OverPrepared Mama

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This is an easy activity to help your child practice using the small muscles in their hands and fingers.

Ask your child to string colored beads onto a pipe cleaner.

Challenge your child to create a pattern! Many children ages 3 and up will be able to make an ABAB pattern (i.e blue, green, blue, green). Children ages four and five may be able to create more advanced patterns such as ABC, ABC, or AA, BB, AA, BB.

Children can also sort beads by color on the palette.