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Fine Motor Resources

Need resources to teach fine motor play in your pre-K and kindergarten classroom? We have over 20 free lesson plan ideas and activities to use!

Hands-on activities and lesson plan ideas to help you incorporate fine motor play into your classroom.

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Raindrop Suncatchers

How To Make Raindrop Suncatchers

Make raindrop suncatchers with this fun, fine motor art activity that has preschoolers peel and sharpen crayons to create raindrop shapes.

Earth Day Weaving Activity

Earth Day Paper Plate Weaving Craft

A fun Earth Day weaving craft builds fine motor skills and provides a way to talk about the earth with preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten

A collection of fine motor activities to help strengthen the pincer grasp

Pincer Grasp Activities for Preschoolers

Fun and engaging pincer grasp activities for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop handwriting and fine motor skills.

a colorful collage of 6 photos showing different fine motor activities

20 Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers

20 fun fine motor activities your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten students will love! help Engaging, hands-on fine motor activities.

Cutting Practice Ideas for Preschool

Cutting Activities for Preschoolers

25+ fun cutting activities for preschoolers! Clever cutting activities to motivate your preschool or pre-k kids to practice scissor skills.

Cutting with Scissors

Cutting with Scissors: The Best Tips for Teaching Kids

How do you teach kids to cut with scissors? My best tips for teaching scissor skills in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten, + free printable!

Community Helpers Cutting Practice Pages

Community Helpers Fine Motor Scissor Skills

Community helpers fine motor activitiy tray to practice scissor skills. These community helper printables are perfect for practicing fine motor skills!

children playing with colorful water using turkey basters

Turkey Baster Color Mixing Activity for Preschool

Fun color mixing science activity using turkey basters. Combine science and fine motor skill practice in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom.

fine motor ice cream activity

Ice Cream Theme Fine Motor Activity

Ice cream theme fine motor activity. Your kids will love making pretend ice cream sundaes related to book “The Little Ice Cream Truck.” Literacy activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Clothespin Activities for Fine Motor Development

Fine Motor Clothespin Activities for Preschool

Clothespin activities to develop fine motor skills for children in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Fun learning activities for kids!

Scissor Skills

How to Teach Scissor Cutting Skills

How to teach scissor cutting skills to your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten kids. The proper sequence of cutting skills to help kids be successful.

snowflake scissors practice

Snowflakes Scissors Practice

Cutting snowflakes from coffee filters is great fine motor practice and a fun way to build scissors skills for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Easy Candy Cane Ornament for Preschool

Candy Cane Pipe Cleaner Ornaments

Make easy pipe cleaner candy cane ornaments with your preschoolers. The perfect activity for for building fine motor skills for the holidays.

Play Dough Faces Activity pre-k

Making Faces Play Dough Activity

A fun face play dough mat for kids to build faces using play dough, great for a body theme; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

western fine motor activity

Lasso a Letter: Cowboy Fine Motor Activity

Build letter recognition skills and hand skills for writing in this fun western and cowboy theme activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

Fine Motor Tools and Toys for Preschool

Fine Motor tools and toys for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. A list of my favorite tools to help develop fine motor skills with pictures.

Spider Play Dough Invitation

Spider Play Dough Invitation

Black glitter play dough plus a few other materials encourage preschoolers to create their own spiders.

Playdough Pumpkin Decorating

Decorate Play Dough Pumpkins

Create and decorate play dough pumpkins for a fun sensory and fine motor activity in preschool and kindergarten.

Bug Play Dough Activity

A fun bug play dough activity for preschool and pre-k. Your kids will have a blast making butterflies, ladybugs, and more with this bug theme activity!

Bee Fine Motor

Bumble Bee Hive Fine Motor Game

A fun beehive fine motor and counting activity for preschoolers to practice fine motor and early math skills with an insect theme..