Early Learning Ideas

Engaging Activities for Little Learners

  • Home
  • Favorites
  • Blog
  • Learning Areas
    • Art and Crafts
    • Dramatic Play
    • Fine Motor
    • Literacy
    • Math
    • Playdough
    • STEM, STEAM, Science
  • Themes
  • Seasonal
    • Beginning of School Year
    • Christmas
    • Easter
    • end of school year
    • fall
    • Halloween
    • Mother’s Day
    • spring
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • summer
    • Thanksgiving
    • Valentine’s Day
    • winter
  • Books
  • Freebies
You are here: Home / Learning Areas / Fine Motor / 15 Winter Fine Motor Activities That Will Make Your Kids Excited

15 Winter Fine Motor Activities That Will Make Your Kids Excited

Pin543
Share
Tweet
543 Shares

Here are 15 ideas for winter fine motor activities. Your kids will enjoy playing and learning as they strengthen their fine motor skills with these winter-themed activities.


Are you looking for activities that will help you kids work on their fine motor skills during the winter months?  Here are a bunch of winter fine motor activities for kids.

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

1. Beaded Snowflake

This cute snowflake craft provides opportunities for fine motor exercise and math practice.

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

2. Snowflake Twirler

This  Snowflake Paper Plate Twirler by Crafts on Sea will give kids an opportunity to practice their scissor skills.

3. Marshmallow Letter Activity

Add a wintry fine motor twist to letter or name recognition with this  Marshmallow Name Activity by Fun-a Day  .

4. Snowman Fine Motor Activity

Make a snowman fine motor activity from a large plastic bottle.  Kids can attach pieces to the snowman’s face and can fill the snowman with snowballs.

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

5. Snowflake Counting Necklaces

If your looking for fun winter crafts for kids, these snowflake necklaces are one of my favorites.  Plus, you can work on math skills with this craftivity.

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

6. Play Dough Snowman

Playdough always provides a great opportunity to strengthen the muscles in little hands.  Help kids make a playdough snowman with a few hacks for snowman parts.

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

7. Snowflake Cutting Templates

Help kids experience success while cutting snowflakes by using snowflake cutting templates.  You will soon have a room full of snowflakes.

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

8. Sorting in the Sensory Bin

You winter sensory table can provide plenty of opportunities for working on fine motor skills.  Kids enjoy sorting small erasers, filling containers with “snow” balls, and scooping and shoveling snow.

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

9. Punching Holes in Paper Snowflakes

This simple snowflake activity is really fun for kids because they love using hole punches.

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

10. Pom-poms and bug catchers

Tongs and tweezers are great for fine motor.  Use them in the sensory bin or with counting mats in the math center.

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

12. Hammer into “ice”

Kids can hammer golf tees into a big, thick piece of packing foam……  Ice Picking by Modern Preschool

13.  Snowflake snacks

Even snack time can provide opportunities for working on fine motor skills.  Kids will enjoy making and eating this pretzel and marshmallow snowflake snack from Motherhood on a Dime

14. Penguin pre-writing activity

Kids can practice tracing a variety of lines with this free printable penguin activity.

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

15. Snowflake Stickers

Use snowflake stickers for process art or with Alphabet Dot Pages.  Similar to the marshmallow name activity above, stickers can be used to form letters.

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

16. A Winter-Theme Invitation to Play

Grab a divided tray and fill it with a variety of materials.  Here are a bunch of material ideas for your winter playdough activity tray.

17. Bright White Playdough

Complete the activity above with some bright white playdough.  This post includes a bunch of fun and unexpected materials that you can mix into your winter-theme playdough.  Don’t forget to provide some rolling pins and circle cookie cutters.

I hope that you enjoy trying some of these winter fine motor activities with your kids.  Feel free to share some additional activity ideas in the comments below.

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


If you are looking for more winter themed activities, you might like the following resources from my TPT store.  Click on the images to check them out.

snowflake counting book snowflake and mitten color matching activity  penguin winter math activities snowflake math activity mats snowman matching game snowflake cutting templates


Below are some items from Amazon that can be used for the activities mentioned in this article. The links below are affiliate links. If you happen to purchase something from link, there will be no additional cost to you, but a small portion of your purchase will be used towards the cost of maintaining this website.

 

 

Pin543
Share
Tweet
543 Shares
The Best Way to Teach Kids to Make Paper Snowflakes
Valentine’s Day Activities for Preschool: Learning with Conversation Hearts [Free Printable]

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Looking for something??

Your kids will love running their fingers over these fun tactile letters. Find lots of ideas to make DIY tactile cards for your literacy learning centers. Perfect for teaching the alphabet to kids in preschool and pre-k classroom. Better than sandpaper....this is a fun sensory experience. The ideas will work for sight words as well. #preschool #alphabetactivities #sensoryactivities

Available in the Store

Use these custom name writing activity books to help your kids learn name recognition, letter recognition, and learn to write their names with a variety of activities. A child's name is the most important word in their life....and you can use it as an engaging way to teach concepts of print and early literacy. These books are easy to edit or customize and are easy to assemble. Perfect for your preschool, pre-k or kindergarten classroom literacy centers. Use for back to school or year round
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 easy-to-assemble little alphabet letter books will give your kids a variety of ways to learn letter recognition, letter sounds, and letter formation. Whether you use a letter of the week or no letter of the week, kids love taking these little ABC books home. The simple, predictable text gives kids the opportunity to experience success with reading and starting dots help kids practice correct letter formation. Download your free sample book today. #alphabetactivities #preschool
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
Use these fun editable crayon name puzzles to work on name recognition and a variety of literacy activities with your kids. Your class will love these personalized printable puzzles. Use them in your preschool, pre-k and kindergarten class to work on name recognition, alphabet knowledge, letter recognition and learning a variety of pre-literacy skills. Perfect for your literacy centers. #preschool #nameactivities #alphabetactivities
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

Search by Category

Sign up for the Newsletter

Free ABC Clip Cards

Rhyming Resources

Rhyming Activities for Early Childhood Education

Early Learning Ideas on TPT

Early Learning Ideas on TPT
  • Contact
  • About Me
  • Archive
  • FAQ
  • Disclosures
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2019 · Early Learning Ideas by Jennifer Hier