fine motor skills

Everyday fine motor play in preschool and a linky

February 4, 2012

Discover ways to promote fine motor development and the role fine motor skills in handwriting.

More fun with penguins in preschool

January 13, 2012

A preschool day filled with simple and fun penguin play and activities…

Ribbon trees and tying knots in prek

December 17, 2011

Making ribbon trees was a fun process that added a little twist to making Christmas trees in our prek class!

Fine motor turkeys in preschool

November 22, 2011

Simple and last minute fine motor thanksgiving or turkey activities for preschool!

Making tape turkeys in preschool

November 22, 2011

We are working on our fine motor skills as we learn how to manage the tape all by ourselves..

Preschool pizza box games

October 4, 2011

Making games from pizza boxes for my preschool students to explore!

Teach Preschool in the news: Promoting prewriting skills

September 22, 2011

Teach Preschool in the news: Deborah shares how to promote prewriting skills for young children in this Fox 59 news segment!

Measuring and mixing with a dash of new vocabulary in preschool

September 16, 2011

After reading “Blueberries for Sal,” we became “bakers” as one of my students observed and our little bakers made some blueberry muffins… We explored different kinds of measuring tools and cooking terms as we worked together to make our blueberry muffins… Our bakers took turns measuring and pouring in the different ingredients… Cooking presents such a great [...]

Water bottle collages made by our prek

September 9, 2011

Make simple and creative water bottle collages with your preschoolers!

Making an aluminum foil collage in preschool

August 20, 2011

This preschool aluminum foil activity promotes areas of development such as fine motor control, creativity, and spacial awareness.

Exploring the possible ways items can be used in the preschool classroom

August 17, 2011

Exploring the materials in the preschool classroom is part of setting the groundwork for future learning..

Make your own chip clip art in the preschool classroom

July 18, 2011

Wy is always playing with the chip clips around our house, so I thought I would integrate the chip clip play into a little chip clip painting… I set out some chip clips, yarn, pieces of craft foam, and three colors of paint. To paint with the clips, the boys put the scraps of yarn [...]

Cutting flower stems in preschool

May 11, 2011

Cutting flower stems in preschool Perhaps I should have titled this post “Attempting to cut flower stems in preschool” because child scissors don’t make much of a dent in the stems. However, one of our students figured out how to make this work…. These are left-over stems from our flower bouquets which I posted about [...]

A kitchen timer and a preschooler

April 28, 2011

The use of an egg timer to promote play and learning in preschool!

A bundle of fun with these crayons in preschool

April 6, 2011

Our students love to color so we thought during our color review week, we would mix it up a little and let them try coloring with crayon bundles…. In almost every case, the children began by making the crayons go round and round on their paper… Trying to get all the crayons to touch the [...]