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These fine motor activities for toddlers to do are simple and fun!
As I’ve been working on the new eBooks (they’re coming out April 19, 2015), I’ve included a section of printables that showcase a slew of simple activities that cover the different types of activities we do(fine motor, gross motor, etc).
The fine motor Go-To List is jam packed with ideas and I realized that so many of them can done with toddlers! They are perfect! They’re simple, easy to set up and can keep a toddler occupied for more than 10 minutes (maybe! ha ha!).
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Remember my tips for doing activities with toddlers? Here they are again:
Allow your toddler to explore whatever it is that you give them.
Don’t do an activity with an intentional plan, it never works out with this age range.
Expecta toddler to be interested, leave it out for them to come back to later, or even the next day.
Plan for them to put it in their mouth if you have a mouther.
When it comes to fine motor activities for toddlers in particular, don’t think these should just be easy for toddlers to do right away. These really take quite a bit of concentration and coordination to do. Toddlers will pick it up eventually, just don’t force it. And they need to really work on their big muscles first with gross motor activities before they start work on the little muscles.
30 fantastic and fun fine motor activities for toddlers:
These fine motor activities for toddlers include threading, poking, pinching, tracing and focusing on hand and eye coordination! And they’re all easy enough for toddlers in the 1-3 year old range to do! Have fun!
Pom Pom Drop
Pipe Cleaners and a Colander
Beginner Tracing with Objects
Thread a Fruit Loop Necklace
Peel Tape
BIG Beginner Weaving
Hammering Tees
Ribbons and a Bottle
Crafts Sticks and a Bottle
Painting With Water
Make a Rattle
Thread a Bird Feeder
Squirt and Fizz withColored Vinegar
Trace Lines of Chalk
Pick up Blocks with Tongs
Clothespins on a Bucket
Pouring Water
Play Dough and Tees
Thread a Straw Necklace
Pipe Cleaner Sprinkles
Egg Carton Train
Sort Pom Poms
Stack Canned Foods as Blocks
Bucket and a Clothesline
Snip Straws
Thread Dry Spaghetti
Thread Dandelions in a Basket
Make a Spring Tree Craft (or an Apple Tree for Fall)
Write ‘Letters’ and Mail Them
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Jamie learned to be a hands on mom by creating activities, crafts and art projects for her three boys to do. Jamie needed the creative outlet that activities provided to get through the early years of parenting with a smile! Follow Jamie on Pinterest and Instagram!
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It’s wonderful to see a list of fine motor activities tailored for toddlers! Engaging in these activities can be not only fun but also highly beneficial for their development.
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Emilysays
These are great! I am a preschool teacher currently working with 4-5 year-olds and I can’t wait to try some of these with them. I love how these can all be expanded to include older developmental levels. I also love how simple these are. Most of these supplies I already have in the classroom. Thanks for the fresh inspiration. I can’t wait to explore your site more.
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Michellesays
Cool ideas!
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kharazmisays
thanks
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Mary Tafalesays
i got no comments every activities i have look at will help me with the children
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Val - Corn, Beans, Pigs and Kidssays
Great list! I need to start adding some of these ideas to my family’s morning routine for our toddler.
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Bead and pipe cleaner threading – Start by giving your child a handful of colourful beads and a pipe cleaner. Then have them thread the beads onto the pipe cleaner and create a fun bracelet or necklace. Button threading – Simply give your child a selection of buttons and a length of string.
Bead and pipe cleaner threading – Start by giving your child a handful of colourful beads and a pipe cleaner. Then have them thread the beads onto the pipe cleaner and create a fun bracelet or necklace. Button threading – Simply give your child a selection of buttons and a length of string.
This skill usually develops in babies around 9 to 10 months old. The pincer grasp is an important fine-motor milestone. Children use their pincer grasp to pick things up and feed themselves, and it lays the foundation for a good pencil grip when they start school.
Slit a tennis ball, add googly eyes, a nose and hair. Squeeze your ball buddy to open his mouth and feed him counters, pompoms or water beads for hours of fun. The smaller the mouth slit, the harder children must squeeze the ball to open the mouth.
You can try giving them some dry spaghetti and a colander and see if they can thread the pasta through the holes. Usually, around the age of 2, children will start being able to thread pasta shapes onto some wool or string. By age 3, some children will be able to start threading wool through holes in card.
Completing a threading activity requires the child to use their small hand and finger muscles to manipulate the objects into place and move them around in a controlled manner. It is also necessary to have good eye-hand coordination and strong concentration skills when threading.
The pincer grasp represents the coordination of brain and muscles that's necessary to help them gain increasing independence. A baby will typically develop this skill between the ages of9 and 10 months, although this can vary. Children develop at different rates.
Fine motor skills involve the use of the smaller muscle of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with lego or duplo, doing up buttons and opening lunch boxes.
Kids love water, so use it to your advantage. Grab a bucket of water and turkey baster and let your little one have a blast squeezing the baster to fill it with water and then squeezing it again to shoot the water out. This game is wonderful to play during bath time.
What are fine motor skills? Generally thought of as the movement and use of hands and upper extremities, fine motor skills include reaching, grasping and manipulating objects with your hands. Fine motor skills also involve vision, specifically visual motor skills, often referred to hand-eye coordination.
• Muscle tone, strength, coordination and balance – the development of the. vestibular system (inner ear) is the foundation of balance and postural control. • Body in space – to know where the body is in space and in relation to other objects.
Threading the lace through the holes in the beads or threading base requires precise hand movements, helping your child develop their fine motor skills. This skill is essential for everyday tasks such as writing, buttoning clothes, and using utensils.
Fine Motor Skills: Grasping: Various sizes of beads promote different grasps. Larger beads often promote the "3-jaw chuck" grasp, similar to holding a large pencil or marker. Smaller beads encourage children to use their pincer grasp, thus strengthening the small muscles of their hands.
Punch a series of holes in paper or use punched edge of computer paper and ask child to cut through holes. Cut strips of paper and glue into circles to make paper chains. Glue small pieces of material or stickers in a piece of paper and ask child to cut from one to another.
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