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How can a play dough recipe turn into a spring fine motor activity? Easy! All you have to do is add in a few creative extras and your child can start building her eye-hand coordination, dexterity and hand/finger muscle control skills. How Does Your Garden Grow? Play dough makes the perfect base for fine motor…
Sugar cubes can be used for colorful, sensory and fine motor activities your child will love. Whether it’s to build an igloo or make Valentine’s hearts, kids will have fun with all the different creative things that can be done with sugar cubes! Take a look at these top 25 play ideas with sugar cubes. Start with…
Winter fine motor activities do more than simply spread the love of the snowy season. They also help your child to build skills that include eye-hand coordination and dexterity! When it’s way too cold to go outside, keep the kiddos warm, sneak in some fabulous fine motor development and try out this mitten lacing activity….
Rubber bands are a lot of creative, colorful fun to experiment with. They’re also an excellent way to work those fine motor skills with little fingers. If you are looking for fun rubber band activities and games to play using a few other materials lying around your home, take a look at this list of amazing…
What’s in store for winter sensory play? Well, your kiddo isn’t about to step foot outside in the sub-zero temps. Or maybe you live where the palm trees loom and the weather is way too warm for it to snow. Either way, your child can still get in some serious sensory play, all with a…
We have come to the end of our A to Z Fine Motor Play series. For the letter Z we created a Zig Zag Fine Motor Sensory Bag using a zip-loc bag – plenty of z’s in this activity! Resources needed to make a Zig Zag Fine Motor Sensory Bag Ziploc Bag Acetone or Nail…
We are on our penultimate letter of the A to Z Fine Motor series. For the letter Y we opted to explore yarn. Not just any yarn though – yellow yarn. I wanted to see how my son would cope with wrapping yarn around an object. We created a Wooden Spool Puppets with Yellow Yarn…
We are nearly at the end of our A to Z Fine Motor Skills series. The letter X always causes issues as there are so few things that begin with that letter. After much deliberation we finally decided to create an X Marks The Spot Fine Motor Play activity. We would be experimenting to find…
The window is an under-used resource for play activities. There are so many benefits to playing on a window. Working on a vertical plane makes it easier for a child to coordinate both eye and hand movements because the hands are right in front of their eyes. This makes it easier for the child to…
As we come to the end of our A to Z Fine Motor Play series the letters of the alphabet become harder. Thankfully for the letter U, party cocktail umbrellas came to the rescue. I had never thought of using them as a fine motor tool until I tried to open one whilst I had…
