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Fall Fine Motor Activities For Preschoolers

Allison McDonald — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:12:23 +0000

Fine motor skills are vital for everything from holding a fork to twisting a doorknob to zipping up jeans! Fine motor skills aren’t just about getting ready for handwriting. In fact, fine motor skills have been linked to language development, as well as being related to reading and math skills! You can learn more about this in […]

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PreK Letter Craft – Make Letters With Perler Beads

Allison McDonald — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 19:03:21 +0000

This is a tricky letter craft, but just because it’s tricky doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try it with our students. It does mean that when we do letter activities or any activities like this letter craft with our students, we should be prepared to differentiate. Last week, one of my students brought a Perler bead […]

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Fine Motor Skills Activities

Allison McDonald — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:01:29 +0000

Fine motor skills activities aren’t just useful for handwriting prep. They are more about all those self-help skills, like using utensils, doing up buttons, zipping coats, and eventually learning to tie those super cute and totally impractical lace-up shoes. I include some fine motor work in every free choice setup and in many group lessons […]

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Christmas Lego Challenge Tray

Allison McDonald — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 03:42:07 +0000

Twenty-ish years ago, when I was teaching PreK in St.Louis, I had a student who was a whiz with blocks and Lego. He’d build elaborate buildings and machines. I wish I’d thought of making him Lego challenge trays back then. He would have loved showing how quickly he could recreate what I’d built. It would […]

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Stained Glass Window – Hands On Shape Activity

Allison McDonald — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:41:46 +0000

I love bringing color into my classroom, and if that can be combined with a hands on shape activity, even better. If it can be combined with a hands-on shape activity that works on fine motor skills and is on a vertical surface to help build shoulder strength and encourage proper wrist position? Dude, we […]

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