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Self-help skills
How Do You Like Your Pancakes?
At breakfast or a special snack time, fill several paper cups with ingredients
that children enjoy on pancakes, such as banana slices, chocolate chips,
applesauce, or syrup.
Give each child a pancake on a plate.
Encourage the children to use a small fork (and fingers) to cut the pancake
into smaller bite sizes.
Invite them to pour the contents of the cup onto the pancakes.
Let each child show or tell their favorite topping.
Dress-Me Doll
Find or make a large doll with a soft, flexible body.
Dress the doll with children’s clothes such as pants that zip, a jacket that
snaps, and shoe straps that open and close with Velcro.
Place the doll in the Dramatic Play Center.
Activities and Strategies
for Development
Invite the children to “dress the doll” by zipping, snapping, and closing
shoe straps.
Special Needs Tip
For children with limited fine motor control, place a large metal
ring, like those for shower curtains, through the hole in the end
of a zipper. Glue small metal magnets onto snaps to aid closing
and opening.