Republic Day is around the corner and I am extremely happy to share with you snapshots of our India themed activity along with few of our FREE Printables that you can download at the end of the post.
Here is a look of the activities we have planned for the Theme India.
Ripping of Paper:
Tearing/Ripping paper into small pieces can be fun and satisfying for them at this age. Tearing will involve finger movement and it develops co-ordination skills. To master the art of tearing your kid will have to hold the paper between the thumb and pointing finger of each hand. They then have to move each hand in a different direction. It’s quite difficult! Thought of using this with the Indian Flag colors.
- Paper [orange, Green and white]
One of our favourite activities are transferring, scooping using rice and two other lentils. This gells with the tri-color of the Flag. With such activities we will get to know the lentil names too.
Color Sorting [Printable]
I Spy- India themed [Printable]
Lacing activity India Themed. [Printable]
Colour Sorting
Color Sorting is an important milestone in a toddler. With the color sorting we are able to learn about colors, and as parents/caretaker we will be able to introduce vocabulary and language can be developed.
This FREE Color Sorting activity includes 1 sorting mat with a total of 3 colors which are present in our Indian Flag. There are 5 picture sorting cards for each color.
- Saffron/Orange, White, Green
- green, orange, purple
- pink, brown, black
Ways to Play
You can play with this activity depending on the age and their level of understanding.
- Talk about the things you see in each picture when the kid sorts the image based on the color.
For best results, turn into a reusable game by laminating the mats and pieces, and use velcro dots to attach the pieces.
You can place this printable even in your learning binder.
Lacing -India Themed
Lacing is a wonderful activity for the preschoolers. It’s a good exercise for developing the fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination. Try it out with these 3 India themed lacing cards! This is a good form to celebrate Republic Day!
Print the cards out, then laminate them and cut out the picture in the form of the shape it denotes.I haven’t invested on the laminator yet so I stick the image on the thin cardboard so it gets a good life too. Then use a hole puncher to punch holes where indicated.
Give your child a shoe lace, or a piece of yarn that is reinforced by tape at the end. You can even use the pipecleaners if your kid is young .
I-Spy – India Themed
Kids will love to practice counting with this colourful India Themed I-Spy.
- Printer
- Paper
- Laminator
- Dry Erase Markers/number card
These activities go great with the theme of republic day, I especially like the lacing -India themed activity. Gonna try with my kid. Thanks for sharing.
This is a really fun theme activity, laminating can be really great ideas to make it re usable. Bookmarking this page for future
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Great activities, my baby start doing tearing pasting activity. So many activities that help in motor skill, brain development
This is nice DIY work which I am sure kids would love to join in. Thanks for giving such a detailed instructions to make on your own.
I like the idea of weaving games toddlers play around the concept of India
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These are wonderful ideas to engage your kids and teach them something about their country. I will try these out with my son too.
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These are some really cool activities to do with a toddler. I have tried lacing and color sorting when my son was 1.5 yrs old and he totally enjoyed the activities. I will try I spy with my son, I am sure he’ll love it. Thanks for this wonderful post!
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I loved all ur tips and they are really good for skill development except tearing flag, i feel we can use normal paper
These are some of the cool activities to dedicate Republic Day .. Loved all the activities..
Wow these are so much fun and wonderful activities for kids to get engage and learn also ..simply awesome !!
Such creative ideas and what a wonderful way to celebrate Republic day. Lacing and coloring are going to be fun with our little ones. Loved it.
These are really fun and interesting to do for republic day. All of them are super interesting.