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Activity:

Activities for two hands (bilateral activities)

Age range

2-12 years

This activity helps to develop

  • Two-handed (bilateral) co-ordination
  • Fine motor skills

Materials

Instructions

·Hold onto a large mixing bowl and stir mixture with other hand.

·Hold a small bucket filled with beanbags. Use the other hand to pick up the bags and throw them at a target.

·Throw large balls that require two hands to hold them.

·Thread beads, straws etc onto string.

·Hold bubble mix container with one hand and hold bubble wand with the other.

·Pegging toy clothes onto a line.

·Rolling out dough or modeling clay with a rolling pin.

·Holding a template onto a white board or blackboard with one hand while tracing around it with a marker/chalk/crayon held by other hand.

·Buttoning boards and activities.

·Lacing activities such as lacing cards.

·Cutting out pictures with scissors.

·Peeling stickers off their backing paper.

·Dough play (pinching, poking, rolling, squeezing and pressing)

·Playing with stretchy rubber toys

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