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Emotional Development & Fine Motor Skills-Kids Activities
Food Recognition & Fine Motor Skills
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and young children can benefit from this fun kids activity. Kids are fascinated by food. They, like adults have their favorite foods.
Here is a fun activity that will help to familiarize children with different types of food, and increase their recognition of various types of food all while increasing their fine motor skills.
Flyers, magazines, newspapers are great places to find numerous pictures and images of meats, fruits, vegetables, desserts, candy, cereals and more.
What you want to do:
Provide child scissors (yes-the ones specifically for children. They should be labeled as such and usually have rounded ends and fit a childs small fingers)
What you want to do is get an assortment of different flyers, magazines and newspapers full of different images of various food types.
Now you could do this several ways:
You could have the children search through the flyers and newspapers and find ONLY the Meat products. Or Find only the vegetables etc.
You could even have the children cut out their favorite foods. This would help with their emotional improvement and build food recognition skills.
Obviously there are different ways that this can be done. You could even pick different ways for different children.
When finished, you can keep all the images that have been cut out and paste them on a sheet of paper and have the sheet laminated.
Once laminated, you can then cut the images out again and use them for various in the preschool classroom or at home with your kids.
When finished, simply store them in an envelope for use at a later date.
Food Recognition & Fine Motor Skills
>
and young children can benefit from this fun kids activity. Kids are fascinated by food. They, like adults have their favorite foods.
Here is a fun activity that will help to familiarize children with different types of food, and increase their recognition of various types of food all while increasing their fine motor skills.
Flyers, magazines, newspapers are great places to find numerous pictures and images of meats, fruits, vegetables, desserts, candy, cereals and more.
What you want to do:
Provide child scissors (yes-the ones specifically for children. They should be labeled as such and usually have rounded ends and fit a childs small fingers)
What you want to do is get an assortment of different flyers, magazines and newspapers full of different images of various food types.
Now you could do this several ways:
You could have the children search through the flyers and newspapers and find ONLY the Meat products. Or Find only the vegetables etc.
You could even have the children cut out their favorite foods. This would help with their emotional improvement and build food recognition skills.
Obviously there are different ways that this can be done. You could even pick different ways for different children.
When finished, you can keep all the images that have been cut out and paste them on a sheet of paper and have the sheet laminated.
Once laminated, you can then cut the images out again and use them for various in the preschool classroom or at home with your kids.
When finished, simply store them in an envelope for use at a later date.
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