The way the eyes guide the hands to do a task. This helps your child catch a ball, write on a line, or stack blocks without knocking them over.
Using a paper cup, a styrofoam plate, or a piece of play dough, instruct the child to place the spaghetti vertically.
Provide the child with cheerios or beads and have him string the small objects onto the spaghetti.
If using different color beads or cheerios, you can have the child either sort the items into the different color groups or work on patterns (e.g. yellow-red-yellow-red…)
This activity is divided into 2 parts: creating the rackets and playing ping pong with the rackets and the balloon.
First, glue the wooden stick to the paper plate with the wooden stick sticking out of the plate. The wooden stick is going to be where you hold the racket so the length of the stick that comes out of the paper plate should be at least 4 inches.
Once the sticks are glued, use the crayons to color or write on the paper plates.
Inflate the balloon.
Hold the paper plate racket and bounce the ball around.
If done in a group setting, you can instruct the kids to use the paper plate to bounce the balloon from one to another while playing a ping-pong game.
Let the child cut the following pieces:
– 4-inch circle out of brown or black construction paper
– Stem (12-inch by 3-inch rectangle) and leaves out of green construction paper.
Use a large construction paper as the background and glue the stem from the bottom up. Glue the leaves to the stem.
Paint the child’s palms with yellow paint and instruct him to print his palms on the top part of the paper to form the flower petals.
Glue the 4-inch brown/black circle in the middle of the palm prints.
Help the child to cut out a large circle from the center of the paper plate, leaving about 1-inch from the edge, and creating an outer ring.
Using the hole puncher, ask the child to punch holes around the outer ring you have created.
Give the child a large piece of yarn (you can also use more than one piece of yarn) and ask him to lace the yarn through the holes going diagonally.
