I found this magnet kit a few months ago. Every once in a while I’ll get it out with Cutie Pie. The other day he wasn’t feeling too hot, so we got it out again. He always has so much fun with it! This particular day all he wanted to do was ‘go fishing’. The kit came with plastic fish, paper clips, these little boxes that you can fit wheels to or make into a boat, some round magnets, rectangular magnets and a couple of posts and sails. We of course, couldn’t go fishing without having a boat in the water!
Cutie Pie had great fun fishing with his magnet hanging from his ‘fishing pole’ and counted the fish as he caught them! (There were 10, he counted to 7 correctly! This was his idea!) His coordination improved more and more as he played! We also used a rectangular magnet in the boat as well as under the table…to make the boat ‘go’! These are pretty strong magnets to work through an inch of wood!
We talked about why the magnets moved away from each other to make the boat go, as well as why they attracted the paper clips. At one point he said “they are together like a train!” in relation to his magnets sticking together. Quite often when we play with his trains, which have magnets, Cutie Pie will call out ‘reverse the polarity!’ and turn his train car around so it will hook up to the next in line rather than push it away. We talked about how those are held together or pushed apart by magnets and how the ones we were playing with were the same thing, just not attached to his trains.
I’m thinking these magnets will be pulled out quite often now that he is able to reach the drawer they’re kept in! (Although he knows he cannot play with them without me or his Daddy around…we already lost one TV from him using his train magnets against the screen!)
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