I made some shape tracers to go along with our robot theme this week.  I printed them out on cardstock paper ... cut them out and then laminated them. I put them out in our writing center along with some washable markers.

The children began by tracing the shapes with their fingers and then tracing them with the washable markers.  Shape tracers are great for pre-writing and fine motor skills developement.  You can grab the patterns below:

robot shape tracers   **save and open file in adobe reader**

I made a robot matching activity which is great for number recognition and fine motor skills. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them.

I mixed the robots and gears up so they were not in order and set them out in to separate piles. Children put the robots in numerical order.  We did this activity on the floor but you can also do it on a table.

After all of the robots were laid out in order the children then put the gears on the robots with the same numbers. The children can clip them together with clothes pins or large plastic coated paper clips. We did the activity as a sequence match but you can do it as a regular match without putting the robots in numerical order first.

As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section which is also where I have added a robot alphabet match.