#4 Give them an eye dropper

Letting your preschooler transfer water with an eye dropper is an excellent way to develop muscles in the fingers and hands. These are fine motor skills.

I found this awesome pop up sponge paper and knew right away how I wanted to use it.

First, I cut out different shapes.

 Then I showed him how to squeeze the eye dropper to get water. It didn't take him long to figure it out. 

The coolest thing about this paper is that when it gets wet, it turns into a sponge!! 

He was quite delighted in the transformation and he carefully squeezed water onto every part of each shape.

We talked about the names of the shapes,

the colors, 

 and the textures (puffy, soft, squishy).

 This turned out to be a really fun activity that worked on fine motor skills, shapes, colors and language. And now we have some cool sponge toys for the bath!

What other types of activities can you think of to do with an eye dropper?