Students participate in developmental activities. In this developmental lesson, students listen to the story "The Little Red House" and participate in activities that develop gross motor coordination and fine motor coordination skills.

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.

Young scientists demonstrate how to move objects. In this fine motor instructional activity, students use various objects such as dice, erasers, and soft balls and move them using the proper device.

How much fun can you have teaching adolescents about nutrition? Try taking them to work with preschoolers for an hour! This 4-day mini-unit about the importance of nutrition early in life culminates with a field trip. It was written for...

In this play dough counting cards worksheet, students develop fine motor skills as they fill in the spaces on the cards numbered 1-20.

Students construct Santas. In this holiday lesson, students demonstrate how to cut with scissors and glue with glue sticks to create their own Santas from paper and felt. Students work on developing their fine motor skills.

Tis' the season to develop children's fine motor skills with this simple handwriting worksheet.

Build fine motor, spatial, and drawing skills by having the class complete the other half of a portrait. They choose an image of a face from a magazine, then attempt to draw the other half of the face as accurately as they can. Two book...

Have your class participate in a variety of sports and craft activities using this resource. With sports as the theme, learners work on art projects. Students create soccer ball prints, a three dimensional football, and a sports collage.

Finger painting is fun, but finger painting with sounds is really fun. Finger painting is important for many reasons, it can help children develop a sense of creativity, foster social skills and emotional skills, it helps develop large...

Make origami ducks with your class to reinforce geometry concepts and vocabulary; develop fine motor and visual translation skills; and enrich study of Japanese culture, the pond habitat, or migration. Create a whole group "worksheet"...

Oh no! The kittens have lost their mittens! Help young learners develop fine-motor skills by drawing straight lines from three kittens to their pair of mittens. Use this to show young learners that things move left to right, just like...

This resource consists entirely of number cards (quarter-page) from 1 to 100. Copy them and have primary graders cut out to use for a variety of counting uses and games. All that cutting with scissors will develop fine motor skills. 

When little ones make things out of clay they're not just exercising their creativity, they are following directions, developing fine motor skills, and building a sense of pride in their work. First graders use the pinch-and-score...

First graders practice addition and subtraction concepts using gross and fine motor movement. Working in small groups, 1st graders play a game to practice their addition and subtraction facts through gross and fine motor movement...

Students practice the fine motor skills of cutting and rolling as they make a whole class Thanksgiving wreath. They cut strips of paper and roll them on a pencil to make curls to add to a turkey wreath.

Young scholars make homemade puppet characters that have faces that tell it all. In this early childhood dramatic play instructional activity, students create stick puppet characters that encourage language and story development,...

Students discuss stars and constellations; they experiment with star stickers, chalk, and construction paper to create constellations, while developing fine motor skills.

Learners explore size relationships as they collect pictures of the small things in their world. In this early childhood math and literacy lesson plan, students gain an understanding of size differences and develop fine-motor and...

Why is "ambulance" written backwards on emergency vehicles? Young geometers apply principles of symmetry to translate words written backwards. See if your school or district subscribes to Jobland, where you can view a clip that explains...

A great way to recall the parts of a flower is to make one. Little learners create sunflowers out of paint and paper plates. They also discuss and label the various parts of their flowers. 

Practice printing, matching, tracing, cutting, coloring, and more with a packet full of penguins! Allow these perky winter animals to help your kids out as they work on these skills.

Students social skills blossom as they work together on this mural-making activity. For this early childhood visual arts lesson, students develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, language, and social skills as they work together to plan,...

Students create a classroom zoo for large-group science learning. In this early childhood science lesson, students develop their language, science, creativity, and fine motor skills as they research zoo animals and create classroom...