Best fine motor activities
1-Snowman theme transferring activities and fine motor activity for homeschool
Materials:
- Cotton balls;
- Tongs;
- Glass bottle( for snowman);
A simple transferring activity to practice fine motor skills by adding cotton balls to the snowman both my 19 month old and my almost 3 years old were able to use the tongs and loved this activity,they spent over 30 minutes dumping it out and filling it back up again.
2-Green Lentils Spoon Transferring
Homeschool fine motor activity and spoon transfer activity with sweet turtle ,montesssori practice life activities for toddlers
Materials:
- Toilet paper rolls
- Green lentils
- Metal spoon
- Glue and scissors
Benefits of this activity:
- Fine motor skills
- Coordination
- Concentration
- Craft and art activity
We take our green lentils and start our work.This event will develop both sense and fine motor skills.Turtles will also soon know.Transfer activities are very important in the Montessori educational philosophy.
- First of all, we are drawing a picture of a turtle in a picture book.
- Then the turtle will be painted in green color
- Cut small circles from the toilet paper and paste them on the picture.
- Now we can transfer.
3-Transfer Grass with Strainer
Homeschool montessori transfer activity with using strainer from in the water activity
Materials:
- Container
- Water
- Strainer
- Grass
I set up a quick and simple water activity. I filled a shallow container with water, I throw grass in the water and handed my daughter a strainer.It was a nice fine motor skill.
4-Ice Blue Fish Transfer Activity
Materials:
- Tray
- Tong
- Sponge
- Ice blue fish
- Two bowls
My toddler really enjoyed doing this practical life activity especially since the ice were icy blue fish that she had to transfer to the other bowl.
5-Chestnuts Transfer Activity
Materials:
- Different kind of spoons(plastic-metal…)
- Chestnuts
- Two bowls
This work can be done by kids aged about 14 months I guess.
Of course there are kids who are younger as well as older who like to play with it,its not easy to tell an exact range of age at these things.
This is a simple sorting activity where the child tries out different kinds of spoons to sort the chestnuts from one bowl to the other.
6-Snowflake Transfer Activity with Tong
Homeschool montessori snowflake transferring activities with tong or tweezer
Materials:
- Tong
- Small a container
- Paper snowflake or sticker snowflake
- Pipette(for water transfer)
We did this transfer activity with my daughter and she had a lot of fun.
1-Firstly,I made small snowflake .
2-I filled a coarse colored water.
3-Then we started transferring.
4-Then we transferred water a pipette
7-Cotton Ball Transfer Activity
Homeschool transferring activities with cotton balls
Materials:
- Cotton balls
- Plastic or wooden bowls
- Plastic tong
This morning,I tried some table work with my three year old.I demonstrated transferring cotton balls from the bowl into a jug using tongs.
This afternoon,she told me she had something to show me and this is what I was presented with.She then showed me exactly what to do,removing one cup at a time,forming a line,placed a cotton ball in each cup,then moved each cotton ball back to the bowl,and restacked the cups.
I know these are not %100 Montessori materials since they are plastic,but we are making a gradual transition and working with what we have.It is going great so far and I can’t wait to practice more and have everything switched over to beautiful natural materials.