For this activity, you can use many different types of stencils to trace.
Provide the child with different stencils and have him/her trace inside or outside the stencil.
The child can also finger-paint inside these stencils.
If the child has difficulties with bilateral hand use, you may want to tape the stencil to the surface the child works on.
For this activity, you will need washable tempera paint or finger paint in 4 colors (e.g. yellow, red, pink, and brown).
Ask the child to dip the tip of the thumb into the brown color and press the thumb onto the paper twice. Thumbprints should be one next to the other. This will be the body of the turkey.
Ask the child to dip the tip of the index finger into the pink color and add a row of pink fingerprints above the brown ones. This will be the feathers.
Ask the child to add more rows of fingerprints (feathers) in yellow and red colors.
Glue the wiggle eyes to the brown turkey body. Add feet using the markers or crayons.
Take one of your clothespins and paint it with colors. This will be the butterfly body.
To make the wings, take some colored construction paper and fold it in half.
Draw a pair of wings on the folded side of the paper, and cut around them using the scissors.
Unfold the wings and you will have two sets that are exactly the same.
Draw colorful lines and patterns over the wings.
Pinch open the clothes peg and glue the wings onto the top prong.
It is best to clip the clothes peg onto something so that it doesn’t get glued shut.
Decorate the body of the butterfly with your buttons and beads, and stick the googly eyes onto the top of the peg.
Using the pencil and the ruler, mark the toilet roll every 2 inches and draw around the tube. These will be cutting lines we will use to create the paper roll caterpillar body.
Take the scissors and cut around the marks you have made so that you are left with several short tubes.
Paint the tubes both on the inside and outside, it is more effective if you paint the outside a different color to the inside.
Glue the tubes to each other, end to end, putting one tube aside to use for the head later.
Glue the head tube on the top of the last tube in the chain.
Using the glue, stick the two wiggle eyes on the head.
Draw a mouth just below the wiggle eyes.
Using the felt or the pipe cleaners, cut two short pieces and stick onto the top of the head to make antenna.
Cut two more pieces for each body section the caterpillar has and stick these onto the bottom to create legs.
For this activity, you will work on thumb opposition and provide sensory input by using finger paint.
You should use 5 different colors of finger paint.
Pour the different finger paint colors into the paper plate.
Ask the child to dip each finger in each one of the colors. Provide help as needed.
Draw a pattern on the construction paper. For example draw a pattern like a blue dot, a green dot, a red dot, a blue dot, a green dot, a red dot, etc.
Ask the child to follow your pattern using the paint on his/her fingers.
You can also have the child mix the colors and create new colors by touching his/her thumb with any other finger (i.e. thumb to the pointer, thumb to the middle finger, and so on) to work on and promote thumb opposition.
