Have you been looking for a way to help your students develop those essential fine motor skills? These Back to School Fine Motor Activities are just what you need!
From clipping clothespins to punching holes, your students will not only develop their fine motor skills but also work on early math and literacy skills like identifying letters and counting.
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Back to School Fine Motor Activities:
Visual Discrimination Clip Cards:
With these visual discrimination clip cards, your kids will not only work on identifying emotions but also develop their fine motor skills too.
Tracing Cards:
With these tracing cards, your students will work on writing strokes, fine motor skills, and much more.
Cutting Cards:
With the cards, your students can practice cutting the dotted lines. This resource can also be used as a tracing activity.
Paper Clip Letter Cards:
This resource is a hands-on way for your students to practice identifying, matching, and clipping the letters.
Hole Punch Letter Cards:
Your kids are sure to have fun using these cards and a hole punch as they practice identifying capital and lowercase letters.
Beginning Sound Puzzles:
Your students will practice identifying letters and sounds as they put the crayon-shaped puzzles together in this low-prep activity.
Letter & Number Writing Tray:
With these cards and a writing tray, your students will practice forming capital and lowercase letters and numbers.
Color Play Dough Cards:
As your students squeeze, roll, and squish the play dough to form the crayons, they will work on developing their fine motor skills and identifying colors.
Pattern Matching Activity:
In this activity, your young learners will identify and create the AB, AAB, ABB, or ABC patterns using plastic links.
Bead String Color Cards:
As your kids string the beads onto the pipe cleaners in this activity, they will work on matching colors and developing their fine motor skills.
Match & Link Shape Cards:
Your kids will practice matching shapes and work on developing their fine motor skills as they connect the cards together with links.
Color Match Play Dough Cards:
In this hands-on activity, your students will practice identifying and matching colors. They will also work on developing their visual discrimination skills too.
Spin & Cover Cards:
Your students are sure to have fun spinning and covering the numbers in this school-themed fine motor activity.
Feeding the Glue Tweezers Activity:
Your kids will “feed” the glue bottle as they work on number recognition and counting.
Count & Link Cards:
Using these count and link cards will help your young learners practice counting, writing numbers, and much more.
Why Teachers Love This Resource:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Absolutely loved it! Goes great with my centers/stations.” – Karina
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This has a great variety of easy to do activities to get started on the school year.” – Michael
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I am using these as morning work as students arrive to school. It is perfect because my students need little instruction and support to complete these activities. I love them and they were easy to put together and teach to my students. I would love more fine motor tubs in the future with various themes!” – Hilari
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