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Fall Cutting Strips and Tracing Printable

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Fall-themed printable strips for preschool with text that reads fall cutting and fine motor strips.

Use these fall cutting strips for scissor skills and fine motor practice in a variety of ways. I think they’re a great addition to your other fun fall activities for preschoolers. You can sign up to receive a copy of the fall strips in your inbox at the bottom of this post. Related: Free PreschoolKeep Reading

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Printable Halloween Tracing and Cutting Strips

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Mini erasers and dry erase markers with fine motor printables with text that reads Halloween tracing printables.

Young children can use these Halloween tracing strips to practice their fine motor skills in a variety of ways. What a great addition to the other Halloween activities for preschoolers you’ve got planned! You can grab your own set via the form at the bottom of this post. Related: Easy Halloween Activities Using Mini ErasersKeep Reading

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: Fine Motor, Free Printable, Halloween, Mini Erasers

Free Apple Printable Numbers for One-to-One Practice

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pinnable image of three different images of apple number cards being used with the text apple printable numbers

These apple printable numbers are perfect for exploring one-to-one correspondence and fine motor skills! We use them as part of our preschool apple theme, but I bet the kids would love this activity any time during the year. Are you following my Apple Theme Pinterest board? This activity came about after we created a scented appleKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Apples, Fall, Fine Motor, Free Printable

Free Printable Easter Fine Motor and Cutting Strips

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collage of easter-themed cutting printables with mini erasers and text that reads free printable easter fine motor strips

The kids can give their little fingers a workout with these free printable Easter fine motor strips. Be sure to add them to your repertoire of Easter activities for toddlers and preschoolers. Related: Free Printable Bunny Shape Mats It’s so important to let young children explore a wide variety of fine motor activities. The pointKeep Reading

Filed Under: Literacy Tagged With: Easter, Fine Motor, Free Printable

Kids Love This Scented Fine Motor Pumpkin Activity for Preschool

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scented pumpkin activity for preschool kids

This scented pumpkin activity for preschool works on children’s fine motor skills while engaging their senses. It’s one of our favorite preschool pumpkin activities! Related: 60+ Fall Activities for Preschoolers My students consistently love our scented “tiny apples”, so I decided to create a pumpkin version. It’s always fun to build upon materials and ideas that reallyKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Fall, Fine Motor, Halloween, Pumpkins

Pumpkin Geoboard STEM to Try this Fall

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Hands-on pumpkin math with a pumpkin geoboard - The kids always love this geoboard pumpkin STEM activity

Making a pumpkin geoboard is an amazing way to explore pumpkin STEM concepts with the kids. Be sure to add it to your preschool pumpkin activities this fall! These geoboard pumpkins turn the traditional geoboard concept into a three-dimensional math experience kids love getting their hands on! I love that the children can explore soKeep Reading

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: Fall, Fine Motor, Halloween, Pumpkins

How to Set Up a Fun and Simple Christmas Engineering Activity

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Easy and fun Christmas engineering in preschool

This Christmas engineering activity was a huge hit with my preschoolers! It’s a simple, colorful engineering activity for kids to get into during the hustle of the holidays. We had a blast as the kids planned and built with some fun materials. Definitely one of our favorite Christmas activities for preschoolers. Related: Engineering Activities forKeep Reading

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Christmas, Fine Motor, Glitter

Ribbon Weaving Art with Kids

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My 2014-2015 preschool class had so much fun creating canvas art throughout the year. Before the school year ended, we decided to use some ribbons on canvas to make this fun weaving art project. We used ribbons leftover from our egg baskets, so the weaving has a spring-like feel to it. Are you following my Kids’Keep Reading

Filed Under: Art and Crafts, Early Learning Tagged With: Fine Motor

Book-Inspired Rainbow Sensory Bin for Kids

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Here at Fun-A-Day, I write a lot about sensory activities for preschoolers. Kiddos can learn and practice so much as they participate in sensory play, and they LOVE getting into a good sensory bin! Here’s a simple sensory activity based on Karma Wilson’s book Bear Sees Colors. colorful sensory activity for preschoolers to explore Affiliate links areKeep Reading

Filed Under: Sensory Tagged With: Book Club Play Dates, Fine Motor, rainbows

Snowball Names Fine Motor Literacy Activity

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Add these snowball names to your collection of winter activities for preschoolers! Be sure to check out Sugar Aunts’ fine motor snowmen. It looks like a ton of fun for the kiddos! Plus, it had glitter. While I love our snowball names, there was no glitter involved. Yet. 🙂 Related: Preschool Winter Crafts snowball names is aKeep Reading

Filed Under: Literacy Tagged With: Fine Motor, Names, snow, Winter

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