Fine Motor Morning Bins for August

Hey Everyone! It’s time to get those fine motor muscles working! The Fine Motor Morning Bins for August seek to help your kiddos do just that!

This activity pack contains a large collection of printable activities to help develop fine motor skills. The activities involve the use of an assortment of manipulatives, which will keep your kiddos engaged as they cut, thread, paste, roll, build, pin, hole punch, color and much more.

Let’s talk a little about the importance of fine motor development. By strengthening the muscles in their hands, fingers, and arms, children gain the ability to tackle daily tasks and self-care routines with ease. From learning to button a shirt to writing with a pencil, these skills pave the way for a lifetime of independence and dexterity. Plus, with improved finger and hand coordination, children can excel at physical activities and sports. These activities not only build strength, but also stimulate their cognitive development by honing their focus and ability to manipulate small objects.

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The activities included are best suited for use for children in Preschool, Pre-kindergarten, Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten (Prep). All supplies required to use these worksheets are listed on the ‘Introduction’ page under ‘Directions of Use’. If you do not have the listed manipulatives available, feel free to improvise with whatever you do have similar, that can still have the same learning outcome of the activity.

1. Hole Punch Cards

The hole punch card activities are excellent for small muscle building and hand-eye co-ordination. It requires the kiddos to use physical strength to push down onto the puncher to punch the holes, as well as good finger and hand grip to hold and control the puncher over the correct spaces to be punched.

2. Cutting Practice Cards

There are many cutting practice cards.

3. Mystery Pictures

Dot painting is super fun and colorful and such a simple way to promote fine motor development.

4. Q-Tip Painting

Kiddos will use cottons swabs and some paint, or glue and glitter to complete the activities.

5. Pokey Pin Activity

For the next activity, children will use a large push pin to create several images.

6. Cut and Paste

Then they will do some cutting and gluing as they also sequence some pictures.

7. Lacing Cards

Lacing cards are always fun and great for eye-hand coordination.

8. Patterns

Next, kids build the pattern on each card using beads or any other colored items you have on hand.

9. Mazes

Instead of laminating the maze cards, you can slip them into a plastic pocket like the one pictured below.

10. Missing Colors

Place the “Missing Colors” activity into a plastic pocket and use with erasable markers. Or you could use small beads, sequins, pom-poms, etc.

11. Play Dough Activity Cards

Some play dough activity cards are included. Children roll play dough snakes and use them to make the image on the card.

12. Lego Building Brick Activity Cards

Building Brick picture activities promote excellent hand-eye co-ordination and great fine motor skills as they must figure out and use spatial awareness to build the picture as shown, onto the brick. This particularly will require some patience and persistence if they do not get it right the first go.

13. Counting Blocks Activity Cards

As with the building brick activity, children will create several items using counting blocks.

14. Pattern Blocks Activity Cards

Pattern blocks are always fun!

15. Pom-Pom Picture Activity Cards

Then there are some pom-pom pictures to recreate.

16. Geoboard Activity Cards

Last, some Geoboard activity cards are included.

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Happy teaching!