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Ten Fine Motor Activities for Children – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

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10 Fine Motor Activities for young children from Homeschool Creations

 

There are so many different ways to work on fine motor skills with your kids. This week I’m highlighting ten posts, featuring a variety of fine motor activities for young children – and some great practice as well!

If your kids are needing a little help with their scissor skills (other than cutting the hair of a sibling), visit Happy Hooligans for 5 Cutting Activities to Develop Scissor Skills.

This Fine Motor Clothes Fastenings Board from craftulate.com has several different fasteners to help your child learn different skills like buttoning, zipping, snapping – love it!

Pipe cleaners are such a simple and forgiving way to work on fine motor skills. P is for Preschooler shares Pipe Cleaner Loops (and a little Olympic fun too).

This light bright geo board is such a fun idea! Visit And Next Comes… to see how she used her light bright table with her boys.

Grab a bag of mini marshmallows, toothpicks and tweezers for some sweet play time. Little Bins for Little Hands shares two different activities to do with your kids.

Latch boards can be so much fun for little hands. Check out My Life of Travels and Adventures for a tutorial on putting together your own.

Life with Moore Babies shares a YUMMY Nutella play dough recipe that she used with her kids to make some super cute mini cupcakes.

This activity from Dabbling Momma is so simple – straws and contact paper, but can be used so many different ways!

Making pretzels together and rolling out the dough – similar to playdough play, but there is a yummy edible finish! Check out ABC Creative Learning for a recipe and ideas.

Using q-tips to paint is a great way to work on fine motor skills. Carisa from 1+1+1=1 shares some fun printables for working on ABC’s with kids.

 

Visit the ladies above and share their ideas with others too! Enjoy and have fun linking up below!

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Felt Turtle Tutorial, Bead Activities, Mirror Play, and Tot Trays – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

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There were SO many great ideas linked up last week to the Preschool and Kindergarten Community. You all are keeping me busy pinning and wanting to whip out craft supplies and get buy! Here are a few ideas to check out – but be sure to visit those linking up this week too!

How to Make a Felt Turtle

This little felt turtle from Wildflower Ramblings – just too cute for words. Amy shares a ton of other ideas for the Letter T in this post too, including a turtle pond sensory bin – you will love it!

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Deb from Living Montessori Now ALWAYS has fabulous ideas to share, and her Ultimate Guide to Kid’s Crafts and Learning Activities Using Beads will give you some fabulous ideas {and keep you busy for a bit}.

Mirror Play

Happy Hooligans shared a simple, but fun activity using 3 things: a mirror, a dry erase marker and small colored rocks. Such a fun idea that will keep your kids busy for quite some time – and they get to be creative in the process.

CarTruckAutomobileTotTrays

If you have a child that love anything that moves, be sure to stopy by My Life of Travels and Adventures. She shares 10 Car and Truck Themed Tot Trays that will be loved for sure!

That’s it for this week. Thanks so much for linking up and sharing your ideas with us!

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Olympic Theme Ideas – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

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The Olympics snuck up on me, so this next week we’ll have a little fun with a few activities. If you haven’t planned anything yet, here are a few ideas to get you going.

This ice skating diorama from Spell Outloud is one of the many fun ideas that she is working on with her girls to celebrate the Olympics. Her edible Olympic medals are one of the best ideas!

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This colorful craft from Happy Hooligans is super simple and easy to pull together with little preparation. Check out Happy Hooligans for the Olympic Ring Art project.

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Chalk pastels are one of our favorite art mediums, and Tricia from Hodge Podge shares Winter Olympic Chalk Pastels for all ages. You can find a free Olympic Ring Tutorial here.

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Every Star is Different shares a variety of Montessori activities that you can work on with your kids.

This Olympic flag craft from Crystals Tiny Treasures is another fun and simple activity to celebrate the beginning of the games.

Lego Ring Sorting

This Lego Ring Sorting activity from Toddler Approved is a great way to add in some color work while learning about the Olympics.

salt dough olympic medals

If you run a few Olympic trials at your home, be sure to make some of these Salt Dough Olympic Medals from The Imagination Tree. Your kids will love them!

For some snack fun, you can pull together these Olympic torches from Living Well, Spending Less.

Olympic Theme Pinterest Board

If none of these activities work for you, be sure to follow my Olympic Theme Pinterest Board where there are LOTS of additional ideas to keep you busy with your kids!

 

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Fun for Valentine’s Day – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and here are some fun activities that you can do with your kids to celebrate while loving on each other.

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These pretzel, hershey kiss, and m&m treats are SO easy to make for Valentine’s Day. Check out the other fun things in this Valentine post that were done to go along with the book The Snowy Valentine {a sweet book for Valentine’s Day too!}

Valentine's Day gifts kids can make

Montessori Nature has some cute Valentine’s Day gifts that kids can make – love some of these and will have to make a few with our kids!

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This No Bake Cupcake Valentine Craft from Spell Outloud is super cute and has zero calories. Makes it even better!

 

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You’ll need to check out all the fun things that Sharla’s kids created using their Valentine Sensory Bin over at Chaos and the Clutter.

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This fizzy heart science center from B-Inspired Mama is a great way to add some science learning to sweet holiday.

February pocket chart calendar pieces from Homeschool Creations

Don’t forget to grab a copy of the February Pocket Chart Calendar cards that I shared earlier this week! Stay tuned next week, because I’ll be sharing a few more Valentine’s Day Printables as well!

 

Other helpful Valentine’s Day Links

 

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Coloring Snow, Snow Cream, and Geography Landforms – Preschool and Kindergarten Community Linkup

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Hopefully  you all had a chance to look through the link ups from last week’s Preschool and Kindergarten Community because there were over 70 blogs linking up and sharing ideas!! Here are just a few of them, so be sure to look over the rest!

shaving cream polar bear

Here’s a cute polar bear craft to do with your kids from Parenting Chaos. A little bit of shaving cream and a fun book like The Lonesome Polar Bear would be a great book and craft go-together.

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Have lots of snow around your place? Get in a little fine motor work by coloring snow with a dropper. Stir the Wonder shares a few fun ideas to go along with this activity.

snow ice cream

Snow cream is an activity that we made this week (thanks to all the snow!), but West Word Blog made her Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Eve unit even MORE fun by adding cherries on top. Check out all the other fun ideas she had to go along as well.

geography for preschool

This geography landform lesson is FABULOUS!! Be sure to visit Unschool the Teacher for some hands-on ideas to teach younger children about different landforms and help them create their own!

The Mitten Sodoku Puzzles

Reading The Mitten by Jan Brett? Download a free set of sudoku puzzles to go along with your reading fun.

That’s it for this week! Can’t wait to see what you all have to share this week! Thanks so much for being a part of the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

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Penguin Prints, Snowflakes, and String Phones – Preschool and Kindergarten Community Linky

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Welcome back, everyone! This week has been chocked full of fun at our house as we are back in the full swing of school, and we welcomed a friend’s baby into the world {especially exciting since I was able to be there}. It may or may not be enough to make me want another little one. {grins} I hope your week has been fabulous and can’t wait to see what you all share. Here’s a peek at last week’s link ups.

Preschool art - Penguin potato prints

This penguin is the CUTEST art project, especially when you see how the penguins were made {hint: you say potato, I say potatoe}. Head over to A Family in the Land to see her step-by-step pictures. Love it!

Snowflake Busy Bag

School Time Snippets has a great idea for a snowflake busy bag. This would be a lot of fun to design your own snowflake and work on symmetry as well.

string phone experiment

I’m willing to bet that you have a few cans hanging around your home, and this string phone experiment from We Made That would be a great way to recycle some of them.

ABC Snack Recipes

Make your ABC learning even more fun with the ABC Snacks from All About Learning Press. From ants to fish, insects to zucchini, there are printable recipes for each letter of the alphabet from A to Z. And the best part – they are free! See all the ABC Snack recipes here. There are FREE Ziggy ebooks for your preschooler that you can download as well.

 

Follow the PreK and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board

Preschool Pinterest Board

Each week I am  pinning many of your links onto the Preschool and Kindergarten Community Pinterest Board. I’m a visual person, so having pictures to help me remember posts is super helpful. Be sure to jump over and follow the board – and find some fun ideas at the same time!

 

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Link Up with the Preschool and Kindergarten Community!

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