We are working on our winter theme and I made a snowman letter tracing activity for letter recognition and fine motor development. I printed the patterns on cardstock and then laminated them for durability.

Children trace the letters with their fingers first and then with a washable marker. If you do not laminate the letter tracers you can use pencils as well as markers. Q-tips that the children dip in paint also work well for the children to trace over the letters.

You can watch a video of this activity by clicking the image below. This activity is currently located in the member's section which is also where I have added Snowman Fine Motor Dots ... Scissor Skills ... and Pre-Writing Cards.

I made Gingerbread Roll and Cover for early learning math skills and fine motor development. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and then laminated them for durability.

You will need to have a dice and something to use as cover-ups on the mats. We used buttons but you can also use pom poms or playdough. I made three different types of mats ... one with blank circles ... one with numbers 1-6 ...  and another with numbers 2-12.

In this activity children roll the dice and cover up the same number of circles on the mat if using the blank mat. Children continue to roll the dice and cover the circles until all circles have been covered. Once the mat is full children can then roll the dice and remove the same number of cover-ups that is on the dice. 

For the numbered mats children roll the dice and cover up the same number on the mats. For the mat with numbers 2-12 children roll two dice and add the two together and then cover up the number on the mat.

​You watch video of this activity by clicking the image below. As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section.

We have been working on writing skills a lot so I made some hot cocoa writing cards. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and cut them out. I then laminated them and put them in a basket with washable markers.

In this activity children trace the dashed lines with their finger and then with washable markers.  I have included both black and white as well as color versions. 

As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section which is also where I have added hot cocoa alphabet punch strips.

These heart cutting strips are perfect for fine motor development. I printed the patterns on both regular and cardstock paper and cut them out.

In this activity children cut across the lines on each strip.  I have made the strips with both black and white as well as color hearts.  You can also do counting and sorting activities with the hearts after cutting.

As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section which is also where I have added heart writing skills.

Here are some pre-writing sheets for writing and fine motor development. I printed the tracing sheets on cardstock paper and laminated them.

In this activity the children trace the lines in each row with their finger and then with a washable marker.  There are five tracing sheets included with both black lines and gray lines.

As of 2022 this activity can be found in the member's section which is also where I have added Sea Shell Math. 

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**