Montessori Fine Motor Activities and Free Printables

South America Montessori-inspired printable set filled with hands-on skill reinforcement activities for preschool and kindergarten students – fine motor, cutting, push pinning, tracing.

Australia/Oceania Montessori-inspired printable set filled with hands-on skill reinforcement activities for preschool and kindergarten students – fine motor, cutting, push pinning, tracing. Please note whist this resource contains flags, map printables, and images of traditional outfits of the whole continent of Oceania, the animals, and photographic cards mainly present the country of Australia.

Insects and Crawling Creatures fine motor learning activities are a perfect addition to Spring and Summer Units. Children often get fascinated with little bugs and insects they can spot every day outdoors during the warm spring and summer seasons. This brings a perfect opportunity to engage their little fingers to develop fine motor and exercise finger muscles.

Thirty-two cards for fine motor exercise to develop the muscles necessary for the student’s correct pencil grip. These will help your students to prepare for writing and develop necessary concentration skills.
Invite your student to pin poke a shape and trace or pin poke the corresponding label.

The other day we used some loose parts and our free printable alphabet pages to practice some of the letters Noah has trouble remembering.
We had so much fun with that simple loose parts activity that I decided to make some pattern pages to play with too.

Eye droppers are fabulous tools for kids. They work the small muscles in their hands, which they need to develop for writing, plus you can do so many fun things with them!

My ten year old helped me set up a surprise for her little brother and together we created this fun eye dropper activity tray.

Learning how to sew on burlap is a great sewing lesson for beginners. One of my favorite activities as a child was sewing burlap with yarn. I loved practicing embroidery stitches and making elaborate pictures that I cherished for years.

Coin activity for preschoolers

Activities for preparation for writing – process art activity creating patterns and prints on the sand tray with a bamboo stick and natural loose parts.

There are amazing non-fiction works of literature available on Africa that help to lay a wonderful background for learning about all the different aspects of the continent. With interactive and tactile activities children absorb all the fascinating facts and gain deep Geographical knowledge about the continent whilst working on enhancing their concentration skills, literacy, numeracy, and fine motor skills.

One of the great advantages for children who grow up in Montessori inspired environment – is exposure to real-life materials and tools. The secret is to allow children the opportunity and freedom to experience the benefits of simple everyday tasks we, adults do so effortlessly, in a safe environment without being rushed.

Pushpin (or pin poking) activity is one of the popular fine motor activities in the Montessori classroom. I would like to share with you different ways to use pins and pin poking which greatly benefit the child’s development. You will find that pins are often used in activities for different purposes.

This sewing craft makes a perfect Valentine's Crafts for Preschoolers – not only does it look pretty, is EASY, but also is great for fine motor skills development. You can’t really “go wrong – the kids can work on this sewing craft whichever way they want. And it is a great introduction to sewing skills for young kids.

Walking by the Way has a creative set of free sandbox writing cards for pre-writing available for you to download. Simply print the cards, set up a small sandbox area, and have your child “write” in the sand.

During our preschool seed theme I put together a seed tray for the kids to explore. They each used the tray in different ways, and it gave us a lot of opportunities to practice fine motor skills, engage in math activities, and discuss the properties of seeds.

It's very easy to set up fun and inviting activities to help children foster their fine motor movement, for example like this transferring activity with items that are readily available.

Most school programs offer fine motor skills development, but there are also a wealth of simple steps parents and caregivers can take at home to help enhance these skills. Here are five fun, developmentally appropriate ideas to encourage these skills using basic household supplies and water.

I picked these two simple, yet beautiful and exciting activities to make handmade Christmas ornaments that can be a sweet present for the child to give.

Great fine motor exercise that gets wrists and muscles in little hands working.

Kids tool set derives from the classic Montessori concept to give children free reign through providing children with child-sized versions of household items will allow children to fully engage in their imaginative imitation of daily life and build real life skills as well.

Sorting and matching: let your kids to use tweezers and scissor clips to put 120 colored plush balls into sorting bowl of matching colors; Sorting bowls and plush balls have 4 colors, which are red, yellow, green and blue for Age Over 5

This is a toddler beads and string threading toy. Your purchase includes 120 wood string beads for toddlers approximately 1 inch in diameter, with a 3/8 inch lacing hole. Lacing beads come in 6 bright colors and 5 shapes: spheres, cubes, cylinders, triangular prisms, and hexagonal prisms. Also includes four, 36-inch plastic tipped laces for stringing the beads and one durable plastic storage container.

Give children a fun-filled way to practice counting & learn to visualize quantities…with cute, numbered elephants kids can’t resist!

This simple and adorable fishing game offers hours of fun for children. It comes with 2 Wooden Magnetic Fishing Poles, 1 Wooden Sorting Box, 26 PCS Wooden fish. It is not only a fun activity for your little kids, but also is a great toy for learning the alphabet, color recognition!

Start building smart minds with the right educational toys. The bright and interactive toy will enhance hand dexterity, can inspire children's imagination, as well as promote their physical and intellectual development, color recognition, and fine motor skills while engaging little minds.

The bears are designed to teach color recognition, sorting, fine motor skills, math, hand-eye coordination and numbers. They work great with early childhood STEM and Montessori programs.

Our musical percussion instrument bundle includes not just 1 or 2 but 21 wonderful music instrument toys. Each set comes with 1 tambourine, 2 shaker eggs, 2 ger castanets, 2 sand eggs, 1 hand bell, 1 pair of maracas, wrist bells, 2 claves, 2 fin1 large and 1 small sleigh bell, 1 handle castanet and 1 triangle with a striker.

We have included 10 sturdy fine motor tool along with these 6 oz beads that in 10 colors to further aid in the sensory experience.Contains 6 different tweezers, 1 spoon, 1 scoop and a cup.kids will be able to clasp, and clamp beads with the play tweezer/scooping tools.

Creative rainbow wooden toys are made of natural wood to improve the durability, every loose parts are produced in strict accordance with the international standards，Nontoxic and tasteless, Smooth edge keeps your child play safety.

Include a wooden sensory bin for your children to store 11 sensory wooden toys, Kids can pour grains, beans, oats, rice, rocks, sand and other particles in this wooden box, and use the sensory bin tools to pouring, transferring, picking and stacking, Practice use the kitchen tools, Bring the joy of real life to children.

Board Set can be used to teach as learning resources , Montessori materials, preschool toys or learning toys for early childhood development.

Wooden pattern blocks come with 370 x wooden blocks (8 different colors),1 x wooden board, 1 x drawstring bags, and 1 x pattern book. Get all the blocks back together, spell out a variety of different patterns through your imagination. Such as a unicorn, elephant, home, flower, butterfly, words, mathematical geometry, etc. Even letters of the A to Z and also numbers of the 1 to 10.

A piece of paper containing the artist's drawings, the wooden Montessori puzzle "Pablo Picasso" will help the child become an artist (the parts won't stick together, they won't stick together, making it easier for the child to spell out a new avatar )
Puzzle set contains: 26 wooden parts (1 face, 6 eyes, 6 ears, 6 nose, 6 mouth, 2 eyebrows)

Designed by teachers and moms for educational insights our puzzles have colorful pictures under each jig;Easy toddler matching game to learn shapes colors, develop eye-hand coordination, fine motor and problem-solving skills.

Our wooden puzzles stand out as early development & activity toys due to fun shapes, detailed images, natural colors & words; they develop eye-hand coordination, fine motor and problem-solving skills, memory of your kids