Fine motor skills activities for our children 2019/10/17

Planning activities to do with small children at home is a beautiful and important task for each mom, these well selected activities will help set aside technology for a while as this is increasingly invading the smallest children.

The activity I’m proposing is to build a paper house with cut outs and materials we have at home, you’ll see that it’ll be entertaining and a learning tool because small children will stimulate their fine motor skills when using scissors, the older children when managing proportions in the pieces to be cut and for the parents it’ll be a quality and creativity family moment without needing to turn to toys or expensive technology

Materials

• Magazines or catalogs of houses, furniture, animals
• Cardboards or files to recycle
• Ruler, pencil, color pencils
• Round tip scissors (not illustrated)
• Glue

In a special box dedicated exclusively for these activities, constantly collect magazines, catalogs, newspapers, little sticks, threads, paints, color pencils, glue, any type of school supplies that are at home for children to have in hand to “play”

Start with the structure of the house, which will require 2 or 3 cardboards, you can use old files/documents that you no longer use; we design on the cardboard the form of the roof, if you wish to include the chimney, cut it giving it that form, this can be given to the smaller children

From the magazines cut out walls, ceilings, floors, windows, doors, stairs... everything you need to form the base stage of a room

Cut out sofas, tables, clocks, mirrors, pets, vases, etc. everything you need to decorate rooms

Here I show you how I’ve placed one cut out of a roof and another one of a floor, then we start placing the furniture finding out where they’ll fit better according to their proportions

On the center section of the cardboard, I’ve placed four different rooms, look at the cut outs of the ceilings, floors, rugs, furniture etc. You can play with the smaller children to identify elements by object or color, example: Where is the white table? What color is the roof? Or also naming the objects from the house in the languages your child is learning

With at least 2 cardboards you can form 4 walls in the following way, letting the house stand vertically

Here are some examples on how to form the front of the house, including the car and the garden, definitely with older children it’ll be more fun to “build” their own house

Here is Luigi’s house, 2 years old, he has glued the elements he chose

Sandrita’s house, almost 4 years old

Let’s teach the little ones the importance of order and cleanliness when finishing any group project by returning the materials to the activity box, always leaving the workspace and the floor clean. Do you like these activities? Which one do you do at home?

Pleasure to make your party special

Eli R.