Stacking Cups

Green Sprouts Stacking Cups

Stacking cups are so simple but babies just love them! They are fun for play in and out of the tub. These cups keep my girls busy for a long time. They have tiny, different shaped holes in the bottom so that when filled with water in the tub it pours out the bottom in a fun little stream. 

Age Level: 0-2

Skills/Talents:

~Fine Motor: Being able to stack requires hand-eye coordination and depth perception. Because these are round they require a little more grading to stack than square blocks.

~Speech/Language: When the girls were teeny babies they loved to take turns yelling into the cups to hear the echo. This is a great way for babies to learn to "use their voice" and to imitate non-speech sounds. 

Some vocabulary that I have taught with this toy both at home and at work includes:

• saying "up" each time I stack another cup on top and then "down!" when the babies knock it down
• "in" and "out" 
• "shake shake shake" when we put a tiny cup inside a big cup and shake it

Rating: Four out of five stars

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