Fun with Threading ~ Snakes!

I am a bit of a collector and had been collecting bottle tops for ages when I came across an idea to turn them into snakes for a simple threading activity. This was really easy and great for fine motor skills.

We started with:
Bottle tops (I had made a hole with a pair of scissors)
Straws cut into approx 2cm lengths
Hat Elastic (Cut into 30cm lengths with a straw tied to one end for the snake's tongue and to stop all the hard work of threading falling off!)
Sticker Dots (to be used for eyes!)

All ready to get making.

Miss G concentrating so hard at her threading.

Master T working out what to add next!

Master E with all his pieces lined up.

Miss M keen to do it all by herself.

Love Master E's concentration here.

Miss G almost done.

Miss A, very busy at work.

One of the finished snakes. I love the randomness to the order. A bit of a pattern then whatever goes.

This activity was a winner. The 3 year olds were totally engrossed and had a great time creating there snakes. Such a simple activity but a great one to continue developing fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.

Colour Sorting using Car Pictures

Master E is car mad and loves pasting so we decided to combine the two and do pasting with car pictures and threw in some colour sorting just for fun.
We started with six different coloured pieces of paper, a glue stick and a pile of car pictures I had cut out of magazines (got to love the op shop!)

Ready to get started.

Getting the hang of matching the colour of the cars to the colour of the paper. 

Being very industrious!

The finished pages, since we didn't come across any green cars in our pile we made the pages into a book with a green cover. Master E has been very keen to read his car book regularly!

Master E and I had a great time working on the car sorting together. He got the hang of matching the colours very quickly and needed less of my help than I thought.

We will be trying this one again soon, however with motor bikes next time!

Simple Sorting

I came across this idea on the Crafty Mumma's Facebook page and loved it. Such a simple activity to make and educational too!!
So here's how we did it. While Master E and Miss M were asleep I added coloured paper spots to the bottom of an egg carton for some colour matching fun.
We headed outside to see what we could find!

All ready for some matching! 

Master E picking some RED leaves to pop into the red spot.

Slowly getting there. White flower, red leaves, brown stick, green leaves, purple flowers!

Miss M was keen to help but not so great at working out where things should go.

All done, we found something for each spot minus the light blue! Master E got right into the matching and was really good at finding the colours. He did need a bit of direction, for example I would say "Can you find something to put in the white spot?" and off he would go searching for the appropriate colour. With some of the more difficult colours I would prompt with "I can see something for the blue spot" followed by a location.   

Master E was really into this one and when we came inside he started to do some matching with his cars.