Activities for Fine Motor Skills Development

Activities for Fine Motor Skills Development
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2003-02-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743936892

Use dozens of easy, practical activities to help children develop shoulder, wrist, hand, and finger coordination. As they gain control, they ll be preparing for success in cutting, drawing, and writing.

Activities for Gross Motor Skills Development

Activities for Gross Motor Skills Development
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0743936906

Help students build body awareness and improve overall movement. Includes skills checklists, ideas for ball and equipment usage, sensory experiences, and more!

Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers
Author: Casey Patch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1510762493

Explore taste-safe small worlds, create colorful pieces of art, and engage all five senses while investigating the great outdoors. Sensory play is a wonderful way to explore the world with your little learners! Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers is a practical, hands-on guide for parents and educators who want to inject more play into their children's day! Since this collection features simple sensory play ideas with items you already have in your home, playtime has never been easier. Inside the book, you’ll find forty easy sensory play tubs and activities with extra bonus ideas for extending the activities even further! Not only will your child be learning and exploring through play, but you’ll also be creating some magical memories of playtime that will last a lifetime! Learn how to get started with sensory play using tips, tricks, and sensory play staples. Follow quick and easy, tried and tested sensory base recipes designed to ignite the senses and inspire hours of sometimes messy, always memorable playtime. Create thoughtful sensory invitations and artworks while developing fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, early measurement concepts and so much more! Sensory play allows our little learners to make connections as they explore the world around them using their senses of sight, smell, taste, sound, and touch. It’s the beginning of a lifelong journey of scientific understanding and a wonderful way to connect and bond with your little learners! Projects include: Rainbow Rice Cloud Dough Sand Foam Edible Mud Water Tub Rainbow Spaghetti Frozen Building Blocks Outdoor Kitchen Jell-O Bug Rescue Bubble Wrap Paintings and more!

99 Fine Motor Ideas for Ages 1 To 5

99 Fine Motor Ideas for Ages 1 To 5
Author: Nicolette Roux
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2014-10-08
Genre: Early childhood education
ISBN: 9781500956790

The Hands Have It!Squeezing Play Dough, Fastening Buttons, Snipping with Scissors, and So Much More99 Fine Motor Activities presents fun, engaging ideas to involve the fine motor muscles in your child's hands, fingers, and wrists. Ten talented moms come together to share the most successful, creative, and inspiring invitations to play that they set up for their own kids to get those little hands working!Your child's hands develop and change so much in the first years of life. From chubby newborn fists that can barely open to infants reaching for your face as they coo to toddlers self feeding and stacking blocks, soon you will have a preschooler learning to cut, write, and turn the pages of a book!99 Fine Motor Activities Includes:DIY Toys, Busy Bag Ideas for Playing On The Go, Sensory Exploration Invitations, Practical Life Ideas, Early Learning Activities to Introduce Colors, Letters, & Math, Art & Crafts to Inspire Creativity, Seasonal Ideas to Celebrate the Holidays.

Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids

Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Author: Mandisa Watts
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1645671690

The Best Sensory Bins for Endless Creative Play Engage your child in hours of play with Mandisa Watts’s colorful collection of sensory bin activities that aid with memory formation, language development, problem-solving skills and more. Perfect for toddlers from eighteen months to three years old and beyond, each bin makes use of materials you already have at home and helps reignite your kids’ interest in toys long forgotten. Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count. With setup instructions, details on how to guide your child through each activity, suggestions for what to talk about with your child as they play and other useful tips, Mandisa gives you all the information you need for creative sensory activities your kids are bound to love.

Basics of Fine Motor Skills

Basics of Fine Motor Skills
Author: Heather Greutman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Motor ability in children
ISBN: 9781544058337

Your Guide to Fine Motor Skill Development in the Home, Classroom, or Therapy Practice. Learn all of the basics of fine motor development and get age appropriate fine motor activity suggestions for kids of all ages. In Basics of Fine Motor Skills, you'll learn which skills are important for fine motor development, plus what fine motor development looks like in children at all age levels. Explore how gross motor, visual-motor, and sensory processing skills affect fine motor development. Plus learn what fine motor red flags to look for as your child develops. Get activity ideas and suggestions for all the different fine motor skills and also find age appropriate activities based on your child's skills and abilities. Your go-to-guide for everything fine motor related, it's the perfect resource for parents, teachers, and therapists.

The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book

The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book
Author: Krissy Bonning-Gould
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1641523522

Encourage learning through play with these fun outdoor activities for toddlers aged 1-3. Outdoor play promotes creativity, strengthens muscles, enhances social and emotional development, and makes learning fun. This book is packed with dozens of engaging and educational toddler activities that emphasize early learning and get kids excited about being outside. Each chapter is devoted to a specific type of toddler-friendly play: messy play, active games, nature-based activities, water activities, and outdoor arts and crafts. Bold icons show what each activity teaches your child, allowing you to choose activities appropriate for their developmental stage to help guide their growth. This colorful book of outdoor toddler activities includes: SKILL-BUILDING EXERCISES: Help your little one build up important skills like problem-solving, mindfulness, shapes and letters, sorting, patterns, and many more. ACTIVITY TIPS & TRICKS: Find suggestions for making the most out of each activity and "Caution!" labels for exercises that require increased supervision. DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES: Learn more about your child's motor, language, and social-emotional skills at each stage of development. Add more intentional play, meaningful connection, learning opportunities, and plain old fun to your toddler's days with help from The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book.

150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids

150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids
Author: Asia Citro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1440576165

Bring back playtime, all the time with these 150+ screen-free activities kids will love! Dive into a Bubbling Swamp World. Drum on an Outdoor Sound Wall. Explore the gooeyness of Glowing Slime. With the one-of-a-kind projects in 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids, your family will rediscover the spirit of imaginative play! These fun activities help develop your child's creativity and skills--all without a screen in sight. Featuring step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs, each budget-friendly project will keep your child entertained, engaged, and learning all day long. Best of all, no one will complain about turning off the TV or computer with such entertaining activities as: –Natural Dye Fingerpaints –Taste-Safe, Gluten-Free Playdough –Erupting Volcano Dinosaur World –Fizzy Rainbow Slush –Taste-Safe Glow Water Complete with dozens of exercises for babies, toddlers, and school-aged children, 150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids will help your family step away from your devices and step into endless afternoons of playtime fun!

Ready-to-use Motor Skills & Movement Station Lesson Plans for Young Children

Ready-to-use Motor Skills & Movement Station Lesson Plans for Young Children
Author: Joanne M. Landy
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780130139436

Each volume contains hundreds of age-appropriate activities to build young children's competence and confidence as they develop and improve their motor skills abilities. The series is especially recommended for children ages 5 and up who have coordination and movement difficulties.