$5 - $10 1st Grade Occupational Therapy Printables (by date, oldest first)

Improve fine motor skills with dot painting activities. Your students will practice hand-eye coordination and finger muscles while creating beautiful artwork.

Plus, reinforce letter formation by tracing words related to summer. From "sun" to "ice cream," your child will learn while they play.

Ideal for classrooms or at-home learning, our Q-tip Dot Painting in Summer resource is a simple yet effective way to make learning enjoyable!

Low prep, easy, and a whole lot of fun!

what's included

26 pages Q tips painting (a-z things related to summer)

a- August

b- baseball

c- coconut drink

d- daisy

e-exercise

f-flower

g-goggles

h-hot dogs

i-ice cream

j-juice

k-kayak

l-lemonade

m-mango

n-nap

o-orange

p-popsicle

q-quench thirst

r-riding

s-sun

t-tank top

u-umbrella

v-volleyball

w-watermelon

x - xylophone

y-yacht

z- zoo

Materials Needed:

• Q-tips
• Paint
• Paint tray
• Fun printable

Dot Painting – A Fine Motor Activity

Fine motor skill is the coordination of small muscles, in movements – usually involving the synchronization of hands and fingers – with eyes.

Q-tip Painting Activities are made with fine motor development in mind (helps develop a good pencil grip).

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Students will love creating these adorable Winter crafts! These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 2-9 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page. no prep, print and go activities

Included:

29 pages, 2 pages for each picture: tree (2 activities), snow globe, hat (with and without snowflake pattern), reindeer, penguin (2 different activities), snowman, polar bear, walrus, snowy owl, hot chocolate. Each craft has 1 page with larger gray outlined shapes and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

4 handwriting pages with space to draw and paste activity.

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Spring One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craftivity

Students will love creating these adorable Spring animal shape crafts! Including bunny, bear, chick, turtle ladybug, beaver, pig, cat, bee, and butterfly. These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 3-5 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, OT groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page. low prep, print and go activities

Included:

24 pages: Bunny, Bear, Chick, Turtle, Lady Bug, Beaver, Pig, Cat, Bee, and Butterfly. Each craft has 1 page with larger gray outlined shapes and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

4 handwriting pages with space to draw and paste activity.

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Students will love creating these adorable Halloween crafts! These are one-page print and go crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 2-9 shapes to color, cut out, and glue together given model. Great activity to work on fine motor strength and coordination, visual motor skills, motor planning, and cutting. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page. no prep, print and go activities

Included: 38 pages total

-32 pages for 16 one page crafts,: Pumpkin (3), Jack O Lantern (2), Bat, Spider, Ghost (2), Witch, Witch face, Vampire, Frankenstein Monster, Monsters (2), Cat. Each craft has 1 page with thick gray outlined shapes for easier cutting and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

-6 handwriting pages, with and without adapted highlighted paper, with space to draw and paste activity..

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Valentines Day One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craftivity

Students will love creating these adorable Valentine crafts! These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 2-8 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model using simple shapes. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page. no prep, print and go activities

Included:

36 pages, 2 pages for each picture: Fish, 2 penguin (simple and more complex), fish with heart lips, 2 monkeys (simple and more complex), turtle, 2 puppies (one simple and one more complex), bunny, cat, butterfly, bee (with and without heart antennae), ladybug, elephant. Each craft has 1 page with larger gray outlined shapes and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

4 handwriting pages with space to draw and paste activity.

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Spring Fine Motor Paper Plate Craft Activities

Fun way to work on fine motor and sequencing skills! Following step by step instructions, create adorable color, cut, and paste spring crafts (sheep, frog, butterfly, turtle, ladybug, chick) using provided templates and everyday household materials including paper plates, tissue paper, and cotton balls. Perfect for pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade centers, bulletin boards, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and a fun home activity.

Each craft is 1-2 pages

This 9 page resource includes:

•7 paper plate crafts: follow step by step directions to create paper plate sheep, frog, butterfly, turtle, ladybug (2 pages), and chick (2 pages) using paper plate and the provided template!

Christmas One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craft Activities

Students will love creating these adorable holiday crafts! These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 2-10 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, bulletin boards, and fun home activity.

These are one page. no prep, print and go activities

Included:

25 pages, 2 for each picture: 2 different Christmas trees, 2 different ornaments, snow globe, 2 different reindeers, Santa Claus, winter gnome, and elf. Each craft has 1 page with gray outlined shapes and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

4 handwriting pages with space to draw and paste activity.

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Using this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning their letters! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letters, coloring the letters and pictures, tracing the letter, and writing the letter.

This is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Fine motor strength and precision

Fine Motor Coordination

Hand strength

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation

Included:

78 pages, three for each letter of the alphabet. This set focuses on UPPERCASE letters.

Each uppercase letter has 3 pages:

1. Circle Letter Page:

Build the letter using:

•Bingo Dauber

•Stamps

•Stickers

•Playdough

•Q-tip Painting

•Pipecleaners

•Wiki Stix

•Crumple tissue paper into balls and glue

•Placing pom poms with tongs

•Buttons/pennies

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

2. Letter Search and Find and Coloring Page:

Color letter and corresponding picture using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Wherever your imagination takes you!!

Search and find letter using

•Broken crayons (to promote tripod grasp)

•Finger paint

•Q-tip Painting

•Bingo dauber

•Stamp

•Stickers

Placing small pom poms using tongs

3. Trace and Write Page

•Color picture

•Have student first trace over letter with finger. Make sure formation is correct.

•Trace

•Copy letter in letter box

•Write letter on line

Autumn word copy and writing practice

Handwriting practice for word copy, sentence copy, and composition. Addresses fine and visual motor skills, visual perception, and fine motor precision for handwriting. Includes activities to make writing practice fun such as crack the codes, codebreaker riddles, directed drawings, color by number, roll a silly story, and roll a would you rather writing prompt,. Perfect for kindergarten and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page, No prep, print and go activities

Included:

•Roll a fall animal word writing practice- roll the dice to find out which word you will trace then copy- one page for each fall animal. Also included are 7 draw and write pages, to draw and write about the animal., with and without included sentence for nearpoint copy.

•Directed draw and write pumpkin and owl- 4 pages of each with and without included sentence for nearpoint copy and highlighted lines

•5 pages of fall crack the code with answer key

•Color by number squirrel - with 5 different pages to copy and/or write about the squirrel- paper with and without highlighted lines included.

•Color by number hedgehog - with 5 different pages to copy and/or write about the squirrel- paper with and without highlighted lines included.

•Mystery picture pumpkin- use broken crayons, q-tip paint, stamp, bingo dauber to color circles

•Fall word copy practice- 8 pages- including word boxes, 3-lined, and highlighted lines

•Color and write about the Fall picture- 4 pages included- with and without provided sentence to nearpoint copy, color copy and black and white copy to color

•Roll a silly fall story writing prompt- color and black and white copies

•Roll a Would You Rather…fall writing prompt game- color and black and white copies

•17 different types of handwriting paper- including writing prompts, draw and write, and adapted highlighted paper

Autumn One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craft Activity

Students will love creating these adorable Fall crafts! Included are 12, one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 2-5 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model. After making their craft, students can write about it on the provided handwiriting paper! Perfect for pre-K, K, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page. no prep, print and go activities

Included:

24 pages total: pumpkin 1, pumpkin 2, pumpkin 3, apple, apple tree, owl, squirrel 1, squirrel 2, racoon, chipmunk, racoon, scarecrow. Each craft includes 1 page with thicker gray outline for easier, cutting.

2 handwriting pages, with and without adapted highlighted paper, with space to draw and paste activity..

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Spring word copy and writing practice

Handwriting practice for word copy, sentence copy, and composition. Addresses fine and visual motor skills, visual perception, and fine motor precision for handwriting. Includes activities to make writing practice fun such as crack the codes, codebreaker riddles, color by number, roll a silly story, roll a would you rather writing prompt, draw and write, and color, cut, and paste sentence copy. Perfect for kindergarten and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page, No prep, print and go activities

Included:

•Roll a spring animal word writing practice- roll the dice to find out which word you will trace then copy- one page for each spring animal. Also included are 7 draw and write pages, to draw and write about the animal., with and without included sentence for nearpoint copy.

•4 pages of spring crack the code with answer key

•Color by number bunny- with 5 different pages to copy and/or write about the bunny- paper with and without highlighted lines included.

•Spring word copy practice- 8 pages- including word boxes, 3-lined, and highlighted lines

•Color and write about the spring picture- 2 pages included- with and without provided sentence to nearpoint copy

•Color, cut, paste a spring sentence to copy

•Roll a silly spring story writing prompt

•Roll a Would You Rather…Spring Writing prompt game

•17 different types of handwriting paper- including writing prompts, draw and write, and adapted highlighted paper

Autumn directed drawing, word copy and writing practice

Learn to draw simple fall pictures following 4-10 steps. Addresses fine and visual motor skills, visual perception, and fine motor precision for handwriting. Have students demonstrate their creativity to draw pictures and then write about them. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, sub plans, and fun home activity. Addresses foundational skills including fine and visual motor skills, visual perception, handwriting, word and sentence

copy, motor planning, creativity, and sequencing.

These are one page, No prep, print and go activities

Included: 148 total pages

17 Directed Drawing Pictures- 8 activity pages per picture

•Pumpkin 1: 5 steps

•Bear Face: 5 steps

•Scarecrow Face: 4-steps

•Pumpkin 2: 8 Steps

•Fox: 8 steps

•Squirrel 1: 8 steps

•Squirrel 2 8 steps

•Owl: 8 steps

•Racoon: 8 steps

•Apple tree: 8 steps

•Scarecrow: 8 steps

•Turkey: 8 steps

•Leaves: 8 steps

•Sunflower: 8 steps

•Acorn: 8 steps

•Corn: 8 steps

•Bear: 10 steps

8 activity pages per picture

1.Drawing steps sequenced on full page- perfect for telehealth and distance learning

2.Drawing steps with drawing space

3.Drawing steps with drawing space and word copy boxes

4.Drawing steps with drawing space and word copy 3-lines

5.Drawing steps with drawing space and nearpoint copy sentence on highlighted paper

6.Drawing steps with drawing space on highlighted paper to write sentence

7.Drawing steps with drawing space and nearpoint copy sentence on 3-lined paper

8.Drawing steps with drawing space on 3-lined paper to write sentence

8 Writing pages and 4 blank drawing pages

•Including draw and write, and adapted highlighted paper

Description

These hands on autumn fine and visual motor activities are a fun way to build foundational fine motor skills for primary aged children. Includes printables that can be used with household and school manipulatives including hole punch, tongs, tweezers, clothespins, dough, paper clips, counting snap cubes, popsicle sticks, stickers, q-tips, toothpicks, thumbtacks, etc. throughout the fall season to address fine motor coordination, hand strength and endurance, grasp, visual motor skills, bilateral coordination, visual perception, pencil control, and in hand manipulation skills. Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten and first grade centers, task boxes, bins, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

Included in this 135 page resource:

Tracing paths: 14 pages total- 8 pages bw and 6 pages color

Dot games: 2 pages

Search and Find: 1 page

Mystery pictures: 2 pages with answer key, totaling 4 pages

Pumpkin fine motor precision dice game: 1 page bw

Simple fall crafts/tissue paper crumple: 14 pages

Sunflower paper plate craft: 1 page

Tong/tweezer activity pages: 10 pages total- 5 bw and 6 color

Clothespin/paperclip punch cards: 10 pages total- 5 bw and 5 color

Hole punching activities: 18 pages total- 12 bw and 6 color

Lacing cards: 4 pages (2 bw and 2 color)

Bingo dauber activities: 5 pages bw

Play dough build and write: 14 pages- 2 roll activity sheets; 6 pages bw, 6 pages color

Q-tip painting: 8 pages- 4 bw and 4 color

Snap cube build and write: 2 dice roll activity sheets; , 7 pages color

Popsicle stick build and write: 8 pages- 4 bw and 4 color

Pokey pictures: 6 pages

Autumn One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craft Activity- Part 2

Students will love creating these adorable Fall crafts! These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 7-9 shapes to color, cut out, and glue together given model,. This resource is more complex than part 1 resource. Great activity to work on fine motor strength and coordination, visual motor skills, motor planning, and cutting. skills After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page. no prep, print and go activities

Included: 31 pages total

-14 pages for 7 one page crafts,: chipmunk, squirrel 1, owl, fox, racoon, squirrel 2, scarecrow.. Each craft has 1 page with thick gray outlined shapes for easier cutting and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

-2 handwriting pages, with and without adapted highlighted paper, with space to draw and paste activity..

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Simple Father’s Day Craftivities

These simple fine motor crafts are a great way to incorporate a fun Father’s Day project in the classroom. An adorable keepsake for students to take home to Dad, Grandpa, Uncle, or someone else who is important in their lives.. Includes templates with Dad, Grandpa, and blank.

Option 1: Color, paint, or tear paper to make Father’s Day card. Donut, popcorn, ice cream cone, popsicle, trophy, rocket ship, bear, heart options.

Option 2: Color, cut, and paste. Students color, cut, and paste 2-7 pieces to make a popsicle, ice cream cone, rocket, popcorn,

Option 3: Write about dad, grandpa, or special person on trophy, popcorn, ice cream, popsicle, bear.

Option 4 Tear or snip paper, or roll tissue paper to glue on heart, popcorn, popsicle, ice cream, bear

These are one page, No prep, print and go activity

Included:

•3 donut templates- “Donut you know how much I love you”

•5 popcorn templates: “You are the best POP”- includes options for writing lines and color, cut, and paste

•2 trophy templates: “Worlds Best Dad”

•3 bear templates: “I love you Beary much”

•7 space templates: “I love you to the moon and back”

•8 Ice Cream Templates: “You are the coolest”- includes options for writing lines and color cut and paste

•3 popsicle templates: “Dad you are the coolest”- includes options for writing lines and color, cut, and paste

•5 tie templates- options for writing lines included

•6 heart templates- “I Love You to pieces”

Autumn One Page Color, Cut, and PasteFine Motor Craft Activity Bundle

This bundle includes 2 of my Fall craftivity resources. Students will love creating these adorable Autumn crafts! These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 2-9 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page, no prep, print and go activities

Download Includes:

Resource 1: Fall 2D Simple Color Cut and Paste Fine Motor Shape Craft- Part 1

24 pages total: 2 for each: pumpkin 1, pumpkin 2, pumpkin 3, apple, apple tree, owl, squirrel 1, squirrel 2, racoon, chipmunk, racoon, scarecrow. Each craft includes 1 page with thicker gray outline for easier, cutting.

Resource 2: Fall 2D Simple Color Cut and Paste Fine Motor Shape Craft- Part 2

-14 pages for 7 one page crafts,: chipmunk, squirrel 1, owl, fox, racoon, squirrel 2, scarecrow.. Each craft has 1 page with thick gray outlined shapes for easier cutting and 1 page with black outlined shapes.

Each resource includes 2 handwriting pages, with and without adapted highlighted paper, with space to draw and paste activity..

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

Spring One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craft Activity Bundle

This bundle includes 2 of my spring craftivity resources. Students will love creating these adorable Spring crafts! These are one-page crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. Each craft has 3-9 shapes to color, cut out, and put together given model. After making their craft, students can write about it! Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade centers, as well as OT sessions, groups, homeschool lessons, and fun home activity.

These are one page, no prep, print and go activities

Download Includes:

Resource 1: Spring One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Fine Motor Craft Part 1

10 pages, one for each picture: Bunny, Bear, Chick, Turtle, Lady Bug, Beaver, Pig, Cat, Bee, and Butterfly

Resource 2: Spring One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Fine Motor Craft Part 2

8 pages, one for each picture: Frog, Mouse, Chick, Duck, Ladybug, Butterfly, Bunny, and Bee

2 handwriting pages with space to draw and paste activity.

Directions

•First students color shapes, then cut them out, and then glue together using the model

•Activity can be extended by incorporating a writing activity using the craft.

This BUNDLE contains 2 resources:

1. Building Letters Counting Snap Cubes Activity for Uppercase Letters: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Counting-Snap-Cube-Uppercase-Letter-Build-and-Write-Printing-Practice-OT-9896256

2. Building Letters Counting Snap Cubes Activity for Lowercase Letters: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Counting-Snap-Cube-Lowercase-Letter-Build-and-Write-Printing-Practice-OT-10193694

In this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letter with counting snap cubes, coloring the letter, tracing the letter, and finally, writing the letter.

Building letters with blocks is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Hand strength

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation

This BUNDLE includes 3 resources

Uppercase Build and write letters dough activity https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Uppercase-alphabet-dough-letter-build-and-write-printing-practice-Fine-Motor-OT-10094413

Lowercase Build and write letters dough activity https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Lowercase-alphabet-dough-letter-build-and-write-printing-practice-Fine-Motor-OT-10105392

Dough number build and write printing practice- Fine Motor OT

https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Dough-number-build-and-write-printing-practice-Fine-Motor-OT-10472957

In this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning! In these resources, they will learn letter formation by first building the letter or numbers with doh or putty, tracing the letter, and then writing the letter.

Building letters and numbers with putty and dough is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter and number formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters and numbers for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes with starting point to help with letter and number size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and Visual Motor Skills

Hand strength

Fine Motor Coordination

Bilateral Coordination

Visual Perception

Letter and number Recognition

Letter and number Formation

Brick Building letters activity for Upper and Lowercase Letters

In this hands on, multisensory activity, students won’t even realize they are learning! In this resource, they will learn letter formation by first building the letters with bricks, coloring the block letter, tracing the letter, and then writing the letter.

Building letters with building bricks is not only a fun and engaging way to learn letter formation, but students are working on foundational fine motor skills needed for writing. Students don’t have to use a pencil for writing, try broken crayons (broken crayons help promote tripod grasp pattern), q-tip painting, or fingerpaint. When writing letters for this activity, students use handwriting letter boxes to help with letter size, placement, and spacing. Perfect for pre-K and kindergarten centers, as well as OT groups, homeschool, and handwriting practice

This activity addresses:

Fine and visual motor skills

Hand strength

Fine motor coordination

Visual Perception

Letter recognition

Letter formation

Included:

52 pages, one for each letter of the alphabet. This 2 resource bundle includes both UPPERCASE and LOWERCASE letters.