Halloween is approaching, so it’s a great time to train the small motor skills to stop scaring our students. Below you’ll find specially selected bat activities to get students into this atmospheric October time.
What is fine motor skills?
Small motor skills are responsible for all the precise movements we make with our hands, arms, fingers, feet and eye-hand coordination. We will include such activities as writing, coloring, cutting out, catching small parts, fastening buttons and much more.
Developing fine motor skills is an important part of early childhood education, and games and exercises related to this skill support a child’s overall development.
Activity 1: Drawing on the trace
- Planet Contrast – Drawing with light – activity 5
- Planet Contrast – Symmetrical drawing – activity 12
Let’s start with drawing and writing by tracing. The students’ task is to map the picture according to symmetry. The line must connect to the other part and must not be interrupted at any point. Be careful not to deviate too far from the line, because our action will fail.
Activities differ in the color of the line we draw.
Activity 2: Worksheet – cutting out, outlining, coloring
Below you will receive a worksheet. Here are the suggestions you can make on it:
- Cut out all the bats and stick them on some paper.
- Cut out bats and outline their shape on a sheet of paper.
- Cut out the bats and rank them according to height.
- Count them.
- Color the bats.
- Color the bats according to the code given by the teacher, such as: The biggest one is smiling. The smallest one was all green.
- Color in the word “bats” vowels and consonants.
- Rewrite the word in a notebook and form a sentence to it.
- And whatever else you can think of.
Activity 3: Coloring
- Planet D¿ – Color by letter (drawing or filling version) – activity 6
There are coloring pages with bats. You can choose a drawing version, where moving the marker will draw lines, or a filling version, where clicking will paint the entire field.
For the filling version, we can take the balls in our hands and throw them into the appropriate fields. We will train our large motor skills more this way.
Interesting facts about bats
You have reached the end, so let me share an interesting fact with you:
In China, bats herald good luck and prosperity, so there is no need to chase these creatures away. It is also worth noting that in Poland all bat species are under protection, and that they get caught up in hair is a definite myth.
