Art & craft for Father’s Day

I’ve been doing a few art and craft activities with my son in the last few weeks. The aim was to have him practice various fine motor skills while having fun doing so.

This was one that we did as an early Father’s Day celebration. It was featured on the babycentre website. Here’s the link: http://www.babycenter.com/210_fathers-day-banner_25070.bc

Making it certainly took much longer than the 30mins that they said it would! He had fun doing it, but mama had to finish it after he lost interest halfway. LOL

In the process, he learnt or was exposed to or had some practice on the following:

- Measure using a ruler, then making the mark on the cardboard

- Hold a ruler with the left hand while drawing the line with the right hand

- Align the ruler from a mark on one end, to the other mark

- Using a scissors (he’s very weak in this)

- Uncap the glue stick, then how to hold it to apply glue

- Align the cut wrapping paper to the cut cardboard, and smoothing it down to paste it

- Pegging the cut alphabets to the ribbon (peg was too hard for him)

- That we’ll be celebrating Father’s Day soon

When papa came home, he saw it and was happy. That made my son happy too. : )