open, shut them
As part of our Star of the Week program, our parents came into kinder to do activities with the children. One made the lovely old fashioned ‘open, shut them’ games which the children just loved!
We found that the children needed a bit of help getting the folds right as it is a bit complicated, but they are great at squashing the fold lines to make them good and sharp.
On the outside sections they had colours - the words and a matching coloured spot .
On the next two layers they had numbers…
… and in the middle some fun actions, such as “Do 15 star jumps” and “Make a monkey face and noise”.
When we come back from the term holidays, we will try doing a big one of these with a large group of children. Let’s see now – there is colour and number recognition, fine and gross motor activity, literacy, playing with a friend, having fun … What a great thing to do!
Tags: colour recognition, fine motor, gross motor, number recognition, paper
