I made a spring bird color sorting activity for color recognition and fine motor development. Print the patterns on cardstock paper and cut out and laminate. I have included color squares that you can print and laminate as well. 

The color squares can be attached to the color board using velcro. There are twelve color cards with six places for the squares. You can cut off the bottom row of three if you only wanted to do a three square match.

If you did not want to use the matching color squares you could also use buttons ... or other objects that are the same colors as the cards. You can find the buttons that we use for different activities here.

This activity is currently located in the member's section which is also where I have added:

spring bird sliders

I made spring tracing sheets which are great for fine motor development and pre-writing skills. You can print the patterns on regular or cardstock paper and use crayons ... markers ... colored pencils ... or q-tips dipped in paint to trace the lines.

The patterns come with both black dashed lines as well as gray and there are two different tracing levels for each pattern included. Children can color the the tracing sheets when they are done tracing for added fine motor practice.

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spring letter tracing sheets

I made a tooth fairy color words match. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper ... cut them out and laminated them. There are three different pattern sets included with this download. The first one is the color cards with the color names already on them. Children can put the same color objects on the cards (we use buttons) or if you make two sets of the patterns you can clip the same color cards together.

The second patterns are color cards without the color names. As with the color cards with the color words already printed on them these cards can be clipped together (make two copies) or the same color objects can be placed on top.

The third set of patterns are the color cards with a blank space on them and the color word strips. I attached velcro to the back of the color words and to the front of the color cards. Children choose a card and find the color word strip and attach it to the card.

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tooth fairy letter sorting cards​

I made a penguin and heart color match. There are two different activities included in this file. The first one is matching the hearts to the same color penguins.

I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and laminated them and then attached velcro to the blank heart on each penguin card and also to all twelve of the color hearts. Children pick a penguin card and then find the same color heart and place it on top of blank heart. If you do not want to use velcro you can also clip the heart and penguins cards together with a mini clothes pin.

For the second activity make two copies of the color penguins with the pink hearts ... cut out and laminate them. Children find the two penguin cards with the same color and clip them together with a mini cloths pin. To make this activity self checking children clip the cards together back to back so the same color is shown on each side.

This activity is currently located in the member's section which is also where I have added:

penguin sight word match

This week I made a mitten themed fine motor dots activity that was really great for fine motor skills as well as eye hand coordination. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and cut them out. I laminated the mittens that I was not going to be using glue or paint with.

I have included both color and black and white versions of the mittens. One of the things we use with fine motor dot activities is pony beads as they are the perfect size. Remember to use supervision for children three and under and those who are still in the stages of putting small items in their mouths.

We also use paint with the fine motor dots. Cotton buds or q-tips are great for dipping in the paint and then pressing on the blank dots on the mittens. Another way we use them is to glue sequins on.

This activity is currently located in the member's section which is also where I have added:

mitten roll and cover mats

I made snowman alphabet clip cards for letter recognition and review as well as and fine motor development. I printed the patterns on cardstock paper and laminate them. I have included both black and white as well as color patterns for this activity so you have a choice of what to print.

I separated the snowman cards from the snowflake cards and set them out with mini clothes pins. I mixed up the snowman cards and then the snowflake cards so that the letters were not in order. You can have the children do an upper to upper ... lower to lower ... upper to lower ... lower to upper match.

In this activity children pick a snowman and then find the snowflake with the same letter and clip them together with a clothespin (we used mini ones). For self-checking have the children clip the two cards back to back so the letter is visible on both sides.

This activity is currently located in the member's section which is also where I have added:

snowman number clip cards