It all began when I had this brilliant idea to try putting translucent straws into the holes of our homemade light bright. When I discovered that the straws fit perfectly in the holes, I decided to come up with a simple fine motor threading game for the boys. And since Valentine's Day is approaching, it of course has a Valentine's twist.
Fine Motor Light Table Activity for Valentine's Day
We have plastic jewelry links that are shaped like hearts, stars, and flowers. They were used in this shape sorting activity. Each shape comes in yellow, pink, or purple, just like my translucent straws. Since this activity was Valentine's Day themed, I used only the hearts. And since the straws and plastic hearts all came in the same color, the hearts can be matched and threaded onto their corresponding colored straw.
The setup is very easy. I put one straw of each color into a hole in homemade light bright and placed the hearts nearby. If you don't have a light bright, you could always put straws into a piece of styrofoam, similar to this DIY light bright, and use it on the light table.
Then let the threading begin! K was really into this activity, focusing like crazy, as you can see
The boys didn't really care to match the hearts to the straws by color and that's okay. They spent an entire afternoon just putting hearts on the straws, pulling the straws out of the hole, putting the straws into different holes (there are 1430 of them to choose from after all!), and starting the whole process over again.
Other Ideas You'll Love
Exploring Hearts Sensory Bin from House of Burke
Love Potions: Color Mixing on the Light Table from Still Playing School
