Today I am posting a guest post from Jessica over at education.com
“Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which will help later with writing. Turn it into a fun art project, by stringing up some ABCs!
What You Need:
- 26 colored foam sheets (you can get this at any craft store, but in a pinch you can use cardboard)
- Safety scissors
- Lots of shoe strings (or yarn lengths, taped at the ends)
- Hole puncher
- Pencil
- Lined paper
What You Do:
- Make the letters. Take out the first foam sheets and ask your child to use the pencil to write the letter “A” on it. Continue, using one piece of craft foam for each letter of the alphabet. As she finishes each letter, look over her work and if you see any letters written incorrectly, coach her on how to write them, using lined paper. Once she’s gotten the hang of it, you can flip over the foam and write the letter correctly on the other side. When all the letters are written she should carefully cut them out using her safety scissors.
- Connect the dots. Have your child draw dots along the strokes of each letter, as if she were making a “connect the dots” alphabet. Then, punch a hole in each dot, using the hole puncher. Be careful not to punch too close to the edges of the letters.
- Ready to lace! Help your child string each letter using the shoelaces or yarn—and don’t forget to do it in the direction she’d write. For example, for the letter A, start at the top middle, where the letter comes to a point, and lace down the left side. Then go up the back of the foam and begin at the top again so you can lace down the right side. Then string through the middle, moving left to right.
As she’s working, remember to talk to your expert lacer about the sounds each letter makes. Brainstorm words that begin with the letter she’s working one, such as A= apple, or B=bear. And don’t forget to have some fun!”
This is a fun activity that can be adapted to suit your child. We took the idea and had some fun creating some shapes and doing our own threading.
Thanks for reading
Sarah 🙂
This looks like a great activity – I wish I had something like this to do for my kids when they were nippers!
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Thanks for reading 📖
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What a great idea!! It’s so much better to keep them active than watching tv!
Jodie
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I agree, we try to keep TV to a minimum!
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I have made some lacing cards for my older kiddo before. I even made kits of them with Christmas shapes and sold them at craft fairs one year! So great. I need to break ours out. 🙂 #fabfridaypost
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Your Christmas shapes sound fab. I hope they sold well. 🙂
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What a great fine motor activity! And then throw in letter sounds, printing and everything else and it’s a full lesson plan. 😉 Great idea.
~Jess
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Such a great activity for developing fine motor skills. I can remember making themed lacing cards for the daycare I worked at. The possibilities are endless.
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Totally endless I agree!
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This is such a great activity, we try and squeeze fine motor skill activities like this in before tea time and it works well to keep them entertained and obviously you know that they are developing skills that we need #fabfridaypost
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That’s great, they are such important skills
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Great idea, my daughter loves her threading blocks x
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Threading rocks!
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I remember doing these as a little one. So great for honing motor skills.
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I agreee
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This is a great activity for reaching letters as well as sewing/threading/motor skills #fabfridaypost
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Z loves using her fine motor skills!
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What a fab idea. Such a great activity for teaching children to form letters. Thank you for linking up with us on #FabFridayPost
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We did this with our littles! Such fun! Thanks for sharing it with us all! #FabFridayPost xoxo
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Such fun 😀
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This is so cool! My Evelyn loves things like this. I’ll also be checking out Jessica at education.com soon! 🙂 #FabFridayPost x
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You can’t go wrong with a bit of threading, next step..sewing!
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