Festive Buttoning!
By: Karen Burns
Learning about fastenings is a key skill for independence, it also gives
lots of opportunities to practice vital fine motor skills and hand eye
co-ordination.
Links with EYFS
Physical Development – Moving and Handling
22 – 36 months Positive Relationships; encourage children in their
efforts to do up buttons
Give your fastening activity a festive theme to capture children’s
attention. Using felt for buttoning activities means there is no need
for any sewing skills, except for sewing the fastenings on! There is no need to hem as
felt does not fray.
Use buttons, poppers and velcro to vary the skill level of the activities.
Popper Christmas bows
Use buttons to fasten the
Christmas baubles to decorate the trees.