fine motor kit handout (by mandy chan)
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Lacing Card Games (Uno, Go Fish, etc.)
Matching (Clothespin Activity)
Make Jewelry (Beading Activity)
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1. Lace around whole pattern by weav-
ing in and out.
2. Pull string each time to tighten
1. Pick up cards using pincer grasp
(thumb and pointer fingers only)
2. Do not slide card to edge of table to
pick up
1. Pinch clothespin with the tip of your
pointer finger and thumb
2. Pin the clothespin on the square with
the same colour
1. Pinch beads and put onto string one-
by-one
2. Do not let student takes handful of
beads out of cup/bowl
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Tweezers Paint with Eye Droppers
Chopsticks Sort Buttons
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1. Use tweezers to pick up cotton balls
one by one
2. Put cotton into cup
3. Use tweezers to take cotton out of
the cup one by one
1. Fill cups with water and put a dif-
ferent colour drop of food colouring
in each cup
2. Have student use eye droppers to
make pictures on paper towel.
1. Use chopsticks to pick up cotton
balls one by one and place into cup
2. Use chopstick to take out cotton one
by one
1. Use your pointer and thumb to pick
up the buttons one at a time
2. Put the each button in the matching
container
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Nuts and Bolts Turkey Baster
Marble and Spoon Scissors
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1. Use fingers to screw the nut onto the bolt
2. Use fingers to unscrew the nut
1. Put the target on the
center of the table
2. Put the cotton ball on
the edge of the table
3. Use the turkey
baster to blow the
cotton ball to the
target
1. Take off the lid on the bottle
2. Scoop out one marble into spoon
3. “Pour” marble into bottle
1. Put thumb on small scissor handle
2. Put pointer and middle fingers on
large scissor handle
3. Cut out shapes along the black line
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Finger Painting Sorting
Paint with Cotton Swab Hide and Seek Putty
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1. Use finger paint to draw shapes, let-
ters, or write their names
2. Use each finger once
1. Use pointer finger and thumb to pick
up beads one at a time
2. Sort the bead by colour into the
bowl with the matching colour
1. Pinch cotton swab between pointer
finger and thumb
2. Use cotton swab to paint picture
1. Hide small objects in the putty
2. Use finger tips to spread out putty
to find hidden objects
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String Fruit Loops Contact/Snap block
Zippers Make a Porcupine
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1. Make a pole using the pipe
cleaners and play-doh
2. Put fruit loop through
pole one at a time
3. Make a colour pattern
with fruit loops
1. Snap blocks
together
2. Take block apart
3. Do this one at a
time
1. Pinch the zipper with the tip of our
pointer finger and thumb
2. Unzip and zip each one
1. Use pointer finger and thumb to pick
up toothpick one by one
2. Poke toothpick into ball of play-doh
3. Take out “quills” one by one
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Scribble Bag Button Snake
Play-Doh
Letter Tracing Felt Button Chain
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1. Use a cotton swab and write on the
scribble bag
2. Use your hands to “erase” the words
DO NOT open the bag.
1. Put the button in through the holes
on the felt
2. Make a snake out of the felt
1. Pick a letter
2. Put play-doh over the dotted lines to
make the letter
1. Button the first felt to make a ring
2. Put the next felt strip through the
ring and button it together
3. Keep going to make a chain
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