Bread Clip Straw Pickup * ages 3+

Bread Clip Straw Pickup 🥖 ages 3+ 🥖Here’s a fun activity to build oral motor skills, fine motor skills and number recognition!

MATERIALS NEEDED (affiliate links):

Bread clips (aka bread tags, bread tabs or bread ties)

A bendy straw

A bowl

Permanent marker

Bread clips are our new favorite repurposed learning material! Here we wrote the numbers 1-10 on the back of the clips and placed them randomly on the table. Then I asked Oliver to use a straw to pick up each clip starting with #1 and move the clip from the mat to the bowl. (Note: if you don’t have bread clips, small pieces of paper work well too). We flipped the straw around so that small end was used to pick up the clips and Oliver blew through the longer end.

Oliver had so much fun with this activity he repeated it several times. It could also work for learning letters, sight words, math facts, days of the week….the possibilities are endless really!

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About Raising Dragons

Raising Dragons is a site dedicated to raising strong, smart, amazing kids!  Our focus is on creating activities that can easily be pulled together with items you have around the house.  We believe learning should be fun and accessible for everyone and can be done with everyday objects! We also know parents are busy and don’t have lots of time to pull together activities so we keep things very SIMPLE! Check out some of our favorite activities like: Writing Letters in Sprinkles, Alphabet Lids, Calm Down Sensory Bottle and the Paper Towel Roll & Pom Pom Challenge.