Funky Fingers fine Motor Skills Challenges

Developing fine motor skills lays the foundation for pencil grasp, legible handwriting and manipulation tasks. These Fine Motor Skills Challenges provide a fun-filled way to build hand strength, dexterity and control.

This set includes 36 activity cards that target key skills. Each card features a unique fine motor exercise using engaging materials like pompoms, beads, strings, locks and keys. Kids will love practicing with the tactile toys!

Also included are printable templates to support many of the challenges, these include:

• Gingerbread men to tweezer buttons onto

• Large numbers to place sequins on

• Hole punch activity

• Jellybean jars

• Geoboard number templates

• Gumball machines

• Muffin tray templates

• Tags for padlocks and keys

• Pompom ice creams

• Pompom pictures

• Numbers for threading

Students can rotate through the Fine Motor Skills Challenges independently at a specialized station or table. Teachers can also use the cards to assign differentiated tasks to children needing extra practice grasping small items or maintaining precision. The self-correcting activities allow for repeated practice to increase dexterity.

This comprehensive collection of research-based challenges will strengthen the small muscles needed for cutting, lacing, buttoning, writing and more. Early childhood educators, occupational therapists and parents will find these activities perfect for promoting proficiency and confidence in fine motor skills.

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