WALK WITH EYES CLOSED
Goal: To stimulate their balance and to increase their spatial awareness.
Presentation: Ask the children to close their eyes and walk for a distance.
Observe how well they are able to walk with balance and whether they are able to walk straight.
Skills developed: To develop their balance.'Co-ordination and spatial awareness skills.
Extension: Backward walking closing eyes. They can walk a distance forward drop an object and get back to position and they can find out the object. They can do walking in a zig-zag pattern.
BALANCE OBJECT ON HEAD AND WALK
Goal: To improve their balance
Presentation: Give the child a cone and ask the child to keep the cone on the head.
Ask the child not to hold the cone with their hands ask the child to hold their hands behind and walk a distance.
Observe how well they can balance the cone on the head.
Skills Developed: This game helps in developing their co-ordination, balancing skills, their ability to sustain attention.
SMELL PAINTING
Material required: Coffee powder or vinegar or different essence e.g vanilla, different aromatic substance, poster colors, uncolored picture, paint brush,
Procedure: Children are asked to paint the poster colors mixed with coffee powder or vanilla essence etc. encouraged the children to paint inside the picture. After they can smell the picture and identify the smell. Children can paint with brush or fingers.
VEGETABLE PRINTING
Goal: To develop their creativity, fine motor skills of understanding and exploring cause and effect.
Material required: Any vegetable which can be cut in to shapes (e.g. carrot, potatoes, onion, ladys' finger, radish etc), poster colors, paint brushes, uncolored art sheet.
Procedure: Motivate children to sit and present them the ways they can do vegetable printing. Give them the vegetable which is cut in to different shapes or patterns ask them use paint brush to apply paint on vegetable or dip it in the paint. Ask the children to make impressions or print on the art sheet.
Skills developed: Develops their creativity, fine motor skills, cognitive skills of understanding cause and effect