Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity for Kids
Learn how to make this Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity for kids. You can use it as a craft or a matching activity for your toddlers or preschool children. All you need are some cardboard tubes and dot stickers to create this beautiful spring garden.
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As the weather warms up, now is the perfect time to try some of these Spring activities for kids. I don’t know about you, but there’s something about the change in seasons that gets my kids excited about learning. Or you can invest in the Spring Activity Pack, which is filled with educational ideas for young kids.
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Materials Needed
- Toilet rolls/cardboard tube
- Paint
- Dot stickers
- Sharpie
How to make a Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity
1. Paint your cardboard tubes
I painted my rolls sky blue and green, with flowers all over it. In hindsight, this was more complicated than needed. I recommend just painting the cardboard tubes green so that it looks like a field of flowers from a birds-eye view instead. That way you don’t have to worry about painting flower stems and all you need is green paint.
2. Use a black sharpie to turn your dot stickers into bees and ladybugs.
If you have older kids, who are starting to learn number recognition and counting. One way to turn this into a great math activity is to draw ladybugs with a different number of dots on them. And to draw the numerals onto the flowers. Then your child will have to count the number of dots on each ladybug and stick it on the flower that has that matching number on it.
3. Let your child pull the stickers off of the sheet and place them on their cardboard tube gardens.
I found that my toddler naturally liked to place the bugs onto each of the flowers. Which made me regret not turning this into a matching activity as well as a fine motor one. Although she can’t count and match ladybug spots, I could have always tried getting her to match colors or shapes instead.
More Spring Fine Motor Activities for Kids
Spring Fine Motor Activities are essential for every Spring themed curriculum. These are some of my favorite play ideas to help toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners to develop fine motor skills while they play.
- Vegetable Garden Fine Motor Activity
- Spring Tree Threading Activity
- DIY Butterfly Peg Board
- Flower Posting Activity
- Free Spring Fine Motor Pom Pom Mats
For more ideas, visit 20 Spring Fine Motor Activities.
Spring Activity Pack
Over 90+ pages of Spring themed play based learning activities and craft templates. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten.
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