Fine motor skills activities

"Fine motor" refers to the development of small muscle movements of the hands. Fine motor skills develop as your child's whole body gains mobility, stability, cognitive and emotional/social development.

One of the most challenging things a preschooler has to learn is to control his little hands, fingers, brain, eyes, and make it work all at the same time. We don't know how we got to master it, but now we are experts in holding a pencil, cutting, grabbing tiny pieces of paper, etc.
 Last week I planned a bunch of fun activities to give my friends the opportunity to practice, and practice and practice their fine motor skills and eye- hand coordination.

First the children had to tear the paper into little pieces, and then grabbed each piece and paste it on their duck.

For this activity I colored rice in different colors and the children had to filled up a cup  using a spoon. They had to count 5 spoons of each color, at the end they form a rainbow with different layers of colors.

I gave the children paint and q-tips to follow  around the silhouette. Dot, dot,dot.

Free play with shave cream on the table. 

I put a towel over the table and then gave the children a thumbtacks to poke all around the edge of the snail. Poke,poke,poke...

I gave stickers to the children to form caterpillars by counting and recognizing the numerals. They worked hard peeling those stickers.