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Q-tip Dot painting Summer A-Z things in summer with picture fine motor activity
By Chirp Chirp Education
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:
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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Woodland Animals Cut and Paste Crafts
By Creative Soul Printables
Engage your little learners with these adorable woodland animal cut and paste crafts! Perfect for developing fine motor skills while having fun.
Contents:
This woodland animal cut and paste craft pack features 12 charming animals: skunk, raccoon, deer, squirrel, fox, snail, bear, monkey, hedgehog, rabbit, owl, and beaver. Each craft comes with separate pieces for students to cut out and glue together, with a completed image included on each page for easy reference. Designed to help young students improve their fine motor skills, this activity is perfect for preschool to 1st grade. Whether used in the classroom, homeschool, after-school programs, or daycare, these crafts are sure to bring a touch of nature-inspired creativity to any learning environment.
Why They'll Love This Product:
Teachers and students alike will love these woodland animal crafts! The simple cut-and-paste format makes it easy for young learners to practice their scissor skills and hand-eye coordination while creating something they can be proud of. The engaging animal designs capture students' interest and provide a hands-on activity that reinforces fine motor skill development. Plus, the finished products make great classroom decorations or take-home projects that students will be excited to show off!
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Summer I Spy Worksheets | Seek and Find Printable Activity | Number Counting
By Jennifer Arnold
Looking for a fun way to keep kids engaged this summer?
This Summer I Spy Game is perfect for summer classroom activities or at-home fun! This printable seek-and-find worksheet is filled with seasonal designs that challenge kids to find and count objects, making learning feel like play.
Here’s how you can make the most of this I Spy Game in your classroom or homeschool:
Morning Warm-Up Activity: Start the day with a fun, low-prep task by using it as a “bell ringer.” It’s a great way to help students settle in and get focused right from the start.
Counting & Math Practice: Let students count and record the objects they find, naturally building their basic counting and early math skills. You can even extend the activity by having students create simple addition or subtraction problems based on their findings.
Focus and Observation Exercise: Use it as a calm-down activity to help students practice visual discrimination and focus on details. This makes it ideal for students who need a bit of extra help sharpening their observation skills.
Group or Partner Activity: Have students work in pairs or small groups to complete the I Spy game. It’s a fun way to build teamwork and communication skills while keeping students engaged.
Seasonal Brain Break: Use it as a quick “brain break” or reward activity. It provides a structured yet fun break that keeps kids focused and excited without disrupting your classroom flow.
This Summer I Spy Game is a flexible, engaging resource to add to your seasonal toolkit, perfect for mixing fun with learning!
Want more I Spy seasonal games? Check out the I Spy Game bundle!
What’s included:
1 file with 2 PDf pages
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Winter Scissor Skills Cutting Practice and Crafts - Fine Motor Skills
By The Chatty Kinder
These scissor skills activities include thick cutting lines and a variety of cutting lines to create a fun mitten craft perfect for winter! These Winter Scissor Skills Cutting Practice crafts make a fun addition to winter activities, morning tubs or fine motor centers.
Learners will be able to practice their fine motor skills with these fun winter themed cutting activities. They will also be able to create a fun winter craft which makes for a great bulletin display!
⭐ This Winter Scissor Skills Cutting Practice for Kindergarten is also included in the following bundle:
What does this Winter Scissor Skills Printable Include?
- 13 one page mitten scissor skills crafts
- 13 one page mitten cutting practice
What will learners do in this winter cutting and fine motor activity?
Learners will be practicing 2 sets of scissor skills with this printable
1. Cutting around an object:
Learners will be cutting around the thick lines of the mitten to cut it out from the page.
2. Cutting along lines:
Learners will cut the dotted lines within the mitten to practice their scissor cutting skills.
Another version is included in which learners will only cut along the dotted lines on the mitten and will not have to create the craft.
This Scissors Skills Cutting Practice Printable features:
I hope your learners love and have fun with this Winter Scissor Cutting Skills Craft as much as my learners loved it! If so, please do let me know by leaving a review below!
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Fun Spring Activities- Scissor Skills | Cutting Practice Sheets
By EduTeachers Toolbox
Engage your little ones in a delightful spring-themed learning adventure with our "Fun Spring Activities - Scissor Skills | Cutting Practice Sheets." These engaging activities are designed to develop and refine essential cutting skills while embracing the joyful spirit of the season.
THIS ACTIVITIES INCLUDES:
Cutting Lines: Our cutting practice sheets feature a variety of lines, curves, and shapes carefully crafted to challenge and improve scissor proficiency. From straight lines to wavy patterns, children will enjoy mastering their cutting techniques while exploring the beauty of spring.
Cutting Skills (Spring Themes): Immerse children in the wonders of spring with charming illustrations and themes adorning each cutting practice sheet. From blooming flowers to playful animals, these spring-inspired designs add an extra layer of excitement to scissor skill development.
Cute and Glue: Enhance creativity and fine motor skills with our "Cute and Glue" section, where children can bring their cut-out creations to life by pasting them onto colorful backgrounds or creating fun collages. This interactive component fosters imagination and artistic expression while reinforcing cutting proficiency.
With our "Fun Spring Activities - Scissor Skills | Cutting Practice Sheets," learning becomes an enjoyable adventure filled with exploration, creativity, and the vibrant spirit of spring. Whether used in classrooms, homeschooling environments, or as engaging activities at home, these resources are sure to inspire and delight young learners as they hone their scissor skills in preparation for endless springtime adventures.
Prewriting Trace and color worksheets | Preschool & homeschool
By Blue Iris K-2
Certainly, here's a concise description of the product "Color & Strengthen Prewriting Worksheets" in bullet points:
In summary, the "Color & Strengthen Prewriting Worksheets" consist of 8 engaging pages that combine coloring and prewriting activities to develop hand strength and fine motor skills in preschool kids. These worksheets are carefully designed to be both enjoyable and educational, with themes that resonate with young learners and activities that progress in complexity. Ideal for use at home or in the classroom, this product promotes holistic learning through creative engagement.
TERMS OF USE:
You can reproduce the pages for classroom use only. The fonts I used are free for personal use. Duplication of this resource for commercial purposes or for the entire school is strictly forbidden.
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Gingerbread Fine Motor Activities | No-Prep Holiday Fine Motor Practice
By Miss Molly's Preschool Minis
Looking for fun and engaging ways to strengthen your students' fine motor skills? This Gingerbread Fine Motor Activities Pack is the perfect addition to your holiday season! With 6 hands-on, no-prep activities, your little learners will build fine motor muscles while having a blast with a festive gingerbread theme. Just print and go—no extra prep required!
What's Included?
✅ Sticker Practice: Build hand-eye coordination and precision while decorating gingerbread friends.
✅ Cutting Practice: Develop scissor skills with simple, fun, and holiday-themed cutting paths.
✅ Pin Poking Practice: Strengthen finger muscles by tracing designs with a pushpin (great for pre-writing!).
✅ Hole Punching Practice: Punch along the gingerbread shapes to boost hand strength and focus.
✅ Dot Marker Practice: Add a colorful flare with dot markers to gingerbread pictures, promoting grip and coordination.
✅ Q-Tip Painting Practice: Dab festive designs with q-tips for a creative fine motor challenge.
Why You'll Love It
Make fine motor practice merry and bright with this Gingerbread Fine Motor Activities Pack!
Perfect for:
✔️ Teachers
✔️ Homeschool families
✔️ OT sessions
✔️ Holiday-themed centers
Ready to sprinkle some gingerbread fun into your classroom? Download now and watch your students grow and glow! ✨
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Valentines Day Penguin 2D Simple Color Cut and Paste Fine Motor Shape Craft-OT
By Beth Voight
Valentine's Penguin One Page Color, Cut, and Paste Craftivity
Students will love creating these adorable Valentine penguin crafts! These are one-page print and go crafts using simple shapes and thicker lines making it easier for little hands to cut. There are 2 penguin crafts, with 3-6 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
These activities are also included in a larger resource: Valentines Day 2D Simple Color Cut and Paste Fine Motor Shape Craft-OT
Included:
8 pages, with each craft having 1 page with larger gray outlined shapes and 1 page with black outlined shapes.
Penguin 1: 3 shapes to cut- 2 hearts and one oval.
Penguin 2: 6 total shapes to cut- 1 circle, and 5 hearts of various sizes
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.
WINTER SNOWFLAKE POPSICLE PADDLE POP PATTERNS - OT Fine Motor Skills
By All Therapy Resources
Get ready for a frosty blast of therapeutic fun with our "Snowflake Popsicle Stick Patterns" – the ultimate winter resource designed to be both engaging and skill-building!
Dive into a flurry of creativity with 10 different snowflake pattern mats that will become your go-to tool for therapy sessions packed with winter charm.
Boost coordination skills while having fun! As students visually process, plan, and manipulate popsicle sticks to create intricate snowflakes, they’ll be developing essential coordination abilities. This resource focuses on improving visual-motor skills, fine motor coordination, and cognitive abilities as students use problem-solving, creativity, and spatial awareness to craft their snowy designs.
Plus, we’ve included a Parent Information Tip Sheet to help parents better understand the development of visual-motor skills and fine motor coordination in children. This guide provides simple explanations and practical tips for supporting these skills at home, making this resource both fun and educational for students and their families.
Engage your students in a winter-themed activity that supports their growth while they enjoy creating their frosty masterpieces!
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COMMUNITY HELPER HATS - Fun and Educational Career Exploration for Kindergarten
By Just Be Creative Homeschooling
Are you looking for an engaging and educational activity to introduce young children to different community helpers and their roles? Our "Community Helper Hats" set is perfect for kindergarten career exploration. These printable hats provide a fun and interactive way for kids to learn about various community helpers while engaging in imaginative play.
Our Community Helper Hats include:
Each hat is designed to:
This resource is ideal for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers who want to provide a fun and educational activity for young children. It’s perfect for classroom lessons, homeschooling activities, or career day events.
Introduce your child to the world of community helpers with our Community Helper Hats. Download today to make career exploration a fun and educational experience for your kindergartener!
IN ADDITION, this resource includes a helpful tip sheet about "Child Development and Play Activities." Through this resource, parents will gain practical insights into how different types of play contribute to their child's overall development. The information sheet provides simple and engaging ideas for fostering cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth through play. By incorporating these activities, young learners can develop essential skills while enjoying the fun and creativity that play brings to their everyday lives.
Fine Motor PREWRITING MY 2D SHAPES BOOK Activities Trace Cut and Paste Kinder
By Jan Huebner Play2Grow
Students will be engaged in making, “My 2D Shapes Book”. Students color, trace, and cut & paste creating a keepsake while learning 2D shapes. One set of shapes is cut within a line of circles and the other is cut into thin lines. Color and black & white.
What you get:
Preschool/Kindergarten Learning Objectives:
Product Ideas:
Shapes:
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Superstar Alphabet & Letter Center Playdough Mats Uppercase & Lowercase Letters
By Your Educational Oasis
Bring hands-on learning to your classroom with these Superstar Alphabet and Letter Playdough Mats! Designed for early learners, these mats make practicing uppercase and lowercase letters both fun and engaging. Perfect for building fine motor skills, each mat features a bold outline of an alphabet letter, guiding students as they shape the letters with playdough.
These versatile letter playdough mats are ideal for reinforcing letter recognition, letter formation, and letter-sound connections through playdough fun. Simply print, laminate, and use them in literacy centers, for at-home learning, or as an engaging activity to support early literacy.
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Back to School Cutting Strips for Toddler Preschool, Scissor Practice
By Create Learn Inspire Grow
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these 4 pages to scissor practice Cutting Strips for Toddler , Preschool, Kindergarten PK2, PK3, PK4, Teachers and Homeshcool Parents to celebrate back to school , This resource is perfect for helping young children develop their scissor skills while enjoying a fun, themed activity .
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These cutting strips are perfect for both home and classroom use, providing a fun and practical way to celebrate the back-to-school season while building essential scissor skills. Download your copy today and watch your toddler's skills flourish!
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Fall-Themed Dot Marker Printables
By EJ the OT
Students that have difficulty using traditional coloring methods like, crayons or markers, will enjoy the use of Dot Stamp markers as a new coloring tool.
OT Therapeutic tip: This activity promotes eye hand coordination while using vision to guide the hand for accurate stamping on the circular dot.
Please enjoy these Fall inspired characters as a fun, seasonal Dot Stamp marker activity!
Thank you for downloading!
Elizabeth Johnston, OTR/L
Check out my Fall and Halloween dot sheets!!!
Alphabet Crafts 3D House Worksheets Letter F Activities & Letter Reinforcement
By Mrs Wates Teaching Creations
Create an engaging and educational experience with this exciting 3D Letter Ff House Craft pack. Perfect for back to school, alphabet crafts and Letter Recognition activities, these fun templates provide a hands on experience for your students. Suitable for kindergarten, preschool, and Year 1 classes. This pack consists of three template versions and a blank version for your students to draw their own pictures.
These templates can be used in a variety of ways. Ask your students to:
Your students will color, cut, glue, and fold the side pieces to bring these unique letter Ff houses to life. Cutting, coloring, and assembling the houses help improve fine motor skills. The maze helps develop problem-solving skills. Use these letter Ff 3D craft houses during phonics lessons to reinforce the sound of the letter f.
Teacher Tip: Enlarge the templates on A3 paper or card to make big houses for kindergarten students or preschool kids who struggle with cutting.
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Shapes Tracing Sheets, Math Worksheets For Kindergarten, Fine motor skills
By Truly Neat Printables
Shapes tracing worksheets are beneficial for pre-k and kindergarten students to have a good pencil control. This can help students to develop fine motor skills. It's a fun filled activity to keep them engaged.
This set includes :
18 pages, pdf format
Size (8x11.5 Inches)
These papers are for personal use only.
Restrictions: You are not allowed to share, resell or redistribute this product in their original format. You may not claim my work as your own.
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PBIS Board & Tokens | Dinosaurs | Preschool
By Ash Askelson
PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports) boards are a great way to visually track positive behaviors and rewards that a child is working towards.
Board, tokens, and blank reward boxes all included.
To ensure you can re-use the resource, it is suggested to cut, laminate and affix Velcro to all pieces.
Sensory Room Bundle: Sensory Activities, Rules, Visual Schedules, MORE
By Specifically Sped
Setup your sensory rom with ease using this Sensory Room Bundle. Take your sensory room to the next level with this bundle. Students and adults can quickly find sensory activities based on students needs.
Each items listed below is available in two fonts including a primary font.
Included:
★Sensory Room Rules Poster with visuals
★Mini SCHEDULE cards and the VISUALS that go with them
★Common Core Standards and TEKS to post in different areas of the room to display (because you are TEACHING when you're in your sensory room).
★Also, there are EIGHT SENSORY POSTERS (Auditory, Visual, Olfactory, Gustatory, Proprioceptive, Vestibular, and Tactile), all with indicators and activities to meet the sensory needs of each student.
You, your paras, and even substitutes will have access to a quick guide to determine how to help students with a sensory processing disorder IMMEDIATELY!
***These are recommendations for students with sensory needs but should never replace advice or orders from a doctor.
Stick It, Poke It, Dot It: Engaging Red Word Practice with Fine Motor Fun!
By Emily Juneau
The** Kindergarten Fine Motor IMSE OG Red Word Activity** is an essential resource designed to enhance the learning experience for young students, particularly in the domains of foundational reading skills and phonics. Specifically designed to complement the IMSE OG curriculum, these interactive worksheets make learning red words engaging while building essential fine motor skills.
Perfect for individual practice or small groups, these worksheets are ideal for supporting students with differentiated learning needs. Whether your goal is mastering red words, improving fine motor coordination, or both, Stick It, Poke It, Dot It ensures your students stay engaged and motivated to succeed!
This versatile tool is tailored to accommodate the diverse needs of both general education and special education classrooms, making it a must-have for any preschool, kindergarten, and special education educator.
How to Use:
Students will
Skills Worked On:
-Red Word Identification
-Fine Motor Development Practice
-"Tummy Time" that involves lying on their stomach while engaging in this activity to promote core strength, shoulder stability, and fine motor skills
How to use in your Classroom:
-Centers
-Extra Skill Practice in Intervention
-Independent Work
>>>Directions on how to use this resource
>>>List of linked items and pictures of items needed for the three pages.
>>> Video sample of each page completed by a student.
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By Creative Soul Printables
Make fine motor practice fun and spooky with these Halloween Themed Lacing Cards! Featuring 17 different designs, these oversized cards are perfect for little hands and provide a hands-on way to build essential skills.
Contents:
The Halloween Themed Lacing Cards set includes 17 unique Halloween designs, each featuring easy-to-see hole punch spots for teachers to prepare ahead of time. These cards are perfect for students to lace through with string or yarn, helping them develop their fine motor skills while engaging in a fun, seasonal activity. Teachers can print the cards with either 1 or 2 designs per page, and the 11x8.5-inch size makes the cards large enough for small hands to easily grasp and lace.
How the Product is Used:
Teachers will first print and hole punch the designated spots on each Halloween-themed object. Students will then use string, laces, or yarn to thread through the holes, practicing their fine motor skills in the process. With designs like ghosts, pumpkins, witches, and more, students will love the festive challenge of completing each lacing card. These are perfect for centers, quiet time activities, or even take-home practice.
Why They’ll Love This Product:
Teachers will appreciate the ease of preparing this activity, which offers a great way to keep students engaged while working on essential fine motor skills. The oversized, 11x8.5 inch cards are especially helpful for younger learners, making the activity manageable for preschoolers and kindergarteners. Students will enjoy the festive Halloween designs and the satisfaction of threading through the holes, building both concentration and coordination.
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