Find out how you can help your child develop and practice their fine motor skills. With fifty ideas in one place, you will be ready to support your child and help them improve their writing, holding objects, dressing themselves, tying shoelaces or feeding themselves.
In this post, I will share 50 ideas for fine motor skills.
I previously wrote about fine motor skills and shared these ideas in this post.
You can read what fine motor skills are and why they are important.
In the same post, you will find that fine motor skills will help your child not only with their “finger” skills but also that these skills help to develop hand-eye coordination, precision, and dexterity (skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands), and coordination of the hands.
These 50 activities are simple, straightforward, engaging tasks for different age groups.
Most of them do not require complicated or expensive resources or equipment.
You will realise that you already might have all the necessary supplies at home.
These 50 activities can entertain and occupy your child while also supporting them in developing and practising their fine motor skills.
50 Fine Motor Skills Activities
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- Playing with small world objects: small animals, figurines, tiny toys
- Opening and closing plastic bottles and containers with lids
- Helping with cooking (with supervision: stirring, mixing, chopping)
- Stirring the magic potion (gather leaves, pebbles, and grass to make it)
- Stickers (sticking and peeling off)
- Playing with stamps
- Making paper chains
- Playing with and undoing a Velcro
- Drawing or painting on paper stuck on the floor
- Playing with oats, rice, small pasta, or couscous
- Walking like animals
- Squeezing a sponge
- Cutting off pieces of straw
- Cutting out shapes or pictures or cutting along the lines
- Pegging the washing on the line
- Forming numbers or letters with pompons or pasta
- Tearing paper
- Making shapes with yarn or wires
- Cookie cutting and decorating (These cookie cutters are nice)
- Seed arts
- Playing with finger puppets
- Pinching pompons with a peg
- Drawing inside a big box that children can fit into
- Dressing dolls
- Making fruit kebabs (skewers have sharp ends- always supervise your child)
- Threading ribbon through an opening in a box or a coffee tin
- Making shapes with your body (lines, circles, triangles, etc.)
- Poking a pompon with a toothpick
- Picking the kennels of a corn
- Playing with wet or dry sand
- Making paper clips chains or shower ring chains
- Picking up small objects with tongs, tweezers, or pegs
- Playdoh (squashing, stretching, rolling, pinching, making a ball, snipping off little pieces, making snakes or rainbows, cutting out shapes with a cookie cutter or pressing straws, googly eyes, feathers, or shells into it) This playdoh set is nice
- Helping with gardening (planting, watering, handling gardening tools with supervision)
- Playing with stretchy fabric
- Finger painting
- Poking a toothpick into playdough
- Making cheerios or pasta necklaces
- Clipping pegs onto leaves on a tree
- Completing a jigsaw puzzle made from your child’s photo cut into pieces
- Playing with nuts, bolts, and screws
- Drawing lines with chalk and covering them with rocks or conkers (horse chestnuts)
- Playing with wind-up toys
- Putting coins into a piggy bank
- Tying knots
- Painting with cotton buds (Q-tips)
- Pushing pipe cleaners into a colander
- “Painting” a wall or a fence with water
- Dropping pompons into an empty bottle
- Weaving thread or yarn around a cardboard cut-out
Let me know if you try any of these activities and which one is your favourite!
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