It’s Friday! Even though the days of the week are more difficult to distinguish at the moment, there is something wonderful about Friday. It is going to be considerably cooler in Durham today, but still sunny. Here are a few invitations from the LACS toddler team.
Fine Motor Invitation: Tearing Paper
Toddlers are often fascinated by what happens when they take a piece of paper between their fingers and pull. Tearing paper engages children in investigating cause and effect, builds fine motor skills, and makes a wonderful ripping sound. For this activity you can put out a tray or box with a variety of paper (newspaper, magazines, catalogs, etc.) and invite your child to rip it up. You may have to start a few pieces if the paper is thicker.
Art and Sensory Invitation: Gluing Collage
To extend the paper tearing invitation, you can add a piece of stiffer paper, cardboard, or a piece of paper board (from an empty cereal or cracker box) and some child-safe glue. At this developmental age, a small yogurt cup with glue for dipping may work better than an entire bottle of glue. Squeezing the glue out of the bottle is a wonderful fine-motor activity, but will use all the glue.
Music/Movement Invitation: Singing and doing yoga poses or other movement to “Old Macdonald Had a Farm”
For this movement invitation you can simply sing “Old Macdonald Had a Farm” with your child, asking them to tell you what animals they would like to have on the farm. You can build a movement component into the song by doing the corresponding animal yoga poses, or by asking your child to show you how they think that animal moves.
Outdoor Invitation: More Ball Play
It will be a cooler day today, so running around with balls may help warm your child up along with building large motor skills.
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