zigzag Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 It must be nearing the end of the summer term and am in need of some fresh ideas for both fine and gross motor activities. Please share yours. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finleysmaid Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 i've got some of the older memebrs of the community coming in to do some sewing next week!! gross motor ...what about some group games to get them working together....duck duck goose and what's the time mister wolf are favourites at the mo ...i'll go and see if i can think of some more things! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klc106 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Ours love using jumbo tweezers to pick up things- particularly our mini dinosaurs and animals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Parachutes are always fun, and swirling ribbons. How about some sort of sports day? Throwing beanbags into a bucket? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted June 22, 2013 Author Share Posted June 22, 2013 Thanks for the ideas, we do all of the above!! Have been lookin online and have found a nice activity from do2learn where the children have to peel stickers and stick them onto a template. Also going to do vertical threading onto straws rather than strings. Keep the ideas coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 The little book of gross motor is good, it has both gross and fine motor activities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjayne Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 A group of our children are into rolling at the moment - they started with the plastic tape measures - wanted me to show them how to roll them up , then they flicked/rolled them back out again. We have now got a rolling box , bandages, crepe paper rolls, florists ribbon , tape measures, normal ribbons etc , and we are rolling pizza dough into pinwheels, unrolling and re-rolling swiss roll slices (well some get eaten!) rolling out dough and then twirling, twisting and rolling it , and paper is curled rolled and spiralled. Am waiting to see what they come up with next . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berryred Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Fine motor and gross motor Large sticky back plastic, tape it with masking tape to a wall, sticky side facing outwards, lots of natural resources for them to find and stick onto the 'wall'. Lovely big mosaic picture at the end! This is what I have planned this week haha can you find 5 things green, can you find 5 things that are circles ect 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verona Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 How about jumbo tweezers and sand tray - find the buried treasure. We struck 2 lengths of spaghetti into a ball of play dough and child threaded macaroni onto it. Children peeled of lots of sticky stars and placed them on sheet paper then they used a felt tip and joined the stars! I had the side of a very large cardboard box and made our own "roll a ball" game. The children wrote numbers above each hole that I had cut out. Lasted for about a week and then the cardboard became to floppy!!!!! Very popular. Covered recognising numbers, counting, and rolling, etc. Large sticky backed plastic is ideal. We stuck grass, flower heads, twigs etc onto it and made a lovely "natural" picture. Tomorrow I'm going to do what you have done Berryred - find 5 green things, etc. Dancing to different types of music with ribbons. We are practicing for our sports day - usually running, walking backwards and jumping but also stone and spoon race, collect the washing in a basket, relay using hoops (proving to be a difficult one :blink: Sue J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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