Stringing and lacing
provides exercise for young children’s eye hand coordination.
Provide children with simple materials to make necklaces,
bracelets or just experience stringing.
Stringing
Materials:
Yarn with end taped to create a needle, pipe cleaner, and
shoestring.
First
Beads:
large one-inch beads, washers, and large uncooked tube-shaped
pasta.
Beads
for more experienced stringers:
o-shaped cereal, smaller beads, and smaller uncooked tube-shaped
pasta.
Lacing
Materials:
Old shoe laces
Homemade
lacing card:
Punch holes around a piece of cardboard or old greeting
card. Tie the end of a shoestring in one of the holes, and
show your child how to weave it in and out of the holes
to make an edge around the card.
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