Early Mark-Making in Nursery
Dough Disco strengthens your child's fingers and hand muscles ready for writing. If you have some play dough at home please join in the fun and help with your child's learning!
Other activities that are great for strengthening your child's hand and finger muscles can include,
- Threading pasta on to a piece of string
- Mr Potato Head games
- Pinching pegs to attach them to a piece of material or ribbon
We use pattern marks to encourage children to begin moving mark-making tools in different directions and in different ways, here are some examples of the marks that we will be learning to make in Nursery this year:
