Try These top 5 Fun & Easy Fine Motor Crafts with your Preschoolers
Are you searching for some fun and easy fine motor crafts to do with your preschoolers? Well, I’ve gathered some of my favorite ideas to keep your little ones engaged and help them improve their fine motor skills.
Let me share with you some fantastic fine motor crafts that your preschoolers are sure to love. These activities are ideal for those small hands that are still developing their fine motor skills.
What Are Fine Motor Skills?
Fine motor skills involve the use of the small muscles in the hands and fingers to perform tasks such as writing, drawing, and fastening buttons.
For preschoolers, fine motor skills are essential as they help them with tasks such a writing, cutting with scissors, and everyday tasks like manipulating small objects, opening containers, and zipping zippers. The more kids work on developing their fine motor skills, the better they will be at performing these tasks with their little hands.
What Activities Are Good for Building Fine Motor Skills?
There are a number of activities that are great for building fine motor control. The good news is that most activities are fun things that kids are already doing. Some of my favorites include:
- Stringing beads
- Doing puzzles
- Coloring
- Painting
- Drawing
- Building with blocks or Legos
- Playing with playdough
- Cutting with scissors
- Using tongs, tweezers, or eyedroppers
Fine Motor Crafts for Preschoolers
While process art should have an important place in the preschool classroom, I think that there is also room for some crafts. Why? There are many benefits of crafts for preschoolers.
The most important is that crafts provide lots of opportunities to work on fine motor skills! Crafts are often fine motor activities in disguise. But, don’t worry, you can let your kids get creative with craft projects!
Now that you know craft activities are a fun way to build fine motor skills, why not try some fine motor crafts with your preschoolers? We’ve rounded up some of our favorites below.
Fine Motor Crafts with Beads
Get out the pony beads and get ready for some colorful beaded creations.
Beaded Necklaces
Stringing beads or pasta is a great activity for fine motor skill development -especially pincer grip or pincer grasp development and eye-hand coordination. It requires the use of small muscles in the hands and fingers to thread the beads onto the string. Plus, when young kids sort through a container of beads, looking for just the right one….it’s like sensory play.
These beaded feather necklaces are a great opportunity for preschoolers to practice their fine motor skills while also making something beautiful that they can wear.
Beaded Shape Craft
Instead of adding beads on a string, kids can add beads to pipe cleaners. In fact, younger kids will have an easier time placing the small beads on a pipe cleaner. When they are done beading, they can bend the pipe cleaners or craft stems into all kinds of shapes
Lookin for a Christmas or winter craft? Your kids love making beautiful beaded snowflakes.
Scissor Skills Crafts
Cutting with scissors is another fine motor skill that is important for preschoolers to master. When a child uses scissors it requires the use of the small muscles in the hands and fingers to open and close the scissors, the use of both hands working together, and it requires hand-eye coordination. These fine motor scissor skills crafts are perfect for giving your preschoolers some scissor practice.
Printable Cutting Practice Sheets
I love these printable cutting practice activities. The fold and cut activities are very exciting for kids. They cut on the line, and then open up the folded paper to reveal an image. Kids can then continue to decorate the image with crayons, markers, glitter, stickers, pom poms, yarn, etc.
If you want a fun craft for Christmas or winter, your kids will have a blast making snowflakes with snowflake templates.
Free Printable Flower Craft
There are many ways that your kids can create flowers with this simple cutting skills activity. They can make them three-dimensional and add buttons, beads, bottle caps to them. Aren’t they are so cute?
Swing over to this blog post to pick up the free flower craft printable.
Printable Fine Motor Crafts
These printable fine motor crafts were designed specifically to help kids with fine motor skills. Kids will have so much fun making the cute crafts, they won’t even realize they are doing fine motor work. There are opportunities for snipping, and your kids can practice cutting various types of lines when they cut the shapes out.
Each printable craft was designed with small circles on some of the pieces so kids can punch them with a hole puncher. If you didn’t already know, hole punch activities are extremely motivating for kids, and they build hand strength.
Paper Tearing Crafts
Tearing paper is another great fine motor activity for preschoolers. It requires the use of the small muscles in the hands and fingers to rip the piece of paper. Then, they can paste the small pieces to a simple image.
These paper tearing crafts are a great way to give your preschoolers some fine motor practice…. and it’s just a fun activity.
Provide different materials for tearing, from tissue paper, construction paper, cardboard, paper towel,etc., to give those little hand muscles a good workout and provide a variety of sensory experiences.
Fine motor crafts are a great way to engage your young children and help them develop important fine motor skills. So whether you’re looking for some fine motor crafts to do at home or in the classroom, we hope you’ll try some of our favorites. Let us know how your kids enjoyed them.
Printable Fine Motor crafts
Are you ready to work on some fine motor activities and crafts today? Whether you are a preschool or kindergarten teacher, a parent, or an occupational therapist, I’m sure you’ll find some fun activities that your kids will enjoy. Check out these printable fine motor craft activities in the store.
Printable Fine Motor Crafts on TPT
Do you prefer to shop on Teachers Pay Teachers?ref You can also purchase my printable craft activities in my TPT store.
Additional Fine Motor Activities and Crafts
Find more ideas for easy fine motor activities and crafts on Early Learning Ideas.
