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Welcome to another fine motor skills Friday!
We are loving the easy and super simple fine motor skills lately and if i can grab simple things from around the house to make these oh so simple fine motor skill activities well, that is even better!
Take a look at this super simple and easy box and pipe cleaner fine motor skill practice activity.
What you will need is a smallish box, we have used our Ubooly box, since Ubooly no longer lives in it.
To make the holes I used a kebab stick, it made beautifully round and even holes. Next cut up 4 pipe cleaners into good sized finger gabble lengths.
Grab an eager toddler or preschooler and let them start popping the small pipe cleaners into the holes. Our pipe cleaners did not go all the way through the hole and fall out the other end, instead they filled the holes allowing my toddler to fill all the holes instead of just concentrating on one.
Oh and just to mention 🙂 Ubooly is awesome!
Once all the holes were filled I showed my toddler the inside of the box, this fascinated her even further as she removed the sticking out pipe cleaners from inside one by one.
I was very surprised my 3 year old was also into this activity, he is usually my messy play / painter and has no patience for these types of activities. He did this one over a few times before moving on to go play outside.
I love that this fine motor idea uses things I already have laying around the house!
Are you looking for some more fabulous fine motor ideas?
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- Simple Colour Mixing Fine Motor Activities from Racheous – Lovable Learning
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Susen says
Love the pipe cleaner activity!!
Rachel | Racheous - Lovable Learning says
Upcycled simple fun like this is just what I need! Love this!
Kristina @ School Time Snippets says
Yay for another simple activity! Reminds me of the pipecleaner with strainer activity– which we have yet to do because I cannot find a strainer with flat handles! I’m sure I have a box around here somewhere to use!
Clare says
We just did a similar activity this week with drinking straws – I picked some pipe cleaners up at the store today so I’m going to give this version a try too. They love putting the straws through the holes and it’s kept them occupied for hours this week!
Christy Garrett Parenting Tips says
I love that you recycled the Ubooly box. He is a cute, stinky character. 😉
Laura @ Lalymom says
I love how they stuck in the holes, never would have thought of that and what a fun discovery to open the box and see them inside! Love it!