Cutting has lost its novelty, but this is a very creative way of inspiring boys for cutting and pasting, one of the best Kumon products on cutting and pasting. It is a fun activity for boys from 4 years old.
Directions:
1. Show your child to match the sticker with its place.
2. Invite your child to try.
Additional Information:
Joshua loves fishes. This is a fantastic book given by Aunt C and Joshua enjoyed it a lot. He is very thrilled by all the pictures of the fishes. He is able paste the stickers but not at the precise location.
31 Dec 2017 (1Y7M15D & 8Y9M26D): Pasting with stickers
Objectives:
1. To train the child's fine motor skills
2. To provide sensory play with feathers.
3. To provide a fun way to teach colours.
Materials:
1. Some feathers
2. 1 sheet of printed bird (I have made an outlook of the bird from google image search. Click here to download)
3. 1 bottle of glue
Directions:
1. Demonstrate to your child by gluing one feather on the bird.
2. Invite your child to choose the colour of the feather and to glue it to the bird.
Additional Information:
I thought this was a brilliant idea from Cherry Blossom Adventures. Instead of the usual colouring, this makes the picture more life-like with feathers glued to the bird. J tried this today and thought it was fun. I hope to repeat it again.
Objectives:
1. To train the child's motor skills.
2. To train the child's hand eye coordination.
Materials:
1. 1 sticker sheet
2. 1 note book or paper with boxes drawn on it or you can print one here
3. 1 tray
Directions:
1. Show the child how to remove the sticker from the sheet and paste it in the box on the sheet or note book one by one.
2. Encourage your child to try.
Additional Information:
After your child had try pasting stickers freely, he may feel bored with this activity. Introduce something new by challenging him to paste the stickers within the boxes drawn. J (2Y7M10D) tried this for the first time this morning. He could do it, but not always so neatly within in the middle of the box.
Objectives:
1. To train the child's motor skills.
2. To train the child's hand eye coordination.
Materials:
1. 1 blank piece of paper (write a title if you wish)
2. 10 pictures cut out from magazines
3. 1 stick of glue
4. 1 tray
Directions:
1. Show the child how to put the glue onto the back of the picture.
2. Show your child how to paste the picture onto the paper.
3. Encourage your child to try.
4. Talk to your child about the pictures he has pasted.
Additional Information:
It was a big success with pasting pictures of Singapore with glue. As part of Heritage Education Programme that I designed for Joshua, I have decided to repeat this activity with pictures of Denmark. I have cut out some pictures of Copenhagen from tourist brochures that I took for my sister's visit here. The first picture that Joshua (2Y6M7D) chosed to paste is the picture of Tivoli.
I noticed that what attracted Joshua to this activity were the attractive, full colour and well-designed brochures of Singapore and Denmark. This seemed to prove Maria Montessori's hypothesis of only using pleasing materials when educating children, although I am still more of a functional and pragmatic type of person that would not sacrify function for design.
4.9.2011 (2Y5M30D) - The collage completed by Joshua with my guidance
Age: From 2.5 years old
Activity Duration: 5 - 15 minutes
Objectives:
1. To train the child's motor skills.
2. To train the child's hand eye coordination.
Materials:
1. 1 blank piece of paper (write a title if you wish)
2. 10 pictures cut out from magazines
3. 1 stick of glue
4. 1 tray
Directions:
1. Show the child how to put the glue onto the back of the picture.
2. Show your child how to paste the picture onto the paper.
3. Encourage your child to try.
4. Talk to your child about the pictures he has pasted.
Video Demonstration:
Additional Information:
The pasting tray has been lying on the shelf for some time, but Joshua showed no interest for it. Yesterday, he took it out and asked to work on it. He enjoyed it very much.
Last night, Daddy FECS and I were doing some spring cleaning on an old book shelf. We cleared out some old literature, amongst which some old travel brochures on Singapore. I decided to use it for the pasting activity by cutting out some pictures of Singapore, and thus adding some heritage education element into this activity.
Recently, our Little FECS has been mentioning about taking the plane to Singapore. It would be good to introduce him the scenes and sights of Singapore through these pasting. The materials are prepared, and I wrote the word Singapore on the blank paper.
After breakfast this morning, the first thing he picked from the shelf is this activity - yeh!
Directions:
1. Show the child how to remove the sticker from the sheet and paste it in a page in the note book.
2. Encourage your child to try.
Additional Information:
Joshua tried this for the first time this evening and he enjoyed it very much. He could transfer and paste the stickers into the notebook, but it wasn't so easy for him. Thus, the challenge was just right. He needed my help to remove the sticker from the sheet. The stickers I have were very small, thus it was more challenging. Using bigger stickers would be easier.
16.8.2011 Updates:
Joshua enjoyed this so much yesterday that he asked to do it again this evening. He continued on until I asked him to stop to take his shower.
15.8.2011 (2Y5M10D)
15.8.2011 (2Y5M10D)
15.8.2011 (2Y5M10D) - A page of stickers pasted by Joshua
Updates:
We had some left-overs stickers that our Little FECS has out-grown. Our Little FECS told me that Baby FECS showed interest in stickers. So we decided to let her try this activity today :-)
She could not peel and paste the stickers by herself, but she enjoyed pointing and choosing the stickers of her choice and seeing us pasting them. I think she got the concept of pasting stickers.
