We are continuing our theme of bugs this week and doing some math activities with some homemade ladybugs! To make this activity, you'll need an egg carton, red paint, googley eyes, and black marker. The first step is to paint the egg carton red. After it's dry, cut up the egg carton. Then add googly eyes and draw antennas on them. For this activity, you will need ten ladybugs. You will draw one black spot on the first one, two spots on the next one, three spots on the next one, … [Read more...]
Fine Motor Skills: Tweezers & Goldfish
One of our favorite Dr. Seuss books is One Fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. It's such a silly book, but that's probably why my oldest likes it! Since we focus on fine motor skills on Thursdays, I came up with an activity with tweezers & goldfish to go along with this book. It's designed to strengthen fine motor skills and to help with counting and one-to-one correspondence. I created this Fine Motor Fish sheet to go along with the activity. The goal is to take tweezers, pick up a … [Read more...]