Beans and Tweezers

Materials Needed:

• 20-25 dried kidney beans

• tweezers

• small cups

• timer (optional)

Directions:

• place beans in pile in center of table

• Hold tweezers with thumb and first two fingers (pointer and middle)

• hold cup with other hand, using thumb, index and middle fingers

• pick up beans, one at a time, with the tweezers, and drop them into the cup

Goal:

• hand separation

Modifications:

• work against a clock

• use smaller tweezers and beans