Lately we've been doing a lot of Tray Work, these sets are all about Following Instructions! And of course the ideas were found on Pinterest, my new favourite place- (It makes lesson planning so much easier!)
Butterfly followed pictured steps to making a Potato Head person complete!
I also made a Duplo Lego tray.
I made patterned cards and clipped them all to a ring.
Butterfly built the same tower to match the pattern on each card.
I made sure the right amount of blocks and colours to complete all the cards correctly were provided in the basket on the tray. This promotes self-correcting, and provides organization to help eliminate frustration in the child. Giving her the whole box of Legos to complete the cards would have been overwhelming.
On this tray, it was about following a legend.
Butterfly saw that all 10's had to be green circles, all 9's had to be yellow circles, ect.
She covered each number following the legend. I chose her least favourite numbers to help practise them more.
In this activity, Butterfly took a card from the card holder, and with the provided foam stickers in the basket, she matched the exact image shown on the card, on the blank side.
Some of these images were layered to boost up the challenge.
I made sure I provided the exact and right amount of stickers each card needed to complete the activity. Here are more examples of the cards I made.
She did pretty good matching each side up, placing them on the blank side exactly how the other side is shown.
These are great practical life skills tray work to practise following instructions and following steps.