Build fine motor skills at home with this simple 1 week plan of activities that all work on small hand muscles for toddlers and preschoolers using supplies you already have.
Every weekend I try to make a plan of activities for the coming week to start on Monday.
I start with the gauging what my child is interested in (using the “My Child This Week” sheet of the free weekly planner). I fill one out for each of my kids and what they’re into at the moment. I use this as my guide to plan our activities accordingly.
With each of my kids’ interests, I brainstorm 7 activities to do that week. I jot them down on the simple ‘Activities To Do This Week’ planner.
Below is a sample week of fine motor activities.
Find more sample weeks of activities here.
Get 5 weekly plans of activities for each one year olds, two year olds, and preschoolers (plus a learning one too!)
Monday: Roll out a tube of play dough and pound golf tees into it using a toy hammer. Supplies : play dough (made or bought), toy hammer, golf tees or toothpicks. Here’s how to make homemade play dough!
Tuesday: Stick tape onto a surface. Criss cross over each other. Peel the tape off, one by one. Supplies: tape (electrical or painter’s tape)
Wednesday: Tape cardboard tubes (toilet paper, paper towels) to a wall or the fridge. Drop pom poms through to fall into a tub at the bottom. Supplies: cardboard tubes, pom poms, painter’s tape
Thursday: Keep kids busy with rubber bands, or hair bands. Slide them on and off a can of food, one at a time. Supplies: canned food, rubber bands
Friday: Weave something with ribbon! What can the kids weave? Baby gate, stair railing, clothes basket, cooling rack. Supplies: ribbon or string, something to weave
Saturday: Stick craft sticks into a narrow neck bottle and shake them out again. Repeat! Supplies: craft sticks, narrow neck bottle
Sunday: I spy baggy! Write letters, words, shapes or notes on a piece of paper and put in a large baggy. Add rice on top of the paper. Let the kids ‘spy’ the letters through the rice. Supplies: paper, marker or pen, gallon-size baggy, rice or oatmeal
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ELLEN C says
THIS IS A WONDERFUL SITE AND I GOT A LOT OF WONDERFUL IDEAS FROM THE SITE. I AM DOING A WEEK ON JUST HANDS ON
Faith . Hamalila says
I find these activities so interesting.
lissa black says
i love this planner it makes it easy to track process and know the activites to be done
Peggy says
Draw a face on a tennis ball…CAREFULLY with box cutter…cut a slit for a mouth. Give the child a stack of cards with different target numbers to build number sense..(0-9 or 10-20 etc) “Feed ” the monster the corresponding number of pennies )pincer grip needed to push pennies into mouth. Then child must pinch tennis ball to make the monster “throw up” (a BIG hit) the money & count to check it is the correct amount!
Lots of fun!
Sweety Jain says
Very helpful n nyc plan.it would b very helpful n I hope my 14months princess njoys it,m definitely going to try it.thanks.great dat m connected to you
Aniket says
Hey,
Nice weekly plan. It will help the children to learn more faster and easier. I loved this plan. I will definitely share this plan to my friends children so, that they may learn more easier and faster. Thanks for sharing this plan. :)