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Different Ways to Develop Fine Motor Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Adjust your everyday routine to efficiently improve fine motor skills in your classroom.
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Activity
Positively Autism

Fine Motor Skills for the Home or Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Put coins in a piggy bank. Thread a shoelace through straws. Take a nut off and place it back on a bolt. Help kids develop their fine motor skills with this series of activities.
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App
BinaryLabs

Dexteria Jr. - Fine Motor Skill Development for Toddlers

For Students Pre-K - K
Preschoolers and toddlers will love playing these three fun, interactive games. Parents, teachers, and therapists will love watching these young app users develop their fine motor skills as they play.
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Early Childhood Education

Christmas Lesson Plan: Gross Motor & Fine Motor Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Practice gross and fine motor skills with fun Christmas- and holiday-themed activities. These holiday lessons include songs, games, and other engaging activities for both gross and fine motor skills. Kids will love pinning the nose on...
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Kids Can Have Fun

Cut and Paste School

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Perfect fine motor skills and hone shape-matching skills with a hands-on activity. Youngsters cut out each school-related image along the dotted lines and then paste the images into the correct places on the following page.
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Worksheet
Positively Autism

Trace the Train Track!

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Learners with autism develop their fine motor skills with an activity that asks them to trace Travis the Train's track
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PPT
University of New Mexico

Understanding Motor Planning Deficits in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Packet with possibilities, a helpful presentation is designed to provide information about motor planning deficits in learners with autism spectrum disorder. The presentation also models activities that improve planning and develop motor...
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Pre-k Pages

Fire Engine Alphabet Clothespin Activity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Weeoou weeoou! What's that sound? It's the alphabet fire truck! Cover the letters of the alphabet and fire engines with a fun letter-matching game.
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Printables
Big Little Company

The Little Red Hen Activity Sheets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Complement your lessons on "The Little Red Hen" with this colorful collection of supplementary activities. The packet includes a maze, several word puzzles, cutting and pasting practice, and more. 
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Lesson Plan
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Hinges I, Hinges II

For Teachers K
Students use their bodies in daily activities, by promoting a regular routine of using large and small motor skills, personal space, and boundary awareness. They move a scarf to the rhythm of the different kinds of music the teacher...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Christmas Cutting Fun

For Students K
For this fine motor skills worksheet, students practice cutting along a dotted, straight line until they reach the picture of a Christmas symbol. On the second worksheet, students practice cutting on a jagged line. In the third...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fancy Sunglasses

For Students K - 1st
Create extravagant, colored sunglasses with your class! For this arts and crafts activity, young artists color and cut out three pairs of sunglasses. After they have finished preparing their frames, they glue colored cellophane to their...
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Worksheet
Lincoln Public Schools

Developmental Strokes: Pre-Writing Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young writers develop their fine motor skills one stroke at a time with this simple tracing worksheet. Looking at pictures of eight basic figures ranging from horizontal and vertical lines to circles and triangles, children practice...
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Tapps Tecnologia da Informação

Left or Right?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help your young learners learn their left from their right and develop visual discrimination and fine motor skills with this fun, interactive, educational game.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fill the Wheelbarrow

For Students Pre-K - K
Practice filling a wheelbarrow with leaves with this arts and crafts template. Learners cut out and color 10 leaves, a wheelbarrow, and a rake. There are no further directions. This could be used to develop counting and fine motor...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beach Towel Cutting Activity

For Students K - 1st
In this art worksheet, students follow the directions to make person lying on a beach towel. They use their fine motor skills to cut a fringe on paper to look like a beach towel. They color and cut out a picture of themselves in their...
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Curated OER

Finger Puppets

For Students K - 2nd
Develop fine motor skills and put on a play with these finger puppets! Using this worksheet, learners color, cut out, and glue together finger puppets. There are 4 puppets: a girl, boy, dog, and a lion. As an extension activity, you...
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Printables
Curated OER

Letter Dd

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this letter recognition activity worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase D and lowercase d.
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Printables
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Letter Tt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this letter recognition activity worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase T and lowercase t.
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Printables
Curated OER

Letter Uu

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this letter recognition activity worksheet, learners use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase U and lowercase u.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mother's Day Gift Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop their fine motor skills as they make a craft for Mother's Day. In this crafts lesson, students make a craft including bookmarks, coupon books, cards, bath salts, and magnets.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Time Capsule and Other End Of The Year Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills as they use scissors and other materials to make a time capsule. In this time capsule lesson, students use paper, scissors, glue, and other materials to develop these skills.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dragon Maze: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Skills

For Students K - 2nd
In this visual perception and fine motor skills worksheet, students "help the dragon get to the castle," completing a maze activity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technoartist

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the Microsoft paint program to examine artwork styles and recognize certain features. In this graphic art lesson, students incorporate computer technology with visual arts while acquiring basic computer knowledge....