This week was brief but fun. Here's a little bit of what we did in 3 days.
When you see a sheet of stickers, what grabs your attention? Maybe it’s the brightest sticker on the sheet, or maybe it’s a special character. Whatever it is that brings you sticker joy, they all are great for developmental areas.
Why every kid should play with stickers.
Neat Pincer Grasp. Stickers are a fine motor powerhouse. Peeling the sticky little pictures requires a neat pincer grasp in order to pull up the edge of a sticker from a sticker sheet. The very tips of the fingers are needed to grip such a small area. For some kids, grasping just the edge of a single sheet of paper is quite difficult. Working with stickers is a great way to practice neat pincer grasp for skills like picking up small beads, string, or a sewing needle.
Bilateral Hand Coordination. It’s an essential skill for so many functional tasks. Zippering a coat, cutting with scissors, and handwriting are all activities that require bilateral hand coordination. Peeling stickers requires tow hands as you hold the sheet with one hand and peel with the dominant hand. Both hands are involved in the work and doing different tasks.
Visual Scanning. Visual scanning is required for skills like reading, writing, searching for an item in a crowded room, and visually scanning the environment. Kids can scan a sticker sheet to peel off the sticker that they want.
Hand Strength. How can something as small as a sticker work on hand strength? Children need strength in the small muscles of their hands in order to have endurance in coloring, using an open web space when holding a pencil, and when managing buttons and snaps on clothing. Kids can use stickers to build the strength of the intrinsic hand muscles by peeling stickers from resistive surfaces. Now that you know the importance of using stickers. Here's the fun we had with them.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Trees
Baking Alphabet Bread
Rolling out the letters.
alphabet letters were a huge hit with everyone! YUM!!!!!!!
Show and Tell
Bring in your favorite book.
Sharing books from home. Was a huge hit.
Mardi Gras Fun Beads and masks!
Can you recognize who is behind the mask?
A Very pink afternoon recess!
As I'm working on this it's going to be a beautiful 60 degree day. I hope everyone takes advantage of it. Living in the Chicago area my entire life, I know not be fooled that winter is behind us. If your snowpants and boots went home please bring them back on Monday.
It was great having time to talk to you about your child during conference days. I'm always happy to take the time to talk about my favorite people.
Enjoy your weekend!!!
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