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Cut and Paste Alphabet
Not only do kids get to practice alphabetizing, they also get to hone their fine motor skills with an activity that asks them to cut out squares containing a letter and an image that begins with that letter, and then to paste the...
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Writing Worksheets
Here are 26 templates for writing worksheets that permit learners to practice printing each letter of the alphabet, and complete other activities such as counting, drawing, coloring, recognizing letters, matching number and name,...
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Girl
Invite your pupils to play dress up while practicing some fine motor skills. Learners cut out the girl and her clothes and then past their favorite shirt, shoes, and bow onto the doll.
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The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts
Young scholars 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...
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Fine Motor Skills-Intermediate
In this fine motor skills worksheet, students cut along dotted and solid lines to create narrow strips of paper. A website reference for additional resources is included.
Early Childhood Education
Shape It Up!
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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Drawing Curvy Lines
Can your youngsters trace a curvy line? Have them guide their pencil over part of a loop, then finish the line on the right side of the page. They can fill the rest of the page with their own curvy lines. A great way to work on fine...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: A Funny Hat Show
Learners create unique hats. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a group celebration to foster social skills, creativity, and fine- and gross-motor development as they put on a funny fashion show with the hats they...
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Summer Health Activity: Visiting the Doctor
Students play with dolls to act out feelings about a common experience. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use social, language, and fine motor skills while developing an understanding of their own bodies and the role of an...
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Sponge Bob Day!
Students explore and practice a variety of motor skills. In this physical education movement lesson, students rotate between 6 stations. Each station provides a Sponge Bob related activity which requires the children to use fine and...
Special Olympics
Walking & Running
Here's a fun collection of activities for helping youngsters develop body awareness, walking and running skills, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and adaptive physical education skills such as following directions.
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Alligator
Who knew an alligator could have so many different looks? For this activity, youngsters choose a set of eyes out of eight choices and cut and paste them onto an alligator. They color their creatures after the eyes have been attached.
Kelly's Kindergarten
Kelly's Kindergarten: T Words
You can't spell alphabet without the letter T! Focus on this letter with an activity in which pupils determine which images are of items that begin with the letter T. They then cut out the pictures, paste them onto the activity, and...
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Alphabet Apple Tree
Here's a cut-and-paste activity that lets kids practice both their fine motor skills as well as alphabetizing. They cut out 26 apples, write one letter on the fruit, color it, and paste their work on an apple tress.
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Tracing Practice with Straight Lines
In this tracing practice with straight lines activity, pupils trace over 6 thick lines to improve fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
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Make a Natural Weaving
Students use natural materials and yarn to create weavings. In this natural weaving lesson, students find large branches to act as the loom, use other natural objects to act as designs within the weave, and use fine motor skills to wrap...
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Add It Up Alligators
Students strengthen shape and pattern recognition, fine-motor and perceptual skills, encouraging imagination, play and sense of self within a group
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Fun With Scissors
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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Scissor Activities
In this fine motor skills worksheet, students complete three cutting with scissors activities. For example, students cut out stripes for a bumble bee and cut the end of a kittens scarf.
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Activity Plan 3-4: It's a Zoo in Here!
Students create a classroom zoo for large-group science learning. In this early childhood science lesson plan, students develop their language, science, creativity, and fine motor skills as they research zoo animals and create classroom...
Perkins School for the Blind
The Country Egg
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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Summer Safety Activity: Time to Tidy Up
Young scholars find that cleaning up can be easy. In this early childhood lesson, students practice fine motor skills while making their classroom more safe. Young scholars create large storage boxes.
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Summer Fun Activity: Have a Picnic
Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.
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Developing Handwriting Skills for Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Here is a resource packed with strategies to help individuals with ASD improve their handwriting skills. Intended for the teacher or specialist, the resource provides background information on reasons learners with ASD have difficulty...