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Add It Up Alligators

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars strengthen shape and pattern recognition, fine-motor and perceptual skills, encouraging imagination, play and sense of self within a group
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Shape It Up!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The best way to understand shapes is to make them. Young geometers explore basic shapes through a variety of gross motor and fine motor activities. Shape sorting, singing songs about shapes, and eating shape snacks are just a few of the...
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Integrated Social Studies and PE Fine Motor Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study the Civil War and Indiana's participation in the war. In groups, they choose a person from the Civil War and create a "bio bottle" of that person. They use fine motor skills to create and dress a model of that...
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Fun With Scissors

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice cutting with scissors. In this fine motor skills lesson, students cut out various shapes from colored paper. Students place their cut-outs into a bag to bring home.
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Make a Natural Weaving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use natural materials and yarn to create weavings. In this natural weaving instructional activity, students find large branches to act as the loom, use other natural objects to act as designs within the weave, and use fine motor...
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Perkins School for the Blind

The Country Egg

For Teachers K - 6th
Because most children with visual impairments don't reach and grab things at a young age the way sighted children do, they need additional supports to build up their fine motor skills. Here, they work on the pincer grasp, using their...
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Time Capsule and Other End Of The Year Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners 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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Holiday Ideas: Snowman

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this fine motor skills lesson, learners cut and paste items onto a snowman with no help from their teacher.Ā  Students will use items, such as toothpicks, to help them glue small pieces.Ā  Learners distiguish between small, medium, and...
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Snowflakes

For Teachers K
Students use their listening skills in order to follow diretions to create a paper snowflake. They listen as the directions are read, use their scissors and create a snowflake using a cofffee filter. Students practice using their fine...
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Clip-Away!

For Teachers Pre-K
Students demonstrate how to cut paper using scissors. In this fine motor skills lesson, students use paper strips and scissors to practice their cutting skills. Students put their clippings into an envelope to bring home.
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Zig Zag Lines for Cutting Practice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this zig zag lines for cutting practice worksheet, students practice small motor skills by cutting along the dark zig zag lines.
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Kiz Club

"K" Sound

For Students K - 1st Standards
Kids will enjoy cutting out and pasting these paper kites! They'll have to be careful though, since they are only meant to cut and paste the kites that have images on them that begin with the letter K. Some tracing practice is also...
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How Do Airplanes Fly?

For Teachers K
Students study the concepts of air pressure, air speed, and gravity as it relates to airplanes.Ā  For this how do airplanes fly lesson plan, students study the basicsĀ of flight. Then reinforce their fine motor skills by creating airplane...
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Rectangles in Rectangle

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this rectangle worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to cut out 4 rectangles and then paste them on a larger rectangle template.
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Noah's Ark: Cut and Paste

For Students Pre-K
A very simple Noah's Ark cut and paste activity, this worksheet requires young learners to use their fine motor skills to cut out four pieces that are used to assemble the picture of an elephant which is then pasted on the Noah's Ark...
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Drawing with Carl

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Who is Carl? Carl is a little monster that will help your learners draw and create in any way imaginable. Get those kids to activate creative and imaginative thinking skills with a really fun app. There are endless options that can...
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Fly the Young Birds Back to Their Mother

For Students Pre-K - K
In this early childhood prewriting skills worksheet, students use fine motor skills to trace the dotted lines in order to join baby birds with the mother bird.
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Making Santas

For Teachers K
Students construct Santas. In this holiday lesson, students demonstrate how to cut with scissors and glue with glue sticks to create their own Santas from paper and felt. Students work on developing their fine motor skills.
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Fishy Yarn Printing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use crayons and yarn to create an underwater scene while building fine motor skills.
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Horse Coloring Sheet

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In this horse coloring worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the picture of a single horse. The worksheet may be used in a variety of classroom activities.
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Frog Coloring Sheet

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In thisĀ frog coloring worksheet, learners use their fine motor skills to color the picture of a single frog. The worksheet may be used in a variety of classroom activities.
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Zig-Zag Tracing

For Students Pre-K
In this tracing worksheet, students trace the zig-zag pattern to thunder and a kangaroo's path. The objective is to enhance students' fine motor skills.
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Play Dough Counting Cards

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this play dough counting cards worksheet, students develop fine motor skills as they fill in the spaces on the cards numbered 1-20.

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