Materials
Contact paper
Masking tape
A variety of green lightweight collage materials—short pieces of green yarn, small cut-up pieces of green construction paper, green feathers, green foam pieces, green stickers, green cut-up straws, green tissue paper, etc.
Instructions
Pull the backing from a piece of contact paper and tape it securely to a flat surface, sticky side up, with the masking tape. We used a window. Set a container of green items in front of your child. Demonstrate that the contact paper is sticky by taking your child’s hand and pressing his/her fingers on the paper.
Pick up a green item and show your child how to press it on the contact paper. Give your child something green and encourage him/her to stick it up. It may take a few tries to get the idea.
I’ve found that younger children (under 12 mos.) like to pull items off the contact paper as much as they like to put them on! Either way, your child is exercising those fine-motor muscles, practicing skills of persistence and focus, and having fun doing it!