22 fine motor skills activities
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What you need
- Clingfilm
- Paints/felt tips
- Paint brushes
- Two surfaces around 1 meter apart e.g. two chairs/table and kitchen counter
Benefits
- This is an exciting way to create art and try and mirror images that we can see on the other side.
- Your child will explore their fine/gross motor skills whilst exploring different varieties of mark-making.
The experience
In between the two surfaces/chairs, stretch cling film out as if it is an easel. Set up the mark-making tools on one side of the clingfilm. You can then use your mark-making tools to get creative – the possibilities are endless.
- You can draw what you see through the cling film.
- Can you draw your family?
- Can you circle all the shapes you can see?
- Can you match the colours from your paint to the colours you can see in the room?
- Can you do a portrait of one of your family members as they sit behind the clingfilm?
- Can you write some letters?