Rainbow Salt tray - Pre-writing activity for preschoolers

Salt tray is used to work on pre-writing skills for toddlers and preschoolers.

Salt tray is very simple, fun and inviting prewriting activity. This is very good for introducing writing and drawing pictures with minimal materials and is reusable. Rainbow salt tray is even more fun as the background of the picture turns out to be colorful. This activity enhances creativity, fine motor development, hand eye co-ordination and spatial awareness.

Materials needed:

-          Tray

-          Salt

-          color papers (red, orange, yellow, green, blue)

-          white paper

-          Flashcards (for numbers and alphabet tracing)

Method:

-   - First cut the strips of the colored papers according to the size of       the tray.

-   - Now take a white paper and stick each strip one by one to form a       rainbow background for our salt tray

-   - Add salt to the tray and use any stick or this activity can be done       with fingers too.

-   - The child can now draw pictures and trace the alphabets and              numbers by looking at the flashcards.

      Check the complete video below 


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