JDaniel is working a lot on fine motor skills with his fingers. One way we have been working on fine motor skills is to do the finger plays in the book This Little Piggy and other favorite action rhymes by Hannah Wood. He learned several of the rhymes in this book from Miss Donna, the teacher of the Mother Goose Class we attended at the library. The some we had never heard of like Round and Round the Garden and Horsey Horsey. We love to look at the book. Hannah Wood’s illustrations are colorful, fun, and helpful. Yes, helpful. It helps for JDaniel to look at the pictures in the book for guidance as to what the rhyme is about and what we need to be doing as we act out the rhymes. He seeks this book out over and over again.
We worked with our fingers to do an art project too. After reading A Bunch of Keys idea for finger painting with condensed milk, I decided to invite JDaniel’s friend Jake over to paint with us. (We invited his friend Joe too, but Joe isn’t into finger painting yet. He chose to observe.) They had a great time painting and eating with the paint. Both Jake and JDaniel ended up covered in paint and in the bathtub by the time we were finished.
Disclaimer: This Little Piggy is published by Tiger Tale Books and I was sent this book to review by Tiger Tales.
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Great idea to do Finger Paintings as part of a “Finger counting game” book! We haven’t actually done much finger painting as Red Ted loves brushes and rollers and cottonwool on clothpegs… I think he wants to copy me… but he does get covered in paint, so maybe the result is the same? Don’t know!
Maggy
My kids love finger painting and like JDaniel, need a bath after too. Because, lets face it, it’s really paint with all of me, right?!
It’s been a while since we fingerpainted…maybe that’s what we’ll do on this rainy day!
I just finished cooked with condensed milk. I had no idea I could paint with it too!
fingerpainting with condensed milk, hmm….never would thought of that one! Sounds like they had fun though!
One of my FAVORITE nursery rhymes- EVER! Wee, wee, wee…
Selena has always enjoyed finger painting or using one her glo doodle pad to finger all sorts of things on. I know that all of these things have helped her greatly with the fine motor skills. Thank you for sharing, Great post!
Great idea! I cant wait to try this!
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How I miss the fingerpainting days!
My children used to love to finger paint. If I took the paints out right now they’d probalbly dive right in. Thanks for stopping by from Mom Loop. 🙂
how fun!
i know i need to start this with broxton, but its too hot outside…. and no where to do it inside!