The Montessori hook-and-loop (Velcro) fastening frame helps children practice fastening and unfastening in a playful way while developing fine motor skills, movement coordination, concentration, and independence when dressing and in everyday life.
The fastening frame – hook-and-loop belongs to Montessori practical life materials (self-care). The child learns a specific skill on it, which they can then easily transfer to everyday situations, for example when getting dressed and handling clothing or accessories with hook-and-loop.
Direct aim: the technique of fastening and unfastening hook-and-loop.
Indirect aims:
- coordination and control of movement
- independence from adult help when dressing
- patience, perseverance, and concentration
- development of willpower
- use in other everyday-life activities as well
Recommendation: The fastening frame – hook-and-loop is recommended as one of the first activities in Practical Life – self-care (together with the fastening frame – snap fasteners and the fastening frame – large buttons). Montessori materials are based on the pedagogy of the Italian educator Maria Montessori.
Specifications
- Recommended age
- from 2.5 years
- Montessori area
- Practical Life – self-care
- Direct aim
- Technique of fastening and unfastening hook-and-loop
- Indirect aims
- Coordination and control of movement; independence when dressing; patience, perseverance, and concentration; development of willpower; use in everyday life
- Brand
- Moyo Montessori
