24 Spring Fine Motor Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Spring Fine Motor Activities are essential for every Spring themed curriculum. These 20 play ideas will help toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners to develop fine motor skills while they play.

If you want to make your Spring themed lessons a breeze, then check out the Spring Activity Pack. It’s filled with math and literacy centers, fine motor activities and arts and crafts templates. All of which are aligned with preschool learning standards. Check it out today.

Collage of spring themed fine motor activities for kids.

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1. Vegetable Garden Fine Motor Activity

Learn how to turn a tissue box into a vegetable garden posting activity for kids. This fine motor activity is great for toddlers and preschoolers, and will help them learn about healthy eating, gardening and more. Get your copy of the free printable vegetable garden here.

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.

2. Spring Flower Fine Motor Activity Tray

Child posting fake flowers into a green colander.

Use a colander and fake flowers to make this Spring themed fine motor activity. This is a great busy box activity for toddlers and preschoolers.

Photo: No Time for Flashcards

3. Spring Bugs Fine Motor Activity

Turn dot stickers into cute garden bugs. Then stick the bugs onto a toilet roll garden scene. This can be used purely as a fine motor activity for toddlers, or a number matching activity for preschool and kindergarten.

4. Fine Motor Flowers Math Tray

Paper flowers with numbers written in the middle.

Spring Fine Motor Activities comes with a free printable to practice number recognition. Perfect for preschool math centers.

Photo: No Time for Flashcards

5. Cut the Grass Activity

Develop fine motor skills with this spring themed Cut the Grass Activity for toddlers and preschool. Get your copy of this free printable.

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.

6. Spring Lacing Cards

Lacing cards, featuring girls with umbrellas and raincoats.

These Spring Lacing Cards are the perfect way to get excited about warmer weather. Plus, they are great for working on fine motor skills, too.

Photo: Living Life and Learning

7. Spring Garden Fine Motor Sensory Activity

Child removing toy carrots from dirt with tweezers.

Create a garden activity with your preschoolers. Build hand strength and explore some spring play ideas together.

Photo: Hands On As We Grow

8. Bee Fine Motor Activity

Cupcake flowers filled with yellow rainbow rice and bee tongs.

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.

9. Spring Flowers Name and Fine Motor Activity

Child spray water onto window decorated with foam flowers.

Making this Spring Flowers Activity is really simple and uses only a few supplies. Spray the flowers with a spray bottle and get in some fine motor fun too.

Photo: Stir the Wonder

10. Button Flowers

Child threading buttons onto yellow pipe cleaners.

Button flower fine motor activity. Your preschool or Pre-K kids can use buttons and chenille craft stems to create button flowers for a spring theme.

Photo: Pre-K Pages

11. Fine Motor Alphabet Match for Spring

Child clipping wooden clothespeg onto foam flower shape.

Learn the alphabet while developing fine motor skills. This is a fun and easy play idea for literacy centers in preschool and kindergarten classrooms.

Photo: Learn Play Imagine

12. Scissor Skills Practice Spring Cutting Tray

Child cutting paper circle into a flower shape.

What is the best way to get some scissor skills practice with preschoolers? Simple scissor activities like this spring cutting tray.

Photo: Toddler Approved

13. Spring Flower Fine Motor Threading

Children sitting beside a tub filled with paper straws and fake flowers.

Here is a beautiful spring flower threading fine motor skill activity to do this spring using straws and flowers! This is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers.

Photo: Happy Toddler Playtime

14. Fine Motor Color Matching Flowers

Flowers made from green pipe cleaners, buttons and colored felt.

When I was searching for spring fine motor activities, I was so excited when I discovered this gem. Button the petals onto the flowers. Not only does this develop fine motor skills, but also some essential life skills too.

Photo: The Kindergarten Connection

15. Flower Garden Playdough

Green playdough with crumpled paper pushed into it.

Make a playdough flower garden using all sorts of different things you can find around the house. What amazing things will your kids create?

Photo: Best Toys 4 Toddlers

16. Color Matching Bunny Tails

Cardboard bunny shapes and colorful pom poms.

Color matching bunny tails is a fun and adorable spring and easter activity for toddlers, this is perfect for kids who love animals.

Photo: Schooltime Snippets

17. Playdough Flowers Fine Motor Activity

Make flowers with play dough to promote fine motor fun with toddlers. There are several different spring activities for kids to make with this playdough setup.

Photo: My Bored Toddler

18. Spring Sand Tray

In this activity for kids, children will be using their fingers to make designs and letters in spring colored sand. Such a fun way to develop fine motor skills and play outside.

Photo: Buggy and Buddy

19. Counting Flowers Fine Motor Skills Activity

Child picking up craft flowers with tweezers.

Here is a super simple, Montessori style math and fine motor activity for preschoolers using flowers and chopsticks.

Photo: The Imagination Tree

20. Busy Bee Scissor Skills Worksheet

Bee themed cutting strips with red scissors.

Use these free busy bee scissor skills worksheets to help little ones get used to cutting on the line. There are four different kinds of lines for kids to practice with.

Photo: Look! We’re Learning

21. Rainbow Sticky Wall

Make a rainbow sticky wall with your toddlers and preschoolers. This is great if you're exploring spring activities for kids, or just want to develop fine motor skills.

Brighten up your rainy days with this easy sticky wall rainbow activity. Tearing the paper into pieces and sticking them on the wall is fantastic for fine motor development.

22. Frog Pond Playdough

Frog Pond Playdough is a fun Spring themed invitation to play for kids. It also helps develop fine motor skills in toddlers and preschoolers.

I love playdough and playdough mats, because they’re a fantastic way to work on hand muscles in different ways. This frog pond playdough activity is perfect for working on fine motor muscles, counting and imaginative play.

23. DIY Butterfly Peg Board

DIY Butterfly peg board - fine motor activity for kids. Perfect for helping toddlers and preschoolers develop fine motor skills this Spring.

Use an old cardboard box to make your own DIY butterfly peg board. Young children will love decorating their own butterflies with this fun activity.

24. Spring Tree Threading Activity

Completed Spring tree threading activity.

Use pony beads and pipe cleaners to make your very own Spring tree threading activity. This is a great way for little hands to practice their pincer grasp and hand-eye coordination.