Judah is obsessed with those colorful, little craft pom poms. Anytime he sees them we have to get them out to play. So that is when I decided to turn it into a learning opportunity to practice gluing and learning about shapes.
We drew shapes onto white card stock; I let him pick the shapes as he named them. Then we put some Elmer's glue onto a paper plate so that he could dip the poms poms into the glue. We glued the pom poms onto the lines on the paper, making our shapes.
He had so much fun using the pom poms even if it was used to learn shapes. I let him pick out the colors. Judah still likes to show the shapes off to people, especially the letter "J" we made for his name. And now he refers to them when trying to draw his own shape designs as he attempted to do so the other day.
Think outside the box when it comes to learning. Take cues the kids may have and use them as basic educational means; I never would have thought of this idea until Judah wanted to play with the pom poms and make shapes. Learning can and should be fun.
And expand on your ideas. For example you could turn this project into a math lesson on patterns as well for older kids. Start a color pattern and have the child finish it with the correct color of pom poms. Or try some harder geometric shapes designs.
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