Pegs
Clip those pegs!
Use an old sweet tin, baking tin, loaf tin, plastic mixing bowl or even a plastic or paper drinking cup.
Get your child to squeeze the pegs and peg them around the edge of the tin (spring type pegs).
This is a fantastic activity to strengthen little fingers and hand muscles which will help them to draw and write later on.
To extend this for older children, encourage them to peg a two or three coloured pattern if you have coloured pegs.
Peg races
Use the bottom hem of your jumper or use a face cloth to have a pegging race.
Ready, steady, go! Set a timer, use an egg timer, or get someone to count. Start pegging!
Together count how many pegs you managed to peg on your jumper or face cloth.
Who has more? How many more?
Peg Puppets
Make your own peg puppets – draw your own characters or cut out pictures from a magazine.
Stick half on the upper side of the peg and half on the lower side of the peg so they can open their mouths! Blue tac can be easier to use than glue.
You don’t have to be a wonderful artist – try making shape monsters!
Which characters will you make?
Peg a number
Draw some spots/ pictures/ place stickers on pieces of card.
Ask your child to count the pictures or dots and clip on the same number of pegs.
You could adapt this to match colours. For example, colour wooden pegs or use coloured plastic pegs and ask your child to clip them to the same coloured card.
Extend this for older children by writing numerals on the cards and asking them to clip the right number of pegs on the card.