We created green gel bags to practice drawing shapes. The bags have green hair gel in them. We mixed yellow and blue to make the green color. Attached to each bag is a piece of paper that has a circle, square and a triangle on it. Please help your child use his/her pointer finger to trace the shapes. When tracing the circle, start on the dot and trace counter-clockwise (that is the way we want to draw an "O") When tracing the triangle, "slide down one side, then slide down the other side and finally connect the bottom." To "erase" smooth/spread the gel out again. Once your child feel good about tracing the shapes you can remove the paper and let them free hand shapes or you can draw letters on a piece of paper and place the baggie on top of your drawing for them to trace. These are great pre-writing activities - please have fun with them :)
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