The Use of Funnel for Toddlers

Vito is 28 months old.

I recently introduced the use of funnel to Vito and boy oh boy, it’s non stop play!

The addition of funnel in our beans and water transfer has added an extra spice in Vito’s daily activity. He’s been doing activities like pouring and scooping for quite sometime now and let’s say he’s getting tired of it.  So to explore the other capabilities of pouring, I added funnel in his activity tray.

Benefits of using a funnel or tubing:

• the difference between wide and small mouthed containers.  Make sure that the bottle is clear so the child can see the flow of the elements.
• from one step water transfer to pour-funnel-pour procedure (additional step)
• learn the concept of water flow

Children are fascinated with water and by making it flow.  The use of funnel is one of these elements that can help children understand about small spaces and  how the flow of water works.  They will discover that to easily transfer water to a small mouthed container, they’ll be needing a tubing or a funnel to successfully pour elements into it.

To demonstrate here’s a video of Vito transferring  lentils and water using a funnel.


Your kids will definitely have fun with this one, mine can’t stop playing!  Hope that this will work on you!

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