Fine Motor Activities for the Year | Scissor Cutting, Tracing, Handwriting

Practicing fine motor skills with fine motor activities is essential for developing hand, wrist, and finger strength, pencil grasp, visual perception, bilateral integration, hand-eye coordination, and handwriting skills. These no prep fine motor activities provide a fun and engaging way to practice fine motor skills throughout the year!

How can I use these no prep fine motor activities?

1. Create a Fine Motor Journal or Notebook - A cover for a fine motor journal is included, plus printing tips.
2. Fine Motor Lessons - Use these fine motor worksheets as a follow up to your fine motor lessons or as intervention.
3. Send Home to Families - A family or parent letter is included with tips for practicing fine motor skills, fine motor activities they can do at home, and how to fix common mistakes.
4. Morning Work, Centers, or Small Group Fine Motor Activities

FINE MOTOR ACTIVITIES CURRENTLY INCLUDED:

Scissor Skills : Scissor Cutting Practice

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Left-handed scissor tips
• Proper scissor grip pages (4 versions for 4 different grips are included)
• Scissor cutting poem
• Parent letter about scissors practice at home
• Cutting lines
• Cutting spirals
• Cutting big shapes
• Cutting and gluing little shapes
• Cutting strips
• Cut and glue pictures [straight lines]
• Cut and glue pictures [curved lines]
• Seasonal cutting puzzles
• Cutting string

Fine Motor Tracing and Handwriting Practice

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Left-handed tips
• Proper pencil grip pages (2 versions for 2 different grips are included, plus left-handed pencil grip versions)
• Parent letter
• Tracing lines practice pages
• Rainbow tracing practice pages
• Tracing shapes practice pages
• Tracing bee shapes practice pages
• Tracing pig shapes practice pages
• Monthly tracing practice pages
• Tracing paths
• Handwriting strokes tracing
• Seasonal handwriting strokes tracing
• Alphabet Handwriting practice pages featuring handwriting strokes

How to Use Glue + Tear and Glue Activities

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• Glue Dot Practice Pages
• Gluing Lines Practice Pages
• Glue Practice Pages
• Tear and Glue Practice
• Tear and Glue Shapes
• Tear and Glue Pictures
• Tear, Glue, and Cutting Practice Pages
• Tear and Glue Letters and Numbers with Tracing

Stamping with Stamps and Fingerprint Activities

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• Stamping Practice Pages
• Alphabet Stamp Paths
• Count and Stamp
• Stamp a Pattern
• Fingerprint Pages
• Finger Painting Pages

Fine Motor Hole Punch and Lacing String Pages

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• Monthly Hole Punch Pages
• Seasonal Hole Punch Strips
• Punch and Lace Practice
• Hole Punch and Lace with String Pages

Cotton Swab Dot It

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• Dot It Practice Pages
• Dot It Pictures
• Dot It Handwriting Lines and Strokes

Dab It with Dot Markers

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• Dot Marker Practice
• Dab It Lines
• Dab It Shapes
• Dot Marker Patterns
• Dab It Pictures
• Dot Marker Alphabet Letters
• Dot Marker Numbers and Counting

Fine Motor Dot Sticker Activities

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• One-to-one Correspondence Sticker Pages
• Dot Sticker Pictures
• Sticker Lines
• Sticker Shapes
• Dot Sticker Paths
• Sticker Counting
• Sticker Sorting by Categories, Letters, Numbers, Colors

Push Pin Poke Activities

• Fine Motor Journal covers and printing tips
• Fine Motor Parent Letter
• Push Pin Poke Lines
• Push Pin Poke Paths
• Pokey Pin Pictures
• Pokey Pin Letters
• Pokey Pin Numbers
• *Each activity includes a full page version and a smaller cards version.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What grades and ages can I use these fine motor activities with? These fine motor activities will work for a wide range of ages from preschool to first or second grade. The activities are meant to grow with your students.

How can I create fine motor journals with these fine motor activities? To create fine motor journals, you will want to print the pages at 80% sizing and cut off the excess. This will ensure they fit perfectly into a spiral notebook. Depending on the activity, students can complete and then glue in their notebook, or glue in their notebook and then complete. Covers for fine motor journals are included.

What size stickers do I use? The sticker fine motor activities were design with regular 3/4“ dot stickers in mind, but i do include plain versions that will work with any stickers you have.

How do I use the pin poke fine motor activities? You will want to have students place the activity on a foam sheet or piece if cardboard to protect the surface. They will take a push pin (I like to use jumbo push pins) and poke holes on the dots to follow the lines.

Do you include versions of these fine motor activities for left-handed students? Yes, there are some activities in the scissor cutting practice worksheets and the fine motor tracing worksheets that include a flipped version for left handed students. Particularly, spirals.

I don’t have one of the materials needed! No problem, you can make swaps where needed for these fine motor activities.

• Don’t have stickers? Swap for dot markers.
• Don‘t have dot markers? Have students grab a cotton ball with a clothespin and dip it in paint, or swap for stickers.
• Don‘t want to use push pins? You can have students complete these as fine motor tracing activities instead.