Fine Motor Transport Ideas
Week 5 - 18/05/20
Week 5 - Car Maze
Draw a car maze for your child, like the picture shown. You can decide how many cars you use or how complicated you make the maze! You could use different colours for each line to make the task a bit easier. Ask your child to slide a penny along the middle of the line to take each car to its car parking space. By playing this game, your child is working on motor planning and visual motor skills.
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Week 5 - Ball Maze
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Click on the video to check out the ball maze! Draw a maze for your child on a piece of paper and tape to a flat surface. Then, fill a large sealable bag with hand sanitiser (or hair gel) and add a small ball or any small item (a penny or a raisin). Seal the bag and place it over the maze. Secure with tape and encourage your child to move the ball/small item around the maze!
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Week 5 - Cutting Skills - Make a Vehicle!
Let's create shape vehicles! First, think about which vehicle you'd like to make - a train, a car, a truck or a bus? Look at the pictures for some ideas! Ask an adult to draw some large shapes on coloured paper. Using your scissors, follow the lines to carefully cut around the shapes the adult has drawn. If you make a mistake, don't worry, you can still use the shape! Practise makes perfect when it comes to using scissors. When you have cut out all of your shapes, arrange them on a new page to create your chosen vehicle. Think carefully about which shape would work best for a door? A window? The wheels? The headlights? Once you've arranged all of the pieces, use your glue stick to secure the pieces on the page.
Week 5 - Pasta and Play Doh Bridges
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Oh no! The bridge has fallen down! It's your job to build a new bridge before the next train/car/truck comes along! Roll, press and pinch your play doh until it is in the shape of a bridge. Now, can you make it stronger using the pasta? Press the pasta into the play doh to give it a sturdy base and make it stronger! When your bridge is finished, it's time to test it with your toy train/car/truck. Send a picture on Seesaw with your finished result! |
Week 6 - 25/05/20
Week 6 - Aeroplane Number & Name Match
Sometimes aeroplanes fly with big banners to send a special message to people on land. Make your own aeroplane banner with the numbers 1-5 or 1-10. Maybe you could make another one with the letters of your name! Ask an adult for help to write the numbers/letters on some wooden clothes pegs (and your banner). Now, see if you can pinch the clothes pegs to order them left to right on top of their matching numbers/letters.
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Week 6 - Junk Art Aeroplane
Have a hunt in your recycling bin again for some toilet roll holders and an egg carton to create a junk art aeroplane! You might need an adult to help you cut out slots at the side of the carton for the wings and holes on top for the pilot and passenger, but try to do everything else by yourself!
By creating this plane independently, your child will be using the following fine motor skills:
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Week 6 - Bird Feeders
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Have you noticed that there are lots of birds outside these days? Can you hear the different songs they sing? You might have noticed some birds looking for some juicy worms and insects in your garden! Let's make some bird feeders to see if we can invite different types of birds into our gardens. Have a look at the pictures for two different ways to make a bird feeder.
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Week 7 - 01/06/20
Week 7 - Create a Ship!
There are so many ways that you could create a ship using things you have at home such as, straws, wooden skewers, sponges, bottle corks, elastic bands, foam shapes and paper. Have a look at the pictures to get some ideas! You might need an adult to help you with some parts of this activity, but try to do most of it by yourself. You can use your strong fingers in lots of ways; to cut out the sail, to thread a straw/skewer through holes in the paper, to push a straw/skewer into the sponge/play dough and to pull the elastic band around the bottle corks. Maybe you and your siblings/an adult could make different types of ships and compare which one sails better in the water?
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Week 7 - Banana Boats
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Sunny weather is the perfect excuse for a cool and tasty snack! This week, why not try making a banana boat all by yourself? Peel a banana and put it on a plastic plate. Using a butter knife, carefully cut the banana down the middle lengthways, holding it still with the other hand. Now you’ve got 2 sides of a boat! Ask an adult to hold on tight to the ice-cream/yoghurt tub as you scoop/spoon it out it into the middle of the boat. Use your strong fingers to crush a biscuit in a ziplock bag. Pinch and sprinkle the crushed biscuit/sprinkles/chocolate chips over the top of the ice-cream/yoghurt. Scatter some blueberries around the edge of the boat to pretend it’s sailing on water! (Optional) You could also make a sail to finish off your boat! Send a picture to your teacher before you gobble it up! |
Week 7 - Tongs and Water Challenge
Fill a basin with water (add some food colouring/paint if you have some). Collect up some small toys, construction blocks and small kitchen items. Before you put these things into the basin one by one, can you guess if the item will float or sink? Were you right? Using a pair of kitchen tongs, lift each toy out and put it into another basin. It might be a bit tricky at first to pick up the ones that have sunk to the bottom. See if you can use only one hand on the tongs, keeping the other hand hidden behind your back! You could also try this activity using ice-cubes, transferring them from one bowl to another using the tongs.
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Week 7 - Transport Cutting Skills
Have a look at the pictures of different types of transport. (Click the button to download) Can you name each type? Can you name the shape that the picture is in? Can you point to the ones that go on land? In the air? On the sea?
Using your scissors, carefully cut out the modes of transport that go on the sea and stick them down on a piece of paper. Use your blue crayons to draw waves around the pictures. If you like, you can cut out the other pictures too and sort them out into land and air transport! |