The children have been bringing in their family photos – and we are making houses for our families – using a range of fine motor skills, such as cutting, which are important to practise often. The children traced the house shape, cut along the lines, (mostly) remembered not to cut the fold – then pasted their families in , decorated their house, punched a hole in and threaded string to hang them. Lots of steps to follow, developing their ability to sequence a task and to develop their short term memory, and lots of fine motor practise! Focussing on their families was extremely motivating for all the children, and lead to conversations about where the photo was taken, who was in it, what they were doing and lots more.