Shai at the water table exercising her fine motor skills with buttons and tubes. Pinching, releasing, filling and dumping. These are the activities that strengthen the muslces she needs to help hold a paintbrush to paint, to help hold her pencil when she’s ready to write and to help her grasp the zipper of her coat.
- Plastic Lids from juice or milk containers.
- Beads Beads Beads
- Cardboard Rolls (anything cylindrical and cuttable)
- Recycled One Sided Paper
- Film Canisters
(Children love to collect and love to contribute to school even more. Invite your child to collect the things your family tosses the most. Honestly if you have a lot of it we'll love to have it. We could play for hours with just bread bag tabs and tooth picks!)
The Language of Art
-By Ann Pelo
I Can Make a Rainbow
-By Marjorie Frank
Don't Move the Muffin Tins
- By Bev Bos
In the Spirit of the Studio
Artful Teaching. Integrating Arts into the Classroom.