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Appendix B
Toys You Can Make
Toys that help develop use of hands and sense of touch
You can make beads and chains out of wild fruits and nuts.
prickly
rough and
smooth
fuzzy
wrinkled or
lumpy
smooth
wriggly
For a baby, hang a ring of
beads where she can reach
and handle it.
A child can play putting
the nuts and pods in and
out of a container.
Later he can learn
to sort them.
As the child develops
more hand control,
she can begin to
make chains
and necklaces
by stringing
beads on a
cord.
‘Snakes’ can be
made by stringing
nuts, ‘caps’ of
acorns, bottle
caps, or any
combination of
things.
small green mango
(or whatever you
can think of)
bottle caps
beans for
‘rattle’ of
rattlesnake
‘Hedgehogs’
acorn
knobby sticks
from papache bush
papache (woody fruits
from wild bush)
guasima fruit
cloves
If you use your
imagination, there are
all kinds of toy animals
you and your children
can have fun making.