Happy Pre-Writing Fun Inspired Past Times Corduroy
December 06, 2018
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What is your favorite classic children's book? One that I loved growing upwards involved a trivial teddy comport as well as a missing button.
This calendar month for Virtual Book Club for Kids nosotros are featuring the mass (affiliate link) Corduroy by Don Freeman as well as we're sharing approximately elementary mass inspired activities. Since my kids ever dear the business office inwards Corduroy when his overalls popular off a novel button, nosotros decided to brand our ain buttons for a playful pre-writing activity.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- big whorl of paper
- painter's tape
- lids
- Black Sharpie
- pencil markers
- play dough lids (or other large lids)
To brand elementary buttons nosotros took large play dough lids as well as turned them to large buttons to aid us amongst this slow pre-writing action for preschoolers.
DIRECTIONS
To gear upwards for this action offset nosotros pose a large slice of white newspaper on the walls amongst painter's tape. Next nosotros stuck approximately large "buttons" on the newspaper nigh 12-20 inches away from 1 another.
After that nosotros lightly drew penciled lines from 1 push to the next. Some lines were squiggly, approximately were straight, as well as approximately were fifty-fifty zig zagged! After the lines were drawn, nosotros were receive to popular off started amongst this elementary pre-writing activity!
Kids volition dear drawing lines to hunt for the nearby button, simply similar Corduroy hunted for his push inwards the book!
Once the action was ready, kids grabbed markers as well as began drawing from 1 push to the next. I encouraged them to describe correct into the push to brand certain they striking it!
I loved watching equally they carefully traced over the lines to connect the buttons.
Connecting the buttons yesteryear tracing over pencil lines (or drawing their own) is a nifty agency for kids to do drawing lines. Drawing dissimilar types of lines is a elementary pre-writing action that tin laissez passer on the axe aid gear upwards kids for writing to a greater extent than complex alphabet missive of the alphabet lines or numbers.
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