This is an activity that Caleb likes to play while he’s eating.
Just fill a bowl with water and add Calamansi. The old Calamansi will float while the new ones sink to the bottom.
Caleb used tongs to move them to a different container. It’s a simple tong activity just made more fun with water 🙂
It’s wonderful practice to strengthen the same muscles needed to hold a pencil 🙂
Here Caleb used a different tong to make it more challenging.
Lunch was over really fast and that made Caleb a happy boy 🙂
Tag: tongs
Calamansi Fun
Tongs for Fine Motor Skills
Materials that we used for this activity:
1. recycled fruit cups
2. large tray
3. ice tongs (these were smaller and could easily fit Caleb’s hands)
4. pompoms
Caleb used the tongs to put the pompoms into individual cups.
Caleb tried to use his left hand.
He’s pretty much right-handed but occasionally, he likes to use his left hand too.
Packing away the pompoms using the tongs.
I guess he got tired, so I let him “pour” the pompoms into the bag instead. Way to go! Practice for pouring 🙂 This activity was good practice for fine motor skills and it was fun as well!