Playing with water is always a popular activity in our house. Playing with turkey basters in water is an even more popular activity in our house. So on a particularly hot summer day, I set up this simple invitation to work on fine motor skills.
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For this fine motor activity, I set out:
- Containers of water
- Translucent colored plastic shot glasses - Mine are from Dollar Tree.
- Translucent tube shots - Some are from the dollar store and some are from Target.
- Turkey basters
Initially, the boys used the turkey basters to fill up the various cups. As you can see, quite a bit of water missed the mark. That's okay because it was hot out and it was fun for the boys to splash in the water too.
Scooping and pouring is also great fine motor practice. The boys used the little shot glasses to pour water into the tube shots, which is a great opportunity to explore concepts of measuring and volume.
They soon moved to scooping and pouring water from the tube shots because, as they noticed, the tube shots could hold a lot more water than the shot glasses.
Water ended up everywhere as they scooped and poured. So, as I mentioned, the boys had a blast splashing in the water too!
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