Preschool activities

Summer is the perfect time to explore shadows and sunshine with your children. The days are bright and the kids need something productive to do. Why not pack a little …

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 …

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 …

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" …

Using some of our old magazines, we went on a letter hunt the first week of homeschool. Since Jonah still really needs more practice cutting, I helped cut some of …

Our life has been full of creepy, crawly bugs lately. We've watched caterpillars grow and change into butterflies. We've stopped to watch a parade of ants and then watched them …