Art: Hand Print Wreaths

Sorry about the angle but this here is a fun art project we did in the class with the children to send home for the holidays. The parents loved it. This one is actually missing the fun stickers the children got to pick out and place on their wreaths. It was fun to watch them stare at the sticker cards as they decided on the sticker they wanted. I let the older toddlers try their hand/fingers at removing the stickers as well. It is a great way to develop those fine motor skills though they were just happy to have the stickers. :)

Make learning fun: Small motor skills.

Today in class, I teach a classroom of one and two year olds, we did an activity to encourage development in fine motor skills and to follow the theme of "teeth are not for biting'. Our activity was stringing cheerioes onto a string of yarn. Because I have a lot of two year olds in my class, I knew this activity would really challenge a skill they are developing at the moment, eye and hand coordination. The younger children I allowed to try, but did not really expect them to do much more than realize that the objects, the cheerioes, were edible, which they did :) They did relatively well with the project, especially since this was their first time doing this type of activity. The activity lasted about 10 minutes. Once they started to eat the cheerioes instead of stringing them, I knew they were no longer interested in the activity :)