Blogger / 12 May, 2025 / Nanny Anita

Looping Hairbands

Looping hairbands on and off of a kitchen roll is a great activity for developing hand muscles and coordination in little ones.  I like doing this with NC while I am doing her hair in the morning.  I mean, she doesn’t have much hair, but it is long enough to get in her eyes, so I try to put it into cute little pig tails.  Giving her this to do while I am doing her hair gives me enough time to get it done before she tries to get away.

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To do this looping hairbands activity you will need:

• Hairbands/scrunchies
• Kitchen roll tube

How you do this activity really depends on the age of your little one.  As NC is only 15 months, I put all the scrunchies onto the tube for her to pull off.  She does occasionally try to put them back on, however at the moment she doesn’t understand that she needs to stretch them to pull them over.  I do help her with that part if she wants to do it.  Most of the time she just enjoys pulling them off over and over again or trying to stuff them inside the tube.

For older toddlers you can give them the activity with the scrunchies in a bowl, they would then need to put them back on the tube.

The next step on from both of these is getting your little one to pull the scrunchies over their foot up pull them up their ankle.  Now you might think that is an odd thing to get them to do, but there is method to this madness.  It is all about helping them learn to put socks on.

If you enjoyed this looping hairbands activity, be sure to check out my fine motor skills finger gym and pipette activity.

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