Gross-motor skills:
- Sit opposite him. Take up positions and let him copy them
- Skipping, galloping, star jumps
- Crawl and push a large soft ball with your head
- Throw a ball/bean bag into the air with one hand/ catch with two hands
- Bounce and catch a ball
- Stand on one leg, jump on one leg
- Lie on a skateboard and let him propel himself forward using his arms
- Place a rope on the floor. Let him walk on it, jump two feet together sideways over the rope, walk with feet beside rope. He can try to balance a bean bag on his head when walking
- Let him lie on his back and pass you a ball using his feet
- Cow-tipping
- Make stilts from empty cans and rope, let him walk on them
- Walk like a crab (sit on the floor arms behind him, lift bottom to balance on hands and feet). Walk sideways, forwards and backwards
- Forward roll (somersault, Bollemakiesie)
- Run zig-zag patterns through obstacles
- Place a ladder on the floor. Balance on frame, jump in the “blocks” two feet together and then alternate
- Play hopscotch
Fine-motor skills:
- Draw waves on a paper. When the paper is full cut out fish and stick it on the waves
- Make hand puppets out of brown paper bags. Decorate with wool, cotton wool, glitter
- Draw a picture with glue, sprinkle glitter on using bird fingers (index finger and thumb), rub the glitter on the glue and shake off excess glitter
- Tear paper and make a mosaic picture
- Tear paper in strips and roll small balls using finger tips
- Shoot marbles/ ping pong balls to play finger soccer
- Cut basic shapes (circle, square, triangle) and patterns (straight lines, zig zag, waves)
- Paint, draw with chalk/pencils/crayons, stencil work, stamping
- Dotted line worksheets
- Use tweezers to pick up raisins, small cotton balls
- Use a ruler to tear paper into strips
- Build small lego
- Start tying shoelaces
- Roll out dough and use cookie cutters
- Fold a paper in half
- Colouring – start using only one direction and different colours
- Touch each finger with his thumb
- Playing with elastic bands around his fingers and placing them around a can/bottle
Visual Perception:
- Describe an objects position (in front, behind, on top, under, next to)
- Let them help bake a cake, read the instructions and let them do it as independently as possible
- Play snakes and ladders
- Card games (snap, go fish)
- Play memory games (not electronic)
- Page through a book and let him tell a story according to pictures he sees
- Let him help set the table
- Learn nursery rhymes
- Independent dressing and undressing
- Place 4 objects in an order, cover it, let him copy it
- Identify differences between pictures
- “Where’s Wally”
- Start building own patterns and complete basic sequences with smarties e.g. red, blue, red, blue. You can expand to a 3 order sequence
- Use arrows to show a secret pathway to a treasure, name the direction
- Start identifying coins
- Educational games 2D – 3D
- Build patterns with sosatie sticks and let him copy them
- Play hide and seek
- Trace him on a big piece of paper (newspaper) and let him draw in his face. Add clothes and show him that the clothes are on the outside of your body.
- Build story books with pictures from a magazine.
