What is the meaning of developing manipulative skills?
Manipulative skills involve moving or using an object with the hands or feet to achieve a goal or complete a task. For fine motor skills, that object might be a pencil or button. For gross motor skills, the object might be sporting equipment or toys such as bats, balls, racquets, or jump ropes.
Activities :
Fine motor skill:
Activity name: Bracelet for my Mother
Items needed: Colorful Beads and string.
Procedure: Students will have to take patterns of colors before taking the beads on to the string. This activity will help them to develop their hand-eye coordination and also helps with the patterns. Furthermore, hand grip and muscles at fingertips and hand muscles develops too.
Activity name: The Hungry Caterpillar
Materials needed: Play dough
Procedure: Students will be given dough to make anything of their choice. Later on they will be asked to make a caterpillar out of it. A sample of it will be provided to every students. The squeezing and stretching develops finger muscles. It also develop the sensory input of the students.
Gross Motor Skill;
Activity name: Kick Harder
Materials needed: Soft ball
Procedure: Students will be taken to the play ground facing a wall. First ask students to kick the ball from the right foot and then ask them to kick from the left foot. And know the foot which is easier for them. After that ask students to kick the bouncing ball which comes at them after hitting the wall. Next tie a rope and ask students to kick the ball above the rope and bellow the rope. This activity helps them to develop the muscles in the thigh and also helps in improving the hand-eye coordination.
Activity Name: Basket ball Materials needed: Ball, Basket play ground
Procedure: Divide the class into two groups. The basket ground must be small and baskets should be short. This activity will help students to learn bouncing catching and throwing the ball as well as jumping. Which uses bigger muscles on their body including thighs hand muscles and leg muscles.
Outdoor Play:
Materials needed: Sand in big plastic plate, Plastic cup of different sizes, Empty basket
Procedure: Divide the class into 3 groups and take them out. Ask students to count the number of cups they need to fill up the basket. The 3 groups will have 3 sized cups. The group which has the smallest cups will need more cups to fill up the basket than the next two groups.
Through this activity we can introduce different mathematical concepts. Playing with sand helps children to develop their sensory actions.
Activity name: Finding colors
Materials needed: Different colored objects at least 12.
Procedure: At the play ground keep the 12 colored objects hidden. Take all the students out and teacher will call out, or example find the colore red, then the students will run around an find the objects. At least 15 objects of each color should be kept. This activity will help children to identify colors and also develop the physical skills as well as develops the critical thinking of the students.
Sensory play and Art:
Activity name: What taste am i?
Materials needed: Powered ginger, garlic, salt, cloves and cinnamon
Procedure: Arrange the powered bowl in a table. The students will be blind folded and they have to guess name of it by tasting a bit of it. And also students will have to tell use of any one of the spices they have tasted. Doing this students will develop their senses.
Activity name: Paper ball painting
Materials Needed Waste paper or tissue, Bowls, Colored water. Card board
Procedure: In a free space put on the card boards on the floor. In pairs students will have to make tissue balls and dip them into the colored water ball they made. After that the paired students will drop their color balls on the card board and make any painting of their choice. This activity will help them to build the interaction with pairs and learn things . Aldo it helps the students to develop the sensory skills in them.
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