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Tag: fine motor skills

Simple Shamrock Craft and Poem for Toddlers

March 13, 2015momstownRecessNo commentsfine motor skills, mixed media, St. Patrick's Day

Toddlers across all momstown events are going green with crafts for St. Patrick’s Day! We love this craft that incorporates learning about shapes, fine motor skill development and some sensory fun! Try this inexpensive craft with your child!

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Homemade Piñatas

July 20, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsactivities for kids, art, birthday parties, birthday party ideas, birthdays, cutting, decorations, decorations, entertainment, family fun, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, ideas, kids, outdoor fun, outdoor fun, party, party ideas, tissue paper, toddlers

This craft is not only an individual piñata, but also serves as lovely decoration the day of the party.

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6 Ways to Teach Early Math Skills with Coloured Craft Sticks

May 7, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsactivities for kids, busy bags, colours, counting, early education, Early Education, fine motor skills, games, patterning, shapes

We love this inexpensive and effective math manipulatives to help your child learn their colours, numbers, patterns and shapes using only coloured craft sticks and velcro dots found at the dollar store. Great ideas for toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kids.

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Learning Colours: Painting with Corks

April 28, 2014momstownRecessNo commentscolour mixing, colours, fine motor skills, mixed media, painting, recycled, stamping

We love to try new ways to create beautiful artwork with our kids. From handprints to fingerpainting, momstown moms and kids love to get messy with mixed mediums while they work together on crafts!

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Sign of the Month: Colours

April 28, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsactivities for kids, colours, fine motor skills, sign language

momstown moms and kids are learning all about colour this month at our community events, so we wanted to teach the babies, toddlers and preschoolers the ASL sign language for their colours! What a fun way to add to their knowledge and sign together!

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Recycled Container Vase and Flowers for a Special Gift

April 18, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsEco Friendly, fine motor skills, flower pot, flowers, garden crafts, Gardening, gifts, homemade, hostess gifts, Mother's Day, recycled, teachers gifts

Flowers are in bloom and are a perfect gift for Mother’s Day or even for a special teacher at the end of the year. We love that you and your child can make a vase using a recycled juice container and some foil.

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MIXED MEDIA EASTER EGG Decorating

March 24, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsEaster, eggs, fine motor skills, mixed media, sensory

Easter is coming and so is the messy, but fun, egg decorating! You can practice by grabbing all of your craft materials and starting to work on patterns and ideas to make your egg unique this year!

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Standing Chick Craft for Older Kids

March 20, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsanimals, baby animals, Birds, chicks, Easter, farm animals, fine motor skills, pipe cleaners, Spring, tracing

We have several cute chick crafts for toddlers and preschoolers, but you can challenge your school-aged child to make this chick that stands! This is a great Easter, Spring or even Farm animal craft!

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The Cat in the Hat Number & Patterning Game

February 24, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsactivities, counting, cutting, Dr. Seuss, Early Education, fine motor skills, patterning

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss’s birthday and momstown moms and kids want to celebrate with crafts from their beloved Dr. Seuss books! We love this Cat in the Hat craft that incorporates fine motor skills, counting and patterning practice!

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Button Heart-Shaped Valentine’s Day Card

January 9, 2014momstownRecessNo commentsfine motor skills, valentine's day

I have a great collection of buttons left over from a baby shower decoration that I made. When we were playing around in the craft bins, we wanted to try some new ideas for Valentine’s Day. I had seen several ways of using buttons to create a frames canvas for Christmas, so I played around and made this heart shaped creation. This would be great on white canvas, using all read and pink buttons or you could fill in the whole heart.

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5 ways to turn Easter eggs into early learning tools

March 5, 2013momstownRecessNo commentsEaster, fine motor skills, Literacy

Plastic Easter Eggs can be a surprising early learning tool! Stacking, counting, letter recognition, hand-eye co-ordination and more.

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Easter centrepiece made by toddlers

February 27, 2013momstownRecessNo commentsEaster, fine motor skills

Child-friendly fun way to create a simple centerpiece to hold coloured eggs this Easter.

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6 great matching and sorting activities for kids

June 25, 2012momstownRecessNo commentsactivities, boredom busters, busy bags, colours, counting, fine motor skills, games, mixed media, patterning, teachable moments

momstown’s got some great ways to not only organize your craft supplies, but to teach kids matching and sorting skills!

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R is for Rainbow Craft

March 6, 2012momstownRecessNo commentscolours, fine motor skills, patterning, rainbow, St. Patrick's Day, tissue paper

momstown’s got alphabet, St. Patrick’s Day, and colours all covered off in this R for Rainbow craft. You can also throw sensory ideas in here when you choose your materials!

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Small, Medium, Large (school style)

January 3, 2012momstownRecessNo commentsactivities, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, preschoolers, teachable moments

A simple and fun way to use a school theme to work with your kids on sorting!

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