Winter Fine Motor Centers for Preschool and Kindergarten - FREEBIES

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I am so excited to finally have these adorable kits ready to share with you!

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In preschool, pre-k and kindergarten, we are working on so many fine motor skills with these printable activities.

This winter fine motor kit comes with both an activity book plus hands-on centers… the possibilities are endless.

Plus, I am sharing FREE printable activities on this blog post so you can see how much fun these kits are!

HOW TO USE THESE FINE MOTOR ACTIVITY KITS

The great news is that you probably already have most of these supplies!

What do you need?

Scissors
Glue sticks and/or bottle glue
Colored paper
Paint
Q-tips
Pattern blocks
Color popsicle sticks
Clothespins
Color pom poms
Circle stickers and/or bingo daubers

To organize and prep these activities, you’ll also need plastic trays or bins.

I use THESE trays absolutely love the quality and colors. Add them to your Amazon class wishlist!

I also use plastic 3-pronged folders ($0.50 ea) to make fine motor activity books for each child.

This winter themed bundle comes with 274 pages of printable activities.

There are SO many ways to use them.

I prefer to put the printables along with the simple supplies they need in a tray.

I can then place a tray each table group and that’s it!

Trays can also be placed in centers around the classroom or on a shelf where students can go choose an activity.

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These winter themed centers and activities practice so many important skills and are so easy to setup.

Students love the gingerbread, Christmas, snowflakes, snowmen, Valentine, groundhogs and other winter themes and pictures!

STUDENT FINE MOTOR ACTIVITY BOOK

Along with the centers shown above, these activity books are zero prep for you and students can practice their fine motor skills throughout the fall.

Simply print the 90 activity pages, hole punch and place in a 3-pronged folder or binder.

I really like using color coordinating folders, magazine bins and plastic trays.

With the links above, please note that the magazine bins come in a set of 12, and the trays are in a set of 8.

Also, with back to school sales, the plastic folders are only $.50 at most stores, so look there first!

This makes it so easy for both me and students to stay organized.

Each group of students has a color.

You can put activities just for the week in their folders, and add activities to their folders throughout the fall.

So many of these printables work on their pincer grasp… picking up small objects with their thumb and forefinger (or middle finger).

We love to use circle stickers on the dab + dot pages (see the pumpkin below) and using small bits of paper and tissue paper for the gluing activity helpers with their pincer grasp so much!

I also love using my pro click binding system too. It is a bit on the spendy side, but I use mine all the time so it is worth it to me.

The photos below show me binding my fall no prep booklets.

Preschool, pre-k and kindergarten students cannot remember what page they left off on.

Using sticky tabs helps them find the page they need very quickly if you decide to put the activity printables in a three prong folder or spiral.

Pincer Grasp + Fine Motor Tips

Now more than ever, children are starting preschool, pre-k and kindergarten lacking fine motor skills.

You will see so much improvement using these daily printables and hands-on activities.

Plus, the pattern blocks, popsicle sticks, and pom poms also work on this!

The correlation between these fine motor skills and pencil grasp is strong.

Children go through distinct stages with how they hold a crayon/pencil as they grow.

It is 100% normal for young children to “struggle” with holding a pencil correctly with the normal tri-finger grasp… this requires a lot of practice for many kiddos!