Robot Posting Activity

This fun robot posting activity supports children's fine motor skill development as well as providing a great opportunity to play and explore.

I have successfully carried out this activity with toddlers, they really engaged especially as this activity was something new that they had not seen before. To begin with the children were fascinated by the silver mirrored effect of the robot and loved seeing the reflections, making them excited and eager to play.

I put this activity out on a table within a free flow environment and let the children explore as a child initiated activity. The children loved pressing the foam coloured buttons and naming the colours and shapes of them, supporting maths learning and development. They also had fun shaking the robot to see the googly eyes move.

The children quickly worked out how to feed the robot the food into its mouth, naming the food as they posted it. This supported fine motor skill development, hand eye coordination and dexterity which is the main aim of this activity. To challenge the children even further I made small holes in the robots head to extend the children's fine motor skill development as they posted coloured lolly pop sticks, this was tricky for some children to achieve. They also named the colours of the lolly pop sticks as they posted them.

The children really enjoyed the over all play experience of the new and exciting robot. They talked to the robot, fed it different foods and made sound effects when pressing the buttons. However, some of the younger children wanted to explore the robot in the mouths resulting in the activity needing to be closely observed. The children also needed help to get the bottle top lid food and lolly pop sticks back out of the robot through the lid so that they could repeate the activity again.

If you are planning to carry out this activity with older children maybe colour code the holes for the lolly pop sticks so that the children have to match the colours adding another dimention of maths learning and development to this activity.

I made this robot posting activity from items around the house:

•  Cardboard tube from chilli bottle packaging with a mouth shape cut in and holes for the lolly pop sticks.
•  Tin foil to wrap around the robot.
•  Coloured foam shapes attached using sticky glue dots.
•  Googly eyes.
•  Black sharpie to draw on the outline of the robot.
•  Coloured lolly pop sticks.
•  Bottle top lid food from my previous hungry caterpillar activity - The Very Hungry Caterpillar Storytelling

I hope you enjoy making your own robot posting activity!

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