On a thick piece of paper, draw a line.
Give your child a bowl of beans, beads, buttons, or large seeds.
Ask the child to place them one after the other on the line you drew.
For grading, you can make the task a little more difficult with a circle, or any other shape. In addition, you could ask the child to use tweezers to pick up and line up the items on the line.
For this activity you could use different types of fruit and vegetables. If the child has difficulty completing the activity with potatoes, you can use a softer fruit like bananas.
Cover a strip of thick cardboard or card, and draw boxes like those shown in the picture.
Cut small potatoes into halves and quarters so that they can stand without rocking or tipping.
Place one potato wedge on every box and number each box.
Now your child can stick in the right number of toothpicks into each potato.
For grading: Use random numbers instead of numbers in a sequence.
On a brown construction paper, trace the child’s hand or have the child trace his own hand using the pen/markers/crayons.
Make sure the thumb is extended and the fingers are spread apart while tracing the hand.
Let the child cut the traced hand. This will be the turkey’s body.
Glue the traced hand in the middle of the paper plate.
Use one bean as the turkey’s eye and glue it on the traced thumb. On the rest of the fingers, let the child glue feathers.
Take a piece of orange or red tissue paper and let the child crumble it. Glue the crumbled piece as the turkey’s wattle.
Using the markers or the crayon, let the child draw the turkey’s legs.
Draw a simple shape (e.g. house, boat, tree) using the markers on the paper.
Ask the child to lay prone on the floor resting on his elbows.
Ask the child to use the tweezers to pick up the beads or pom-poms and place them on the shape you drew on the paper.
Make a tic-tac-toe board using the markers, crayons, or pen.
Let the child choose a letter (focus on the letters that are difficult for the child to form).
Play the tic-tac-toe game, taking turns, writing the letters the child chose and making sure the child forms the letters correctly and places them inside the lines you drew.
For grading, make the tic-tac-toe board boxes in smaller or bigger size.
