Fishing shapes
Every activity that involves water, stickers and a challenge is going to be a success!
The best part of this activity is that you can adapt it to work with different things. For example: using numbers instead of shapes or even letters or words.
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Spades and or tweezers
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Plain stickers or plain paper and glue
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Leaves, cork or any other material that floats
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Washing up basin or bowl
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Show the images on this web to your child. Explain that you are going to play a fishing game and they need to find everything you need to do so.
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Gather the elements listed as resources.
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Get the plain stickers or plain paper and involve your child in drawing the shapes, numbers or letters you are going to use for the activity.
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Glue the pictures onto the leaves. Fill the container with water and put the leaves on the water.
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Agree on the rules of the game. For example: We take turns and ask each other to pick a shape. If we fish the correct shape we get one point. The winner is the fist to score 10 points
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Start the game and have lots of fun!
Method
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Learning involved
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Fine motor skills.
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Social and Emotional Development: Are you taking turns? Do you get upset if you are not the winner? Do you help tidy up?
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Shapes & numbers: Can you fish the shapes with 3 sides? How many squares can you fish in 30 seconds? I have 3 rectangles, can you find something with a rectangular shape in this room?