Using Clothes Pins in Learning
. We use these clothes pins in a ton of learning and play activities. Art, learning, and play are more fun with a fine motor manipulative like this simple household item.
Literacy Pre-Reading Activity
to write uppercase letters on the clothes pins. We wanted to use upper case letters so that Little Guy (age 5) would be able to identify the letters. He is just starting to identify lower case letters, but I wanted to ensure confidence and success in this part of the activity so he would try something a litter harder for him: sounding out letters in pre-reading skills. 
We worked together to sort out the letters on the clothes pins. We did a few different activities with the clothes pins once we had all of the letters.
First, we went on a scavenger hunt around the yard, pinning our clothes pins to objects in nature with the corresponding letter. It was a fun pre-reading task to sound out things that we saw. Pinching the pins onto items was a fun fine motor task for both kids. We pinned R to “roots”.
S is for “sticks”.
We did a few quizzes for Little Guy. Big Sister and I thought of an item and said I know something that starts with the letter “S”. He had to think and look to find something that started with “s” as he sounded out sssss. This is such a great pre-reading activity for pre-readers.
C is for clover.
M is for moss.
A is for arborvitae. Time for a science lesson!
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