Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

When it comes to arts and crafts or activities that require Vai to sit down for quite sometime, he’s been quite okay so far. He can sit down and do stuff for a good 10-15 minutes or a bit more, but he can’t stay put as long as Anya (who can quietly read, draw or make something up to an hour, if not more). Being his age, he’d then walk about, throw a ball, check on Anya’s work, bug her, walk off, return to his seat, continue a bit, and walk out and about again.

Anyway, as part of our effort to slowly introduce shapes to Vai, we did this the other day.

A very simple and quick activity aimed to emphasise the shape and its name to Vai.

What I did :
– Drew triangles on a piece of drawing paper
– Cut out triangular shapes
– Pasted some glue-stick on the inside of the triangle drawings
– Asked Vai to paste the triangle cut-outs WITHIN the triangle

And as he pasted the triangles, the word ‘triangle’ is repeated and emphasised, and occasionally I’d ask him to say the word ‘tri-angle’ together with me.

And as he was pasting the triangles, he threw (and blew) some of the coloured paper into the air too!

Oh well. It’s more fun for him that way, I guess.