Paper mache is yet another excellent activity you can do with your child. Paper Mache can teach your child a number of skills.
Large Motor Skills
- Tearing paper
- Stirring glue
- Applying paper to base
Social Skills
Children talk about the progress of the sculpture, taking pride in their work through conversations
Emotional Skills
The labors that such a project take will connect child with finished project
Cooperative Skills
Children share materials. This is a group effort where children construct together.
Language Skills
Books and illustrations about final outcome promote language.
Sensory Skills
The texture of the glue, cold, wet, sticky. The roughness of the dry paper.
Cognitive Skills
The process of paper mache: The glue changes from a liquid to a solid state.
Paper Mache is a great way to work with your child on completing an interesting project.