Fine Motor Activities

Find the best find motor activities from Early Learning Ideas. From scissor skills to pre-writing & hole punch activities and crafts find LOTS of fun ideas.

Teach Kids How to Cut with Scissors

Are you teaching your kids to use scissors? Is cutting with scissors difficult for some of your kids? Find tips and ideas and basic steps to help develop the skills needed for successful cutting with scissors. From working on fine motor skills and grasp & release motion to snipping and cutting ideas. These ideas will help your kids get cutting practice and build their scissor skills. Free printable are included.

Work on Cutting Skills with a Free 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

Hole Punch Activities for the Whole Year

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

Playdough Trays for the Whole Year

Find LOTS of ideas to put together simple playdough trays for the whole year...spring, summer, winter, and fall. Your kids will love the unique materials in these playdough invitations to play. Tons of ideas for many themes and all seasons. Playdough trays make great sensory and fine motor skills activity....a fun hands-on learning activity. These ideas are great for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classrooms #preschool #playdough

Bead Placement Printable Fine Motor Activities

Use these free ocean-themed printables for fun fine motor activities. Ideas from bead placement to sticker and stamping activities are included. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, occupational therapy classrooms. Kids can work on grasp and strength as they prepare for handwriting. The complete set has activities for fall, winter, spring and summer. Use with tongs, tweezers, buttons.....lots of ideas are included.

Scissor Skill Development

From snipping to cutting on a longer path, use these free ocean-themed printables to help your preschoolers work on scissor skills development. The fine motor printable includes a variety of pages for many skill levels. Start your kids with practice on single snips and work toward teaching them to cut on a variety of lines (from straight lines, curved paths, zig-zags, waves). Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, or occupational therapy classroom.

Cutting Practice Ideas

Find 45 ways to make cutting practice fun for your preschoolers. These scissor activities will help you motivate reluctant kids to work on scissor skills. Do your kids avoid using scissors? Use this list of easy and free ideas to find ways to encourage struggling kids to practice cutting with scissors. These fine motor activities are often more engaging than worksheets. Perfect for your art center or fine motor center in your homeschool, preschool, pre-k classroom or at home

Scissor Practice with Mini-Books(FreePrintable)

Kids get scissor practice & build hand strength in a fun way with this free printable cutting mini-book template. This fine motor activity is better than cutting worksheets. Making the books is fun & meaningful for kids. They get cutting practice, are excited to use a stapler, and they can take pride in making their books. This is the perfect way to motivate kids who are struggling in your preschool, pre-k, homeschool or Occupational Therapy classroom. Adapt to any theme for boys or girls.

Feather Fine Motor Necklace Activity

These feather necklaces are a fun fine motor activity for kids and are a perfect addition to a Thanksgiving, turkey, or Spring birds theme unit or lesson plans. The article also includes ideas for working on math concepts like counting, comparing quantities, and creating patterns. This is a perfect hands on math and fine motor activity for your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten classroom. #preschool #finemotoractivities

Counting Bird Activity

Squirt Gun Painting Fine Motor Activity

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.

How to Paint with Spray Bottles

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.

Fine Motor Activities for Fall

Check out these fun and exciting fine motor activities for fall. Perfect for kids and your Halloween theme, pumpkin theme, or fall theme unit and lesson plans in the preschool and pre-k classroom. These pumpkin theme activities are great for the occupational therapy room as well. Keep little hands busy with these pumpkin activities. #preschool #prek #pumpkinactivities #finemotoractivities #halloweenactivities

Valentine’s Day Fine Motor Activity

Are you looking for a fun Valentine's Day activity for kids? Use this free printable for fine motor and scissor skills practice. Kids can cut out paper hearts and use a hole punch to complete them. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or SPED classroom. A great addition to your Valentine's Day theme or February theme units or lesson plans. Use to decorate your room or even as a Valentine party activity. #preschool #Valentinesdayactivities #finemotor #scissorskills

Practice Scissor Sills with a Free Printable

Use these free cutting practice free printables for cutting activities with your preschoolers. The free cutting practice worksheets will help to work on their scissor skills. Children can feed the squirrels as they cut the straight, curvy, and zig-zag lines in this squirrel theme or fall theme fine motor activity. Use the paper printable to help kids learning to use scissors use for assessments with kids in Occupational Therapy, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. #finemotor #scissorskills

15 Winter Fine Motor Activities

Here are 15 ideas for winter theme fine motor activities. Your kids will enjoy playing and learning as they strengthen their fine motor skills. Great hands-on math, literacy and play-dough activities for preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. Perfect for your winter theme, mitten theme, snowman theme, snow theme, unit and lesson plans. Get out the beads, cotton balls, stickers, and hole punch. #winteractivitiesforkids #finemotor #preschool #prek

The Best Way to Teach Kids to Cut Snowflakes

Making paper snowflakes is so much easier for young kids, when you use these snowflake cutting templates or patterns. Your kids will experience success...it's so much fun. So much more than a craft.... they are strengthening their fine motor skills and working on improving their scissor skills! Perfect for your holiday theme, winter theme, snow theme, Snowy Day theme unit and lesson plans in preschool, pre-k and kindergarten. #winteractivitiesforkids #finemotoractivities #preschool

Snowflake Fine Motor Activity

Check out this simple snowflake fine motor activity for your kids. Kiddos enjoy punching holes in these paper snowflakes. Download the free printable snowflakes today. Perfect for your winter theme, snow theme, or snowflake theme unit and lesson plans in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and OT. Add them to your fine motor center, or art and craft centers. Decorate a tree, decorate your classroom. Your kids will have so much fun with this. Ideas are included. #finemotor #winteractivitiesforkids

Snowflake Beaded Craft: Fine Motor Fun

This snowflake craft for kids is a great winter project combining hands-on math learning and fine motor activities. Learn how to make the beaded snowflake ornament. Kids can work on counting, patterning, composing and decomposing numbers and skip counting. This is a great fine motor activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten in class math centers or at a classroom holiday party. holiday crafts for kids, winter art projects... #winteractivitiesforkids #finemotor #preschool #wintermath

How to Make a Tinker Tray

Are you looking for a simple DIY gift for kids? Make a fun DIY tinker tray box for them. These tinker boxes are perfect gift for a child in preschool or early elementary. It will encourage creativity. Kids will create process art or their own stem activities. Material ideas are included. Make a fun Christmas present, holiday gift, or birthday gif. Use the material list as inspiration to create STEM drawers or tinker drawers in your preschool classroom. #tinkertray #DIYchristmasgift

Preschool Activities with Mini-Erasers

Do you want to know what to do with mini erasers? Get free mini-eraser sorting mats & learn 40 over preschool activities with mini erasers. You will love these fun ideas for literacy, math, & fine motor skill activities. They are perfect for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten hands-on learning centers. Find ideas for mini eraser storage, where to buy mini-erasers, and learn how to use novelty erasers in the classroom or at home.

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