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Showing posts with label craft foam. Show all posts
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Size Sequencing
Materials:
- Craft Foam in a variety of colors
How to Make:
Cut ten circles from different colors of craft foam. Circle templates for this activity can be downloaded here.
How to Use:
These circles can be used in a variety of fun ways that will also help your child learn.
- Have your child arrange the circles in order from largest to smallest and then smallest to largest
- Have the child county how many circles there are.
- Take away one circle and have the child figure out which one is missing.
- Teaching colors: "please give me the red circle." or "put the red circle on the couch and hand me the green circle."
I gave a set to my 15 month old niece and she found her own fun with them. She stood by a door inside the house and took every circle and shoved them under the door. It was so much fun for her (until they were ALL under the door and she cried for me to open the door and get them back out). Then of course she started the game all over again.
Jillian, almost age 2, uses the circles as skates. She also likes to make pizzas out of them by taking a big circle and putting the little circles on top of it. She's also able to hand me the color circle I ask for. We have not yet started talking about big vs. small.
Resources/Inspiration for this project:
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Double Trouble Shape Match
Materials:
- Cardstock with grid printed on it
- Foam shapes (2 of each)
How to make:
Instructions for making the Double Trouble Shape Matching game can be found at Walking by the Way.
Purpose: look at the stacked shape in the top square and make a duplicate stacked shape in the square below.
Skill-Building: color, shade of color, shape, size of shape, orientation of shape, order of shapes, glitter vs. non-glitter
Younger Children: talk about the shapes and color; which comes first (on the bottom) and which comes next (on the top); look at different sizes of shapes
Older Children: stress proper orientation of the shapes in the stack; have the child do the opposite (i.e., if the stacked shape is a yellow heart on the blue square, have the child stack a blue heart on a yellow square)
Extra activity: Print a blank grid and use loose shapes to build stacks for your child to duplicate.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Lacing Shapes
Materials:
- craft foam
- shoe lace, yarn or other string for lacing
- scissors
- hole punch
How to make:
Instructions for making the lacing shapes activity can be found on the blog Tot School.
Allow your child to decorate the lacing shapes with markers, stickers or even glueing smaller shapes inside the lacing area.
Use permanent marker to list numbers (1-2-3 etc), Shapes (triangle, square, etc) or letters (a-b-c, etc) next to each hole. Say the number/letter/shape as they lace that hole.
Use 2 strings in opposing colors to lace the entire shape. Illustrate how to "tie" a bow.
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| sample laced card |
Monday, November 14, 2011
Counting Corn Number Boards
Materials:
- Fun foam sheets
- small items for counting (we used corn)
- Permanent Marker
How to make:
Instructions for making these number boards can be found on http://craftsandartforchildren.blogspot.com
Ideas for use:
- Practice number recognition
- Count out corn and place in the circles for fine motor practice
- practice colors, match colors
- practice which cards add up to 10 or some other number (i.e.: 9 and 1, 4 and 6 both add up to 10)
- Older kid idea, write the number on the back of the cards and practice recognizing the words
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