Course 2

Course 2

Activity 1

Creative Art Activity: Making a 2D shape painting 

Duration: 20-30 minutes 

What do I need?

  • Paint 
  • 4 toilet rolls 
  • Tape 
  • Scissors 
  • A4 paper 

What to do:

  1. *Parents first make the 4 shapes from the toilet rolls (heart, circle, square and triangle) by bending and folding the edges accordingly (see picture as guide)
  2. To make the square: flatten the toilet roll tube, open it up then flatten it the other side 
  3. Heart: flatten the toilet roll and then tuck one of the folded edges into the Centre of the roll put a little tape to hold it in place 
  4. Triangle: fold the toilet roll 3 times 
  5. Next, have your child dip each toilet roll into the paint 
  6. Your child is then to stamp shapes all over onto the A4 paper. Encourage working from left to right and top to bottom, just to bring that awareness about. 

Activity 2

Mathematics: Counting with beads 

Duration: 15-20 minutes 

What do I need?

  • Beads/Noodles
  • 10 pieces of paper/cards/
  • Marker 
  • 10 Pipe Cleaners/ or soft (safe) pliable pieces of wire/ or 10 shoe laces/ or sturdy string 

What to do:

  1. Have your child write the number symbols out from 1 to 10 on the cards (working from left to right) and place them next to each other. Alternatively you can use 1 long sheet of paper.
  2. Under each number symbol card, your child is to place a pipe cleaner or 1 of the other suggested items
  3. Finally your child is to thread the correct number of beads/noodles under each umber symbol.

*The benefit of developing fine motor skills through threading beads is that it uses similar hand movements to gripping a large pencil.

Activity 3

Fine motor activity: Making a feelings collage 

Duration: 10 – 15 minutes  

What do I need?

  • Old Magazines
  • Scissors 
  • Glue 
  • A4 paper

What to do:                                                                                                       

  1. Instruct your child to look through the magazines to find faces of people expressing various emotions (example: smiling, anger, serious looks, sadness etc. 
  2. Your child is then to cut the pictures out and paste them on the A4 paper. 
  3. Make sure to ask that the whole page must be covered with pictures of different emotions.
  4. If you don’t have magazines child can draw faces expressing a variety of emotions. 
  5. Be sure to discuss the various emotions with your child. Using simple language at first (example: angry, sad, happy or frightened) then then move to more descriptive ones (such as example: lonely, excited, hungry, frustrated and thankful)

*Emotional literacy helps children to be socially competent and enables them to recognize and respond to social cues appropriately