Activity For Kids:

Squeezing an orange prewriting activity

This activity is an excellent activity to strengthen the muscles of your kids hands, which is an important step to developing pre-writing skills.

Plus you get yummy juice to drink at the end.

This activity is inspired by ideas from Squeezing an orange prewriting activity.

This activity is great to teach your kids:

Fine motor skills involve movement of the smaller muscle groups in your child's hands, fingers, and wrists.

Developing fine motor skills will help your child to write and prepares her for school. But it will also help your children with everyday tasks like eating, and dressing themselves.

Step 1

Cut the oranges in half

Step 2

Supply the oranges and jug to your child

Step 3

Show them how to squeeze the juice from the oranges with their hands or use a citrus juicer

This was a great and simple activity for my kids and they got to drink the orange juice they squeezed too. It's really great for strengthening the muscles of the hand to help with prewriting skills.

Squeezing an orange is also a great way to strengthen the hands and develop the fine motor muscles to prepare for writing
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