Page 8 - Perceptual skills development

TOPPLE TOWER

• Children have their 6 bricks randomly placed,
out in front of them.
• Pick up your dark blue brick, place it standing
up on a short end, studs facing you.
• Use a clothes peg in your dominant hand to
pick up another brick and balance it on top of
the blue brick, short end to short end.
• Repeat this action until you have balanced all
6 bricks.

Q: Who can do it the fastest?

Variations:
• Repeat this exercise using your non-
dominant hand / alternate hands (have a
peg in each hand).
• Alternate right and left hands to remove
each brick one at a time - can you do it
without knocking all the bricks over?
• Can you do it with the peg?
• Work with a partner to stack all 12 bricks
in this way.
• Think of other ways to stack the bricks,
without using the clutch power.

Q: Can you balance a brick horizontally
across two bricks standing vertically?
Q: Can you keep going up in this way?
Try working with a partner to see how
high you can go.

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