The Cylinder Blocks
Small, tall and short, thick and thin, and combinations of these.
The cylinder blocks are ten wooden cylinders of various dimensions that can be removed from a fitted container block using a knobbed handle. To remove the cylinders, the child tends to naturally use the same three-finger grip used to hold pencils.
Several activities can be done with the cylinder blocks. The main activity involves removing the cylinders from the block and replacing them. The control of error is constituted in the child's inability to replace a cylinder in the wrong hole. There are four cylinder blocks. Their purpose is to provide various dimensions of size to help the child distinguish between large
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