Fine Motor Skills

Children use their fine motor skills when writing, holding small items, buttoning clothing, turning pages, eating, cutting with scissors, and using computer keyboards. Fine motor skills involve the small muscles of the hand, fingers, and wrist.

1. How to Make and Use Tweezers and Tongs with Miss Riel!

3. Dyed Pasta Necklace Craft

4. Shadow Puppets

5. How to Draw- Mat Man

6. How to Draw- Butterfly

7. How to Draw- Flower

8. Binocular Craft

9. Color Matching using Easter Eggs with Miss Morghan

10. Wiggling fingers working hard to get strong.

11. Coin/Token Flip

Line up coins or tokens in a row. You can time yourself or race another person to see how fast you can flip the coins one at a time. You can use coins, tokens or even small pieces of paper. If flipping the coins is too hard, try just picking up a small object one at a time and putting them into a small container. The smaller the object/container the harder the challenge.

12. Flower Painting with Cotton Swabs

13. How to Draw a Mother's Day Folding Surprise


14. Free Coloring Pages


15. Gerald and Piggie Paper Plate Craft

Directions:

* First have your child cut your silver & pink tissue paper into small squares Keep colors separate in two different piles. If you don't have colored tissue paper, color white paper grey and pink with a crayon, marker, or colored pencil instead.

* Now take your two paper plates and put a good amount of glue all over them.

* Have children place the tissue paper all over one paper plate and the pink tissue paper on the other, until completely covered.

* While they are working on that, cut out facial features for Piggie & Elephant. Have your child cut out as much as they are willing. To make it easier, hihghlight the lines they should cut on with a yellow marker.

* To finish off the Paper Plate Elephant & Piggie Kid Craft – glue the facial feature pieces to the paper plates and display proudly!


16. Ice Cream Cone Craft

First have your child draw a triangle (cone) shape and a circle (ice cream) shape on plain paper. Next use a fork to paint the cone part of the drawing. After that cut or tear colored paper (tissue paper or construction paper) into small pieces and glue then into circle part of drawing. Enjoy!

17. Constellation Craft

  1. Gather your materials. You need black or dark blue paper, some white or yellow chalk or crayons and some sticker stars. (if you don't have stickers you can draw the stars)

  2. Draw any picture you want using the chalk/crayon on the dark paper.

  3. Once the picture is done add your stars, don't forget to name your constellation!