Vehicle Tap Tap

Use a hammer and tacks to construct cars and trucks from challenge cards.



A little pricey, but a fun activity. Construct vehicles by placing pieces on a cork board and then hammering in tacks to keep them in place.

 

The pieces are a lightweight wood with a picture on one side. One piece requires two tacks and the rest only take one. There are circles on the pieces to indicate where the tacks go. The tacks are not long enough to go all the way through the cork board, so won't scratch the table. The hammer is also wooden. 

 

The five challenge cards are a heavy card stock and have a puzzle on each side, so 10 challenges total. The bottom of each card shows you the pieces that you will need to build the vehicle and the top of each card shows the completed vehicle. The challenges advance in difficulty but are not marked as such. The vehicles range anywhere from four to eight pieces. Five of the vehicles use all the same color pieces and five use mixed colors. Some of the vehicles are fire truck, police car, tractor, tow truck and bulldozer.

Try this:

• Looking at the bottom of the card first, pick out all the pieces you will need before you start building. 
• Push the tack in a little so that it stands on its own before hammering.
• Place the first piece if the individual does not know where or how to start.
• Follow the placement that is listed on the bottom of the card. Each piece has a plus sign next to it to guide you in piece placement sequence.
  
• Orient the piece as the individual watches if he is having trouble. Then pick it up and ask him to place it.
• Start with the 4 piece puzzles and work up to the 8 piece puzzles.
  
• Use consistent positional and directional language.
• Ask the individual to orient the pieces in-hand for placement.
• Take the pieces out of the box and place them in a single layer on the table if the individual cannot spot them partially covered.
• Make up your own weird vehicle. Give it a name and a use.
  
• Let the individual find the pieces while in the box so that some of them are partially covered and in incorrect orientations. 
• Work on visual discrimination, spatial relations, visual closure, visual form constancy, figure ground, eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity, fine motor precision, bilateral coordination, tool use, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation 

In the box: 24 vehicle pieces, bag of tacks, 5 challenge cards, wooden hammer, cork board to build on

 

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