Early Childhood Education
Christmas Lesson Plan: Gross Motor & Fine Motor Skills
Practice gross and fine motor skills with fun Christmas- and holiday-themed activities. These holiday lessons include songs, games, and other engaging activities for both gross and fine motor skills. Kids will love pinning the nose on...
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Cut and Paste School
Perfect fine motor skills and hone shape-matching skills with a hands-on activity. Youngsters cut out each school-related image along the dotted lines and then paste the images into the correct places on the following page.
Lincoln Public Schools
Developmental Strokes: Pre-Writing Worksheet
Young writers develop their fine motor skills one stroke at a time with this simple tracing worksheet. Looking at pictures of eight basic figures ranging from horizontal and vertical lines to circles and triangles, children practice...
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Fancy Sunglasses
Create extravagant, colored sunglasses with your class! For this arts and crafts activity, young artists color and cut out three pairs of sunglasses. After they have finished preparing their frames, they glue colored cellophane to their...
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Ice Cream Color Matching Game
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Kids can practice color matching and fine motor skills as they cut out scoops to put on cones and bars to place over popsicle sticks. Glue the first to pages to the inside of a file...
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Nature Art
In this nature art lesson, students take a nature walk and collect items with different sizes, textures and colors. Students use the items they collect to make a collage.
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Fine Motor
In this fine motor skills worksheet, students trace each dashed line with their pencil. There are 12 line strokes to trace.
K12 Reader
Practice Writing the Letter...
Reinforce both uppercase and lowercase letters with a series of handwriting worksheets. Each page features one letter of the alphabet and multiple ways to practice writing it, including tracing and filling in missing parts of the letter.
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Kelly's Kindergarten: L Words
Learn a lot with lists of letters! Park the correct trucks into their parking spaces with a worksheet that focuses on the letter L. After kids study the signs next to six parking spaces, they match the words on the trucks that include...
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Name
Teaching children how to write can be a long and difficult process, but this simple practice resource will help make it a little easier. This versatile template of handwriting lines can be used in numerous ways to develop the fine motor...
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Christmas Cutting Fun
For this fine motor skills worksheet, students practice cutting along a dotted, straight line until they reach the picture of a Christmas symbol. On the second worksheet, students practice cutting on a jagged line. In the third...
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Self-Portrait
Build a sense of self while honing prewriting and fine motor skills by having your learners with autism draw a self-portrait. The lesson is intended for younger pupils but could be used with learners of any age in need of motor and...
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Fill the Wheelbarrow
Practice filling a wheelbarrow with leaves with this arts and crafts template. Learners cut out and color 10 leaves, a wheelbarrow, and a rake. There are no further directions. This could be used to develop counting and fine motor...
Pre-k Pages
Fire Engine Alphabet Clothespin Activity
Weeoou weeoou! What's that sound? It's the alphabet fire truck! Cover the letters of the alphabet and fire engines with a fun letter-matching game.
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Preschool Coloring Page-Clown Pyramid
This coloring worksheet designed for pre-schoolers features a picture of a pyramid of clowns. There are many small parts and patterns which will require effort and adept fine motor skills to complete, however the lively theme should keep...
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Finger Puppets
Develop fine motor skills and put on a play with these finger puppets! Using this worksheet, learners color, cut out, and glue together finger puppets. There are 4 puppets: a girl, boy, dog, and a lion. As an extension activity, you...
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Practice Cutting Lines
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted zig zag lines with scissors.
Kiz Club
"S" Sound
Kids get the chance to match nine words to their images with this cut-and-paste exercise. All of the words included begin with the letter S. Kids find the correct words, cut them out, and glue them inside of the dotted lines.
Handwriting Without Tears
Handwriting Without Tears
Does learning to write leave your kindergartners in tears? Use these easy and memorable strategies to guide their pencils in the right direction. With cute illustrations and simple instructions, your learners will be writing paragraphs...
Teaching Mama
P is for Penguins
Practice printing, matching, tracing, cutting, coloring, and more with a packet full of penguins! Allow these perky winter animals to help your kids out as they work on these skills.
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Cutting Zig Zag Lines
In this practice cutting lines activity, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted zig zag lines with scissors.
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Cutting Curved Lines
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted curved lines with scissors.
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Cutting Straight Lines
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 4 dotted straight lines with scissors.
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Practice Cutting Lines 2
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, students use their fine motor skills as the perpendicular lines with scissors.