This week all the activities are based on 'fine motor skills'.

Monday

• Scissor skills
• For this activity you will need a pair of small scissors and a few small tubes. If you do not have any tubes in the house you could ask an adult to make you some using rolls of paper and some sellotape.

• Can you cut the tubes in different ways?
  • snipping the edges
  • making a fringe along the top of the tube
  • cutting the tube in half from top to bottom or across the middle
• You could draw a face on the tube and use your scissors to give it silly hair.
• Ask a grown up to help you if you can not remember how to hold the scissors correctly.

Tuesday

• Weaving
• For this activity you will need
  • some long strips of paper, pieces of cloth, wool or newspaper
  • a wire cake cooling tray

• Can you use your fingers to thread the material or paper in and out of the wire tray to make a pattern?
• How many lines are there on your patterns?
• You could adapt this activity by using bigger objects such as scarf and a clothes dryer.

Wednesday

• Pasta and pipe cleaners
• For today's activity you will need
  • a colander from the kitchen
  • some spaghetti or pipe cleaners

• Can you use your fingers to thread the spaghetti or pipe cleaners into the holes?
• How fast can you do it?
• Have a race with a grown up to see who can put the most in 

Thursday

• Copying the lines
• For today's activity you will need
  • a sheet of paper
  • a pen/pencil or crayon
  • some small objects - lego, raisins, Smarties, Cheerio's, bricks etc

• Ask a grown up to draw some patterns on the paper.
• Can you use your fingers to carefully place the small objects on the lines like the children are doing in the photo?

Friday

• Scissor skills
• For today's activity you will need
  • some paper
  • scissors
  • a crayon, pen or pencil

• Ask your grown up to drawn different patterns on the paper.
• Can you cut along the lines with your scissors?
• Check again that you are holding the scissors correctly.