Hello everyone!
This activity we tried long time ago was mostly because I wanted that my son exercices his fine motor skills. He is in love with his Jumbo Droppers and asks for them all the time. So I came out with this idea. Every idea is good if he can use these pippetes.
You can use any pippetes you have at home (the smaller ones works too). These pippetes we use are called Jumbo Pippetes and they are from Learning Resources. They have sooo many good materials and all kind of stuff for learning activities! I love this brand.
This activity combines primarily both ART and Fine Motor Skills Development, besides concentration, hand-eye coordination, creativity and colors learning opportunity.
My son was about 2yrs and 4mo when we did this activity. He still have problems in using them, now at 3. Sometimes he squeezes the pipette too fast and all the liquid will spread where it should not. Sometimes it fails to absorb the liquid from the vessel and so on. I see that he still doesn't have full control using this tool, but he loves it and I want him to get better with it. It's the same with scissors or tweezers. He has fine motor skills for writting for example or painting, but with tools like these he's so behind.
Rainbow Butterfly 🦋
For this activity you need the following:
- round cotton pads
- acrylic paint + water
- pipette
- glue gun
- cardboard
Mix some water with acrylic paint (water collors should do if you dont have acrylics).
Using a glue gun, stick the cotton disks on a piece of cardboard. You could use any type of adhesive/glue. It's just important to be strong enough to hold the cotton pads.
All is set! We're ready!
LET THE FUN BEGIN!
Before and after this we read a book called "The great book of butterflies and insects". We mostly
talked about butterflies. It was spring when we tried this, around 10 months ago.
Interesting thing that he chose to start with red color, and then orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Then pink.
If there's possible, he will always chose to put colors or use them in the same order as the colors of the Rainbow! 🌈
It's his thing, a kind of order in his mind and kind of obsessive compulsive disorder, but only the part where the need that things should be orderly and symmetrical it stands out.
So if you look closely you can observe what's the order of the colors he used to chose. I didnt say a word, it all came by him.
After that, he randomly used the dropper to put the colors whereever he liked. This is how it turned out. I think its very beautiful! You can't reuse it, as you already can see. The cardboard gets wet (unless you child is more pro than mine) but it's fine! I wasnt about to reuse it anyways. Or maybe you can un-glue those cotton pads and then let them dry and do another activity sometimes. Hmmm, I didnt think about this back then.
I am happy because I let him do all the work. I just gave some instructions/advices now and then but that was it!
I really wanted to let him do it and gain some more confidence using these pippetes. He really like them and ask activities that requires them but he still can't control them as he should.
In the end, there was still plenty of colors and he asked to do more.
So I came up with this idea of using toilet paper LOL. But it turned out really nice, don't you think?
ART STUFF, BOOKS and NATURE Activities is what I like most to do with my little one!
But very often he only wants Math and Writting! AND a lot of play TOGETHER, but mostly just fooling around! So I get really excited when he's active and involved in this type of activities, other than math. He likes Art and Books too. But Nature not so much and I stuggle a little with this. When he was little, he would do any activities I would have proposed and actually being happy about them, but now not so much. He knows what he likes and what he wants.
It's quite beautiful to take a step back and observe how these little human beings develop and evoluate into their unique personality, theirselves.
Ok guys, Thank you for reading and I hope you are all good and safe!
love, missdeli
Here's a picture of the two of us. haha
