Fine Motor Sorting

This is a simple sorting activity that can be done at many different levels.  If you child has been working on sorting for a while I recommend using at least three bottles, if they are a beginner start with two.  If you are not sorting yet but what to work on colors or fine motor just use one bottle and one color.

I'm sorry I should have removed the green balls from the bowl for this sort.  It should just show red and yellow balls.

Also this should have just had red balls.  While doing this activity you can work on speech while putting "red ball in".

We also did this activity while siting on the bosu ball.  This works our fine motor and gross motor together.  Sorry the lighting is not great.

A bosu ball this a great piece of exercise equipment sort of like a half yoga ball.  I love it because I can have Adeline sit on it and I don't have to hold on like I would if she where on a yoga ball.  This help to do multi- task activities.  

Fine Motor Sorts

Today we are keeping things simple.  This activity combines one on one correspondence with sorting colors and fine motor.

I cut some pieces of foam the size of our ice cube squares and placed them in the bottom of each square. construction paper could be used also.  We then did some matching and sorting with pompom balls.  Adeline is not able to use these neat punchers from Lakeshore Learning but I wanted to show them as an option.  We use our fingers for now.

   

Celebrating New Life!

With Easter approaching I though we would focus on new life.  We started earlier this week using some animal cards I printed from 1+1+1=1.  We did some matching the baby animal to the mommy.

These animals come with a complete pack of animal printables. We just used the cards for now.

Today we worked on a butterfly shapes and colors puzzle.  I love this puzzle because we do sorting, colors and shapes.

Since we were already talking about butterflies we did some paper "stick" on contact paper.  I really love using contact paper with Adeline we can do so many different activities.  Today we made butterflies and a cross for "new life".  They look great hanging in the window,

What's in the Bag?

Adeline is now tall enough to reach into the silverware drawer.  She cannot see into it but she can reach and grab something, she thinks this is really neat!  Today I pulled out the silverware and thought it would be great for our activity.

What's in the bag?  Shake, Shake

Spoons and forks, yeahhhh

Adeline thought this was pretty neat.

Sorting our silverware.

Banging with silverware!

Ian looks a little scary but Adeline was having fun!

It is so easy to use everyday things to teach concepts,  I think that sometimes it is even more effective.  

Busy, Busy, Busy

We have had a hard few days and we missed you guys, but I am back and we were busy today.

Today we worked on dropping beans in a water bottle.  The opening is nice and small and requires a good pincer to get the tiny little beans in.

Later we worked on "throwing".  At first Adeline just wanted to let the bean bag drop, but she got the hang of it.  Every thing we threw a bean bag we would say "ready, set, throw".

We have been working on identifying "boys and girls", so we sorted them.  First we used the pictures from our family matching game and then we used little peoples.

When is was all over we ate cakepops!!!!

Big and Little

We worked on sorting big and little.  This activity is simple because many things around the house can be used.  We used snowflakes, plastic lids, and socks. 

Winter Sorting

We worked on a simple sorting project using some pecans, snowflakes and bells.

 After sorting I tried to work on some number.  I think we've got one and two but not sure about that three.

 We just kept adding more.