Practical Life Exercises

Trainers: Abraham Ogunkanmbi & Bukola Alarape

The practical life activities are focused around preliminary activities and movement, care of self, care of environment and social skills/grace and courtesy, helping the child to develop particular lifelong skills (for example, zipping or tying, pouring or cutting, greeting a visitor), together with the enhancement of coordination, concentration, understanding of order and sequence, and self-confidence. The materials in the practical life area are familiar to the child as they are real utensils, child-size that one would find in the average household kitchen. These materials provide the child with the means to care for him/her self and for the environment; and for the development of concentration, independence and intelligence.