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Fine Motor Skills Bundle: Holidays & Seasons
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Fine Motor Skills Bundle: Holidays & Seasons
This bundle pack includes 10 months (40-weeks) of thematic hands-on activities organized into monthly packs. Each monthly pack includes 60 pages of varied resources, organized weekly themes based on seasons and holidays. Each sheet is designed to build key fine motor skills or to strengthen small motor muscles. The majority of the activities are considered non-consumable, meaning they can be reused by placing them inside page protectors. The remaining pages of each week are considered consumable as they require cutting, gluing, dabbing and poking. Many pages are adaptable if you do not have the required manipulatives. For example, you can have students color with crayons instead of dabbing or building. A full list of suggested materials is found below, as well as a weekly overview of the included activities.
Table of Contents Suggested Materials:
September • Geoboard & Bands • Playdough • Snap Cubes • Puzzle Blocks • Push Pin Dowel • Dab & Dot Markers • Pom-Poms • 10mm Wiggle Eyes • Page Protectors • Popsicle Sticks • Cuisenaire™ Rods • LEGO ™ Bricks
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
GEOBOARD Students use rubber bands to create the
pictures on a geoboard. Each sheet features a letter of the alphabet alongside a thematic
picture.
Materials: 5x5 Geoboard, Rubberbands
PUZZLE PICTURES Students use puzzle blocks to create thematic
pictures. Student count up the amount of blocks they used for each shape, and report
the totals below.
Materials: Pattern Blocks
MAZES Students solve the mazes and follow the
prompts. Each page features thematic mazes alongside a tracing activity or prompt.
CUISENAIRE™ ROD PICTURES Students use colorful centimeter rods to build thematic pictures. Students are asked to color the rod key to show how many rods they used
of each color.
Materials: Cuisenaire™ Rods
PLAY DOUGH Students use play dough to complete the
prompts. Prompts require students to form and shape the dough to make pictures, solve
problems, or complete the scene.
Materials: Play dough
BRICK BUILDERS Students use LEGO ™ or other classic building
bricks to recreate these thematic pictures. Students work on reading, writing, planning,
addition, subtraction, sorting & stacking while completing the final picture.
Materials: LEGO™ or other classic brick
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES (cont…)
TRACING Students trace the pictures with colored pencils or fine tip markers. Each page features thematic content and prompts students to complete the
pictures.
POM PICTURE 1 Students use pom-poms to recreate the
picture. For added difficulty have students use plastic tweezers to pick up
the poms.
Materials: Pom-Poms
CUBE CREATIONS Students use counting cubes to make thematic pictures These cubes can be snapped together. If you do not have
cubes, students can color the squares in the grid to match the picture.
Materials: Snap Cubes
LISTENING SKILL SHEETS Teachers read the directions aloud as the
student listens carefully to finish each task. Tasks involve fine motor skills such as
tracing, drawing, coloring, and more to decipher prepositional clues.
CUT & SORT CROWNS Each crown features a theme alongside a 4-step sequencing pattern. Students cut out the pictures and glue them in the correct
order. Students write their name, color the pictures, then staple the sides to make a
crown.
SPECIAL SKILLS SHEETS Students work on a variety of different
skills including dot-2-dots, pin & poke, q-tip painting, and scissor skills. Students follow the instructions to build key fine
motor skills.
Materials: Pin Dowel, Q-tips, Paint
DAB & DOT** Students use daubers to dab by number in order
to reveal the mystery picture. (Hold at a distance to help students see the pictures)
Materials: Dab & Dot Markers
POPSICLE STICK CRAFTIVITY These crafty projects are perfect for
little hands. Students color, glue, and cut to make fun, thematic pictures. Have glue, glitter, wiggle eyes and
pipe cleaners on hand.
Materials: Popsicle Sticks, Markers POM PICTURE 2**
Students use pom-poms to complete the picture. For added difficulty have students use plastic tweezers to pick up the poms. Alternatively students can glue poms to
make these sheets into a simple craft project.
Materials: Pom-Poms or Mini-Poms
*Layer the picture, construction paper, cardboard and then tape the edges. Students use a pushpin to poke through the layers. When finished, separate the layers to reveal the dotted picture on the construction paper. Hang up in a window to see the light shine through! ** These work well with circle stickers too. To make this non-consumable, use bingo counters, or glue pom-poms to circle magnets. Then, have students use the sheet on a magnetic cookie sheet.