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Home | Activities | A Tree Made From A Pool Noodle and Pipe Cleaners

A Tree Made From A Pool Noodle and Pipe Cleaners

July 2, 3 Comments

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This was kind of a spontaneous activity. I had pool noodles, and I had pipe cleaners that I was planning to use to thread the letter beads onto, so I stuck the pipe cleaners into the pool noodles to make a tree. The tree worked beautifully to thread the beads onto, and the pipe cleaners were really easy to poke into the pool noodle.

pool noodle tree

The pool noodle was even able to stand up by itself. The kids were rushing to put beads onto the pipe cleaners, so they wouldn’t let me put very many pipe cleaners in. I will use this activity again, and add more pipe cleaners.

pool noodle tree 2

Some of the kids were working on finding the letters of their name in the alphabet beads, where others were just putting the beads on in any configuration.

Materials:

  • Pool noodle
  • Pipe cleaner
  • Beads

Skills

  • Fine motor
  • Bimanual
  • Motor planning

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Tags: bimanual skills, fine-motor, Motor Planning, pipe cleaner, pool noodle Categories: Activities, bimanual, child, elementary school age, fine-motor, Motor Planning, OT, pipe cleaner, pool noodle, preschool, summer

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  1. [email protected] says

    July 2, at 9:31 am

    Great idea! So simple but so therapeutic. Pool noodles are such a cheap, light weight supply that we can do so much with.

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  2. Jodi says

    July 7, at 8:50 am

    Great idea. I bet you could do a great “Giving Tree” lesson with this. Jodi @ http://www.meaningfulmama.com

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