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
Kids Love This Scented Fine Motor Pumpkin Activity for Preschool
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
Pumpkin Geoboard STEM to Try this Fall
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
How to Set Up a Fun and Simple Christmas Engineering Activity
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
Ribbon Weaving Art with Kids
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
Book-Inspired Rainbow Sensory Bin for Kids
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
Snowball Names Fine Motor Literacy Activity
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
Candy Heart Breaking Fine Motor Activity
Welcome to the “Little Heartbreakers” blog hop, led by Devany of Still Playing School and Laura of LalyMom. My preschoolers and I had a lot of fun with a heart-themed fine motor activity. I know Valentine’s Day isn’t until next month, but I wanted to test everything out before trying it on a larger scale. Breaking HeartsKeep Reading
Super Simple Apple Fine Motor Color Matching Game
We had some fun earlier this fall during a preschool apple theme! The kiddos really enjoyed this apple color matching game that we played using some of our colorful wooden spools. Full disclosure – it’s not so much a “game” . . . but kids love calling all kinds of activities games, so I rolledKeep Reading
Dyeing Wooden Spools for Fine Motor Skills Activities
Over the summer, I came upon bagfuls of small wooden spools at a local craft store. I’m always on the lookout for materials for my pre-k classroom, so I picked up a couple. Looking at them, I decided they’d be great for a variety of fine motor skills activities for my students. Related: Dyed WoodKeep Reading