Lacing activities-1

We  have few materials for lacing but  using corrugated card board was fun for kindergarten. I used  my daughter's clay art tool  for making holes in the card board and old cardigan yarn for lacing. Once they knew the pattern  the result was quick. They also learnt to thread the needle.

                                                                     

                                                        

Practical life exercises-2

I have few more practical life exercise  materials  which playgroup enjoy.  I rotate the exercise materials  and the place too because the playgroup  get easily bored and try hands on every exercise. Sometimes I see many  trays out from the self. They are learning  to use one exercise  at a time.  Playgroups are enrolled year round  so whenever there is a new child we  have the materials mixed up.
Most of the time they work separately but they sit and observe when I introduce a new exercise.

For rolling and unrolling
 I have two types of mat one thick and quite easy to roll and other thin for fine rolling. They  also use these  mats for different exercises. 

Thick mat

Thin mat

Basket for keeping mats

Opening and closing bottles.
Only four or five bottles were not enough to keep them busy so I made eight. They have many questions while doing this exercise like"Where did you get this bottle?" ,"What do you put in it?","Whose is it?", "Where is the lid?" One child who did not find the exact  lid said  its the ghost who took it. Listening to them is a great fun.

Dressing Frames
The dressing frame stand is a bit high for the playgroup and little inconvenient because frames fall while they try to take one out. The wooden pegs for holding the frames are not  strong so the stand is actually a show piece now.   I  keep only three frames on the shelf out of twelve. The stand is in the older children's room.

Lacing
I have extra materials for lacing,

Bead stringing
 I  have plastic and wooden  beads of  different shapes. Children prefer the plastic ones which are  easy to
string. The wooden beads are not smooth from inside so stringing requires little more force. Few trays  have  strings tied on each side so that two children can string together. Sometimes they tell us to make garland.

Wooden beads

Practical life exercises- 1

Few practical life exercises on our shelf.

I am using seeds for few exercises. Children love these exercises but few want  the same tray which their friend is busy with. Most of them like the big white bean seeds.  I use  a sponge to wipe in case they spill water during wet pouring .

Transferring  beans  from bowl to bowl

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Transferring beans from one bowl to two unequal bowl

Dry pouring

Wet pouring

Transferring seeds using tongs