Activity Wall Toy - Crocodile
The Crocodile Activity Wall Toy is a bright, engaging, and robust interactive resource designed to encourage hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and problem-solving abilities. Perfect for classrooms, therapy settings, and sensory environments, this friendly crocodile will capture attention and promote collaborative play, imaginative exploration, and reasoning skills.
Please note: available to UK customers only.
Read MoreCrocodile Activity Wall Toy – Interactive Play for Fine Motor Skill Development
The Crocodile activity wall toy is designed to look like a friendly crocodile that will attract interest and admiration wherever he is seen.
Key Features:
- Five interactive sections featuring engaging hands-on activities:
- Percussive instruments for sound exploration.
- Mirror panel for self-recognition and sensory play.
- Magnetic pen and ball follower for guided movement and tracking.
- Various mazes and threading activities to enhance problem-solving skills.
- Rotational pieces, interlocking cogs, and slotted line followers for dexterity and hand control development.
- Encourages collaborative play, conversation, and engagement in group settings.
- Made from durable, high-quality materials designed for frequent use.
- Supplied fully assembled in five pieces for easy installation.
- Fixing holes and attachment screws included for simple wall mounting.
Dimensions: Crocodile total length 174.5cm. Section lengths: head 3.6cm, front legs 34.7cm. middle 34.7cm, hind legs 34.7cm, tail 34.4cm.
The Crocodile Activity Wall Toy provides a fun, interactive way to develop essential motor skills and engage learners in meaningful play, making it an excellent addition to any early years, SEN, or sensory environment.
Please note: available to UK customers only.
Activity Ideas for an Activity Wall Toy
The Activity Wall Toy is a versatile, engaging resource that encourages the development of fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and problem-solving abilities. Here are some fun and educational activities to maximise its potential in both classroom and home environments:
1. Colour Hunt Challenge
- Objective: Identify and name different colours on the wall toy.
- How to Play: Ask the learner to find all objects or sections of a specific colour (e.g., "Can you find everything that’s red?"). Extend the activity by grouping similar colours or shades.
- Skills Developed: Colour recognition, language development, visual tracking.
2. Shape Sorting Adventure
- Objective: Recognise and match shapes on the wall toy.
- How to Play: Point to a shape and ask the learner to find a matching shape elsewhere on the wall or in the room. You can also provide foam or card shapes for the learner to match to the wall toy.
- Skills Developed: Shape recognition, cognitive development, spatial awareness.
3. Follow the Maze
- Objective: Improve hand-eye coordination by tracing mazes.
- How to Play: Use fingers or a small pointer to trace through bead mazes or line followers. Add a challenge by timing the activity or using different hands to strengthen bilateral coordination.
- Skills Developed: Fine motor control, concentration, problem-solving.
4. Musical Fun Time (for wall toys with instruments)
- Objective: Explore sounds and create simple rhythms.
- How to Play: Encourage the learner to tap out a rhythm on the xylophone or drum panel. Play "copy the beat" games where the adult plays a simple rhythm, and the learner repeats it.
- Skills Developed: Auditory discrimination, rhythm recognition, motor planning.
5. Storytelling with the Wall Toy
- Objective: Spark creativity using elements from the wall toy.
- How to Play: Create a short story using objects from the toy (e.g., “The spinning wheel is the sun, the beads are magical jewels…”). Let the learner add their own ideas to continue the story.
- Skills Developed: Imagination, language development, narrative skills.
6. Time-Telling Practice (for wall toys with clocks)
- Objective: Learn basic time-telling skills.
- How to Play: Set the clock hands to different times and ask, “What time is it?” Start with whole hours, then progress to half-hours and quarter-hours as skills develop.
- Skills Developed: Time recognition, sequencing, number awareness.
7. Sensory Seek-and-Find
- Objective: Enhance sensory exploration and vocabulary.
- How to Play: Ask the learner to find something that feels smooth, rough, bumpy, or soft. Describe each texture as they find it.
- Skills Developed: Sensory processing, descriptive language, tactile awareness.
8. Counting Challenge
- Objective: Develop early counting and number recognition skills.
- How to Play: Count the number of beads, gears, or shapes in different sections. Add difficulty by asking to count backwards or skip count by twos or fives.
- Skills Developed: Numeracy, sequencing, one-to-one correspondence.
9. Pattern Making & Recognition
- Objective: Recognise and create patterns using colours, shapes, or movements.
- How to Play: Create a simple pattern (e.g., red-blue-red-blue) using movable parts, then ask the learner to continue the sequence.
- Skills Developed: Pattern recognition, logical thinking, sequencing.
10. Fine Motor Olympics
- Objective: Strengthen hand and finger muscles through a series of challenges.
- How to Play: Set up mini "events" like turning all the gears, sliding beads across the maze, and threading pieces through designated paths. Time each event for extra excitement.
- Skills Developed: Dexterity, grip strength, coordination.
These activities not only make the Activity Wall Toy fun but also support key developmental milestones through interactive play and learning.
