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Fine motor Play from Recyclables

February 17, 2014 by Nadia van Zyl 35 Comments

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Your young kiddos will love to learn about colors while developing fine motor skills with this fine motor play from recyclables setup!


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We like re-using stuff, to create with and to play with. And if you can learn and develop doing just that, it is so much better! Also, see this Must-have Colors and Shapes Ebook !

This DIY toy using recyclables is real easy to set up. I used toilet paper rolls and kitchen towel rolls, egg containers and duct tape.


I stuck the rolls to the cabinet(choosing the cabinet so we can use magnets later too) with the duct tape. I suppose it would look more pretty if you paint the recyclables, but this was an impromptu idea to keep W busy while I worked.
For older kids, you can make it a project, to paint first and stick it themselves in a pattern that will ensure the balls/pompoms will fall into the egg container.

W(13 months here) got the big pompoms to throw into the rolls. He enjoyed this for a while, and the next day found it himself and started playing without any prompt.

Fine motor play

For L(3.5yrs here), I made it a bit more tricky, first by giving her a peg to use to pick up the pompoms and throw them in.

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Also, she got different sizes. Then we made the magnets, using colored foam circles on round magnets. I placed the different colors at different rolls, and she had to throw the right color pompoms into the right roll for color sorting practice.

Fun, frugal and educational fine motor play, just the way we like it;)

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  1. Angela @outnumbered.be says

    February 18, 2014 at 11:06 am

    This is such a fun and easy to do game! I shared it on my FB page ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toya/269866626367434)

    Reply
    • Nadia van Zyl says

      February 18, 2014 at 11:47 am

      Thanks for sharing Angela!

      Reply
  2. crystal says

    February 19, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    Great idea! Can’t wait to try this with my boys.

    Reply
  3. Melissa D says

    February 20, 2014 at 2:51 am

    We have all the ingredients to make this tomorrow! 🙂 Love it.

    Reply
  4. elise marselina says

    October 12, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    I’ll try with my boy,,,thk u for share this game,

    Reply
  5. Sheila @ BrainPowerBoy says

    October 16, 2014 at 2:10 am

    Just shared this on my FB page. I love it! I was thinking one could make it into a game for older kids as well by adding some numbers on the base and have them try to get to a certain score–a bit of math thrown in for good measure 🙂

    Reply

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