Janod Vehicles Magnetibook

Janod Vehicles Magnetibook - 18 pattern cards & 50 pieces

 

Activities like Janod's Vehicles Magnetibook can be fun for variety if you are working with pattern cards. There are a wide range of vehicles on the cards including boats, cars, trucks, tractor, construction vehicles, fire engine, submarine, tank, and race cars. Cards measure about 3 1/8" x 2 3/8".

The vehicles are broken down into several pieces each, and each piece has a magnet on the back so they will stick to the inside of the lid. Pieces needed to make a vehicle range from four to eight.

Everything comes in a book-type box that has ribbon that connects the bottom to the lid (see image above). This allows the lid, which has a background of road, water and sky, to stand up when open. On this lid is where you will assemble your vehicles. There is no way to keep the book closed. I have found rubber bands extremely useful in my work. The book measures 7.5" x 10.25". 

The pieces are magnetic and stick well to the lid, but not so firmly that you can't move them around once in place. You can see in the upper right hand corner where the pattern card is held up with two yellow magnets. You can easily refer to it while you are building and then take it down when you are done.

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Try this:

• Build a progression of vehicles and link them together in a story as you go. 
• Start by giving the individual each piece as it is needed, then push out two pieces at a time, then three.
• Turn the piece in-hand if you pick it up in the wrong orientation. Set the pieces on the table in the wrong orientation so this is required.
• Sort the cards into piles by land, air, water, etc.
• Build the vehicles by category. Lay the cards out so all can be seen and then suggest let's build something you would see in the sky, that you could ride in underwater, that is an emergency vehicle, that has a propeller, that has wheels, that you have ridden in, that you would love to ride in, that you can look up and see, etc.
• Lay out several cards, face up. Place one piece on the board and ask the player to choose the card that needs that piece and build it. 
• Work on visual discrimination, visual closure, spatial relations, manual dexterity, figure ground, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation
  

In the box: 50 magnetic pieces, 18 pattern cards

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