Do you have kids who love dinosaurs and fossils? This fossil puzzle craft for kids is a fun Montessori home activity that parents and educators can do with preschoolers.
Literacy in children is essential. It helps them activate the brain, enhance attention, concentrate, and stay in the same activity by developing logical thinking, understanding how literacy is used in their daily lives, and creating values such as empathy and listening. Through reading, children get into the characters' skin, discovering how they think and how they feel, managing to translate it into their actions.
Literacy helps children enhance their language and oral and written expression, thus improving concentration and reflection, promoting their ideas to carry them out in their activities.
It is a fundamental element for developing their imagination and creativity since they can create their own stories, write letters to their parents, and involve reading and writing in their symbolic games. Like the doctor writing the prescription, the teacher teaching, the waiter writing the order they make at the table, they were becoming an element of relaxation and entertainment.
To strengthen the literacy processes in children, the first step should be to read stories. Hence, they become familiar with this process, thus continuing with games to identify letters and sounds. It is essential to keep in mind that children learn through example and exploration.
If children grow up watching their family read, this process will be more natural for them. Games are also significant to get knowledge quickly when presented in a real way, as proposed by the Montessori learning method. The more the child is exposed to these types of activities, the better their abilities will be.
An example of this could be that the adult makes the sound of the vowel "o," and the child presents a card for the corresponding vowel. Many simple activities can be done at home and will have significant benefits for children like this fossils puzzle craft for kids.
THEME: FOSSILS PUZZLE CRAFT FOR KIDS
HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Literacy
Age: 4-6-year-old children
Goal: Through this activity, the children will strengthen the literacy process.
Difficulty level: Average. This activity is designed for children to carry out autonomously by following instructions.
Skills:
- Attention
- Focus
- Empathy
- Fine motor skills
- Logic
- Thinking
- Imagination
- Written and oral language
MATERIALS
- Markers
- Scissors
- A ruler
- White card stock with uppercase and lowercase vowels (Bones shape previously made)
PUZZLE CRAFT FOR KIDS ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Step 1:
Take a piece from the container.
Step 2:
Place the pieces as appropriate. Children must find and match the lower and upper case letters.
ACTIVITY RESULT
Bones with lowercase and uppercase letters
FREE PRINTABLE KIDS WORKSHEETS
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HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD
This puzzle craft for kids activity can be developed with younger children. To lower the difficulty level, you can include images. If children do not yet know the uppercase and lowercase letters, they can use an image with letters to become familiar with the vowels and consonants. To begin the dinosaur activity, you can do lowercase with painting and then include uppercase with a picture, understanding that uppercase and lowercase are the same letters in different forms. In this way, a kids activity will be carried out according to the children's development and abilities.
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OLDER THAN 6
This puzzle craft for kids activity can be done with older children. To increase the difficulty level, it is necessary to change materials. Seven-year-old boys and girls already know the uppercase and lowercase letters so the cards can have uppercase and lowercase words. Children must match them accordingly. In this way, an activity will be carried out according to the children's development and skills.
VIDEO DESCRIPTION - PUT TOGETHER THE FOSSILS
In this puzzle craft for kids video, you will find the step-by-step of the "PUT TOGETHER THE FOSSILS" activity, designed for boys and girls from 4-6 years old. They will match different uppercase and lowercase letters in bone shapes. This kids activity will allow children to develop attention, focus, empathy, fine motor skills, logic, thinking, imagination, and written and oral language. The materials needed for the activity are markers, scissors, a ruler, and white card stock.
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