One Finger One Thumb is a Curriculum Plan with lots of great games and activities on the theme of building fine motor skills. Easy-to-set-up play spaces and games for a range of ages, finger exercises and many more!
All curriculum plans are marked with Learning Areas, Aistear themes and Montessori Areas to help you organise and demonstrate compliance with Aistear and Solta frameworks.
One Finger One Thumb
Play Dough
Modelling Clay
Finger Aerobics Exercises
Clever Colanders
Pop It in a Bottle
Tinkering Station
Sticky Tape Challenge
Down The Tube
Music and Motor Skills
Wonderful Weaving
A Curriculum to Support Fine Motor Skills
Aistear Observations
Download and print out these observation sheets to make individual observations. The Aistear framework specifies that your curriculum should always be responsive to the children's interests. Use our curriculum plans as a starting point and then be led by the children to plan future curriculum and discussions. Sample observation sheet »
By using observation sheets, you have well-documented evidence that you are working within the Aistear guidelines.
Aistear Observation Sheet
Aistear/Montessori Observation Sheet
Weekly Observations (Simple)
Weekly Observations (Detailed)
