Working from home with a toddler around can be impossible sometimes! You'll love these toddler activities for working parents!
A free printable for fine motor task cards. Help kids strengthen their fine motor skills with these easy activities!
Fun ideas for fine motor activities with a winter games theme. Use these winter games fine motor activities today and throughout the year!
Try this easy DIY playdough marble maze activity made from playdough and a cookie sheet. This is a fun indoor project that inspires creativity!
FREE resources for the Kindergarten and Early Elementary classoom!
This post will show you how to make your own Fine Motor Take Home Kits. They are perfect supplemental fine motor tool for your classroom.
This post may contain affiliate links.Holding small objects is a benefit of good fine motor skills, and to work on developing and perfecting those fine motor skills, you can use small objects as a tool. Push pins or thumb tacks that you would use in a cork board are usually a perfect size to facilitate...
Happy Friday! I’ve been working really hard on more fine motor activity packs and I just added this one this week. If you read or watch “Polar Express” or just love celebrating all things Christmas in your classroom, here are some fun activities that add fine motor work to your school day! 1. Paper Tearing: ... Read more
Geoboard activities are great for fine motor development. Here are eight different Earth Day pictures to create using a geoboard.
Elevate your child's fine motor development with our comprehensive guide on scissor skills development! Learn from easy-to-follow stages, practical tips, and enjoy our free ocean-themed
Everyone loves a camping theme. Learning about nature, forest animals, insects, the night sky, rivers, fishing, and smores will get your students interested and excited to come to school. Parents and teachers all know that when students are interested, they are more engaged, and they develop a love of learning. In this post, I want to share some great ideas for camping centers and activities I do in the classroom with my little learners.
Teaching preschoolers to write shouldn't include worksheets. Instead, try a fine motor journal! They are more fun and just all around better.
Need some ideas for transportation centers and activities? I'm here to help! I'm sharing my favorite, most engaging transportation-themed activities with you. I also created Road Number Mats FREEBIE for you, too! AND a train name craftivity FREEBIE! Go grab your lesson plan book and get ready to be inspired!
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Self portrait fine motor mats. This free printable for kids is perfect for developing fine motor skills during an All About Me theme.
Enjoy making Torn Paper Pumpkin Wreaths this autumn. They're super easy to make, look gorgeous and are great for fine motor skills too!
Kindergarten students will enjoy these INSTANT Tubs N Trays activities. These activities can be used for fine motor work and centers.
I've been busy prepping all things fine motor with these letter and number mats. These fine motor mats are great for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten or even first grade for a fun way to learn and review letter recognition, number recognition, letter sound identification, number sense, and letter and number formation.
You are going to love these adorable Free Tree Play Dough Number Mats Counting 1 to 10! I love using play dough number mats to practice counting skills. Counting mats for preschoolers are incredibly versatile and are a great way to introduce the skill of counting or to reinforce counting skills with older children. Your child will love practicing counting and decorating the tree with play dough apples, lemons, flowers, leaves, or whatever else their imagination can dream up!
Preschool teachers and homeschool mamas will for sure love these no prep fine motor Valentine's Day preschool worksheets! They’re quick & easy and little kids love the fun cutting and tracing, coloring, and drawing activities. Grab yours today!
A few weeks ago our little daredevil had her first x-ray due to a little jumping on the bed incident. Yup 1 little monkey jumping on the bed, she fell off and bumped her head… broke her clavicle. Well ever since, she has been fascinated with the bones inside her body so there couldn’t be […]
I have some fabulous pre-writing, fine motor, & literacy light table ideas for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
These tracing worksheets are great for students to practice pre-writing skills and reinforce fine motor skills. There are 6 worksheets in total. Have fun with our worksheets! Related lessons: Kindergarten Morning Work Printable Math Worksheets - 1st Grade Math Review Kindergarten Morning Work Printable Literacy Worksheets - 1st Grade Review Kindergarten Morning Work Math and Literacy Worksheets - 1st Grade Review +BONUS Easter Find Motor Fun Activities for PreK - 1st Grade
A set of transportation tracing worksheets perfect for fine motor skills practice. Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy them!
A free printable for fine motor task cards. Help kids strengthen their fine motor skills with these easy activities!
Looking for the ideal kids hole punch? Dive into our expert comparison of the top models. From cushion-grip to reduced effort designs, find the perfect fit for your child's fine motor skills and
A fun summer themed pattern blocks printable mats set for kids. These help with fine motor skills, math as well as letter recognition.
These preschool worksheets are a fantastic way to help your little one learn about shapes, colors, patterns. These printable activities can be done at home or in the classroom with no prep work needed! They're fun and engaging- perfect for those fine motor skills too.
A collection of 25 All About Me activities, including free printables, arts & crafts and learning activities for kids.
Invitation To Create- Under The Sea. Great fine motor ocean craft for preschool, kindergarten, or elementary kids. Open-ended project allows for creativity- kids can make fish, octopus, or other sea creatures!
Get our preschool line tracing worksheets to practice fine motor skills and learn about the weather all at the same time! A great pre-writing activity.
Fun and creative way to encourage cutting practice for preschool and Kindergarten students.
Invitation To Create: Cupcake Factory. Open ended creative craft for kids. Great for color recognition & fine motor development. Perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and elementary kids.
FREE Printable butterfly count & clip cards to practice 1:1 counting and fine motor skills from Modern Preschool. Preschoolers can work on numbers, counting, and more with this printable busy bag for your bug, insect, or spring theme!
Did you see our Winter Fine Motor Mats with LEGOs? I had such a great response, not only from my daughter (who has just recently decided to add something different into her day) but from readers too. I understand why! It is incredibly simple prep but engaging and fun for kids. I would say that most don't even realize they are strengthening skills and learning, they think it's just playing. I couldn't leave you all hanging with just one fine motor mat with LEGOs, though. I had to make another. So introducing our Spring Fine Motor Mats with LEGOs.
Listing is for a set of 24 printable cards (four per page, six pages) of ready to poke dot images. Use cards over a piece of cardboard or foam core and present with large or small poke tool or push pins. Images range from beginner to advanced and can coordinate to unit studies or themes and holidays. Now including an extra sheet of fall/halloween dot punches, and a bonus sheet with fourth of July and moon landing dot punches. 2021 update now includes 4 bee pin poking cards: bee, hive, hexagon blocks, flower.
Printable Winter lacing cards for kids. A fun play activity that will help toddlers and preschoolers develop fine motor skills.
Montessori has taught me a few things about how to keep my house organised and how to present children's materials! We know that children need their materials to be; accessible ordered beautiful, attractive, age appropriate, engaging simple, not overwhelming When it comes to art materials in the home simple is best. Art materials provide an opportunity for creative, independent work that uses lots of fine motor skills, develops coordination and concentration. It is so important. But we want to avoid mess and waste. Here are a few of my tips. Often it's best to present fewer materials or in lower...
