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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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 – This is another free printable for you to download, as well as one of my favorite fine motor activities for kids. Glue the vegetables onto some craft sticks and plant them into a tissue box garden. This is a wonderful way to talk about healthy food and how plants grow.
Cut the Grass Activity – This scissors activity gives the kids a wonderful surprise. As they cut the grass (green craft paper), they’ll discover different flowers and insects hiding underneath. The spring scene hiding under the grass comes as a free printable to make this activity easy to prep, even for a large class. Visit the Cut the Grass post to get your free copy.
Bee fine motor activity – This activity starts with bee tongs flying around a garden of cupcake liner flowers. The flowers are filled with yellow rainbow rice which acts as pollen while in the flowers. Transfer the pollen into the beehive and turn it into honey.
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Materials Needed
- Toilet rolls/cardboard tube
- Paint
- Dot stickers
- Sharpie
How to make a Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity
Step 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.
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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.
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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.
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Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity
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.
Materials
- Toilet rolls/cardboard tube
- Paint
- Dot stickers
- Sharpie
Instructions
- 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. - 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. - 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.