Life Skills Learning Board 39.8×29.5 cm | Dressing & Fastening Board

Dressing is hard for a specific reason: the fastening is on your own body, where you cannot see it properly and cannot get both hands into a comfortable position. Children fail at buttons long after they have the hand skill, because the geometry is against them.

Practising on a flat activity board removes that obstacle. The fastening is in front of the child, at a good angle, in full view, with both hands free — so they can learn the actual movement before having to perform it upside down on their own coat.

The board covers the main fastening types, each of which is a genuinely different action: a button rotates through a hole, a zip needs alignment before it will run, a buckle threads and folds back, a lace crosses and pulls. Getting them onto one board means a setting is not buying four separate resources.

Wood, metal and fabric components at 39.8 × 29.5 cm on a 0.7 cm backing board.

• Fastenings practised flat and in view, not upside down on a body
• Buttons, zips, buckles and laces — four different actions, one board
• Directly transfers to coats, shoes and school uniform
• Wood, metal and fabric, 39.8 × 29.5 cm on a 0.7 cm backing
• Recommended ages 3–6

Part of the Life Skills board range with the locks and latches board. For nursery independence work and KG fine-motor areas.