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Threading items onto a piece of string or shoelace is a simple yet satisfying and engaging activity. Try cardboard rolls, dried pasta tubes, suitable cereals or buttons.


For a more natural approach, create seasonal wreaths by threading fallen leaves, flowers or dried fruits onto a wire ring, which you can display on a door.


You can enhance this activity with variations such as poking dried spaghetti or pipe cleaners into the holes of an upturned colander, weaving wool around a wooden frame and tucking in natural items to create foraged artwork.


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Applying, moderating and sustaining finger and hand pressure are important skills for young children to develop.


Encourage children to practise rolling objects such as paint rollers in different directions – away, towards and across – to help develop these skills and improve their core strength and body awareness. You could use paint or water for this.


What you’ll need


Pizza cutters, pastry rollers and similar items used with playdough help children work on these skills on a smaller scale.


• Selection of paint rollers • 731188 Shallow Inking Tray (or you could use a washing-up bowl)


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• 742752 Playdough • Pizza cutters/pastry rollers • 427316 A set of Let’s Roll rollers/ stampers – choose from Garden Bugs, Ocean Life, Forest Friends or Pond Life


For more ideas and inspiration visit ypo.co.uk/littlelearners


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fine motor skills


The early development of fine motor skills will help children successfully complete everyday tasks such as getting dressed, using cutlery, and putting their shoes on. It also forms the basis for the development of handwriting skills.


Help children strengthen muscles in their hands, fingers and thumbs while promoting hand-eye coordination with these five simple and enjoyable activities.


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• Selection of laces, wool, ribbons or string • Everyday and natural items to thread (see above)


• 819015 Threading Pebbles • 820887Natural Frame Collection • 427311 Sensory Play Stones - Threading Kebabs


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