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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Fine Motor Skills with Trays

This week we focused on fine motor skills and colors a lot. 

I saw this great idea somewhere(sorry I don't remember where) to use paint swatches and paper clips for matching colors. Both boys loved it! They also worked very hard on their fine motor skills as working with paper clips is challenging!


We also used tongs, pom poms, and a mini muffin pan to transfer the pom poms into the muffin pan.
We also used pipe cleaners and a colander to work on fine motor skills.
 JP enjoyed making a tunnel for his "Little People" character.
Overall our tray activities were a lot of fun and I will continue to use trays as I feel it organizes our learning a bit. :)

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These are frugal activities as I had the items at home or bought them at the Dollar Tree. I obtained the paint swatches at Home Depot.









23 comments:

  1. So many great activities! I love the paint swatch/paper clip activity.

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    1. Thanks! I picked up the paint swatches at Home Depot this past weekend. I liked the size and bright colors of them. :)

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  2. great job - I'm loving the pom-pom with tongs... once that's mastered; try chopsticks! x

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    1. Thanks! Great idea! We will have to do that for sure!

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  3. Stopping by from TGIF linky party....

    What fun! We're going to try these activities. Thanks for the ideas!

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    1. You are welcome! Thank you for stopping by! :)

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  4. Thanks for linking up to fun frugal friday. I plan to do this with my little girl.

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    1. Thank you for hosting your new linky party! I hope you and your daughter have fun with this! :)

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  5. Definitely want to try out the pipe cleaner and colander activity with my little guy. Great ideas! :)

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    1. Thanks, Jenny! I do hope you and Liam enjoy the pipe cleaner exercise! :)

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  6. What great activities! I like the colander idea-a good pre-sewing activity.

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  7. What great activities! :) I've pinned these on Pinterest! :) Thanks for sharing - God Bless

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    1. Thanks! I hope you and yours enjoy the activities. :)

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  8. What fun & great activities... We'll be doing color activities soon... this gives me some ideas :) Thanks for sharing this with us at Sharing Saturday.

    ~MiaB
    www.mamamiasheart2heart.com

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    1. Thanks, Mia! I hope you enjoy the color activities. Thanks for hosting Sharing Sat. :)

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  9. i love the collander with pipe cleaners, i haven't done that in ages, I'll have to dig it out again, it looks like fun.

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    1. Thanks, The Monko! My boys had a lot of fun with it!

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  10. These are such fabulous ideas, Trina! Thank you so much for linking up at Teach Me Tuesday -- I hope we see you again today!

    PS. I'm featuring this post today! Congrats!

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    1. Hi! Thanks for featuring me! Wow! I will link up again this week too. :) Thanks for hosting!

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  11. Love these ideas, Trina! I have had these pinned for awhile from other blogs but haven't done them yet. I think I was afraid Boogie was too young for the paper clips when I first saw that one but he plays with marbles and other small items and hasn't tried eating anything yet! If I was going to eat something, I would eat a marble before I would eat a paper clip so hopefully he feels the same way :P Thanks so much for sharing your trays at WOTT!

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    1. Thank you for hosting WOTT! I realized I had never taught either of my boys how to use paper clips, so it was definitely a teachable moment. :)

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  12. WOO HOO! These are fantastic Trina! And I have never seen the cool color matching idea with paperclips! I need to do the colander one again, E loved it. Thanks for sharing at Thrifty Thursday! I always love your posts!

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