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The Best Painting Activities to Promote Fine Motor Skills

Try out these fun & easy painting activities to promote fine motor skills. These ideas are perfect for preschool art projects. Help your preschoolers strengthen hand muscles. These open-ended projects are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms or to do at home. From squeezing a bottle to pinching a clothespin, your kids will love these process art activities. Click to lean how painting can help fine motor skills.

Are you looking for some new fine motor activity ideas?  Maybe you are looking for some new ideas for art activities for preschoolers.  Sometimes, it’s really fun and easy to combine the two.  So, today I’m going to show you so great painting activities to promote fine motor skills.

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How to Make your Own Paint Brush for Kids Art

Learn how to make your own paint brush for kid's art. Find endless ways to make DIY paintbrushes for preschool art at home or in school. Homemade paintbrushes are great for winter, spring, summer and fall open-ended and process art activities. These projects are an easy way to experiment with art supplies and are a fun way to work on STEAM or STEM activities. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten art activities. From feathers to string to clothespins ..... so many different ideas.

Are you looking for ways to add some excitement to your art center?  Why not make your own paint brush.  Experimenting with different materials and methods for making paintbrushes is a great STEAM activity for young kids.

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How to Paint with Spray Bottles: 3 Simple Ways

Learn how to paint with spray bottles with 3 different fun methods. Your kids will love this fun and inexpensive fine motor and process art activity. This open-ended art project is a perfect outdoor kids activity for kids in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and at home. The squeezing action will help build hand strength. Some people ask if you can put paint in a spray bottle - Yes you can! If you want a non-messy art activity, you can use the bleeding tissue paper method with water.

I love a good process art activity for preschoolers that also helps kids strengthen their hands.  Spray bottle painting is an exciting and motivating activity for your kids.  Today, I want to show you how to paint with spray bottles with three different methods.

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Squirt Gun Painting: This is an Exciting Art Project for Kids

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

Squirt gun painting is an exciting way to combine process art with a fine motor activity.

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How to Create an Amazing Blow Painting with Straws

Blow painting with straws is an exciting and creative process art project for kids. Your kids will love these straw blown paintings!. Straw painting is an easy art project for kids in preschool, pre-k or a home. Make monsters, ocean coral, germs, peacock or just let them create open-ended art. Paint on canvas or paper....includes ideas for experimenting.

Are you looking for some new process art activities for preschoolers?  Why not try blow painting with straws.

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How to Improve Cutting Skills with a Free Flower Printable

Kids will love these free flower theme printables. The flower activities will help them improve their cutting skills. These fun art activities ideas are a great addition to your flower theme, garden theme, or spring theme unit or lesson plans in your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom. Better than worksheets, these flower templates are perfect for building scissor skills. Ideas for open-ended creation...more than a craft project and perfect for bulletin boards #finemotor #preschool

Your kids will have fun while working on cutting skills with this free flower printable. This activity is a perfect addition to your flower theme unit.

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Here are 25 Easy Craft Projects to do with Kids

Here are the most popular craft projects to do with kids from the Early Learning Ideas website.  Check out this visual library to find some inspiration for fun and easy projects to do at home with your kids. Kids will love these cool projects that you can make with simple and cheap supplies like paper plates, popsicle sticks, and pipe cleaners. Perfect for at home learning with your preschooler.

I have compiled the most popular craft projects to do with kids from the Early Learning Ideas website.  Check out this visual library to find some creative and educational activities for you and your kids.

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FREE list: 200+ Materials for Preschool Letter Activities and Collages

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Use letter activities like alphabet collages or letter mats to help kids learn letter recognition and to reinforce letter-sound associations. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages, craft projects, or letter mats. A FREE printable reference list is included.

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Try out these hand strengthening activities for kids. The fun fine motor activities will build and improve strength in little hand muscles. From squeezing activities to hole punch and plunger activities, these ideas to increase hand strength are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, occupational therapy classrooms, and at home. From theraputty, toys like squigz, and squirt guns your preschoolers will love these ideas. Check them out today.
Use these free printable nature scavenger hunt books to encourage kids to write, draw, and read while exploring their world. Perfect for pre-k, preschool or kindergarten age kids. Use the free printables in the classroom, on the playground, during nature walks or hikes, on camping trips, in the backyard, or during summer camp. Use this emergent reader for your plant and seeds theme, spring theme, and pond theme unit and lesson plans. #preschool #preschoolactivities
Alphabet activities such as making letter collages or using letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter identification and reinforce letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas that you can use for your collages or letter mats. A printable reference list or art and other materials is included. Better than worksheets, these are perfect hands-on activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans. Your young children will love this sensory learning opportunity. #preachool

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Kids love these hole punch activities. Use the printables to build fine motor skills, for hand strengthening, and to improve hand-eye coordination in a fun and exciting way. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, special education and occupational therapy classroom. The printables include shapes and many themes and seasonal printables to use during spring, summer, winter, and fall. #finemotor #finemotorskills #preschool
Use these 11 different printable name puzzles with your preschoolers for name and literacy activities. Find ideas for the whole year! Perfect for your preschool or kindergarten classroom, or at-home learning or homeschool. Teach your kids to spell their names, construct their names, and the beginning steps to writing their names with these hands-on activities. Make learning fun in fall, winter, spring, & fall with themes from pumpkin, Thanksgiving, caterpillar, snowman, and many more!
There are so many ways that your kids can work on name practice with these editable name activity mats. Perfect for early childhood, preschool, and pre-k classroom, this is a fun way to work on name recognition, the alphabet, letter sounds, spelling their names, handwriting practice, fine motor skills...etc.. You can even include pictures. Use for back to school, the beginning of the school year, an all about me theme unit or lesson plans. #preschool #nameactivities #backtoschool
Use these 1-20 number activity mats to help your kids in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten learn counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, and number sense.  The mats are a great multi-sensory tool that your kids will love. There are so many ways to explore numbers on just one page. Use playdough to form numerals, trace the dotted numbers, represent the number with finger-counting cards, ten frame, and build the number with counting cubes. #preschoolmath #prekmath #kindergarten
Use these CVC Beginning Sound Clip cards to help your kids hear and see the beginning sounds in words. They will love this hands-on early literacy activity...perfect for teaching early literacy concepts in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. 17 word families are included. Looking for ideas for teaching rhyming, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonological awareness? These activities are perfect for your literacy centers as independent and small group activities.
These rhyming clip cards will help your kids see and hear rhymes in simple CVC words. Kids love clipping clothespins on the rhyming words in this activity. Perfect for small group or independent activities in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. An engaging way to teach rhyming, early literacy concepts, and phonological awareness to young children. #rhymingactivities

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