Bunnies Grow Family Child Care

“Every activity helps develop both sides of the brain, building creativity, logic, and essential life skills.”

✂️ Why scissor skills are important:
• Strengthen hand muscles
• Improve fine motor skills
• Develop hand-eye coordination
• Prepare for writing
• Build independence and confidence

✂️ Beginner activities:
• Tear paper with hands
• Cut playdough with scissors
• Snip paper edges
• Cut straws

✂️ Intermediate activities:
• Cut along straight lines
• Cut fringe on paper
• Cut simple shapes (square, triangle)
• Cut paper strips

✂️ Advanced activities:
• Cut curved lines
• Cut circles
• Cut pictures from magazines
• Create simple crafts

✂️ Safety tips:
• Use child-safe scissors
• Always supervise children
• Sit properly at the table
• Hold scissors correctly

A simple but very useful game for developing emotional intelligence 💛

✔ Draw a portrait of a child or print out the template
✔ In the circles, depict emotions: joy, sadness, fear, surprise, laughter, etc.
✔ Fold the circles in half and glue them together, as shown in the video
✔ Place them on the child’s face and flip through the emotions like a mini-book
✔ Ask the child to name the emotion and show it

What this game develops:

✅ Understanding and recognizing emotions
✅ Speech and vocabulary
✅ Facial expressions and expressiveness
✅ Empathy
✅ Attention and memory

Reading

Working with numbers

Happy new year 🎆🎊

The benefits of puzzles for a child’s brain development. Puzzles help boost a child’s brain development by improving focus, problem-solving skills, and memory. They also support fine motor skills and build confidence in a fun, playful way 🧩