Fine Motor Skills with Crazy Straws

 

We’ve been having a lot of fun with felt projects lately, and today’s fine motor activity is a simple but super engaging one—featuring a crazy straw! It’s a great hands-on idea that also works perfectly as a busy bag for on-the-go fun.
Fine Motor Skills with Crazy Straws

This idea has so much potential, you can:

  • Color sort to the straw color
  • Sequence certain colors together (red, yellow, red, yellow)
  • Make a rainbow

This works great for hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

You can also cut various shapes instead of circles! For example, squares or hearts!

To make your crazy straw busy bag:

  • happy felt colors
  • some crazy straws

First up, cut a few circles out of your various colorful felt bits.

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Then fold in half and make a small slit in the middle, just large enough to fit over the straw end.

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Demonstrate to your young ones and watch them take over!

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This activity was a bit of a challenge for my almost 2 year old. But once the felt circles were on the crazy straw she enjoyed moving them around the bends. This is what makes it such a great busy bag, it can be re-used many times.

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This activity makes a great twist to the classic straws on pipe cleaner idea.

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The awesome thing is that you can also change the shapes on these straws to make a unique busy bag.

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