http://littletortoise.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/nursery-rhymes/ Slow and Steady Wins the Race Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://littletortoise.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/nursery-rhymes/#comment-91 maami Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:44:35 +0000 http://littletortoise.wordpress.com/?p=164#comment-91 grandma's recipies: atta, dough-no not play dough. give him chapati maavu, if you know how to knead it, in balls and make him snakes or roll them on the dining table into worm like shapes and get him to cut it into pieces with a plastic knife. chop chop chop kinda play. finger movements also work into this. lots of newspaper cut and given to him to scatter and crumple in his hands and feel-big bowls of kidney beans and rice to dig his fingers in-therapeutic i'm told. these are big messy activities and hence easiest for them to like, though not for us to clean up. if ever you learnt bharatanatyam it's easiest to do hand mudras saying deer, snake flower, bee-they love it and great for finger coordination.just lie in the bed and let your fingers do the talking. grandma’s recipies:
atta, dough-no not play dough.
give him chapati maavu, if you know how to knead it, in balls and make him snakes or roll them on the dining table into worm like shapes and get him to cut it into pieces with a plastic knife. chop chop chop kinda play. finger movements also work into this.
lots of newspaper cut and given to him to scatter and crumple in his hands and feel-big bowls of kidney beans and rice to dig his fingers in-therapeutic i’m told. these are big messy activities and hence easiest for them to like, though not for us to clean up.
if ever you learnt bharatanatyam it’s easiest to do hand mudras saying deer, snake flower, bee-they love it and great for finger coordination.just lie in the bed and let your fingers do the talking.

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