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Crumple and Tear
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Beginning Writing | 12 to 17 Months
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<b>Prep: 5 Minutes | Activity Time: 5–7 Minutes</b></p>\r\n<p>Your child at this age may begin to isolate fingers to perform different tasks. Finger isolation helps your child develop fine motor and eye-hand coordination and increases strength in fingers for drawing and writing. A fun activity to help your child work on the fine motor muscles needed to use for writing and drawing is ripping and tearing up magazines and/or paper. </p>\r\n"}} id=text-bf99ccca86 class=cmp-text>
Prep:Ìý5 Minutes | Activity Time: 5–7 Minutes
Your child at this age may begin to isolate fingers to perform different tasks. Finger isolation helps your child develop fine motor and eye-hand coordination and increases strength in fingers for drawing and writing. A fun activity to help your child work on the fine motor muscles needed to use for writing and drawing is ripping and tearing up magazines and/or paper. 
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- Old magazinesÌý
- PaperÌý
- Old wrapping paperÌý
- Empty tissue boxesÌý
- Shoe boxÌý
- Empty baby wipe containers
<b>Step 1:</b> Show your toddler how to tear and crumple a piece of paper. Hand the paper to your toddler and let him try. </p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2:</b> Show your toddler how to pick up the crumpled piece of paper and drop it into different containers like empty tissue boxes, shoe boxes and empty baby wipe containers.  </p>\r\n"}} id=text-1baab29e0d class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Show your toddler how to tear and crumple a piece of paper. Hand the paper to your toddler and let him try.Ìý
Step 2: Show your toddler how to pick up the crumpled piece of paper and drop it into different containers like empty tissue boxes, shoe boxes and empty baby wipe containers. Ìý