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.