Creative Tearing & Water Play
This helps reinforce fine motor skills and promote creativity. Make watercolor effects with tissue paper to explore cause and effect. Provide your child with colorful tissue paper and invite them to tear it into medium-sized pieces. Place the pieces on a white sh
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What you'll need
You'll need a spray bottle, cardboard, tissue paper. This helps reinforce fine motor skills and promote creativity.
How it works
- 1~30s
Alright, let's get started! To complete this activity, you will need a spray bottle, cardboard and tissue paper. Start this activity by giving your son or daughter tissue paper in different colors and asking him or her to rip it into medium-sized pieces. you, watch your child closely — I'd love to hear what you notice about how they responds.
Watch for: Baby rip paper with both hands.
- 2~30s
Great, now let's try the next part. Now place the pieces of tissue paper over a white sheet of paper and ask your toddler to spray water over them. Now him or her if necessary. Tell me what your child does — any reaction counts!
Watch for: Baby let go of things they're holding on purpose.
- 3~30s
One more thing to try. Afterward, leave the sheets of paper to dry in the sun. And once they're dry, remove the tissue paper to see the design left underneath. During the sector size, observe your toddler is able to squeeze a sprayer. How does your child handle this? What do you see?
Watch for: Baby us both hands together to manipulate objects, like opening a box.