Description
The July Fine Motor Activities Packet is great for your preschool, kindergarten, or first-grade students to work on cutting, coloring, and gluing skills. Fill your centers, task boxes, or bins with these fun summer craft activities. Save your prep time and build their skills with these 20 centers for the month of July. With a Summer and 4th of July theme, these 175+ activities can be used for the month, summer school or all season.
This fine motor hand-strengthening and visual perception resource helps build essential skills in a fun, engaging way. Use them for morning work, task boxes, early finishers, rotations, centers, bins, or occupational therapy sessions.
Created by an experienced COTA, the 58 page PDF will be available electronically immediately following payment.
When to use the July Fine Motor Activities Packet:
✅ Summer school sessions for skill maintenance and hands-on learning
✅ End-of-year stations or centers to keep students engaged as routines wind down
✅ Morning work to start the day with a calm, purposeful activity
✅ Early finisher activities for students who complete work ahead of others
✅ Occupational therapy sessions focused on fine motor, hand strength, and visual perception
✅ Classroom centers or rotations to build prewriting and scissor skills
✅ Task boxes or fine motor bins for independent or small group practice
✅ Quiet time or calm-down choices for students who need a sensory or movement break
✅ Summer-themed bulletin board crafts that double as skill-building activities
✅ ESY (Extended School Year) programs for students who receive special education services
✅ Take-home packets to support continued practice over the summer
✅ Transition activities for incoming kindergarteners or rising first graders
✅ Fun Friday activities or themed fine motor challenges during the month
✅ Sub plans or emergency activities with minimal prep needed
Key Features:
✔️ No Prep Fine Motor Fun – Just print, cut, and go!
✔️ Perfect for Small Groups & Centers – Use in fine motor stations, morning tubs, and early finisher bins.
✔️ Target Essential Skills – Strengthens pincer grasp, scissor skills, pencil grip, hand-eye coordination, and visual perception.
✔️ Fits in Task Card Boxes – Many are easy to store and rotate throughout the month or the Summer season.
✔️ Versatile for Classrooms & Home – Great for teachers, OTs, and parents looking to support fine motor and visual perceptual development.
20 July Fine Motor Centers Included:
✅ 12 Cut-and-paste puzzles
✅ 8 Step by step-drawing activities
✅ 24 Hole punch cards
✅ 8 Mini finish-the-drawing activities (copy on colored paper for variety)
✅ 8 Mini fold-and-cut tasks (copy on colored paper for variety)
✅ 8 Mini trace, push pin art, or coloring pages
✅ 8 Mini coloring and cutting practice pages (copy on colored paper)
✅ 4 Mini dot-to-dot (1-10) (copy on colored paper for variety)
✅ 12 Shadow matching clip cards
✅ 4 Pony bead mystery pictures
✅ 8 Q-tip or glue dot practice and coloring pages
✅ 12 Mini Dot marker or pom pom pictures
✅ 4 Counting cube or pony bead pictures
✅ 8 Playdoh picture designs
✅ 12 Tracing line strips
✅ 24 Snipping strips (copy on colored paper for variety)
✅ 3 Tissue paper, ripped paper, or coloring pages
✅ 4 Color-by-number coloring pages
✅ 4 Simple trace-and-color or push pin art scenes
✅ 1 , 16 card Memory game (color and Black & White)
Suggested Materials for the July Fine Motor Activities Packet
- Extra large push pins
- Fun crayons
- Seasonal hole punches
- Colored glue
- Mini dot markers
- Spring-open scissors
- Pom poms
- Pony beads
- Q-tips
- Playdoh
- Snap cubes
- Paint wheels
- Paints
- Tissue paper
- Construction paper
Many activities fit into task card boxes, making organization easy. Minimal prep—just cut up the task cards, laminate reusable drawing cards, and for extra seasonal fun, print cutting activities on colored paper!
