Heart Prints
This activity will help your child develop fine motor skills. She could choose to print hearts onto a card or calendar.
Heart Prints
Activity for an individual child
Age group: 18-40 months
Duration of activity: 15 minutes
Materials:
- Red and pink tempera paint
- Pie tins
- Kitchen sponges
- Scissors
- Clothespins
- White construction paper or bond paper
This activity will help your child develop fine motor skills. You may also want to use this as an opportunity to talk about color and shape identification. You don't have to limit your child to a simple sheet of paper. Perhaps she can print hearts onto a card or calendar.
- Pour the paint into the pie tins.
- Cut out heart shapes from the sponges. You can make other shapes too. Be sure that the sponge shapes are at least as large as a silver dollar.
- Attach a clothespin to the back of the sponge. This will serve as a handle for your child.
- Show your child how to dip the sponge hearts into the paint and then press them onto the paper to create a design.