Fine motor skills activities - Find ideas to improve motor skills

An Icy Rescue

A simple and fun science experiment to teach children about how water changes from a liquid into a solid and back again.

Isabell Fisher5 January 2021The Snowy Day, science for toddlers, science for children, molecules, ice play, Sensory Play, Sensory Activity, motor skills

Building Dens and Eating Popcorn

This is a wonderful family activity to do on a rainy weekend to reconnect and spend quality time together.

Isabell Fisher4 November 2020Love, Under the Love Umbrella, Davina Bell, motor skills, building den, making popcorn

Nature in Sensory Dough

A wonderfully easy to set up motor activity and sensory dough activity to explore the prints made by different autumnal natural resources.

Isabell Fisher14 September 2020Worries, playdough, fine motor skills for children, motor skills, fine motor skills, Fine Motor SkillsComment

Building a Shelter

An easy, fun activity that will keep those little hands busy squishing and building whilst they learn.

Motor SkillsIsabell Fisher3 September 2020Gardening, Play dough Activity for Toddlers, Play Dough Activity Idea for Kids, Activity for Children at Home, Fun Easy Toddler Activity at Home, WorriesComment

Flowers in a Vase

This is a simple and easy fine motor activity for toddlers and children.

Isabell Fisher9 August 2020Garden, fine motor skills, fine motor skills for children, GardeningComment

Robot Bugs

This activity for toddlers and children encourages them to work on those all important fine motor skills.

Isabell Fisher28 June 2020robot bugs, harry and the robots, mad about minibeasts, Bugs bugs, MinibeastsComment

Bugs in Playdough

This is a wonderful playdough activity to encourage the use of ‘interesting’ and ‘unusual’ adjectives and adverbs to describe what the playdough bugs look, sound, move like.

Isabell Fisher28 June 2020Minibeasts, Play Dough Activity, Play dough Activity for Toddlers, Play Dough Activity Idea for Kids, Simple ActivityComment

The Wool Monsters

This motor skill activity is a wonderful opportunity to discuss how we can recognise and tell those around us when we feel happy or sad.

Isabell Fisher6 May 2020The Colour Monster, recognising emotions, emotions in children, mindfulness in children, fine motor, Fine Motor Skills, Strengthen FingersComment

Chinese New Year Mark Making

This is a quick and easy Chinese New Activity for toddlers, babies and children. Through this mark making activity your child will continue to build on their motor skills.

Isabell Fisher21 January 2020fine motor skills, chinese new year, chinese year activity for toddlers, Sensory Play, Sensory ActivityComment

Knocking and Posting

Easy activity to set up which can encourage babies to practice their gross and fine motor skills of moving, knocking over, picking up an object and then posting that object. It is also a nice activity to practice problem solving.

Isabell Fisher22 August 2019baby activity, easy tidy up, Fun Easy Toddler Activity at Home, Motor skills, EYFSComment

Pom Poms and the Spoons

A quick and simple activity which creates no mess but works on fine motor skills and 1 to 1 correspondence.

Isabell Fisher9 August 2019Keeping toddlers busy, Easy toddler activity, easy tidy up, Fun Easy Toddler Activity at Home, Cutlery skills, fine motor skills, Pom PomsComment

Island Hopping

If you have one of those toddlers that likes to keep active and has a lot of energy to burn, this activity is perfect for you. Really quick and simple set up and means you can sit back, relax and watch.

Isabell Fisher27 July 2019Easy toddler activity, Keeping toddlers busy, Gross Motor Skills, EYFS, Stay at home Mum, Parenting tricks, Energetic toddlerComment

Posting Pom Poms

A quick activity to set up. Makes hardly any mess and all the resources can be reused. This activity plays on baby’s love of posting.

Isabell Fisher13 June 2019fine motor skills, 13 months, pom poms, bottle, posting, eyfs, toddler, fun easy toddler activity, easy tidy uoComment

Drawing in Sand

A visually enticing way to introduce mark making using different coloured sand.

Isabell Fisher9 June 2019mark making, coloured sand, fine motor skills, 18 months, drawing, eyfs, hobbycraft, fun easy toddler activity, baby activity, learning coloursComment

Threading Pasta

A popular activity with toddlers; using things you would find in your cupboards at home. This is a great way to practice threading and working on hand eye coordination.