Early Childhood Education
Christmas Lesson Plan: Gross Motor & Fine Motor Skills
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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Cut and Paste School
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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Fine Motor Skills
For this health worksheet, students find the terms in the word search that are applied to the application of fine motor skills. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Trace the Train Track!
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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Fancy Sunglasses
Create extravagant, colored sunglasses with your class! In 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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Identifying the Patterns
What's the pattern? Preschoolers examine six visual patterns and continue them to the end of the page (drawing). Other than fine motor skills practice, these patterns also help prepare youngsters for letter shapes. You can even point out...
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Fine Motor
In this fine motor skills activity, students trace each dashed line with their pencil. There are 12 line strokes to trace.
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Christmas Cutting Fun
In 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 worksheet,...
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Fill the Wheelbarrow
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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Developmental Strokes: Pre-Writing Worksheet
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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Preschool Coloring Page-Clown Pyramid
This coloring activity designed for pre-schoolers features a picture of a pyramid of clowns. There are many small parts and patterns which will require effort and adept fine motor skills to complete, however the lively theme should keep...
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Finger Puppets
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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Letter Aa
In this letter recognition coloring worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase A and lowercase letter a.
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Letter Dd
In this letter recognition activity activity, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase D and lowercase d.
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Letter Tt
In this letter recognition activity worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase T and lowercase t.
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Letter Uu
In this letter recognition activity worksheet, students use their fine motor skills to color the uppercase U and lowercase u.
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Practice Cutting Lines
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted zig zag lines with scissors.
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Cutting Zig Zag Lines
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted zig zag lines with scissors.
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Cutting Straight Lines
For this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 4 dotted straight lines with scissors.
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Practice Cutting Lines 2
In this practice cutting lines learning exercise, students use their fine motor skills as the perpendicular lines with scissors.
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Cutting Curved Lines
In this practice cutting lines activity, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted curved lines with scissors.
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Practice Cutting Lines 3
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted curved lines with scissors.
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Creating Letter-shape Patterns #2
Before learners become writers they need to feel comfortable moving a pencil from left to right in various patterns. Use these exercises to give budding printers some fine motor practice. They complete three patterns by tracing a dotted...
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Giraffe: Visual Perception and Fine Motor Skills
In this visual perception/fine motor skills worksheet, students trace the broken lines on a picture of a giraffe, then finish coloring the picture.