Description
Do your preschool, kindergarten, or first-grade students need to work on cutting, coloring, and gluing skills? Do they need to build hand strength or work on pincer grasp to improve pencil control and prewriting skills for handwriting? Fill your centers, task boxes, or bins with these fun spring craft activities. Save your prep time and build their skills with these 20 May Fine Motor Centers. With a Spring theme, these 175 activities can be used for the month or the season.
The 63 page PDF will be available electronically immediately following payment.
Created by a COTA for her occupational therapy students, 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.
Some activities are print-and-go, while others require cutting and laminating so they can be used multiple times. This set is also great for coloring, scissor skills, and gluing practice in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Many activities fit into task card boxes, making organization a breeze. Minimal prep—just cut up the task cards, laminate reusable drawing cards, and for extra seasonal fun, print cutting activities on colored paper! Rotate activities throughout the month to keep things fresh and engaging.
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.
✔️ Versatile for Classrooms & Home – Great for teachers, OTs, and parents looking to support fine motor and visual perceptual development.
20 May Fine Motor Centers Included:
✅ 12 Cut-and-paste puzzles
✅ 8 Step by step-drawing activities
✅ 16 Hole punch cards
✅ 12 Mini finish-the-drawing activities
✅ 8 Mini fold-and-cut tasks
✅ 8 Mini trace, push pin art, or coloring pages
✅ 8 Mini coloring and cutting practice pages
✅ 4 Mini dot-to-dot (1-10)
✅ 12 Shadow-matching clip cards
✅ 6 Pony bead mystery pictures
✅ 12 Q-tip or glue dot practice and coloring pages
✅ 12 Mini Dot marker or pom pom pictures
✅ 6 Counting cube or pony bead pictures
✅ 10 Playdoh picture designs
✅ 12 Tracing line strips
✅ 12 Snipping strips
✅ 4 Tissue paper, ripped paper, or coloring pages
✅ 5 Color-by-number coloring pages
✅ 5 Simple trace-and-color or push pin art scenes
✅ 1 , 16 card Memory game
Suggested Materials for the May Fine Motor Centers
(Links to my favorite versions are included in the download!)
- 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