This activity is designed to help early learners develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in a fun hands-on way, while also encouraging creativity and self-expression. By using different tools for painting like pegs and pom poms, children can create unique and colourful pictures.

This resource includes 27 pages of different pictures that children can paint and decorate.

How to use:

• Provide the students with different colours of washable paint in small containers.
• Encourage them to use their strong fingers to open a peg and clip a pom pom.
• Dip pom pom into the paint and create dots or other shapes on the paper.

This resource can help with the following:

• Develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Encourage creativity and self-expression.
• Develop colour recognition and appreciation for art.
• Foster independence and decision-making skills.

Extensions:

• Provide students with different sized pom poms to experiment with different dot sizes.
• Use this activity as a starting point for discussing different colours and colour mixing.
• Encourage children to talk about their paintings and share them with others, building communication and social skills.