Take home activity
Fine motor skills by age 2
Fine motor skills or skills involving the small muscles of children's hands gradually improve with age, and by the age of 2 children should be able to perform activities such as stack 5 or more objects, zip a zipper, draw a verticle line, ect.
Activity one: Pasta threading
Materials required: Playdough, rigatoni pasta, and straws
Step one, set up: Set up for this activity is simple, first take some playdough and flatten it onto a hard surface. You will then take a few straws and stand them up in the playdough. Lastly set up a bowl of rigatoni pasta next to the playdough and straws.
Step two, play time: Allow the child to thread or stack the pasta on the straws.
Activity two Monster munch
Materials: Chip clips(optional monster decoration), pom poms, pipe cleaners
Step one: set up: Cut up pipe cleaners, lay out the pipe cleaners and pompoms with matching color bowls.
Step two: Play time: Have the child use the "monster" clips to pinch the pipe cleaners and pom poms and place them into the matching color bowls.