Fine Motor Friday

I just realized that I never posted our last Fine Motor Friday activity. This was from a week and a half ago.  She had her first experience with scissors!  I bought some "Brooklyn scissors" and drew some dotted lines on a paper.  Some straight, some curvy, some angled...  I tried to keep them large easy lines she could follow.  And who knew scissors could be so hard!  She had a hard time holding the scissors and although her fingers were in correctly, she kept trying to do it upside down.  So it took a little assistance, but she loved it.

Then I pulled out all my scrapbooking scissors (the kind that have different edges) and let her go to town, basically just cutting up paper anyway she wanted.  After she did that for a few minutes, she asked me to draw her some more lines, so I happily obliged.

(Notice in this first picture, her hand is upside down).

(Funny story...  so I accidentally left the permanent marker on the table.  She picked it up at one point and starting drawing her own "lines".  I quickly took them away and explained that if she got it on her shirt, it wouldn't come out.  So I got her the "school markers" (crayola markers) that she is allowed to use during school time and let her draw her own lines to cut out.  I left the room for a bit and came back and found that her shirt was entirely colored on!  So I asked her if she colored on her shirt.  She said, "But it will come out!"  Apparently I should have explained better that these markers will come out of shirts if we ACCIDENTALLY get some on them.  That doesn't mean we just color in our shirt with those markers.  Hahaha, I couldn't even be mad about her coloring on her shirt, since it was kind of my fault...  Love this girl.)

(In case you're wondering why it looks like she has "Marker tears" on her cheeks, that's because she tried to lie about using the markers to color her shirt and although I wasn't mad about her coloring, I was pretty upset about the lie, so she got a time out for lying.  And of course, time out includes lots of tears.  And since her hands are covered in marker, so is her face.)