Felt Button Chain

 

Felt Button Chain

This game is a great activity to practice many learning opportunities such as:

· fine motor development

· hand and eye coordination

· concentration and problem solving

 

Materials I need are felt in different colours. Each individual felt strip has a button at one end and a button hole at the other end. This way they can practice buttoning and un-buttoning. Along with this they can create patterns, count, and recognise colours.

 

For children, learning how to use buttons can be difficult, but that is where learning through play can help them. This fun activity is a great way to encourage the skills needed for using buttons. To make this activity more interactive, we can ask questions like: Do you have clothes with buttons? Where have you seen buttons before?

 

The area I am developing through this activity is to show them how to handle and use

buttons themselves. This game will teach them responsibility and to support their

self-dressing skills.

 

EYLF Learning Outcomes

1.3 – Children develop knowledgeable and confident self-identities

4.2 – Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving,

inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching, and investigating

 

National Quality Standard

1.1.3 – All aspects of the program, including routines, are organised in ways that

maximise opportunities for each child’s learning

6.2.1 – Continuity of learning and transitions for each child are supported by

sharing information and clarifying responsibilities

 

Theorist Link

Jerome Bruner – He believed that children have an innate capacity that helps them

make sense of the work and that cognitive abilities develop through active interaction

 

Principle and Practice

·         Intentional teaching

·         Continuity of learning and transitions

·         Partnerships with families