More Fine Motor Fun!

Hi everyone!  I want to share with you two neat fine motor ideas that I created for our daughter.  I recently did a linky party in which you ended the phrase "You know you are a teacher when..."  Well, here is mine:

That is me!  So thanks to all the great sales and clearance sections at Michaels and Target I was able to create some more simple fine motor fun!  I found these adorable felt cups.  I put foam numbers on them and now Pickle can place the appropriate number of marshmallows on her hot chocolate!  

Since Easter is coming up I have jelly beans on my mind ~ LOL!  I saw these cute egg platters at the party store and made a dice game to reinforce numbers and colors.  I used puffy paint on the bottom of the egg platter to make dots.  Next, place the jelly beans in the center tray.  

I have photo cube blocks that I purchased from Amazon that can be customized for anything! The website Education Cubes is a members-only site that has inserts...so I printed the number cards from there.   Then I printed colored jelly beans from Confessions of a Homeschooler's J is for Jellybean unit on cardstock and put those in the cubes too.

Now when Pickle rolls the dice she will get a color and a number.  She will have to find that number jelly beans in that specific color and transfer them to the egg tray matching the number shown.  You can use easy-grip tweezers or let your little one use their fingers :)

Fun Acorn Fine Motor Activity!

This is a simple fine motor activity to make that is versatile and FUN!  My daughter and I collected a ton of acorns at her Nonna’s house in the fall.  I have seen some very crafty people make felted acorns that are beautiful, but mine are simply made with pom-poms.  I put several squirrel clip art images on a page and printed them on card stock.  You can laminate them if you want them to last J  Then I glued matching pom-poms in the squirrels hands.   Last, I glued the squirrels to toilet paper tubes.  Finally, you stand them in a cupcake pan and VOILA!  You have an adorable fine motor “game” for your little one to practice matching colors while honing his or her fine motor skills! 

This is versatile in that you can use cupcake liners rather than a  pan or you can even use an egg carton if you want to just stick the little squirrels in there…there is just less room so the child will only be able to transfer one or two acorns into each hole.

FYI: My squirrel graphics are from Spring Hill Graphics :)