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Shapes and Colors

DAY 2 : ACTIVITY

BLOWING WHISTLE, BALLOON AND BEADS

Goals: To enhance and improve their oral motor muscle power with various activities

Vocabulary: Blowing, whistles, beads, feathers, balloons.

Material required: Whistles, paper bits, beads, feathers, balloons, bubble blower.

Presentation: Demonstrate to the children how to blow balloons, bubbles, etc. Encourage them to blow paper bits ,beads, feathers, balloons individually.

Assessment:

  • · Can you show the action of blowing?
  • · Name the person who blows the whistle in the bus?
  • · What is a whistle?
  • · Can we blow heavy items?
  • Can we blow balloons?
  • · Why balloons or bubbles fly in air ?

Evaluation: Evaluate each child's oral motor strength by asking them to blow different materials like whistle, bubbles, beads, feathers. Ask each child to make different funny faces and watch in the mirror if he or she is able to imitate the same.

MAKING FUNNY FACES ON MIRROR

Goals: To enhance and improve their oral motor muscle power

Vocabulary: Blowing, funny face, mirror, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, cheek.

Material required: Mirror

Presentation: Explain and show them how to make funny faces by Jooking at the mirror.

Tell them to hold air in mouth. expand their mouth widely to laugh, showing teeth and tonque and they can move their eye brows up and down. They can do all these together to show funny face.

Assessment:

  • · Can you show the action of blowing?
  • Can you move one eyebrow up and one eyebrow down simultaneously?
  • · How many teeth do you have?
  • · Can you move your ears without touching or without moving your head?

Skills developed: Oral motor skills, fine motor skills, cognitive skills of cause and effect.

LEMON AND SPOON

Goal: To develop their co-ordination, balance, ability to sustain attention, oral-motor skill, eye-co-ordination.

Presentation: The children have to hold the spoon in the mouth with the lemon placed on the spoon and walk. They have to walk carefully without the lemon falling down. When they drop the lemon they have to wait for the next turn to ioin the game. Whoever holds the spoon with the lemon correctly and reaches the target will get applause. Ensure that the lemon is not too small and be cautious.

Variation: They can do fast walking, walking on toes as a variation.

Skills developed: It helps to develop their co-ordination, balance, ability to sustain attention, oral-motor skill, eye-coordination.

BLOWING BUBBLES

Goal: To develop their oral motor skills and eye hand coordination skills.

Presentation: Children are asked to blow bubbles or feathers. They can be asked to catch the bubble or feathers which flies higher. We can discuss about how it flies higher, shape of the bubbles, what is inside the bubbles to the children.

Skills developed: Oral motor skills Eye and hand rdination while catching the bubble .

MAKE A BRACELET

Material required: Color paper (oil) wool, cello tape, glue, scissors

Preparation:

Procedure:

Step: 1: Take the color paper and make three folds, and draw a heart shape and cut it out,

Step: 2: Take the cut out heart shapes and stick together with glue, in the way as it shown below

Step: 3: Now take wool and stick it on each ends so that we can tie and wear it on our wrist ( you can plait the wool and stick it)

Variations: Not only heart shape, you can draw any designs and make a bracelet, instead of oil paper you can also make with a chart paper, so that it will be firm and stiff and last longer. You can make anklet using the same method. Another method measure the length of the with wool and you can stick the heart shape on the wool also.

THUMB PRINTING

Material required: Uncolored art sheet, poster colours of various colors.

Procedure: The children are asked to dip their thumb in to the poster colours and press the thumb print on the given picture. They can do thumb printing with various colors. Encourage the children to do the printing only inside the picture.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills, cognitive skills of knowledge of various colors, cause and effect.

Variation: Children can use the thumb printing to make various designs and pictures. Children can also do finger pinting as a variation.

TORCH PLAY

Goals: To improve their imagination, critical thinking, fine motor and to understand cause and effect.

Vocabulary: Shadow, faces, animals, flash light, paper holes, light, passing.

Material required: Flash light, paper with tiny holes, wall or table.

Presentation: Keep the room really dark and flash light using torch on the wall using fingers make different images, the shadow of your fingers appear as images of a man or like a deer, a dog etc. Now ask the children to press the safety torch and observe the light.

Assessment:

  • What is that formed on the wall?
  • · Can shadow be formed without light?
  • · How does the shadow of finger look?
  • How will their shadow look like big or small.

Closing: Ask them to try making images on the wall with shadows.

Evaluation: Evaluate their critical thinking, their coqnitive skills of explaining cause and effect, fine motor skills and record the observation.

Variation: place the paper with holes on the table in a dark room and flash light on the paper the light passed through the paper with resemble like stars on the table. Use glow stars to show them how the light is absorbed and reflected. Put your hand and close the torch making it red in your hand

MASHING BOILED AND UNBOILED POTATOES

Goals: To improve their intrinsic hand muscle power, their fine motor skills , texture sense.

Vocabulary: Mashing, hard, soft, sticky, potatoes, boiled, raw.

Material required: Boiled potato, raw potato and plate.

Presentation: Explain how they can mash and feel the texture of boiled potato. Explain to them why raw potato cannot be mashed like boiled potato. Explain why you cannot mash hard items with hand. Give them boiled potato and raw potato in a plate and encourage them to mash it.

Assessment:

  • Can we mash raw potato?
  • Can we mash boiled potato?
  • Name the items that we can mash easily.
  • · What happens when we mash boiled potato?
  • What is the texture of potato?

Variations: They can mash the tomato, play dough, cooked rice, cooked pulses, jelly, fruits, boiled vegetables, cooked noodles.

Evaluation: Some children with sensory motor problems may not touch or mash the sticky items, they can be persuaded slowly to get involved in the activity. Record the inference for future verification.

Conclusion: By this activity the development of the children's sensory awareness improves, as well as their tactile skills.

FLOOR SWIMMING

Goal: To stimulate their gross motor skills.

Presentation: Children are asked to lie down on their tummy. Ask the children to move their hands and legs faster simultaneously and ask them to pretend like swimming.

Skills Developed: This activity develops their gross motor skills.

FINGER CLIMBING

Goal: To develop their fine motor skills and gross motor skills.

Presentation: Ask the children to keep their index finger on the wall and move the fingers forward simultaneously on the wall in the upward direction as much as they can reach.

Skills developed: Fine motor skills. Gross motor skills.

BUBBLE WRAP PRINTING

Material needed: Uncolored art sheet, bubble wrap paper, different poster colors.

Procedure: Children are asked to dip the bifferent poster colors and print it on the given art sheet. They can observe the impression on the paper.

Skills developed: Develop their fine motor skills of understanding cause and effect.

THREAD PAINTING

Material required: Thread of varying length, different poster colors, uncolored art sheet or plain sheet.

Procedure: Children can dip the paint and keep it on the art sheet and fold the art sheet holding firmly on the table with one hand and pull the thread out after moving the thread in various directions the other hand.

Skills developed: Develops their fine motor skills of tripod grasp, eve hand coordination, cognitive skills of cause and effect

DRESS AND UNDRESS

Goals: To make them independent in the practical life activities of dressing which involves buttoning, un buttoning, wearing and removing the dress, tying and removing the shoe lace, wearing and removing the socks, zip and unzip etc. Develops their intrinsic hand muscles and fine motor skills, eye hand co ordination, sensory skills of wearing clothes of different textures, etc.

Vocabulary: Clothes, shirt, pant, tops, midi, shorts, cap, shoe. Socks, frock, coat, under pant, tie, lace, buttoning, zip, front, back, scarf, belt, sweater, gloves, T-Shirt, jeans, full sleeve shirt, half sleeve shirt.

Material required: Collection of their own dresses, pair of socks, shoes.

Introduction and presentation: Show them how to button and unbutton, encourage them to remove and wear their own dresses, wear their socks and shoes.

Assessment:

  • · Why do we wear clothes?
  • Which is your favorite dress?
  • · Can you dress yourself?
  • · Where do we put shoes?
  • · Will all the shoes fit for everybody?
  • What do we need to do before we wear our shoes?
  • · Do you know to tie shoe lace?

Closing: Encourage the effort made by each child and ask them to try as much as they can.

Evaluation : Evaluate each child's ability to dress up and undress them, how well they wear the shoes, socks, note the recordings for further improvement and evaluation. Evaluate each child's fine motor skills. Intrinsic hand muscles power, eve hand co ordination, positions sense and note the recordings for further observation, observe their sense of texture as they try different textured clothes.

Variation. Variation of this practical life activity can be done with dress up boards, wooden shoes, buttoning board, laces.

TEXTURE MATCH USING TOES BLIND FOLDED

Goals: Familiarize them with different texture identification by tactile discrimination,

Vocabulary -Rough, smooth, hard, soft, blunt, sharp, funny, scaly, pokey, regular, non sticky, elastic, non elastic

Material Required: Texture books, texture brushes, some blunt objects, cooked and uncooked noodles, jelly, texture cards, pokey textured objects, play dough, rice flour and corn flour.

Presentation: Let them to touch each texture and learn about each texture, ask them to match objects of the same texture. Children are asked to touch the texture using their toes blind folded and name the texture with their toes blindfolded.

Assessment:

  • · Which is the opposite texture for rough?
  • · Which is the opposite texture for hard?
  • · What is tactile discrimination?
  • · Which texture we have to be careful?
  • Name some materials which have silky texture?
  • Which animal has very furry texture?
  • · Which animal has pokey texture?
  • · How do we feel when we touch a rough texture?

Evaluation: First evaluate with their eves open and then let them identify the texture with their eves closed. Some children may be hesitant to touch few textures, talk to them slowly involve in due course of time. Record the observations. Reinforce the different textures when they eat lunch, snacks and when they play.

Conclusion: Analyze how many textures they are able to identify and name.

PHYSIO BALL

Goal: To develop their abdomen muscles and this is also a nice relaxation exercise.

Presentation: Mentor has to hold the ball with one hand and to avoid the ball from rolling off hold with one foot in the front and make the children lie down on their tummy. Sing a rhyme and roll the ball forward, backward, left and right. When we move the ball children will move in the direction in which we move the ball, they will learn to balance by gripping the ball. If they move their body this activity induces relaxation also. They can also bounce and lift the physio ball.

Skills developed: It helps to keep their hip muscles stronger and r skills; this is also a nice relaxation exercise.

HOPSTOCH

Goal: To improve their balance, gross motor skills, eye and foot co-ordination, spatial awareness.

Presentation: A hopscotch box has to be drawn on the floor it can be simplex. Ask the children to hop on one foot and to jump, hop, jump, turn and do the same and go back to position. Observe them how well they are able to do it.

Skills developed: It develops their balance, spatial awareness when their gross motor skills while jumping. Develops their visualization skills if they are able to do with eyes closed.

Extension: They can try closing their eyes.

MAKE A MINI BOOK

Goals: To develop their eye hand coordination, fine motor skills, logical thinking skills.

Material required: Any materials, pictures related to the theme can be chosen, a small book with plain sheet has to be made, glue, crayons.

Introduction and presentation: Children are given one book each and they can be explained about the theme and they can stick the pictures or materials or children can draw related to the theme in their book.

Skills developed: Develops their eye hand coordination, and fine motor skills.

CARBON PAPER ART

Goal: To develop their pre writing skills, cognitive skills of exploring cause and effect.

Material required: Carbon paper, pencil, plain sheet, shapes or alphabets blocks..

Presentation: Give each child paper and carbon sheet.

Guide them to place carbon sheet in right position. Placing the ink side on the paper.

Ask children to choose their shapes or alphabets ask them to place it on the carbon sheet and ask them to trace it. Show them the impressions seen on the white sheet.

Skills Developed: Develops their pre writing skills, cognitive skills of exploring cause and effect.