Shape sorter

We got this shape sorter for Swe-cha when he was a few months old but never really used it the way that it was meant to be used. He would just throw the blocks / shapes around and shout "aaaah" while doing that. It wasn't long after this shape sorter was relegated to the toy pile and forgotten.

Recently, I've been cleaning out his play area and putting away his old toys in an effort to make space for a toddler table & chair. When he saw this, natuwa siya, he took my hand and put my hand on a block. My thought was that he wanted me to show him how to play with this.

So I started getting the shapes, "this is a circle. See ? and look at this hole, it's a circle too... the circle shape goes in the circle here." I did that for all the other shapes - square, triangle, cross and a star.

After doing all the shapes once, alam na nya and he was playing on his own. By his 2nd cycle, he would look at the shape in his hand and directly target the corresponding hole in the container na. Sometimes, he would even try to shout out the name of the shape before he puts it in the hole (yun nga lang, half-words lang like "ang" for triangle, "errr" for square and then he would also just open/close his fingers to signal "star").

This may not seem so significant because a shape-sorter isn't really an advanced toy. But today, I realized that my son can understand instructions and learns quickly if he is interested.

Aliw :)