If you’re looking for an excellent way to build skills in your child, consider an art lathe.
Social/Language Skills
- Watching and interacting with each other
- Children share their excitement and emotions verbally
Cognitive Skills
- Seeing the patterns and designs gives children an opportunity for matching and counting
- Children learn cause and effect placing the paint on the spinning lathe, then watch the design that it makes
- Dropping paint causes a unique design to take shape
Fine Motor Skills
Children use the pincer grasp when holding the pen, pencil, or small paint
Cooperative Skills
- Share the art lathe
- Take turns
- Watch and learn from each other
We enjoy The Lathe with damp Chalk. We also use crayons. Last year we had a very cool Dad come and volunteer to simply turn The lathe for a few hours. This project is fantastic for any age but great for a four year old boy and his buds!
I bet we can get some dads to do some serious turning for us again this year!