Mo062 - Montessori Ball Drop Object Permanence Box
Mo062 - Montessori Ball Drop Object Permanence Box
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Age: 9 months+
This traditional Montessori Imbucare box helps the toddler to develop an understanding of object permanence, an important developmental stage of the infant. Toddlers can now, indirectly, form and retain a mental image of an object. This also marks the beginning of their understanding of abstract concepts.
Infants are naturally curious and will love exploring the Montessori Toddler Imbucare Box with a Ball. When they find a box or a hole, they automatically want to put objects into the hole to see what happens.
They place the ball in the hole, it vanishes, and they desperately search to find where it went. This is how they learn about impermanence; what appears to be lost, can be found again. The missing ball can be recovered by opening the drawer, this concept is known as object permanence.
Objectives of the Toddler Imbucare Box with Ball
- the direct objective is to –
- place the ball in the hole, and open the drawer to find it again
- indirectly, they learn to –
- improve their hand-eye coordination
- hone their fine motor skills
- develop more focus and concentration
- object permanence signals an important developmental phase in the infant’s working memory, i.e. abstract concepts are formed
- this activity forms part of the support material in the traditional Montessori curriculum for the toddler environment
- a game that provides hours of fun, as the toddler learns.
Dimensions of the Imbucare Box
- wooden box – 12 x 12 x 9 cm
- diameter of the ball – 4.5 cm
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