Engaging Christmas Fine Motor Activities For Your Preschoolers

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Are you looking for some super fun fine motor activities that are perfect for the holiday and Christmas season? Check out these great Christmas fine motor activities for preschoolers.

These early childhood activities are the perfect way to add some festive Christmas fine motor work to your December lesson plans, morning tubs, and fine motor task boxes. Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or occupational therapist, I know you’ll find some ideas your kids are going to love!

Christmas Count and Clip Cards

This has to be the cutest fine motor activity…don’t you think? Add seasonal stickers, erasers, or buttons to the end of clothespin clips, and you have a fun & easy Christmas-themed count and clip cards. This is a great counting activity for small groups and it perfect for building pincer grasp.

Christmas fine motor and counting activity

Christmas Fine Motor Task Cards

These fine motor task cards are part of my Winter Dot Sticker Task Card set. They are extremely versatile and perfect for working on kids’ pincer grasp. Use them with pom poms & tweezers, dot stickers, bingo daubers, and more.

Christmas Wreath Dot Sticker Printable

Here is another versatile Christmas theme printable fine motor activity you can use with your kids. Use these dot sticker printable strips with dot stickers, bingo daubers, hole puncher, and more. You can even use the printable to create a Christmas countdown paper chain.

dot sticker printable Christmas fine motor activity - Stickers are added to the red and green strips and they are taped together to make a paper chain.

Holiday Scissor Skills Activities

Holiday-themed activities are often very motivating for kids. Here are some activity ideas that will even motivate kids who are resistant to using scissors.

Fine Motor Christmas Tree Activity

This Christmas tree activity allows kids to practice scissor skills. They can also build hand strength by using a hole punch to complete it.

Christmas tree cutting and hole punch actiivty

Cutting Practice Material Ideas

Provide cutting practice for preschoolers by adding some fun items to a sensory table or tray.

Here are some ideas. Don’t forget to add the scissors.

Holiday wrapping paper
Ribbon or garland
Evergreen branches (be sure that they are fresh and soft, so they don’t poke kids’ fingers.
Christmas cards or holiday catalogs

Christmas Cutting and Pasting

Give your kids straight-line cutting practice with these simple cut and paste activities in my December fine motor activity set. Your kids can add presents around the Christmas tree and hang stockings on the mantel.

Christmas fine motor cutting and pasting activity

Gingerbread Cut & Paste Puzzles

These cut-and-paste puzzles are a wonderful way to get into the holiday spirit while practicing scissor skills. The puzzles come in many levels, so your kids can get straight-line cutting practice, or you can challenge them with puzzles that have more complex lines.

Printable gingerbread cut and paste puzzle activity - a fun Christmas and holiday fine motor activity for young children

Holiday Cutting

These cutting practice activities are part of my Holiday Fine Motor Activity Set. Kids can work on snipping and cutting on a variety of lines.

Christmas fine motor and cutting practice activities

Snowflake Cutting with Templates

Young children are delighted when they can successfully cut snowflakes, and this is a wonderful way to have them help you create holiday decorations. Be sure to use snowflake cutting templates to make the task easy for your little learners.

The easy way to help kids make a paper snowflake with cutting patterns

Christmas Printable Cutting Practice Activities

If your kids like cutting paper snowflakes, they will also love these Christmas printable cutting practice activities. that are part of my December Fine Motor Activity set.

All you have to do is fold the printable pages in half. Then, kids can cut on the line. After cutting, your kids will be SO EXCITED to unfold the paper to reveal the gingerbread man, Christmas tree, and bell images.

Christmas printable cutting practice printable - a foldable cutting activity - gingerbread, Christmas tree, and bell

Christmas Fine Motor Crafts

Looking for a fun Christmas craft? Here are some fun printable fine motor crafts that will help your kids practice scissor skills, build hand strength with a hole puncher, and work on hand-eye coordination and building pencil grip with these Christmas and gingerbread crafts.

gingerbread printable fine motor crafts with scissors, hole punch, and glue stick. A gingerbread man, gingerbread girl, and gingerbread house crafts are shown.

Printable Christmas fine motor crafts on brightly colored paper. A stocking, Christmas tree, reindeer, and poinsettia craft are shown.

Fine Motor Art Activities for the Holidays

Looking for some holiday themed process art activities? I’ve got you covered.

Christmas Tree Spray Bottle Painting

Use washi tape to add a Christmas tree shape to a piece of green paper. Use a spray bottle filled with paint in holiday colors to spray over the entire paper.

Carefully remove the tape to reveal a Christmas tree outline. The best part of this activity is that using a spray bottle is a great way to build fine motor strength.

Christmas Tearing Paper Activity

Tearing paper is a great no-prep fine motor activity to help your kids build hand strength. These Christmas printables are part of my December fine motor activity set.

It’s fun to tear paper and apply it to the images, but you can supply strips of paper so that kids can cut and paste them onto the image. You can also use the simple images as fun coloring pages.

reindeer paper tearing activity printed on purple paper shown with bit of red paper and a glue stick - an example of a Christmas fine motor activity for kids

Holiday Playdough Activities

Gingerbread Playdough Tray

Mix up some gingerbread playdough and add some thematic materials to create a fun gingerbread playdough tray or a small, individual playdough kit.

Christmas Tree Playdough Tray

Add beads, bells, lights, and other small objects, along with some Christmas tree playdough, to create a super invitation to play for your Christmas tree theme.

A Christmas playdough invitation to play - A red plastic playdough tray, a ball of green Christmas tree playdough, and Christmas themed mix-ins - Christmas tree playdough. - an example of Christmas fine motor activities

Christmas Playdough Mats

You can use these cut playdough mats with your playdough trays. The Christmas playdough mats are in my December fine motor activity set

Holiday Playdough Kit

It’s also easy to make up some individual playdough kits with a holiday theme. All of the materials in a playdough kit can be contained in an inexpensive container. They also make great gifts for the little ones in your life.

Christmas playdough kit for fine motor activities

Mini-Playdough Mat Printable

Teachers love using these free mini-playdough mats as a simple gift for kids. The little fine motor activity also makes a great favor for holiday parties.

mini Christmas playdough mats and a small container of playdoh make a simple and inexpensive gift for students. - an example of Christmas fine motor activities

Christmas Hole Punch Activities

Hole punching activities are such a fun way for kids to build strength in their little hands.

Holiday Hole Punch Strips

In addition to the Christmas tree activity above, my Holiday Fine Motor Activity Set includes additional hole punch activities. I LOVE the reindeer hole punch strip!

Christmas fine motor hole punch strips in reindeer and light strand theme

Hole Punch and Color Task Cards

If your kid enjoy hole punching…..and why wouldn’t they?…. these gingerbread hole punch task cards are a perfect addition to your holiday activities. There are plenty of opportunities for hole punching, line tracing, and they even serve as little seasonal coloring sheets.

gingerbread hole punch task cards are great way to work on the development of fine motor skills

Christmas Name Crafts

Work on name recognition with fun Christmas themed name coloring pages. This gingerbread design doubles as a whole punch activity. After coloring their page, kids can punch out the circles around the border.

Christmas name art coloring page. A gingerbread name with the name Alex printed on it is shown with a hole punch and crayons - an example of a Christmas fine motor activity

This cut-and-paste Christmas light bulb name craft activity also offers some opportunities for fine motor practice. In addition to coloring, your kids can practice cutting, hole punching, and line tracing.

Printable Christmas light name craft. The craft is printed on white paper and has been colored with crayons. The name Gracie is spelled with the light bulbs and it is shown with a hole punch, scissors, glue stick, and crayons.

Additional Christmas Fine Motor Activity Ideas

Kids can string a bell onto a pipe cleaner and then wrap it around a craft stick to make jingle bell sticks. You can use the musical instrument for a simple science activity too. Be sure to pick up the free printable.

simple science project for preschoolers with a jingle bell and craft stick

Bead placement activities, which allow kids to work on refining their grasp.

Christmas fine motor grasp activity with pony beads

Do your kids need to work on some pre-writing skills? These pre-writing mats and mazes are a fun way to help build their pencil grip and control. Before you know it, they will be ready for letter writing.

Christmas fine motor maze for pre-writing practice

Do you have a habit of picking up mini erasers at the Target dollar spot? Mini erasers are great fine motor tools. Use Christmas theme erasers, jingle bells, other small items to turn any of these mini-eraser activities into a Christmas fine motor activity.

Christmas fine motor graphing activity with mini erasers.

Jingle Bell Drop by Stay at Home Educator

Candy Cane Counting and Fine Motor Activity by Fun and Learning for Kids

Yarn Wrapped Christmas Trees by Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

I hope that you enjoy trying out some of these fine motor activities for Christmas. If you have additional ideas to build fine motor skills during the holiday season, I would love to hear them.

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