Hercules Weightlifting

Who is the strongest – Hercules!

A great way to learn the weight relationship by moving the ‘weights’ on Hercules arms. The principle here is to place the coloured, wooden discs onto the pegs on Hercules arms and see how each affects the balance. A great little feature of Hercules is that his irises are attached to his arms, so as the weight balance changes, he actually looks in different directions!

Great for developing fine motor and hand-eye coordination, cognitive and logical thinking skills, whilst learning an understanding for heavier and lighter. There is a card which accompanies this set that demonstrates the greater lesser symbol too. This allows the > to explain less than and < for more than and vis versa.

Why not start by working out which discs are the heaviest and which are the lightest? Then as an understanding grows it can be seen that a medium yellow disc with a small green are equal in weight to the large orange disc.

This set includes a wooden Hercules ‘weighing scale’, 2 large orange discs, 2 medium yellow discs and 2 small green discs.

Brand : Classic World