Cute fine motor activity to strengthen hand muscles for future writing

Materials:

• cardboard

• hole punch

• marker

• pipe cleaners

How To:

1. cut a cardboard square

2. draw a lions face in the middle

3. use the hole punch to make holes for the lion's mane

4. cut pieces of pipe cleaner

5. have your child stick the pipe cleaner pieces into the holes to make a mane

Talk About It:

• sound a lion make

• counting

• colors

• "hole" "soft"