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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Motor Development: Punch Pins


Materials needed: One Dollar Tree tray(for finished work) and one cookie sheet(for paper and patterns), Walmart corkboard (4 for $5 in a pack), tape for securing patterns to paper, one push-pin, half-sheets of construction paper, printouts of at least four different patterns. Free here, paid here.

How to:

1. Call child over and tell him you have something to show him.
2. Select a pattern and a piece of paper.
3. Show child how to carefully tape the pattern to the board with SMALL tape pieces.
4. Demonstrate how to hold the pattern with one hand and punch in small increments around the edges with the dominant hand.
5. Show child how to remove his creation from the corkboard and place it and the pattern in the finished work tray.

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