In a Childs Path Farm Preschool
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Continuing in our series of great activities for kids, we have dauber painting. Dauber painting is a great activity to do with your toddler because it encourages a number of skills.
Large Motor Skills
Using upper arm muscles to lift paints up and control movements down
Fine Motor Skills
Uses palmer grasp
Emotional/Language Skills
Children can talk about the colors and share the excitement of the activity.
Cognitive Skills
If you’re looking for a great activity to do with your child, consider building a box house. There are a number of skills your child can learn from creative play with a cardboard box.
Fine Motor Skills
Cognitive Skills
Social and Emotional Skills
Language Skills
Sensory Skills
Creating a space for living too small for a real person opens imaginative play.
If you’re looking for a good use for those old cardboard boxes and a way to entertain and delight your child, consider building box houses with them.
Creating scarecrows is a great activity for kids for a number of reasons.
Large Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Language Skills
Labeling child’s actions, such as:
Emotional Skills
Creating something that will be part of their garden or outdoor space for an entire season builds an attachment to this project.
Social Skills
In a group, children will be sharing materials and common space. You can lead in conversation what each child is doing.
Cooperative Skills
Cognitive Skills
Children decide what final outcome of scarecrow will be. This develops abstract thinking.
Imaginative Skills
Children build the scarecrow based on visual perceptions they remember or have seen in stories.
If you’re looking for a great activity to do with your child, try building a scarecrow.