This document provides instructions and ideas for level one of the "Clever Hands Puzzles Training Games" program. The level is designed for beginners and focuses on developing hand dexterity and strength. Suggested activities include puzzles, feely games, play dough, threading, hammering, and hand/finger rhymes and games. The goal is to have fun repeating the activities regularly to improve fine motor skills.
This document outlines animal-themed activities for children. It includes sections on pets, farm animals, zoo animals, and a cow puppet craft. The pet activities involve identifying pets through pictures and a game of hot potato. The farm animal activities include naming and identifying farm animals through pictures and a coloring book. The zoo animal activities have the children name and recall zoo animals using pictures and a memory game. The cow puppet craft has the children make a paper plate cow by painting and gluing on features. A final collage activity requires distinguishing animals by type. All activities aim to teach children animal names and identification.
The document proposes 11 ideas for using bread in creative ways: 1) A bread pillow, 2) Heart-shaped bread for Valentine's Day, 3) Bread earplugs, 4) Bread art, 5) Gold-filled bread for charity, 6) A bread birdfeeder, 7) Bread kneepads for gardening, 8) A bread jack-o-lantern, 9) An ant farm inside bread, 10) Bread games, and 11) Using chocolate ink to write memos on bread. Each idea estimates its benefits and guarantees a return, such as smiles or money, showing their commercial potential.
The story of Dumbo provides a safe way to discuss important themes with children of all ages. This leader pack includes conversation starters and guided group activities centered around celebrating differences and individual strengths. Activities aim to encourage socialization, self-esteem, and recognizing qualities in others.
This document provides instructions for a learning task using play dough to teach letter formation to preschool students. Students roll play dough into snakes and form the snakes into matching upper and lower case letters. The teacher demonstrates letter formation and provides laminated letter models. The activity allows students to learn letters through a hands-on, independent activity using play dough to build letters based on visual models. Assessment involves students comparing their letters to models and making corrections.
This document lists children's literature titles that can be used to support art lessons across different mediums and subjects, including 3D sculpture, aesthetics, animals, architecture, general art, and specific artists. Each book entry includes the title, author, illustrator, ISBN number, a brief description of how it could be used, and its subject category. There are over 40 book titles included that cover a wide range of visual art topics.
1. The document provides instructions for making paper models of different animals out of modeling clay and other materials.
2. Steps include shaping clay into body parts like heads and tails, then adding extra details like eyes, mouths, wings and other features by sticking on small balls or pieces of cardboard.
3. The instructions allow you to customize animals by changing colors or textures and provide examples like making a ferocious hammerhead shark or colorful snakes.
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what does a mother do when she needs a lot of rest time to replenish her health, during sickness, but she also wants to see her kids have an enjoyable fun and playtime. Here are 9 activities ideas to keep kids busy when mom is sick.
This document provides information about a learning task using finger puppets to retell stories. Students use finger puppets to represent characters as they act out and speak the story. This activity accommodates different learning styles and develops fine motor and language skills. The document describes how to introduce the activity, make finger puppets, assess student performance, and includes extensions such as creating their own puppets or telling stories through animation.
This document outlines animal-themed activities for children. It includes sections on pets, farm animals, zoo animals, and a cow puppet craft. The pet activities involve identifying pets through pictures and a game of hot potato. The farm animal activities include naming and identifying farm animals through pictures and a coloring book. The zoo animal activities have the children name and recall zoo animals using pictures and a memory game. The cow puppet craft has the children make a paper plate cow by painting and gluing on features. A final collage activity requires distinguishing animals by type. All activities aim to teach children animal names and identification.
The document proposes 11 ideas for using bread in creative ways: 1) A bread pillow, 2) Heart-shaped bread for Valentine's Day, 3) Bread earplugs, 4) Bread art, 5) Gold-filled bread for charity, 6) A bread birdfeeder, 7) Bread kneepads for gardening, 8) A bread jack-o-lantern, 9) An ant farm inside bread, 10) Bread games, and 11) Using chocolate ink to write memos on bread. Each idea estimates its benefits and guarantees a return, such as smiles or money, showing their commercial potential.
The story of Dumbo provides a safe way to discuss important themes with children of all ages. This leader pack includes conversation starters and guided group activities centered around celebrating differences and individual strengths. Activities aim to encourage socialization, self-esteem, and recognizing qualities in others.
This document provides instructions for a learning task using play dough to teach letter formation to preschool students. Students roll play dough into snakes and form the snakes into matching upper and lower case letters. The teacher demonstrates letter formation and provides laminated letter models. The activity allows students to learn letters through a hands-on, independent activity using play dough to build letters based on visual models. Assessment involves students comparing their letters to models and making corrections.
This document lists children's literature titles that can be used to support art lessons across different mediums and subjects, including 3D sculpture, aesthetics, animals, architecture, general art, and specific artists. Each book entry includes the title, author, illustrator, ISBN number, a brief description of how it could be used, and its subject category. There are over 40 book titles included that cover a wide range of visual art topics.
1. The document provides instructions for making paper models of different animals out of modeling clay and other materials.
2. Steps include shaping clay into body parts like heads and tails, then adding extra details like eyes, mouths, wings and other features by sticking on small balls or pieces of cardboard.
3. The instructions allow you to customize animals by changing colors or textures and provide examples like making a ferocious hammerhead shark or colorful snakes.
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what does a mother do when she needs a lot of rest time to replenish her health, during sickness, but she also wants to see her kids have an enjoyable fun and playtime. Here are 9 activities ideas to keep kids busy when mom is sick.
This document provides information about a learning task using finger puppets to retell stories. Students use finger puppets to represent characters as they act out and speak the story. This activity accommodates different learning styles and develops fine motor and language skills. The document describes how to introduce the activity, make finger puppets, assess student performance, and includes extensions such as creating their own puppets or telling stories through animation.
The document describes 3 management games to promote team building and problem solving skills. Game 1 has employees create marketing plans to sell random office items. Game 2 has employees take tissue paper squares and share personal facts in return. Game 3 challenges a group to lower a stick from waist level to the ground while maintaining contact, testing communication, planning, and concentration. The purpose is to encourage bonding, creativity, and evaluate how teams work together to solve problems.
This document outlines a workshop on occupational therapy and handwriting skills. It discusses determining hand dominance, developing correct pencil grip, pre-writing skills, and making handwriting instruction multisensory. Signs that a child may need OT include difficulties with fine motor tasks, self-care, and coordination. Classroom strategies are provided to teach letter formation, size, and placement through visual, tactile, auditory, and kinesthetic activities.
The document provides information about how babies develop awareness of the world from birth to 12 months through play. It discusses how babies explore using their senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. It encourages providing toys that stimulate multiple senses. It also explains that play helps babies develop physical, cognitive, communication and social skills and provides examples of developmental milestones.
to some perents choosing a toy for their kids is a very important and crtical part of bringing up active and briliante kids,whicj is why i made this presentation to help these perents know what type of toys suit their kids according to their age!
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This presentation provides strategies for incorporating creativity into core content areas to engage gifted students. It discusses varying instructional approaches, including allowing student choice in process and products. Examples are given of creative lesson plans that integrate arts, challenge higher-order thinking, and consider individual student needs and abilities. Strategies are also shared for showcasing student work to parents through presentations and interactive activities.
Supporting your child pre school bookletDavid Carr
This document provides information to support parents in preparing their child for pre-school. It offers suggestions in key developmental areas like personal and social skills, communication, physical development, problem solving and numeracy, and creative skills. Parents are encouraged to spend time with their child, support independence, read together frequently, sing songs, explore the outdoors, and engage in imaginative play. Contact information is provided for the local children's center for any additional questions or concerns about starting pre-school.
The document describes 3 management games to promote team building and problem solving skills. Game 1 has employees create marketing plans to sell random office items. Game 2 has employees take tissue paper squares and share personal facts in return. Game 3 challenges a group to lower a stick from waist level to the ground while maintaining contact, testing communication, planning, and concentration. The purpose is to encourage bonding, creativity, and evaluate how teams work together to solve problems.
This document outlines a workshop on occupational therapy and handwriting skills. It discusses determining hand dominance, developing correct pencil grip, pre-writing skills, and making handwriting instruction multisensory. Signs that a child may need OT include difficulties with fine motor tasks, self-care, and coordination. Classroom strategies are provided to teach letter formation, size, and placement through visual, tactile, auditory, and kinesthetic activities.
The document provides information about how babies develop awareness of the world from birth to 12 months through play. It discusses how babies explore using their senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. It encourages providing toys that stimulate multiple senses. It also explains that play helps babies develop physical, cognitive, communication and social skills and provides examples of developmental milestones.
to some perents choosing a toy for their kids is a very important and crtical part of bringing up active and briliante kids,whicj is why i made this presentation to help these perents know what type of toys suit their kids according to their age!
hope you like it
This presentation provides strategies for incorporating creativity into core content areas to engage gifted students. It discusses varying instructional approaches, including allowing student choice in process and products. Examples are given of creative lesson plans that integrate arts, challenge higher-order thinking, and consider individual student needs and abilities. Strategies are also shared for showcasing student work to parents through presentations and interactive activities.
Supporting your child pre school bookletDavid Carr
This document provides information to support parents in preparing their child for pre-school. It offers suggestions in key developmental areas like personal and social skills, communication, physical development, problem solving and numeracy, and creative skills. Parents are encouraged to spend time with their child, support independence, read together frequently, sing songs, explore the outdoors, and engage in imaginative play. Contact information is provided for the local children's center for any additional questions or concerns about starting pre-school.
2. Play-dough Tongs Pastry Making
• Can you roll out a sausage? Fizzy says: “Use • Roll the pastry into a ball.
one hand on the
Fizzy says: “Make • Flatten it with your hands.
tongs. You need
sure you use both to hold the tongs • Cut it into shapes using pastry cutters and shape
hands.” with your thumb
on one side and cutters.
• Now can you
turn your your fingers on the
sausage into other.” Duplo
a dinosaur Fizzy says: “What can you make?”
• Snap the tongs
by using your like a crocodile.
thumb and first finger to pinch along the top to Hammering
make spines? • Can your crocodile bite the paper?
• Find toys with
• Roll it flat and make shapes using cutters. • Tear and scrunch up paper and pick it up with your which you can
tongs. use a hammer.
• Roll a sausage
again, can you • Pick up cotton wool balls.
cut it into piece
with a play knife? • Now try little bricks.
Fizzy says: “Try
to keep your first Posting
finger on the top Threading
• Pick up and
of the knife and post coins into a • Thread large
your thumb and the money box. beads onto
other fingers either side. Hold your play doh still with dowels/sticks.
you other hand.”
• Can you roll it flat again and make a face out of
the play-dough?
Pegs (for graded pegs see resource list) • Post dried peas
/ pasta / sugar
Hand and Finger Rhymes and Games
Fizzy says: “Look at the picture, hold the peg this
way.” decorations into • Two Little Dickie Birds.
a bottle and • Twinkle, Little Star.
• Peg pegs onto screw up the lid.
the edge of the • Tommy Thumb.
box. • Play games with Finger Puppets.
Note:
• Peg pegs onto a If you are working
rag doll/teddy. with a child who
Musical Instruments
• Peg pegs onto a still puts objects • Castanets / maracas.
T-shirt on a teddy. into his/her mouth use edible items, for example, • Keyboards.
raisins, dried banana chips, ‘holey’ cereals etc.
• Toy trumpets / saxophone.
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