Resource Review

I recently attended a fabulous workshop presented by Robyn Crowe - a specialists in the area of motor development for Preschoolers and Primary aged children. Highly regarded for her innovative ideas and equipment, Robyn's passion for this area comes through in her workshops. She was very engaging and inspiring. You can find Robyn Crowe here .

Robyn has an interesting unit on elastics. We have been using elastics to continue to develop spatial awareness. I bought waistband elastics at the haberdashery store. For my Preschooler, I used a length of 160cm and tied the ends together. I also made a set for myself - adult size 2m and toddler size 120cm in length.

I left them on the coffee table to be discovered by the little ones and supervised their exploration of the new equipment. During this time, I showed the little ones how to use them safely..no stretching and flicking etc.

Then I pointed to solid shapes around the house - can you make a rectangle/square/triangle/quadrilateral?  could there be different ones? how about lying down? with one foot, or bottom. For older children,  rotations and reflections of shapes could be introduced.

Lots of fun.