Materials
Kitchen whisk
Pompoms
Directions
Stuff a regular kitchen whisk with pompoms. Show your baby how to pull a pompom out of the whisk. Hand the whisk to your baby and let him try to get the pompoms out. When I did this exercise with Baby T, 7 months, he happily took the whisk from me, looked at it and waved it around. A couple of pompoms fell out. He hit his leg inadvertently with the whisk and a few more fell out. He dropped it at one point, and one or two more fell out. He waved the whisk around, holding it by the wire end and all the rest fell out except for two jumbo pompoms. He did not attempt to pull them out. He just continued waving the whisk around, occasionally mouthing the handle.
I’ll be interested to try this activity with Baby T in a few months. As his fine motor coordination develops, I anticipate that he’ll be more inclined to actually pull the pompoms out of the whisk.