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Fine Motor Activity with Sticky Paper

January 7, 2012 by Sheryl Cooper

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A favorite fine motor activity is experimenting with sticky paper.  You know, that sticky stuff that some refer to as contact paper? It’s sold in the kitchen aisle at your grocery store, most likely. Well, we love this stuff. Seriously, we go through rolls of it every year. One favorite was our happy sun catchers that looked so lovely in our classroom window.

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For this particular activity, we started it on a flat surface and then moved it to a vertical surface. The children noticed how different it felt once the sticky paper was attached to the back of the block shelf. They realized that heavier pieces had a harder time sticking, and some pieces fell off minutes later. Our toddlers simply enjoyed peeling the pieces off and pressing them back on, over and over again.

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Fine Motor Activity with Sticky Paper

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What you will need:

  • Sticky paper
  • A piece of recycled cardboard
  • Tape
  • Your choice of materials to press on the sticky paper

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The tabletop version:

  • Cut your cardboard to the desired size.
  • Cut the sticky paper the same size.
  • Unpeel the backing from the sticky paper and place it on top of the cardboard, sticky side up.
  • Place both on a flat surface and tape all sides, securing it to your flat surface.
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Fine Motor Activity with Sticky Paper
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The process:

Fill a tray with the materials that will be pressed onto the sticky paper. Invite your children to press them anywhere on the sticky paper.

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What’s nice about this sticky paper is that most items can be pulled off and repositioned. This was especially fun for our toddlers.
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Hanging the sticky board vertically:

We simply taped everything to the back of our block shelf. We placed the tray of materials below it.

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Where do you think you would put something like this?
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More fun activities for young children:

Eric Carle Crafts     play dough fun with letters long     Preschool Color Game Using Legos

 

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Michelle

    January 7, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Love it!! I never thought to leave the sticky board out for a few days. It looks like you all had a great time with it!! And maximizing space is always a good thing 🙂

  2. Anonymous

    January 7, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    I love this idea, thanks for sharing. I am Suzette a family child care home provider of Kings Place 4 Kids, I currently have 3’s and almost 3’s, and appreciate new ideas that helps use up wasted space. You are right about being able to use this activity for a long time, I will putting one up this weekend, thanks to you. I am new follower of yours, and look forward to one day venturing into setting up my own blog to share all the wonderful things we do in our classroom.

  3. Jacki C.

    January 7, 2012 at 8:19 pm

    What a great idea. I am going to try that with my special education preschoolers.

  4. Ming

    January 7, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    Hi, happy to find your blog cos I’m always on the lookout for things to do with my 2-turning-3 year old daughter. This sounds like a great idea! 😀

    Am your newest follower and have awarded your blog the Versatile Blogger Award! Stop by my blog to receive it! 🙂 http://blog.mybabyfootsteps.com/?p=1705

  5. Claire

    January 17, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    Sheryl – What a great post and great idea for children! I have 2 year old twins and a 10 month old and I look forward to using this idea for them. Also, I am so glad to have found you….I found you on FB and I look forward to browsing through your information!

    Claire
    apurebeginning.blogspot.com

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