Fine motor skills

Genetics…mmm I think Lilly got my genes when it comes to motor skills and pure clumsiness.  I recently joined pinterest, it is by far my favorite website right now.  I found this project for Lilly to help her practice her fine motor skills.  It involves a pool noodle and a piece of string.  I found a noodle on sale at big lots the other day and decided to try it out. 

First I cut the noodle into 1” sections.

 

Then had Lilly pick them all up and put them in a bag

I tied one noodle piece to the end of a string and had Lilly go to town.

It took her a long time to figure it out, but she finally got the hang of it.

 

She was so proud of herself

 

When Daddy got home she had to show off her new “game”

Look at that she got a bunch of “rings” on there!

She has not played with them too much since this day, but for $1.50 it was totally worth increasing her fine motors skills just a little.  Next I may add numbers or letters to each piece and have her put them in order.

*Ok so you may be wondering where is Raelynn while Lilly is doing all this fun stuff.  Normally Raelynn is sleeping, she definitely got the sleepy gene, she has been taking a good 3 naps a day and sleeping about 11 hours at night.  Now that I wrote that here she’ll probably stop sleeping through the night or something crazy like that :)