Scribbling
Why do our children scribble?
Scribbling is the first step in writing and an essential developmental milestone.
Just like your child’s first sounds lead to talking, your child’s first scribbles lead to writing. It is your child’s way to explore written communication even if it doesn’t make sense to you.
Scribbling is an essential pre-writing skill for children between the ages of 2-4 years. It also helps children to develop their hand eye coordination strengthens our children's fine motor skills.
Scribbling is the first step in writing and an essential developmental milestone.
Just like your child’s first sounds lead to talking, your child’s first scribbles lead to writing. It is your child’s way to explore written communication even if it doesn’t make sense to you.
Scribbling is an essential pre-writing skill for children between the ages of 2-4 years. It also helps children to develop their hand eye coordination strengthens our children's fine motor skills.
Steps to Scribbling
Colouring
Colouring tasks help children to:
1. improve their handwriting;
2. improve their hand and eye coordination;
3. focus on their task;
4. improve their motor skills;
5. stimulate their creativity;
6. improve their crayon/pencil grip;
7. learn the names of basic colours;
8. improve their self-expression;
9. improve their self-confidence.
1. improve their handwriting;
2. improve their hand and eye coordination;
3. focus on their task;
4. improve their motor skills;
5. stimulate their creativity;
6. improve their crayon/pencil grip;
7. learn the names of basic colours;
8. improve their self-expression;
9. improve their self-confidence.
Kindergarten 1 children performing colouring tasks
Fine Motor Skills - Using the paint brush
This activity is a follow-up to pictures about ‘Feelings’. It is very important that children start to recognise, verbalise and control their emotions. For example, ‘It’s ok to be angry’ but ‘It is not ok to hurt others when feeling angry!’ The children can choose the colour they want their bear and even exercise their fine motor skills (fingers), which will eventually lead to holding the pencil correctly and to writing, when handling the brush and picking/ sticking the kite paper. (When collage is dry, the children will be given different facial expressions to stick to the bear).
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Fine Motor Skills - Using the scissors