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Kumon Let’s Fold

Sweet Pea is 28 months old.

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 Material:

 Procedure:

  • The book contains instructions for demonstrating how to fold each of the pages.

Observations: We have had this book for a couple of months and Sweet Pea struggled with it for a long time.  She enjoyed the pictures and wanted to fold the pages,  but just did not have the finger strength to make a crease.  I had to do much of the work.  She would take a page and flip it around for a while before eventually holding it out to me and asking, “Mom, help.”   She could bend the page, but not actually complete the fold.  I would take her fingers and help her press the crease, but she couldn’t do it on her own the first several times we did this activity.

 

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Recently however, Sweet Pea can suddenly make these folds.   I am always fascinated by how Sweet Pea can wake up one morning and has suddenly gained a new skill that she couldn’t do at all the day before.

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Now that Sweet Pea is more able to do the folding, this has turned into a nice little book to bring with us to a restaurant or anyplace I want her occupied with a quiet activity.  It is small enough to fit in my purse and helps keep her entertained while we wait for our food.

Notes from the Trenches: If your tot isn’t ready for it, this book will probably cause some frustration, but overall there weren’t really any problems.

Rating: 3 Stars * (Fun, Easy, Independent – eventually)

 

1 comment to Kumon Let’s Fold

  • We have a few of Kumon first books. To tell you the truth, none of them were working for us before 30 months, but Anna was never a queen of fine motor skills 🙂 Now she enjoys doing cutting and folding… occasionally 🙂

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