HABA Highlights Monster Tap Bench Hammering and Pounding Toy with Colorful Wooden pegs, Mallet and Illustrations - Teaches Cause and Effect

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Product description Two Beloved Brands Rap, tap, tap! Help the monsters work. As your child hammers a wooden block into one side of the play workbench, the next one pops out on the other side, providing endless monster rapping and tapping joy. Develops fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination Recommended for ages 18 months + Highlights by HABA toys develop fine motor skills, encourage hand-eye coordination and inspire creativity Partner to Create Beautiful Wooden Toys! Parents have trusted Highlights to deliver fun with a purpose for more than 70 years. Highlights is the #1 most-read children's magazine in the U.S. Likewise, demanding parents and grandparents have looked to HABA for over 80 years to satisfy their wishes for long lasting toys made of carefully selected materials with excellent design, play value and utmost attention to safety. The Highlights by HABA range of toys Develop curiosity and open-mindedness through play Keep kids motivated to make learning fun! Implement an understanding of how kids solve puzzles Engage kids with humor and exceptional illustrations How to Play Young children learn and practice different skills at different stages At first, simply let your little one explore all the toy pieces. Feel how smooth the colorful wooden pegs are. The hammer handle is slightly less polished, making it easier for little hands to grasp. Let your child poke his fingers through the windows and reach into the holes on top of the bench. The fun can go on for as long as your child wants. When you pound a peg into one hole, another peg pops out of the other hole! Pound that one in and out pops yet another. The fun can go on for as long as your child wants. This experience isn’t just about building motor skills and eye-hand coordination. As your child watches the pegs go down one side and pop up the other, she is learning about cause and effect. Can your child name each color as it goes by? Watch through the windows as the pegs move through the monster machine. At first, each peg that pops up will be a surprise. After a while, show your little one that by looking in the last window, he can predict what color will come next. Ways to Extend the Fun Go on a treasure hunt! Let your youngster pick one peg, then carry it around the room finding anything that’s the same color. Ways to Extend the Fun! A child who has used crayons may try to scribble with the pegs. After all, the pegs are about the same size and shape as crayons. Show your tot a crayon and a peg. Feel the difference and talk about what you see. Say, “Look, this peg is hard and smooth. The color doesn’t come off!” Imagine the bench is a bus taking the monster builders to a construction site. Treat the pegs like little construction workers as you and your child walk them toward the “bus.” You can narrate your actions as you play Here’s the bus. Let’s help the monsters go to work! One by one, the workers go in the bus. Peek-a-boo! See them through the windows. Vroom, vroom! The bus leaves for the construction site. Ideas for Open-Ended Play Make up a story about the monsters and their machine. For a toddler, a satisfying story has a simple beginning, middle, and end. Here’s a story you could tell The little monster builders are going to make a house. They use their tools. Bang! Clatter! Clank! The house is done. “Good job, monster builders!”