COVID- 19 refuses to fade away. It’s a nightmare. This week we are in quarantine for the third time following a sick child in the kindergarten, and my Noam is going crazy at home.
We baked, we painted, we planted plants, we build with magnets and cubes, we read books and so on.
Today we did a really cool activity of creating different faces and expressions. This activity has occupied him all day long! I thought it would be nice to share it with you.
Purposes
1. Learning and recognizing fecal expressions
2. Training of delicate motor skills through threading beads
3. Learning colors using the threading beads
4. Just having fun with glue and beads 🙂
Materials
Cardboard- I used the pizza cardboard we ordered last night
Pipe cleaners in all kinds of colors
Beads (with a hole in the diameter of the pipe cleaner)
Glue
Scissors
Felt in 4-5 colors
Hole punch
So Lets Make It!
1. Draw a circle on cardboard (using bowl is fine) and cut it with the help of scissors
2. Cut from the cardboard 8 small rectangles that will fit in a circle. If you notice, I really did not invest in their symmetry. I doubt if Noam noticed it.
3. Cut out 4 pairs of eyes and eyebrows, apart, which express different expressions (I had a mess and 2 very similar pairs), and stick them on the 4 cardboard rectangles. If the child cooperates let him paste
4. Cut 4 mouths apart which express different expressions and stick on the cardboard rectangles
So far it’s a game in itself. This is how you can create a crying face of sadness or alternatively a crying of laughter
5. create holes in the top of the circle using a hole punch
6. Thread the pipe cleaner into the holes
7. Let the children thread the beads
***It’s important for me to note that my Noam is 3 years old, and he doesn’t put anything in his mouth: beads or glue. Luckily even when he was younger he didn’t just shove things in to his mouth.
Each mom knows whether this game suits to her toddler or not. I am of course not a professional, just sharing my child’s enjoyment of this activity.
Do you have more ideas for DIY toddlers activities?
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