Easy Fine Motor Skills Hoops
Hello!
Today I am sharing a lovely quick activity that promotes fine motor skills development and dexterity.
It’s really easy to set up and no special crafty bits are required!
All you’ll need are 2 toilet rolls, scissors and a rolling pin.
How To:
- (Optional) Ask your little one to colour in/paint your empty toilet rolls. Add some glitter, sequins – whatever they desire!
- Cut the toilet rolls into 1 cm strips, then squish back into a circular shape.
- Hold your rolling pin (or any other long, thin stick type thingy ma bob you have lying around the house) and let your little one thread them on.
That’s it!
A dead easy activity that’s easy to set up with no real preparation needed.
You can talk about colours if you have decorated the cardboard rolls, you can count them as the hoops are placed on the pole, and if your child is a little more dexterous than mine, they can hold the rolling pin themselves and thread the hoops on.
Lukeosaurus And Me
Rachael is a 31 year old mum to 10 year old Luke and 5 year old Oscar. She lives in England and writes about family life, crafts, recipes, parenting wins(and fails), as well as travel, days out, fashion and living the frugal lifestyle.
9 Comments
MOMM
Great post! I will have to try this with my little one! #mummymondays
Lukeosaurus And Me
I’m glad you like it! It’s really fun and REALLY easy to set up. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by. xx
kellie kearney
Great idea, little man still a little too young yet, he’d only eat the paper right now haha
Lukeosaurus And Me
Hahah, oh dear! At least it’s card and wouldn’t dissolve quite so quickly! I’m glad you enjoyed my post, thanks for stopping by! xx
Lukeosaurus And Me
Thank you! 🙂 Around 8 – 12 months little ones start picking up objects and dropping them, so it’s a fun thing to introduce then even if your LO doesn’t quite understand the concept. Thanks for stopping by. xx
Lukeosaurus And Me
I have SO MANY empty loo rolls here, I save them all up!! Glad to be of service. 😉 Thanks for stopping by lovely. xx
Lukeosaurus And Me
I find it a lot easier to enjoy invitation to play based activities when it’s just something you can throw together in a few seconds and get instant gratification. I makes the whole “let’s do something really fun” a lot let stressful! I’m glad you liked the post, thanks for dropping by! xx
Leandra
Cute idea! I love the idea of decorating them too, to extend the activity.
Great post for #toddlerapprovedtuesday thanks so much for linking xx
Lukeosaurus And Me
Thanks lovely 🙂 Luke has found it fun ! Xx