Bear Pegging

 

Both my sons have a blanket bear that they sleep with its their comforter. Zac decided to use my pegs to decorate him.

I encouraged him to count and indicate what colour he was putting on.
I though this was fantastic and I am sure this activity would apply to many other cuddly toys.
Zac also finds it amusing sticking them on my clothes.

Zac 2.1

A-Z Math: Peg boat balance

This activity was not really planned, I had the new coloured pegs in the boat dish ready to take outside and my son started playing with them.

So I told him to peg it onto the boat.

He soon realised that you need to put pegs on both sides to balance the boat.

He was very focused and stopped when he could fit anymore on.

He turned it over and said spider, Dylan removed extra pegs so it had eight legs like a spider.


This was good practise of fine motor skills, numeracy counting and colours.

To extend further for a pre-schooler you could:-
give them a sequence to follow
ask them to identify a patter in the colours.
ask them to predict if it will balance or tip.

Zac 2.1
Dylan 4.10

Coloured Peg and Pipe Cleaner Match up

I was desperate for new pegs and saw these in the shop they are multi-coloured ones.I knew that they wouldn't end up on my washing line as the kids loved them.

This morning we had the pipe cleaners out doing a threading activity. Then I saw that we had a few colours that matched to the pegs and here we have the next activity.

I was quite impressed how quickly Zac (2.1) matched the colours and that he said the right colours.

Then I thought how can I extend this for a four year old....

He had to make a chain with the pipe cleaners using pegs to hold them together. (I had to twist the pipe cleaners in the end).

He made a big chain that he used to show shapes like a circle. We didn't manage to mage letters or numbers but this is a possibility for next time.




Dylan 4.9
Zac 2.1

Disney Planes craft: peg planes

My son loves Disney cars and when they released the spinoff movie planes we we delighted to take him to the cinema to see the film. I'm not sure he enjoyed it as much as Cars but he soon started rein acting parts of the movie with the planes relatives had bought for him while I was in hospital giving birth. However they are metal , quite heavy and sharp so I won't let him throw them. So I looked for a craft activity.

Glue free peg and lollipop stick planes

What do you need?

An old style clothes pin

Two large lollipop sticks

Two small lollipop sticks 

Felts (optional)

How do you do it?

Basically slot the sticks into place and decorate.

My son loves dusty so I copied him and he just coloured how he liked and it often changed from skipper to ripslinker.

The only problem not using glue is it often comes loose when you throw it. Which my son got frustrated with but soon worked out he can fix it.

You could use glue to stick googled eyes on an propellers. You could also use double sided tape to secure it a little more. 

Dylan used a cotton bud to attach between the sticks as a gun. Clever boy! Loved it!

We had races throwing them and rescue missions as well as copying parts of the film.

Create fun looking forward to making more designs. Please let us know how you get on.

Dylan 2.10