Developing Fine Motor Skills

Developing Fine Motor Skills

Coordination between hand and eye is one of the basic skills that young children need to master, and developing fine motor skills can be a lot of fun! We have a collection of ideas, printables and worksheets below which you can use with your toddlers, either at home or in the classroom.

Cutting

Provide your child with a pair of safe scissors and start cutting! Start with simple straight lines and progress up through curves and zigzags, fringes and shapes. When you have mastered the basics, provide old magazines, gift wrap and newspapers for more cutting fun. You will find examples of crafts using cutting and sticking all over the site, but here are a few dedicated worksheets which start with simple straight lines and graduate up in difficulty to quite complex shapes for older children.

Cutting And Sticking

All children love cutting and sticking! We've got some fun ideas for things to do...
Cutting and sticking ideas

Lacing

Lacing cards are a great way to keep little ones busy for a few moments, help children to concentrate, and develop hand-eye coordination. We've got some beautiful lacing cards for you to print, laminate, hole punch and lace - something to appeal to every taste!

Jack lacing his fish

The finished fish!

Crayons, Pencils and Pens

Provide as many different drawing instruments as you can, and lots of bit sheets of paper. Even the youngest children can have fun making squiggles while they are sitting in the high chair, and the act of holding the writing implement and manoeuvring it are invaluable practice!

Latest Educational Pages!

Quotation posters to print and desktop wallpaper to download
Perfect for the classroom or home, these new quotation posters feature inspiring quotes and beautiful photography. We will be adding new quotations often...
Quotation posters and desktop wallpaper

Reading certificate silver award
A lovely new collection of reading certificates in many different designs and two sizes, ready to print...
Reading certificates

British wildlife flashcards

Dinosaur fact bookmarks

8 new printable flag jigsaws, bringing our total to 12...
Flag jigsaws to print

Monster fun worksheet
Fun new monster worksheets added today
Monster worksheets

We've added some worksheets specifically for the Winter Olympic Games.
Olympic Games Worksheets

Play math games and get better at math! We've teamed up with Whizz.com to bring you fun math games which you can play online with Activity Village. US and UK versions, too!
Math Games NEW!

Cursive a, c and d
Handwriting practice Lots NEW!

Picture alphabet posters

Finger tracing alphabet

A useful collection of posters for classroom, hallways and washrooms!
School posters

US History Printables

Printable Certificates and Awards
Free printable certificates for the classroom - all sorts of designs!

Reading logs and diaries
Keep track of your child's daily reading with our collection of reading logs and diaries.

Tudor Theme
Crafts, worksheets, colouring pages, printables of all sorts, and lots of links - a really comprehensive new theme for this popular royal dynasty!

Printables for early readers as well as children learning English as a foreign language.
Learning English

Famous People Notebooking Pages
For all your school and home projects!

Lacing cards to print and punch

Handwriting Readiness

Cutting Skills Printables

Early Learning Videos
Featuring bright colors, fun photos and cheerful music, these videos are aimed at the younger age-group and introduce colors, numbers, letters and first words.