Fine Motor - Infants

Container Play

In this 1 1/2 minute video, a mobile infant explores nesting containers.

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Ways To Use

  • Practice Observation - concepts - Nesting, sorting and classification
  • Discussion: cognitive development, spatial relationships, learning through play and exploration 
  • Explore assessment using the DRDP
  • Use as class discussion asking what three bits of information is a child gaining through this experience and why.*

Use In Your Class

Fine Motor - Infants

* "This work" by Edilma Serna is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Links to an external site.