Looking for an easy activity you can make at home with leftover chocolate boxes?
Supplies
- Empty box of chocolates
- Coloured pompoms
- Coloured stickers
Directions
- Place a sticker in each chocolate indentation.
- Set out the empty chocolate box with pompoms.
- Help your child match the pompoms to the corresponding coloured sticker.
Adaptations/Extensions of Play
- Use the materials for dramatic play
- Try using different fine motor tools to pick up each pompom (large tweezers, mini tongs, grabbers) etc
Skills
- Colour recognition
- Matching
- Sorting
- Math Language – talk about what you are doing 🙂
- Visual discrimination
- Fine motor
- Concentration
- Eye – Hand coordination
- Dramatic play – allow children to play with the chocolate box however they choose.
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