This week we’ve been working with tongs and tweezers, which is great for practicing fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and building hand strength!
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Mastering the skills of using tongs and tweezers is necessary before moving on to scissors – the action is fairly similar. So here are three activity ideas that also include tower building, colour matching, and counting!
Blocks and Tongs
We used tongs to stack blocks. The fabric-covered puzzle blocks that I made several months ago were the perfect size.
It took F a few attempts to grip the blocks in the tongs. But he did it!
Pom Poms, Tweezers, and Colour Matching
Cheerios and Counting
For this activity I wrote the numbers 1 to 12 in the base of an empty egg box. Then I provided the tongs, tweezers and a bowl of Cheerios.
I explained to him that we would try and put the right number of Cheerios in each section of the egg box. F went straight for the tweezers and started working on picking up the Cheerios and placing them in the egg box.
Tissue Paper Cornucopia Light Box from Stir the Wonder
Chalk Fire Game from School Time Snippets
Handmade Birthday Card from Little Bins for Little Hands
I love the title of this post! “Training” LOL! I need to get some better tweezers and tongs for Caden.
Thanks! I nearly titled the post “Three Types of Tongs and Tweezer Training” just for some crazy alliteration!
Great ideas for tweezers and tongs. Such a great skill to master and you can use them for so many different materials!
My 2 year old daughter loves tweezer activities! I just posted our week with the Letter E and we did tongs and plastic easter eggs; that was fun! Btw, the open loop tweezers are so neat; I’ll have to look for a pair.
I definitely want to try that tongs to stack blocks with my daughter. She loves building in any form and that sounds like an extra challenge!
Mine both love when I get the tongs out! He looks like he is really concentrating and having fun!
Great fine motor activities and suggestions! TY, again, for taking the time to share via FB this week! Pinning and sharing!