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Home » Activities » Fine Motor Skills Activity for Toddlers Using Tongs

Fine Motor Skills Activity for Toddlers Using Tongs

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Developing fine motor skills does not have to be hard and is actually quite accessible in the home! You don’t need to spend lots of money to help your child develop critical skills. This activity is so easy it is kind of embarrassing to dedicate a blog post about it. I hope it inspires you so here it is.

All you need are tongs, bottle caps, and an empty egg carton. 

I started collecting bottle caps a month ago. So we have many, many bottle caps. Some big, some small. Some brown, some red. Some shallow, some deep. Borderline obsessive, I find caps a perfect tool for sorting, scooping, or tonging.

Easy sorting activity with bottle caps

You can simply have your child use tongs [or a strainer spoon as you see in this photo] to move caps from one container to another container, or to an egg carton. You can sort by color, you can sort by size or arrange caps from biggest to smallest. An easy and inexpensive educational exercise that goes a long way.

Easy Fine Motor Skills Activity

If you want to add CONTROL OF ERROR into the exercise, include two of each color, one cap per egg holder, etc. There are a variety of ways you can integrate this idea of self-education.

Bottle caps are the gift that keeps on giving. There are loads of crafty activities to do with your kids. All you need is a little bit of imagination! Better yet, let your kids use their imaginations. I am sure they will come up with some wonderfully creative activities on their own.

Have fun!
Marnie

Environment cannot create human power, but only give it scope and material, direct it, or at most but call it forth; and the teacher’s task is first to nourish and assist, to watch, encourage, guide, induce, rather than to interfere, prescribe, or restrict. – Maria Montessori

Tagged With: Fine Motor Skills, Homeschool, Infant & Toddler, Preschool, Sensory

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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