Fun motor skills for tots

Toddlers and preschoolers need time to develop motor skills – whether they are gross motor, walking, climbing, jumping or fine motor that will help with writing in the future. Here’s 5 fun motor skills activities for tots this week featured from last weeks Tuesday Tots link up and our archives.

First off using some water beads (please use these with care and only with children who no longer put everything in their mouth) for colour sorting, the fine motor action of picking up the water beads.

Working on fine motor control of the pencil for writing a good exercise is draw and erase on the chalk board – we did it with some of the starting lines for letter formation and had a lot of fun with it.

Scribbles, doodles, shaded areas over whole pieces of paper are great fine motor activities and Stir the Wonder shared Drawing as a fine motor activity.

Pipe cleaners make an excellent home made tool for developing some fine motor skills and I love this coiled pipe cleaner drop activity from Adventures of Adam.

Mixing craft and fine motor skills – this yarn egg craft works wonders for little hands from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Tuesday Tots

Welcome back to another week of Tuesday Tots – it’s great to have you come and link up each week with your fun activities for under 5’s. I love popping by and reading what you have you been up to. Remember that you can link up 1 or many activities and they don’t have to be new – pop some from your archives in and let us explore what you have been up to a month, a year or a couple of years ago.

Please don’t forget to check out what Learn with Play at Home and One Perfect Day my weekly cohosts are sharing this week as well.