Building Skills – Art Lathe

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