Monday 6 April 2015

Name Bracelet

I've been seeing several activities which involve beads lately, so when I saw some alphabets beads at Mr. D.I.Y., I just had to grab them and bring them home. The beads are really, really tiny though, so if you have a mouther at home, you've got to be extra careful.

So the first activity to utilise those beads are naturally to make a name bracelet using just the beads and pipe cleaners. I handed Maryam the alphabets of her name and let her practice putting the pipe cleaner into the holes of the beads. A great fine motor skill activity! Alhamdulillah she could do it all by herself. We however had to spell 'MARIAM' instead of 'MARYAM' as there were no 'Y' in the pack ;(

For Aishah, on the other hand, I just told her which alphabets to take to form her name, let her look for them by herself, and arrange them through the pipe cleaner. She did it with a breeze. Aishah had to make 'MUSLIHAH' as her name though, because there weren't enough 'A' to make up Aishah (better buy another pack later).

After they finish putting in the beads, time to put them on! Just wrap the pipe cleaner around their wrist, and twist the ends of the pipe cleaners around itself, carefully making sure there are no sharp ends jutting out. Voila! They've got themselves bracelets with their names on it :)


They proudly wore the bracelets for the rest of the day and some days after that. You know how excited children get with even the simplest things :)

The day after we made the girls' name bracelet, they decided that their favourite teddy bears wanted a name bracelet too :P

So there we go, making them for our dearest Pooh (Aishah's favourite) and Sam (Maryam's favourite).


Notice the words written on the paper? I was trying to ask Aishah to arrange the letters to form the words that I've written. That will involve an uppercase-lowercase matching activity, as I wrote entirely in lowercase letters, and all the alphabets on the beads are uppercase letters. She did from 'REST' to 'SAM', but by the time we arrive to 'BEAR', she has lost interest and wanted to do something else.

We'll keep that for next time insha Allah :)

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