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Fine Motor Activities – Play Dough
Activity: There are so many ways that play dough can be used and whilst any activity will help strengthen fine motor muscles in the fingers. Rolling, squashing, moulding and stretching can all be modelled by an adult when making objects and allows children to experiment with a variety of finger and hand movements. Differentiation: Swapping…
Fine Motor Activities – Pegs on a Line
Activity: Children use their finger tips to pinch open the pegs and carefully clip them to a washing line. Just as with threading, hand and eye coordination is needed. Differentiation: Pegs vary a lot. From a child friendly large plastic type, to smaller wooden ones with stronger springs. Using a different pegs with more resistance…
Fine Motor Activities – Marble Balancing
Activity: Using the finger tips to carefully balance marbles is a great activity to develop fine motor skills for toddlers. Using play dough is probably the quickest and easiest base to place the golf tees into. Differentiation: Try using egg cups to start with and play around with the size of ball that your child has to balance.…
Fine Motor Activities – Threading
Activity: The threading of beads, buttons cotton-reels is a much loved activity by children in any kindergarten and its such an easy activity to replicate at home even if you don’t have the purpose made educational toys. The threading process develops hand-eye coordination and the smaller the threading hole the more intricate the motor movements need…
Fine Motor Activities – Chopsticks / Tweezers
Activity: Using chopsticks is a difficult enough skill to grasp as an adult let alone a toddler, but when they have been fashioned in such a way to secure the two ends together, this allows them to be used more as tweezers. This is achieved simply by fastening an elastic band around the two fatter…
Fine Motor Activities – Lolly Stick Sorting
Activity: Children are asked to pick and sort coloured straws or lolly sticks into the correct container or pot. In this way the activity also covers an important maths objective and also allows for language development. Differentiation:Straws would be used initially as they are easier to pinch between the fingers to pick up. As a child’s…
5 healthy alternatives to 5 terrible favourites.
Granola/ Cereal Bars. Yeah. That ‘healthy’ and ‘nutrient rich’ breakfast or lunchtime snack, hanging out in the healthy isle of your favourite supermarket, next to the oats and quinoa, cleverly positioned far enough away from the chocolate and cookie shelving. The salt and sugar content in these things is horrendous. Added artificial dyes and high…
Kindergarten 2: Guided Play
Guided play is not just about playing. The toys and games are carefully selected by the teacher to either support what is being learnt in lessons or to build on basic skills such as problem solving, fine motor, or design. The children should be free to choose what they would like to play with, but…
The Benefits Of Floating During Pregnancy
Recently a good friend of mine decided to open a float centre in bangkok. From the initial idea to the opening of the beautifully designed space located in Avenue Mall, Sukhumvit 24 took about a year to complete. Whilst very popular in the U.S and and the U.K. the concept hadn’t yet caught on here.…