Punching and Threading
Benefits
Fine motor development.
Age
After 30 months
Materials needed
Punching machine, various soft materials to punch, thread.
Threading is one of the pre-writing skills, which is essential for kids before they started to write on their own. It’s a tremendous pincer grip activity which gives excellent strength to the finger muscles. It is a wonderful hand and eye coordination skill.
- Select some thin materials. In this pic, I took peels of orange, cucumber, and carrot, paper cups, foam sheet, leaves.
- It is a bit hard for the kid to hold the material and punch it with the machine. So I was helping her in holding the materials.
- After punching, ask them to thread them one by one using the thread..
Pasta Threading
Benefits
Fine motor development, Hand and Eye coordination
Age
After 30 months
Materials needed
Uncooked pasta, thread.
- Provide pasta and threads.
- Let the kid do the threading activity.
Threading
Benefits
Fine motor development.
Age
After 6 months
Materials needed
Thread , Large Buttons, Shape sorter toy, foam sheets, Peg puzzles.
- Provide Big buttons, shape sorter puzzle, peg puzzles, and thread.
- Punch hole in foam sheets and thread.
- Let the kid do some threading activity.
Scissor activity
Benefits
Fine motor development, Hand-eye coordination,
Age
After 6 months
Materials needed
Punching machine, various soft materials to punch.
Scissor activity is a great pre-writing skill which helps to develop hand muscles, finger muscles in particular. It gives the excellent opportunity to use every other portion of hand. Kids need strong muscles before they start to write, so it’s good to do such kind of activities before they start writing.
- It’s a bit hard to hold the paper with one hand and use the scissor in the beginning stage.
- So, I have used some strong materials than paper-like fruits and vegetable peel, foam sheet, leaves.
- It gives some confidence in their work; then we can slowly introduce the paper.
- The scissor is made up of stainless steel blades and is kids safe one. But always be with the kid while they are doing this kind of activity.
Big Buttons
Shape puzzle
Peg Puzzle
scissor puzzle
These are such great ideas for toddlers.
I especially like the idea of using other materials like the fruit peels.
Children will love the variety of that x
Thank you.
Thank you for these ideas. My son is 16 months so will be doing these.
this is so cute and looks so fun! how crafty!
Thank you . 🙂
I love these ideas! I’m gonna have to try these with my niece!
Sure. Thank you . 🙂
This looks like a great craft for toddlers
Thank you . 🙂