MYSTERY ITEM: Ping Pong Balls
Our last mystery item for the month was ping pong balls. I could think of endless ways to use these, but see below what the kids came up with…
PLAYED PASS THE BALL:
-Worked on team building skills
-Worked on color recognition
-Visual tracking
-Used fine motor skills
-Used large muscles
DID A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT (WILL THEY FLOAT OR SINK):
-Worked on science skills
-Learned what a hypothesis is
-Worked on position words (top or bottom)
PLAYED BALL TOSS:
-Worked on taking turns
-Used large muscles
-Worked on eye-hand coordination
-Worked on color recognition
PING PONG BALL ART (dipped balls in paint, shook in a bag, let dry, cut bag apart & had art):
-Sensory experience
-Used creativity/imagination
-Worked on color recognition
-Worked on fine motor skills
-Used large muscles
-Worked on cutting skills
