As Seen on Reels: Christmas Tree Color Sorting!
- Learning Resources Posted On Nov 13, 2022 | Motor Skills
Christmas Tree Color Sorting! With this festive holiday activity, reinforce sorting and math concepts with your toddler or preschooler using colorful pom poms. Here's what you'll need:
- A large piece of paper, or you could do a smaller scale tree on printer paper
- Pom-poms (as ornaments)
- Fine Motor Tools
- Sorting Bowls
Encourage your child to pick up a pom-pom ornament and decide what bowl it should go in. Continue sorting until all the pom-poms have been used! This is a great activity to work on fine motor skills, color recognition, counting, and so much more.
Benefits of using fine motor tools:
Handy Scoopers: These unique tools are a handy way to build the muscles needed for scissor cutting! Tools feature translucent scoops and easy-to-grip handles for developing fine motor skills. Holes in the scoops allow for catch-and-release fun during water play.
Build up little hand muscles: Helps develop eye-hand coordination by grabbing small manipulatives or snacks with the Handy Scoopers.
Sensory Integration: Use the Handy Scoopers in a sandbox or water table to discover how the different substances sift through the holes of the Handy Scoopers.
Gator Grabber Tweezers: Sized for little hands and great for developing the pincer grasp! Working on fine motor skills is fun when children get to use an Alligator to grip objects.
Fine Motor: As students pick up objects with the tweezers, they are working on motor planning and eye-hand coordination (visual-motor integration) and refining the manual skills needed for writing, drawing, and daily living.
Sensory Integration: Students who are hypersensitive to textures can participate in tactile play using tweezers to hold and move objects.
Self-Help: Incorporate puppet-like conversations to enhance communication and social interactions. Gator (tweezers) can speak to or try to gobble up the other person, increasing direct contact with another