Good morning. We want to take a moment to share an opportunity for children and families. Tomorrow there will be 60-minute special called, “Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Families” on Saturday, June 6, at 10 a.m. ET.
Sensory Invitation: Pour different colors of washable paint into a bin and have your child spread out the paint with their hands. When they are done place a sheet of paper on top of the paint so they can save their work! Rinse out the bin with a water hose when finished (your child can help with this too!)
Intent: This sensory activity allows for middlers to explore the senses of sight and touch.
Fine Motor Invitation: Threading activity
Using toilet paper tubes or paper towel tubes, create holes using a hole puncher in the sides. Your child could also help make the holes with the hole puncher for more fine motor development and strengthening of the finger and hand muscles. Then present your child with straws or pipe cleaners and ask them to thread them through the holes in the cardboard tube– in one side and out the other.
Intent: This activity incorporates fine motor development by focusing on the process of using hand and finger muscles to punch holes with the hole puncher. This also allows for practice with hand-eye-coordination while putting the straws or pipe cleaners through the holes.
Outdoor/Nature/Gross Motor Invitation: Water and Sponges
With the heat coming this week we wanted to incorporate water into our outdoor activities. Here are some invitations for using water and sponges today!
Sponge toss – using sponges drenched in water, practice tossing them with your child. You could also have your child practice tossing the wet sponges into a bucket or container for hand-eye-coordination work.
Fill the bucket water game – Fill one bucket with water and have another (or more if you wish to join the game) without water. Starting in the bucket with water, drench your sponge. Then run to the empty bucket and squeeze the water out into that bucket! Repeat this until you have filled up your empty bucket. You could turn this game into a competition or have it be more mellow and focus on the gross motor development of squeezing the water out of the sponge.
Intent: We want to encourage the middlers to get outside and use all of their big body muscles to enhance gross motor development.
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