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Fine Motor Skills activities
Fine motor activities strengthen the small muscles of the hands and fingers that children need for holding a pencil, using scissors, buttoning and eating independently. Tracing, coloring, stacking, playdough and cutting practice are offered at just the right level for each age, with tips to make every task easier or more challenging.
37 activities
Activities
Shoe Tying Certificate
Celebrate learning to tie shoes independently with a certificate to fill in with the child’s name and date.
Award certificate
Banana Oat Pancake Recipe
Mash, mix, and follow a picture recipe for pancakes. An adult handles the stove while the child helps with the safe steps.
Cooking together
Spring Flower Crown
Color, cut out, and make a spring crown decorated with flowers.
Craft template
Complete the Rocket and Robot
Draw the missing halves of a rocket and a robot, using the grid as a guide.
Draw the other half
Match Vehicles to Initial Letters
Match six vehicles to the letters their names begin with. Practice recognizing letters and listening for beginning sounds.
Matching
Missing Vowels in Fruit Names
Name six fruits and write the missing vowel in each word.
Missing letters
Sight Word See
Read, trace and find the sight word “see”. Then copy a short sentence about a cat.
Sight words
Complete the Butterflies
Complete the missing half of each butterfly, then color the two butterflies to match.
Draw the other half
Halloween Witch Maze
Help a friendly little witch find her way to her pumpkin cauldron in a Halloween maze.
Maze
Square and Rectangle Shapes
Trace a square and a rectangle, color familiar objects, and draw an example of each shape.
Shapes
Lion Mask Craft
Color a lion and curl paper strips around a pencil to make its mane. With an adult's help, turn it into a stick mask.
Craft template
Rhyming Animals and Objects
Match five animals to objects whose names rhyme, and play with the sounds of words.
Rhyming
Butterfly Life Cycle Sequencing
Cut and paste the pictures to discover the butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly.
Sequencing
Trace Uppercase Letters
Practice tracing the uppercase letters E, F, H, L, and T, with two rows for each letter.
Tracing worksheet
Sort Animals by Habitat
Cut out and sort nine animals into sky, water, or land. Practice observing, talking, and classifying together.
Sort and classify
Foods Beginning With M
Name nine foods and circle the ones that begin with the /m/ sound.
Beginning sounds
Living and Nonliving Things
Cut out and sort eight garden pictures into living and nonliving groups. Observe, talk, and classify together.
Sort and classify
Match Summer Opposites
Match four pairs of opposites with animals and summer things: big and small, hot and cold, fast and slow, day and night.
Opposites
Tracing and Counting Number 4
Trace the number 4, count butterflies, color flowers, and find the 4s.
Number practice
Trace and Find Letter S
Trace S and s, find the letters, and color pictures of things that start with S.
Letter of the week
Toothbrushing Steps
Arrange and glue four pictures to show the steps of brushing teeth: add toothpaste, brush, spit, and rinse.
Sequencing
Fish Maze
Help the little fish find its way to the coral, away from the jellyfish. This simple maze supports visual attention and movement control.
Maze
Lunchbox Cut and Paste
Choose four items from eight pictures, then cut and glue them into a pretend lunchbox. Practice counting and hand coordination while talking about snacks.
Cut and paste
Match Community Helpers and Tools
Match each community helper to something they use at work. Talk together about people in your community.
Matching