Knobless Cylinder Extensions

After the initial success and appeal of the caterpillar, Bear showed interest in creating her own caterpillars to cover with the knobless cylinders.  Although she can trace insets (yogurt lid stencils), she is not quite able to trace around a cylinder, or any other solid.
Hence, I traced the cylinders and cut out the circles in corresponding colors of construction paper.  She can lay out the circles any way she wants and then match the cylinders to them.

 

  

  

Another extension (although I don't know if this one would upset Montessori purists) was to place animals on each cylinder.  Next time I would have her match the size of animals better to the width of the cylinder.  She really enjoyed balancing the animals on the cylinders.

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