Lettor Sensory Bag

Megan Snethen Author

06/07/2020 Added

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These letter sensory bags provide a great way to practice fine motor skills, such as writing letters! The child will increase their precision, strength, coordination, and efficiency when using muscles in the hand. All you need is a few materials and a sense of exploration! Length: 4:02; 2-8 years

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[00:00:00.000](jangly jazz music)
[00:00:12.040]Hi everyone, I hope you're having a beautiful day today!
[00:00:15.020]Today I'm going to be showing you
[00:00:16.130]how to trace letters on a sensory bag.
[00:00:20.440]For this activity, you'll need some zip lock bags,
[00:00:23.960]I just use some painter's tape,
[00:00:25.178]some craft paint, you can also use acrylic paint,
[00:00:28.720]you'll need a marker, preferably a Sharpie,
[00:00:31.390]and then some kind of material
[00:00:32.500]that you can get dirty with paint
[00:00:34.920]if it happens to get messy.
[00:00:38.240]First step to making your sensory bag
[00:00:39.810]is to lay one of your plastic bags out flat
[00:00:43.109]and use your Sharpie then
[00:00:45.401]to write letters pretty big on the bag.
[00:00:48.860]So I'm gonna write the letters here.
[00:01:01.460]And you'll keep going until you get most of the letters
[00:01:03.260]from the alphabet.
[00:01:04.690]I like to put them just in random spots.
[00:01:06.890]Since I have two different bags,
[00:01:08.050]I'm gonna spread my letters out on each bag here.
[00:01:11.530]Make your letters kinda big so that they're easy to trace.
[00:01:15.020]On the inside, we'll be putting the paint,
[00:01:18.730]so I'll show you how to do that next.
[00:01:22.340]Here are all my letters.
[00:01:28.010]You can make bubble letters if you wish.
[00:01:29.800]I'm just gonna do it like this so that we can trace 'em.
[00:01:34.960]Now that I have my letters written,
[00:01:36.450]I'm going to start filling it up with paint.
[00:01:38.650]So here I started squirting out my paint.
[00:01:41.660]I don't need too much really.
[00:01:44.640]So I'm gonna add the green
[00:01:46.040]and now I'm gonna add my other colors,
[00:01:47.920]which are purple and orange.
[00:01:51.330]I don't want my colors to mix quite yet,
[00:01:53.390]so I'm gonna spread them out here.
[00:01:58.540]Now that I have all my colors inside,
[00:02:00.350]you might need to use a little bit more and that's okay,
[00:02:02.800]you're just gonna try and get all of the air out of the bag.
[00:02:06.650]So some of your colors are definitely
[00:02:08.290]probably going to be mixing,
[00:02:10.570]but make sure that you seal the bag really, really well.
[00:02:14.060]Now that it's all sealed up,
[00:02:15.130]I'm gonna use my painter's tape
[00:02:16.830]to tape down all of the edges around here.
[00:02:20.690]You can do this on your table.
[00:02:21.730]I'm still gonna use it and keep it on my cover here,
[00:02:25.870]so I don't get paint squirted out.
[00:02:29.650]So now I have all four of my sides taped down,
[00:02:32.631]so now I can really start to trace those letters.
[00:02:37.380]So here we go!
[00:02:39.690]I wonder what's gonna happen.
[00:02:41.690]Whoa, that was pretty cool!
[00:02:45.180]Look at that, I traced that letter.
[00:02:47.700]Now I can go to the next letter.
[00:02:49.890]Wow, it feels so crazy!
[00:02:55.700]Did B.
[00:02:57.480]And I might have to push some of my paint
[00:02:58.970]over here to the A so that I can trace my A.
[00:03:04.800]Here we go.
[00:03:08.430]Do you see how I'm kind of outlining it now?
[00:03:12.310]I didn't have quite as much paint on this side,
[00:03:15.110]so I'm able to see where I traced.
[00:03:18.212]Look at that!
[00:03:21.170]If you have younger children,
[00:03:22.100]you can have them maybe just trace lines
[00:03:24.170]or just really experiment with the feel
[00:03:25.770]of these sensory bags.
[00:03:27.655]You can even fill the bags with beads
[00:03:30.340]or some other type of small object to push around.
[00:03:34.420]This just really helps with their fine motor skills.
[00:03:36.860]Older children too can practice tracing their numbers,
[00:03:39.794]practicing their letter recognition,
[00:03:41.990]also some of those sounds that those letters make, too.
[00:03:46.930]I hope you have fun with your letter sensory bags!
[00:03:49.570]Have a beautiful day!
[00:03:52.834](jangly jazz music)

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