Stickering enhances your children’s fine motor skills. It also teaches them bi- lateral organisation, using both hands (and fingers) to hold the paper and peeling of the sticker. It’s also a sensory experience, due to the glue on the back of the sticker and the texture of the sticker (it can be shiny, mat, raised, glowing etc).
But like with many projects, it’s not so much what children learn but the fun part of it. So many kids love collecting stickers, and store them in folders/books that get shown to friends and relatives. On friend of mine brings out her folder every time I visit her and I get asked to choose my favourite sticker on every page.
My current friend is still quite little so I helped him peel of the stickers from the paper and handed it over to him. Some of them got scrunched up, but I then just gave him a new one. It’s very sweet to watch children stickering for the first time, because they have to learn how to handle the sticky part at the back. And sometimes, it can be tricky and frustrating but practise makes perfect, as they say.
Stickering
Ingredients
- A variation of stickers
- White paper or sticker folder/book
Instructions
Simply peel of the sticker and place on a piece of paper or in the sticker book.
Here is another fine motor skills activity! Pasta threading activity!
