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Preschool Fine Motor Skills Activities

Playground time is important for developing fine motor skills. When the bell rings and it’s time to return to the classroom, there is still ample room for fine motor skills preschool activities like foil painting, creating wax paper art, and making fingerpaint. Take these fine motor skills one step further by utilizing young students’ love of art to practice writing with preschool handwriting activities that involve in-class art projects.

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Fine Motor Practice

Fine Motor Practice

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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Watermelon Paper Plates

Watermelon Paper Plates

This fun watermelon art project will help your preschooler develop his fine motor skills, number sense and shape recognition.

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Painted Cookies

Painted Cookies

Painting cookies is a fun way for your child to exercise his fine motor skills and be creative at the same time.

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Egg Carton Caterpillar

Egg Carton Caterpillar

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

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Make Tie-Dye Baby Wipes

Make Tie-Dye Baby Wipes

Give your preschooler the opportunity to work on color recognition and fine motor skills while creating a beautiful tie-dyed piece of art!

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Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

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Mardi Gras Wreath

Mardi Gras Wreath

Craft your own Mardi Gras wreath to celebrate the holiday and help your kid build her fine motor skills while you're at it!

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Oh Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

Oh Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...

Get your preschooler or kindergartener into the holiday spirit by making a holiday instrument that will improve his fine motor skills and sense of rhythm.

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Happy Face Biscuits

Happy Face Biscuits

This kitchen activity will engage your preschooler's senses and fine motor skills, and she'll have fun eating her unique creations when she's done!

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Straw Necklaces

Straw Necklaces

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

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Popcorn Sculpture

Popcorn Sculpture

This activity will help your child develop her fine motor skills and build spatial awareness,and it's a great way to jazz up snack time!

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Two-Ingredient Sensory Dough

Two-Ingredient Sensory Dough

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

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Science

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Polar Bear Craft

Polar Bear Craft

Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, he'll also work out fine motor skills.

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Reading & writing

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Create a Cozy Poncho!

Create a Cozy Poncho!

Show your child how to make a cool fleece poncho without any sewing, and help develop fine motor skills and patterning at the same time. Here's how.

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Leaf Crown

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help her build fine motor skills.

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Make Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments

Make Beaded Candy Cane Ornaments

Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

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Make a Paper Chain

Make a Paper Chain

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Preschool

Reading & writing

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Make Your Own Edible Play Dough

Make Your Own Edible Play Dough

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Preschool

Science

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Play Animal Exercises

Play Animal Exercises

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

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Impressionist Painting for Kids

Impressionist Painting for Kids

Have your preschooler paint like Monet, and build crucial handwriting skills at the same time!

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Pumpkin Shapes

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Preschool

Math

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Pick Your Own Berries

Pick Your Own Berries

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Preschool

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Fall Symbol Connection

Fall Symbol Connection

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

Preschool

Reading & writing

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Color Match: Create a Wooden Peg Board

Color Match: Create a Wooden Peg Board

Make a natural wooden peg board to sharpen your child's color skills. Help your little one ace her color matching skills with this natural wooden peg board.

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Create a Color Collage

Create a Color Collage

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on her sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

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