Rubber Bands: Fine Motor Play

What you need

• Lots of rubber bands
• Cans of food, water bottles, shampoos, kitchen roll tube, etc.

Benefits

• Hand eye coordination
• Strengthens hand muscles, developing fine motor skills.

The experience

Set up your rubber bands and your household items on the floor/table. This experience involves stretching the rubber bands around different items.

This activity can be challenging, so demonstrate first and encourage your toddler to give this a try. To extend this experience, you can encourage your toddler to remove the rubber bands too. You could even try stretching them over an open tupperware box - can your toddler strum the band(s), what sound does it make?