Preschool

Dog's Colorful Day is a fun book for young children. The book naturally leads to learning activities focusing on colors and numbers. It's a favorite around our house. Dog's Colorful …

While I try to set up frugal  fine motor skills activities from common household items as often as I can, there are times that we purchase items, receive them as …

Ultimately, the goal of developing fine motors skills is for children to be able to function in everyday tasks. One of the natural next steps after strengthening little fingers is …

To you it may look like just another utensil drawer, but your house is full of tools to develop your child's fine motor skills. Kids love to use these tools …

Twisting items is a tricky little skill that we depend upon most often when opening containers. It is a life skill, really~you have to be able to open the milk …

Lacing is a classic fine motor activity for preschoolers. Manipulating the string in and out of the holes takes a lot of effort for little fingers. It strengthens dexterity, hand-eye …

Pinching items and picking them up requires children to use their pincer grasp. It's one of the first fine motor skills your child really develops as a baby, mainly to …

Raise your hand if the thought of giving your child scissors makes you cringe! Scissors and little hands make a lot of people nervous...me included. The first few times Jonah …

As soon as Asher could crawl, he found my magazine basket; he would make a beeline for it every chance he got. Those crinkly pages were just too tempting to …

Whether you love it or cringe at the thought of cleaning it up, there's no denying playdough and fine motor skills go hand in hand. Poking, squishing, and rolling "snakes" …