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Ladybird race

Younger children may need help making their ladybirds but they will develop their co-ordination skills learning how to race them. This is a good rainy day activity, but also works as a party game.

What this activity will develop:
Motor and art skills

What you'll need:

• Cardboard
• Pencil
• Markers or crayons
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Wool

What to do:

1. Draw a ladybird. Use markers or crayons to colour its back red and its legs, spots, and antennae black.

2. Cut the ladybird out and punch a hole through it.

3. Thread a long piece of wool through the hole, and knot each end.

How to play:

1. Loop one wool end over the back of a chair or a doorknob.

2. With the ladybird at the other wool end, step back, pulling the wool until it is taut.

3. Hold the wool end with both hands, and move the ladybug along the wool by shaking the wool end. Don't touch the ladybird to move it.

4. Hold a race with other players to see whose ladybird is fastest.

 

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