Scooping, Spooning and Dry Pouring
Create your own scooping, spooning and pouring activities at home by using found objects in your kitchen drawers.
Home Lesson One: Scooping
- Locate a container, one or more scoops, and a few cups of non-perishable items such as pasta, chickpeas, lentils or beads
- Fill the container to roughly half way
- Take your scoop or scoops and transfer from left to right and back again
- Invite your child to take a turn
- Extend on this activity by asking your child “how many scoops do you think I will need to fill this container” to develop visual discrimination of quantity
Home Lesson Two: Dry Pouring
- Locate two jugs or pouring containers and place on a tray or in a container
- Fill the jug on the left with a dry material such as pom poms, lentils, or pasta
- Demonstrate how to pour from left to right
- Invite your child to take a turn
- Extend on this activity by using jugs with a narrower spout and transfer smaller dry items such as lentils
- Pour the dry items back into the bowl on the left side to restore the activity to its original state
Home Lesson Four: Spooning
- Locate two bowls and a spoon that easily fits in your child’s hand
- Place them on a tray and fill the bowl to the left with a dry material
- Spoon from left to right
- Invite your child to take a turn
- Spoon the dry items back into the bowl on the left side to restore the activity to its original state
Curriculum Area
Practical Life
Age Group
2 – 6 years
Aims
- Refine fine motor skills
- Develop a sense of order
- Establish left to right movement in preparation for writing and reading
- Exercise judgement over size and capacity
- Develop coordination for more complex transfer activities