When providing activities for under-threes, parents and carers must remember that interacting, manipulating, experimenting, exploring, creating and communicating through the activity is more important than expecting the children to achieve an end goal - for example, managing to get all the hooks on the mug rack in 'On it goes!' (see below).
Peg the pegs
* Place approximately 30 wooden clothes pegs into a basket similar to the one in the photograph.
* Demonstrate to the children the way in which a clothes peg works - by pinching one end we open the other end.
* Allow the children some time to practise this movement before suggesting to them that they could peg the pegs around the edge of the basket.
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