shell tweezing

Materials:

Tray, tweezers, a scalloped shaped closed container (has 2 compartments) containing money cowrie’s shells.

Work Surface:
Table

Presentation:
· Invite child/group.
· Select work from the shelf and place it on the table.
· Open the container
· Use your dominant hand and pick up the tweezers
· Examine tension and hand position by opening and closing.
· Hold the tweezers and pick up the shells
· . Begin to transfer the shells from the left side and into the right side.
· Continue until all the shells are transferred.
· Reverse the procedure and transfer from right to left.
· Admire the work and place it neatly on the shelf.
· Invite child/group.

Extensions/Variations:
· Different types of tongs
· Chop sticks
· Tweezers
· Melon baller
· Spoons
· Different container

Points of interest:
· Picking up shells
· Releasing the shells
· Different types of shells
· The container itself

Control of Error:
· Dropping shells on the other side
· Tweezers has right tension




Language:
Tweezers, squeeze, tight, release, transfer, left, right, objects

Age:
2 ½ & up

Aims:
OCCI. Learning to use tongs and tweezers.