Sensory experiences are particularly important for children. The tactile tablets help to train the sense of touch and to name surfaces. With the touch tablets, the challenge is to find two touch tablets with the same surface finish.

The touch tablets are presented to the child in a mess. The child's job is to find the right couple. Alternatively, it can also be sorted according to the nature of the surface.

Use, advantages, areas of application for this Montessori material:

• • Feel and recognize surfaces

• • Name and describe the properties of surfaces

• • Compare and assign felt structures

• • Montessori material for children from 3 years

• • Practice tactile perception in order to learn to dose the finger strength

Scope of the Montessori sensory material:
1 storage box, wood, approx. 17 x 14 x 7 cm
10 tactile tablets, wood, approx. 13 x 9.5 cm

Montessori instructions for the tactile tablets

The adult takes the tablet from the box and places it on the table. Now he looks for the pairs and separates them by placing five of the touch tablets in a row in front of him and the other five tablets in a pile on one side.

Now he takes one of the touch tablets from the stack and pushes it under the first tablet from the row. He runs three fingers (either index, middle and ring finger or thumb, index and middle finger) of one hand (depending on whether left or right-handed) over the upper tablet. Then he drives over the tablet underneath and compares whether they are the same. When they are the same, he puts the pair of touch tablets aside and takes the next tablet from the stack and starts again. But if the tablets are different, the lower one is simply pushed to the next one in the row and compared until the right tablet is found.
When all pairs have been found, the tablets are separated again and set up as described above.

Now it is passed to the child.

Variations:
The child is asked to sort the tactile tablets from fine to coarse (or vice versa).

In children with poor concentration, it is advisable to do the exercises blindfolded, so that the distracting sense of sight is switched off.