Play Grouping Craft: The Rainbow Fish

This yesteryear calendar week inward Play Groups nosotros decided to move on our fine motor skills by making our real ain Rainbow Fish!

After reading "The Rainbow Fish" to the children, nosotros learned how to part amongst 1 another. We tore upwards structure newspaper into piffling scales in addition to shared them amongst our neighbors to brand a colorful fish. 

What you'll need:

• Construction Paper (multiple colors)
• A fish designing on regular white paper
• (you tin flame describe one, or discovery 1 online yesteryear googling "fish template")
• Glue Stick (easier because y'all tin flame merely rub it all over the newspaper in addition to accept your kid stick it on)
• Glitter
• Liquid gum (elmer's type gum for the glitter) 

What you'll do:

1. Allow your kid to rip the structure newspaper into scale-size pieces

TIP: This is bully for your child's fine motor development. It tin flame assistance them acquire how to purpose their piffling hands in addition to fingers, in addition to allow for that coordination to develop!!

2. Once all the scales are ripped, rub gum stick all over the fish in addition to allow kid to gum on scales

3. Once the kid is finished gluing scales, rub Elmer's gum inward unlike parts on the fish, sprinkle glitter on top, in addition to milk tremble off excess into garbage or dorsum into container

You are all done! 

After our fishies were completed, nosotros had about Whale Crackers equally a snack!

A few Tips in addition to Pictures from this week's play group:

TIP: Singing amongst your kid in addition to doing the motions improves many aspects your child's development.

Language Development: words in addition to rhymes assistance your kid ameliorate linguistic communication abilities

Motor Development: As y'all purpose motions inward the songs, it tin flame assistance your kid acquire how to deed their bodies in addition to acquire control

TIP: Repetition is a bully learning tool that nosotros ofttimes overlook. As nosotros produce Ring Around the Rosie, many of the kid's volition vociferation out when nosotros are done "again!" Children acquire from REPETITION. Each fourth dimension something is repeated, your kid volition process something new from that experience... Therefore the to a greater extent than y'all repeat it, the to a greater extent than a kid volition learn. For event does your kid dear to spotter the same motion-picture demonstrate over in addition to over again? It is because each fourth dimension they spotter it, it is equally if it were a NEW movie, because they procedure something different. 

We produce each of the next songs EVERY WEEK, inward hopes that the children tin flame procedure something novel each fourth dimension nosotros do!

Wheels on the Bus:

Ring Around the Rosie:

 Hokey Pokey:

 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star:

 The Itsy Bitsy Spider:

 Ga-goon:

 Old MacDonald:

 Reading Time:

Parents, at that topographic point are many bully things nosotros tin flame produce at dwelling to assistance our children grow in addition to prepare happily in addition to healthily! Enjoy this week's craft, I volition endure dorsum adjacent calendar week amongst more!