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Hands on Kids Activities for Hands on Moms.

Fine Motor Activities

Fine Motor Activities for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. But don't forget to get moving first. Gross motor development should come before fine motor. The larger muscles need to aide the smaller muscles used in fine motor activities!

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Learning Letters Lineup. Squirt!

George has been learning his letters and its amazing me how easily he’s catching on.

I don’t think he’s quite there to know all the letter just be seeing them. So I set up a learning activity that

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Number Activity: Learn to Count with Grain Bins

Got a farmer? Try a simple number activity to practice counting to five! This farm activity was a sneaky way to get Henry excited to learn to count!

I’ve been having a little bit of a hard time getting Henry to want to

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Fine Motor Activity: Rubber Band Passing Game

A fine motor activity that focuses on hand strength using rubber bands.

I called this activity a game to my boys. They were super excited to play the game and wanted to know what it was called. I didn’t

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Egg Splatter Painting for Easter

The boys made these eggs by doing splatter painting with a toothbrush. It was a new way for them to paint and they had fun with it!

Grab some old toothbrushes to splatter paint with! I always save our old ones for cleaning

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32 Objects for Strengthening Fine Motor Skills

We have been loving fine motor activities! George seems to prefer these types of activities, so we tend to do a lot of them!

To have some quick activities ready to go, I started jotting ideas to do that are great for fine

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A Rainbow of Circles Necklace

Rainbow activities are awesome for learning colors, but we added another learning element by making this a sort by size activity as well!

 

 

This one took a little prep work by me. I think you could include a preschooler in part of

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Sort by Color Button Activity

A simple sort by color activity for toddlers. This is simplified to make it as easy as it gets for toddlers just learning their colors.

George has been slowly learning his colors. Ever so slowly. Some days it seems like he gets it