OT Activity of the Day:
Yarn Wrapping Turkey
Target Age Range: 4 and up
Yarn wrapping is such a great bilateral coordination, body awareness, and motor planning activity for children. Each year at camp we always make sure to have a few yarn wrapping activities simply because it is so beneficial in terms of using both sides of the body in a coordinated fashion (body awareness and bilateral coordination-important for writing skills!) and figuring out a problem and sequencing through a task (motor planning).
Today I took an empty toilet paper roll and I cut a little slit in the top. I then secured the yarn in the slit and started to wrap. It’s OK if you need to do hand over hand a few times to help your child get started. Once I wrapped the empty toilet paper roll, I then cut another slit in the bottom of the roll and secured the yarn again. Then, I got to cutting out my feathers. I then stapled the feathers together at the bottom and glued them onto the yarn turkey. A few feather variations:
You could use regular feathers.
You could use pipe cleaners and beads as feathers (see previous post)
You could add some writing by writing things you are thankful on the feathers
You could work on name writing and have your child write their name on the feathers
I used goggly eyes, however feel free to continue to use construction paper and cut out eyes and glue them on.
Enjoy!