Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers

In the past week, C and I have been doing many activities that involve fine motor skills, so I thought to do a compilation of these activities in this post. Here's a list at a glance:

• Scissor Skills
• Beads and Lacing Fun!
• Sorting Colours
• Cut and Paste
• Finger Painting

Read on for the details!


Scissor Skills

Now that C is interested in using the scissors, I've come up with a few scissor skills activities for her practice. She gets more confident each time she does this! 

You can download the free Scissor Skills Activity here.

Beads and Lacing Fun!

Another great activity to train our kids' fine motor skills is for them to lace beads. Nowadays, we can find a wide variety of beads in various colours and shapes for kids to lace and make bracelets/ necklaces as they wish. You can even find some beads with alphabets on them and get our children to form names or words! Please note: this activity is suitable for children aged 3 years and above due to possible choking hazard.

Other than lacing beads, we can also train their fine motor skills by asking them to place the beads into the tiny spouts of old drink bottles. Thereafter, these bottles become great musical instruments! Shake them up like maracas!

In a previous post about life skills, I had also shared about some lacing activities, to prep our preschoolers to lace their own shoes in future.

You can download the free lacing activity here.

Sorting Colours

If you happen to have lots of colourful beads, all you need is an old biscuit container with lots of compartments to do this fun sorting activity! Sorting things by colours really helps with their concentration and focus too! Please note: this activity is suitable for children aged 3 years and above due to possible choking hazard.

C had tons of fun sorting the colours of yummy M&Ms too! You can read about it in my previous post on Activities for Preschoolers!

Cut and Paste

This activity can be done together with the Scissor Skills activity. Kids can help to cut out the various components, apply the glue and stick the parts.

Piecing together parts of a train!

At the same time, our preschoolers can try their hand at using a hole puncher. This will help them get better at using different tools.

C using a hole puncher to punch out red circles.
The red circles can be pasted on as apples on the tree!

Sticking on the apples!

Happy with her apple tree!

You can download the fun Cut and Paste Activity here!

Finger Painting

Finger painting is really fun as the creations are endless! Let our child's imagination run wild, and they will come up with the most amazing ideas. We used a couple of products for our finger painting activity.

The Most Amazing Thumb Doodles Book by Klutz. 

Washable ink pads from DIY Finger Painting kit.

C makes finger prints and adds on details
with a marker.

We came up with a picture of clouds in the blue sky,
green trees, and various animals!

There are so many ways our children can learn and develop their skills. Each and every day is really a chance to learn! And I hope these will give you some ideas to have fun with your kids.